Seven’s Big Bash League debut draws in 649,000 viewers
Last night Seven debuted its first episode of the Big Bash League as the Adelaide Strikers beat Brisbane Heat by five wickets.
For the first match since winning the broadcast rights to the Big Bash League in April, 649,000 metro viewers tuned in to Seven to watch the innings break, while 614,000 watched the second session.
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— KFC Big Bash League (@BBL) December 19, 2018
Earlier, 594,000 metro viewers tuned in to watch the first session of the Big Bash League on Seven, according to OzTAM’s overnight preliminary metro ratings.
This year, Foxtel also carried the Big Bash League with 183,000 watching the match on the subscription TV service.
Comparatively, Ten’s Big Bash premiere in 2017 saw 783,000 metro viewers tune in to watch the Sydney Thunders defeat the Sydney Sixers. The match drew a smaller number than 2016’s debut which managed 834,000 viewers.
For 2014’s opening match, the Adelaide Strikers and the Melbourne Stars pulled in 681,000 metro viewers.
Last night’s episode of the Big Bash League topped the key advertising demographics 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54.
The cricket helped Seven to a ratings with as the channel managed a 21.7% audience share ahead of Nine’s 17.9%, ABC’s 13.4%, Ten’s 8.8% and SBS’ 4.7% share.
In the news battle for the evening, Seven News was the most watched program scoring 930,000 metro viewers ahead of Nine News’ 821,000.
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So far not as good as channel 10’s presentation. Seems to be a longer delay in getting the game started. I am not a fan of Michael Slater. Disappointed to see him moving from channel 9 to 7. Even more disapointed to hear him on the Big Bash. The man suffers from verbal diarrhoea, and has a very annoying voice.
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Not impressed with the two bigheaded commentators on BBL tonight,
(after the game) One of the three had departed. Were the Hobart Hurricanes the only team playing this game?
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