Seven’s Rio 2016 Olympics coverage continues to dominate viewing
Seven’s Rio 2016 Olympics round-up In Rio Today, which airs at 7:00pm, was the most-watched non-news program of the day, pulling in 1.183m metro viewers.
The evening broadcast of the Games which aired from 9:00pm was watched by 962,000, while 574,000 stuck around for the late night broadcast from 10:30pm.
During the day, the broadcast, which kicked off at 9:00am was watched by 623,000, with 577,000 watching the highlights broadcast at 2:00pm.
Seven easily won the night with a 28.9% share, as Nine managed a share of 13.5%. The ABC claimed third place with a share of 10.9% while Ten settled for a share of 10.3%.
Nine’s A Current Affair, airing at 7:00pm, grabbed 886,000 while Super Scary Plane Landings – Nine’s 7:30pm offering – pulled in 544,000.
On Ten, Family Feud at 6:00pm was watched by 543,000, with 578,000 tuning into The Project from 7:00pm.
On the ABC, 7.30 had an audience of 636,000 and Catalyst, at 8:00pm, pulled in 559,000.
In the news battleground, Seven News at 6:00pm grabbed an audience of 1.393m, slipping to 998,000 from 6:30pm, while Nine News at 6:00pm was watched by 1.004m, holding steady with the same figure from 6:30pm.
In breakfast TV, Seven’s Sunrise was watched by 473,000, easily out-rating Nine’s Today, which attracted an audience of 297,000.
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This continues to be utterly appalling coverage of a major sporting event. I don’t care what the numbers say, Seven should hang their heads in shame.
The fact that they continue to show Australian only highlights WHILST LIVE EVENTS ARE ON confirms that the buffoon who is running the programming at Seven clearly has now idea.
It also highlights that the network is quite clearly not multicultural as what is shown is so obviously biased to Australia and doesn’t create any essence of actually what happened during the events. Considering Australian society is made of so many different races, cultures and nationalities, the coverage simply does not reflect this. It’s a disgrace.
I can also confirm 100% that my household will not be watching any of the “Monday After The Olympics” tripe that they push at every opportunity. It’s he same mindless, unimaginative rubbish that they have simply copied form overseas networks.
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