The Bachelor tops The Hotplate but Seven secures biggest audience share for the night
The 2015 Bachelorettes with Sam Wood
The Bachelor overhauled The Hotplate last night recording its strongest audience yet for the current season and claiming the title of most watched entertainment show for Wednesday.
Ten’s dating show had 992,000 viewers, up from 805,000 last Wednesday and easily won across all the demographics, while Nine’s cooking show slipped back to 764,000 viewers in the 7.30 timeslot after pulling an audience of 914,000 last week and was fourth in the 25-54 and 18-49 demos.
Seven ran new episodes of Border Security and The Force at 7.30pm and 8pm, getting 747,000 viewers and 710,000 respectively, and managed to gain an audience share win for the second night running with 18.3 per cent, to Nine’s 18 per cent and Ten’s 14.6 per cent.
It was helped by a timeslot win for Criminal Minds at 8.40pm, which had an audience of 649,000, well ahead of Ten’s repeat of Madame Secretary (487,000) and Nine’s show World’s Most Expensive Food (480,000) at the same time, according to OzTam metro overnight ratings.
The ABC saw a slight slip for The Weekly with Charlie Pickering which had 632,000 at 8.30pm and Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery at 9pm had 583,000 viewers, both finishing second in their timeslot, while its 8pm show How Not to Behave had 509,000 viewers.
Nine’s breakfast show Today again beat Seven’s Sunrise with 318,000 viewers to 312,000.
In the news battle Nine managed 1.134m for its 6.30pm bulletin, rising from 1.133m at 6pm, while Seven had 1.044m at 6pm and 1m dead for its news and Today Tonight combination.
Top 15 shows:
1 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network 9 1,134,000
2 NINE NEWS Network 9 1,133,000
3 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 1,044,000
4 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network 9 1,000,000
5 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 992,000
6 THE BACHELOR AUSTRALIA WED Network TEN 922,000
7 ABC NEWS-EV Network ABC 810,000
8 HOME AND AWAY Network 7 782,000
9 THE HOTPLATE -WED Network 9 764,000
10 BORDER SECURITY – AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE Network 7 747,000
11 THE FORCE – BEHIND THE LINE Network 7 710,000
12 7.30-EV Network ABC 664,000
13 CRIMINAL MINDS Network 7 649,000
14 THE PROJECT 7PM Network TEN 645,000
15 THE WEEKLY WITH CHARLIE PICKERING-EV Network ABC 632,000
Audience share by channel:
Network 7 18.3%
Network 9 18.0%
Network TEN 14.6%
Network ABC 13.0%
Network SBS ONE 5.8%
Network 7TWO 5.2%
Network GO! 5.1%
Network Gem 3.5%
Network ELEVEN 3.5%
Network 7mate 3.4%
Network ABC2 3.3%
Network ONE 2.5%
Network SBS 2 1.8%
Network ABC News 24 1.5%
Network ABC3 0.4%
Network NITV 0.1%
Total network share:
Network 7 TTL 26.9%
Network 9 TTL 26.6%
Network TEN TTL 20.6%
Network ABC TTL 18.2%
Network SBS TTL 7.7%
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.
