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.
According to OzTAM’s preliminary overnight figures, the surgery itself captured 429,000 metro viewers. Operation: Live was more popular than an encore of Ten’s Hughesy, We Have a Problem, which managed 321,000 in the same time slot, but it was outrated by Nine’s 60 Minutes, with 904,000 metro viewers from 8:30pm.
The show, combined with a series high audience of 1.046m for My Kitchen Rules and 951,000 metro viewers for Seven News, helped Seven’s main channel share to 22.8%. When adding in regional figures, the shows grew to 1.549m and 1.458m respectively.
But the strength of Nine’s 60 Minutes, coupled with 1.263m metro viewers for Married at First Sight, resulted in a win for Nine. The channel delivered a 26.2% main channel share. Nine also won the evening from a network perspective, with a 33.8% share over Seven’s 29.4%.
Married at First Sight and 60 Minutes were the most popular shows across the key advertising demographics of 16-39s, 18-49s and 25-54, and had national audiences of 1.718m and 1.274m respectively.
Ten’s most watched program of the evening was I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, with 544,000 metro viewers for the show, and 625,000 for elimination. Those numbers climbed to 764,000 and 857,000, when including regional figures. Outside of I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here and Hughesy, We Have a Problem, Ten’s only other show to make the top 20 shows for Sunday was The Sunday Project 7pm, with 298,000 viewers. As a result, Ten averaged a share of 10.4% for the evening, behind the ABC’s 12.5%, but well ahead of SBS’ 2.7%.
ABC’s share comes from a metro audience of 645,000 for ABC News Sunday and 552,000 for a documentary on the oceans surrounding Australia, known as Magical Land of Oz.
In the morning battle, just 186,000 metro viewers tuned into Weekend Today on Nine which saw it beaten by ABC’s Insiders which averaged 252,000 viewers. Seven’s Weekend Sunrise was the top morning show with 244,000 metro viewers.
seem to be missing MAFS from one of the graphs?
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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?
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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.
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Zoe – Mumbrella
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Thanks for flagging. We have fixed this.
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I loved Operation live ! What an amazing show .
Well done channel 7 .
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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
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