The Bachelor draws biggest ever audience to see who Sam Wood picked in finale
Last night’s episode of Ten’s The Bachelor saw 1.482m metropolitan viewers tuning in to watch bachelor Sam Wood declare his love for 34-year-old single mother Snezana Markoski.
Wood and Markoski in last night’s finale of The Bachelor
The winner announcement is a solid win for Ten, which next week launches The Bachelorette with last’s year’s contestant Sam Frost, and was up on the 2014 finale which saw 1.374m watch Blake Garvey propose to Frost only for the pair to later break up.
The season finale was the most watched program of the night with an average of 1.228m tuning in for the whole program and helping Ten to a 19.4 share on its main channel, comfortably ahead of Nine and Seven
Ten’s reality show dominated Thursday night viewing and was the only program outside of news to draw over one million viewers with Seven’s singing show The X Factor drew 902,000 at 7.30pm and Kings Cross ER on Nine drew 541,000.
In the 8.30pm slot the Bachelor, which went to 9pm, still dominated while The Footy Show on Nine had 680,000 and Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares on Seven at 8.50pm had 444,000.
In the news stakes Nine had 1.044m while Seven had 974,000 in the 6pm bulletin falling to 957,000 and 922,000 in the 6.30pm slot.
While in the breakfast race, day 4 of Sunrise 5 city challenge had 374,000 viewers for its New York broadcast well ahead of rival Today on 300,000.
Top 15 shows
1 THE BACHELOR AUSTRALIA – THE FINAL DECISION Network TEN 1,482,000
2 THE BACHELOR AUSTRALIA – FINALE Network TEN 1,228,000
3 NINE NEWS Network Nine 1,044,000
4 SEVEN NEWS Network Seven 974,000
5 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network Nine 957,000
6 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network Seven 922,000
7 THE X FACTOR Network Seven 902,000
8 ABC NEWS Network ABC 857,000
9 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network Nine 849,000
10 HOME AND AWAY Network Seven 763,000
11 7.30 Network ABC 737,000
12 THE PROJECT 7PM Network TEN 688,000
13 THE FOOTY SHOW Network Nine 680,000
14 THE CHASER’S MEDIA CIRCUS Network ABC 636,000
15 FAMILY FEUD Network TEN 608,000
Audience Share
Network TEN 19.4%
Network 9 18.8%
Network 7 17.2%
Network ABC 10.9%
Network 7TWO 5.5%
Network GO! 5.0%
Network SBS 4.1%
Network Gem 3.3%
Network ONE 3.2%
Network 7mate 3.2%
Network ABC2 3.2%
Network ELEVEN 2.6%
Network ABC News 24 1.5%
Network SBS 2 0.9%
Network NITV 0.6%
Network ABC3 0.6%
Total Audience
Network 9 TTL 27.1%
Network 7 TTL 25.9%
Network TEN TTL 25.2%
Network ABC TTL 16.2%
Network SBS TTL 5.6%
Data OzTAM Pty Limited 2013. The Data may not be reproduced, published or communicated (electronically or in hard copy) in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of OzTAM.
it shows that if Ten has programs the audience is interested in they can win the ratings.
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It’s nice to see Ten on top!
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These are truly dark days. Years from now people will look back and realise this was the hinge point for the beginning of societies downfall.
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