Ten’s Big Bash out-rated by ABC’s 7.30 Summer and Nine’s Customs
Audiences for Ten’s Big Bash have slipped back after peaking on Monday night with an metro audience of 1.06m tuning in for the Super Over with last night’s match gaining an audience of audience of 682,000 metro viewers for session two.
The first innings of the match between the Hobart Hurricanes and the Melbourne Renegades had 552,000 viewers, delivering Ten an audience share of 14.1 per cent.
Session two of the match was the most watched show amongst the 16 -39 demographic but could not compete with Nine’s audiences for day two of the test match between Australia and India which saw 1.017m metro viewers tune in for session three, which claimed the honours of being the most watched non-news show for Wednesday.
Session two was watched by 838,000 and session one had an audience of 716,000. The Cricket Show during the lunch break pulled a crowd of 633,000.
Session one of the Big Bash was out-rated by Nine’s repeat of Customs at 7.30pm, which was watched by 684,000, and the ABC’s 7.30 Summer edition which grabbed an audience of 669,000.
The slip in audience numbers for Ten’s Big Bash helped Seven reclaim the second position in terms of audience share, grabbing a share of 17.5 per cent behind Nine’s share of 18.9 per cent.
Seven’s most watched non-news program was Border Security – Australia’s Front Line which drew a metro audience of 637,000 at 7pm.
On the ABC, which had an audience share of 12.4 per cent, Human Universe with Brian Cox at 8.30pm was watched by 600,000 metro viewers.
In news, Nine won the night with an audience of 1.174m at 6pm . Seven News at 6pm was watched by 892,000.
In the secondary channels, Nine’s GO! led the way with an audience share of 6.3 per cent as 390,000 metro viewers tuned in for an episode of The Big Bang Theory.
7TWO had a share of 5.9 per cent as 238,000 tuned in for coverage of the Brisbane International.
Top 15 Shows:
1 NINE NEWS Network 9 1,174,000
2 FOURTH TEST – AUSTRALIA V INDIA SESSION 3 Network 9 1,017,000
3 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 892,000
4 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network 9 879,000
5 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 853,000
6 FOURTH TEST – AUSTRALIA V INDIA SESSION 2 Network 9 838,000
7 ABC NEWS-EV Network ABC 762,000
8 FOURTH TEST – AUSTRALIA V INDIA SESSION 1 Network 9 716,000
9 CUSTOMS -RPT Network 9 684,000
10 7.30 SUMMER-EV Network ABC 669,000
11 BORDER SECURITY – AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE (R) Network 7 637,000
12 CRICKET: T20 BIG BASH LEAGUE GAME 19 – SESSION 2 Network TEN 637,000
13 THE CRICKET SHOW Network 9 633,000
14 CRIMINAL MINDS-WED (R) Network 7 614,000
15 HUMAN UNIVERSE WITH BRIAN COX-EV Network ABC 600,000
Audience Share:
Network 9 18.9%
Network 7 17.5%
Network TEN 14.1%
Network ABC 12.4%
Network GO! 6.3%
Network 7TWO 5.9%
Network ONE 4.0%
Network ELEVEN 3.9%
Network Gem 3.1%
Network 7mate 3.0%
Network SBS ONE 3.0%
Network ABC2 2.9%
Network SBS 2 2.0%
Network ABC News 24 1.8%
Network ABC3 1.1%
Network NITV 0.1%
Total Audience Share:
Network 9 TTL 28.3%
Network 7 TTL 26.4%
Network TEN TTL 21.9%
Network ABC TTL 18.2%
Network SBS TTL 5.2%
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Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.
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I reckon they’re losing viewers in Qld and SA as they will not show it live on either TEN or One HD. Especially when the Radio stations call it live.
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