Seven set to win first week of official ratings year while Ten and ABC fight for third

Cumulative OzTaAM ratings charting Sunday to Thursday viewing patterns have Seven winning the first week of the official ratings year following another dominant performance last night.

Seven’s now four-night-a-week My Kitchen Rules was once again the top show of the night on Thursday with 1.88m viewers, dwarfing the nearest non-news or current affairs programs. They were soap Home and Away (fifth for the night) and Nine’s The Block: All Stars (seventh) which fell to a series low of 842,000 capital city viewers after passing one million on Sunday night.

In all, six of the top 10 programs were either news or current affairs, shared over the free to air commercial networks and ABC1.

Ten is now lined up to run fourth behind ABC1 for the week, after its schedule failed to attract a broad market, although it has done better in the under-40s market.

Nine’s The Mentalist, Hot Seat and Seven’s the Bones were the only general entertainment programs to make the top 15 besides Home And Away.

Sunday to Thursday OzTam figures had Seven on  a 28.1 per cent share, well ahead of Nine on 21.6 per cent, ABC1 on 12.4 per cent, Ten 11.4 per cent and SBS1 3.7 per cent.

The Sunday to Thursday five capital city audience shares had Seven ahead with 28.1 per cent, Nine on 21.6 per cent, ABC1 12.4 per cent, Ten 11.4 per cent and SBS1 3.7 per cent.

Last night’s five capital city results:

1. My Kitchen Rules Seven 1.886m
2. Nine News Nine 1.078m
3. Seven News Seven 988,000
4. Today Tonight Seven 886,000
5. Home and Away Seven 880,000
6. A Current Affair Nine 870,000
7. The Block Nine 842,000
8. ABC News ABC 841,000
9. Bones Seven 638,000
10. Ten News Ten 619,000
11. 7:30 ABC 613,000
12. The Mentalist Nine 583,000
13. Catalyst ABC 558,000
14. Hot Seat Nine 544,000
15. Making Couples Happy ABC 511,000

Thursday night audience share

1. Seven 27. per cent
2. Nine 19.1 per cent
3. ABC1 12.1 per cent
4. Ten 9.8 per cent
5. SBS1 5.3 per cent
6. Go! 4 per cent
7. 7Two 3.9 per cent
8. One 3.5 per cent
9. Eleven 3.5 per cent
10. Seven Mate 3.2 per cent
11. Gem 2.6 per cent
12. ABC2 2.5 per cent
13. ABC24 1 per cent
14. ABC3 0.8 per cent
15. SBS2 .9 per cent
16. NITV 0.1 per cent

Marcus Casey

topics ABC1 My Kitchen Rules News Nine OzTam ratings Seven Ten The Block

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Comments: 4

TV Buyer 15 Feb 13

It is week one of the official ratings year…

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gusty 15 Feb 13

This week is the first week of ratings season, not the second.
http://www.oztam.com.au/docume.....r_2013.pdf

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mumbrella 15 Feb 13

Thanks Gusty – our bad, now amended.

Cheers,

Tim – MUmbrella

Christine 15 Feb 13

Will there be competition between MKR and The Voice? Will wait and see!

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