Thursday TV viewers turn off

A slow night in the TV ratings saw audiences down across the board on Thursday.

Current affairs shows were the best of a bad bunch with Seven’s Today Tonight and Seven News leading the way, both delivering 1.3m, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.  

Nine’s Getaway recovered on previous weeks to 1.1m while Ten’s Rush struggled with 836,000.

For Seven, The Matty Johns Show was ninth in Sydney and 16th in Brisbane.

The network had a disappointing breakfast with Sunrise (353,000) beaten by Nine Today (369,000). Today won Sydney and Melbourne while Sunrise won the smaller markets of Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.

Thursday’s top rating shows:

1. Today Tonight Seven 1.319m
2. Seven News Seven 1.312m
3. Nine News Nine 1.219m
4. A Current Affair Nine 1.182m
5. Getaway Nine 1.109m
6. ABC News ABC 1.093m
7. Bondi Vet Ten 1.088m
8. Sea Patrol Nine 1.049m
9. Home and Away Seven 1.037m
10. Recruits Ten 0.996m
11. Two and a Half Men Nine 0.983m
12. How I Met Your Mother – Episode 1 Seven 0.879m
13. The 7PM Project Ten 0.851m
14. Rush Ten 0.836m
15. How I Met Your Mother – Episode 2 Seven 0.822m

Thursday’s channel share:

• ABC1: 14.2%
• Seven: 22.3%
• Nine: 25.1%
• Ten: 19.3%
• SBS1: 4.2%
• ABC2: 2.6%
• ABC3: 0.7%
• 7TWO 3.4%
• GO!: 6.9%
• One: 0.7%
• SBS2: 0.5%

Tim Burrowes

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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topics Getaway Matty Johns Show Nine OzTam ratings Rush Seven Seven News Sunrise television Ten Today Today Tonight TV

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Comments: 3

anon 30 Jul 10

Yeah real opportunity for a network to “own” Thursday nights because it is just Crapday TV that night.

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Lola 30 Jul 10

Apostrphes required – Thursdays top rating shows and Thursdays channel share.

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mumbrella 30 Jul 10

Thanks, Lola – sorted.

Cheers,

Tim

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