Seven’s Operation: Live pulls in 544,000 viewers on first night of 2019 TV ratings year
Seven’s late evening special, Operation: Live, attracted 544,000 metro viewers for its first episode, but Nine still won the first official ratings night of 2019.
From 9pm, Seven showcased a live caesarian procedure, the first of two live operation specials for the network. Last week the network pulled plans to run a live open-heart surgery, after concerns were voiced by surgeons. As a result, Seven changed its plans, moving its second special, the caesarian procedure, forward from tonight to last night.
seem to be missing MAFS from one of the graphs?
Hi gary,
Thanks for flagging. We have fixed this.
Cheers,
Zoe – Mumbrella
This article is so hard to read and really lacking basic research.
Operation Live pulled 429,000… note the 544,000 was a dupe, including the first 10 minutes only.
Why was 7 afforded National numbers but the winner for the night, 9, was only afforded Metro. Echo that for 10’s I’m a Celebrity and ABCs Land of Oz…
And finally 10 only got three shows in the top 20?.. but how many others did they have considering Project, I’m a Celebrity, and We have Problems would have run until 10:30?
Hi ‘Story teller’, Thanks for the feedback. Operation Live’s audience, according to OzTAM’s preliminary figures is 544,000, which is what we base the ratings on. Regarding the national figures – we often don’t put in all national numbers, it just depends what is of interest in the story, but in this instance, I’ve added in the figures for Nine and Ten’s key shows, to make things clearer. As for Ten’s lack of shows in the top 20, when you look at the number of other programs that run in prime time television, it is less than its counterparts.
Cheers,
Zoe – Mumbrella
I loved Operation live ! What an amazing show .
Well done channel 7 .
Can we get some rigour in the market in terms of measurement and what matters. The trend seems to be the more data we get the more ways in which we can cut it and deliver a positive picture in our own favour.
Lets start reporting on ad revenues generated per show and see how they match up.
Married at First Sight and MKR are disgusting shows