Oprah and cricket dominate summer TV ratings
It was a summer of cricket and Oprah for TV audiences, an analysis of programming data has revealed.
Industry body Free TV Australia has compiled metro and regional audience data for the time since the official ratings period ended three weeks before the end of 2010. The main ratings period begins again next week, heralding a flood of new content.
Over the summer, the data shows that five cricket matches on Nine and six shows on Ten involving Oprah Winfrey made the top 20.
The most popular summer viewing was the first one day cricket international.
What about the flood coverage – did this get measured separately, or just listed as “News”
I suspect a lot of it will be measured as 2011.
Are these numbers “peak” audiences or average audience?
Average audience, Jon
I’m so pleased to see Rush on this list. I’m as equally pleased to see that Two and a Half Men didn’t make the list – terrible show.