Sunrise wins first day of post-Mel ratings battle
Sunrise hosts David Koch and Samantha Armytage
Sunrise squeaked a win over Today in Samantha Armytage’s first day in the hosting chair after Friday’s departure of Mel Doyle.
Thanks to its loyal audiences in Perth and Adelaide, the Seven show finished ahead of its Nine rival despite losing in Sydney and Brisbane and having an absolute dead heat in Melbourne.
According to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTAM, Sunrise won across the five capital cities by 364,000 viewers to 338,000, but Today took the east coast bragging rights.
Today won Sydney by 113,000 to 108,000 and Brisbane by 90,000 to 81,000.
Melbourne saw each show average 97,000 viewers.
Sunrise won Perth by 37,000 to 18,000 and Adelaide by 41,000 to 21,000.
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.
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Not sure Sam will be thrilled to be captioned as Mel 🙂
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Jeez. Thank goodness you spotted that quickly, Angus. My bad. Now amended.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella