Seven wins the week as news programs dominate Easter non-ratings period
The non-ratings period has left Seven just ahead of Nine for the week, with 5 of its news programs in the top 10 most watched shows.
According to OzTam’s overnight preliminary metro ratings, Seven managed an overall prime time channel share of 38.6%, just ahead of Nine’s 38.1%. Channel Ten had an overall prime time share of 23.3%.
Excluding the ABC and SBS, Nine dominated the 25-54s overall commercial prime time channel share at 37.1% as well as the grocery buyers, with a share of 39%.
Seven has an overall prime time share of 35.8% and 33.7% in the respective demographics, while Ten had shares of 27.1% and 27.3%.
Channel Seven won the overall prime time share for the 16-39s, ahead of Nine’s 35.2% and Ten’s 29.1%.
The most watched shows of the week for metro viewers were news programs with Seven News Sunday attracting 1.247m and Nine News Sunday, which had 1.081m viewers.
In the combined weekly metro and regional combined rankings, Seven News had the first four most watched programs, with Seven News Sunday achieving 1.864m combined viewers.
The show had a total regional market viewing of 617,000.
Nine News Sunday managed a combined total of 1.097m with 17,000 regional viewers tuning in.
The ABC had three shows in the top ten combined rankings.
Australian Story had an audience of 1.183m, Four Corners collected 1.125m viewers and ABC News had 1.114m metro and regional viewers.
Investigative programs Sunday Night on Seven and 60 Minutes on Nin were the only two shows in the top ten combined rankings other than news, with 1.257m and 1.187m viewers respectively.
Sunday Night had a metro audience of 867,000 and a regional audience of 390,000 while 60 Minutes had 788,000 metro viewers and a regional audience of 399,000.
The graphics below are prepared by Nine and are sourced from OzTAM data. They only provide information on the commercial free-to-air networks, and exclude SBS and ABC.
