Seven dominates as Commonwealth Games competition kicks off

The Commonwealth Games dominated Thursday night TV, with Seven’s evening and night showings pulling in 1.239m and 1.169m metro viewers respectively.

Throughout the day, team Australia won five gold medals and set two world records in the women’s 4×100 metres freestyle relay and the men’s cycling team pursuit.

Would you like a World Record with that Gold medal!? ???

ICYMI: Absolute dominance from our Aussie women in the 4x100m Freestyle. #7CommGames #GC2018 pic.twitter.com/PxuitYQl3J

— 7CommGames (@7CommGames) April 5, 2018

As with Wednesday night’s opening ceremony, the games also topped key advertising demographics 16-39s, 18-49s and 25-54s.

Nine’s news show was its most-watched program of the night, with 828,000 metro viewers, according to OzTAM’s overnight preliminary metro ratings.

Outside of the games and current affairs shows, Ten’s Gogglebox was the most-watched entertainment program with 561,000 metro viewers.

Call the Midwife was the most-watched drama program, providing ABC with 494,000 metro viewers.

Ten’s Gogglebox came in third place across the 16-39s, 18-49s and 25-54s groups. None of Nine’s shows made the top five in any of the three demo groups.

Seven’s Commonwealth Games success meant it achieved a 33.0% main channel share, alongside a a 42.4% network share.

Nine was in second place with a 14.7% main channel share, and 21.3% across the network. Ten was in third with 11.0% and 15.7%m while ABC

Nine achieved the second-largest network share with 21.3%, 14.7% of which was for its main channel. Ten managed a 15.7% network share, with 11.0% from its main channel. ABC had 9.8% and 14.4%, while SBS main channel had 3.8%, with 6.1% for the network.

Josie Tutty

Josie Tutty was Mumbrella's deputy editor. She worked on the publication between 2017 and 2019. She's previously written and edited in the UK for Jungle Creations and Trinity Mirror.

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Comments: 2

By Jingoism 6 Apr 18

Can we get the Channel 7 commentary team to at least acknowledge the other 70 countries when they outperform Australian athletes.
“Bronze, bronze for Australia”
Hullo, that’s the 2nd loser.

In the US for the 1984 LA Olympics and watching US TV coverage it was almost impossible to find out how any other country performed due to the appalling one eyed USA patriotic commentary.

Please Channel 7 acknowledge that on Day 1 there were 14 Golds won by other than Australian athletes.

This is the worst sportsmanship since . . . well . . . since sandpapergate.

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Question 6 Apr 18

How did Rove’s new show go? No sign of it in the top 20…

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