Today beats Sunrise
Nine’s Today show scored a rare, Olympics-aided victory over Seven’s Sunrise on Monday morning.
After narrowing the gap last week, yesterday saw Today register an average of 390,000 viewers to Sunrise’s 332,000.
Although it is exceptionally rare for Today to beat Sunrise across the five city metro during a ratings period, part of the audience is likely to have been driven by viewers tuning in for updates from the Winter Olympics, for which Nine has the free to air rights.
Early Today (197,000) also beat Early Sunrise (170,000), according to the preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.
Today has been pulling out the stops this week including the show coming live from Melbourne’s Federation Square, and today’s introduction of Masterchef winner Julie Goodwin into a regular cooking slot. Today has already been clocking up consistent wins in Melbourne with Sydney now not far behind.
Last month Seven revamped Sunrise with a new set, brought back weatherman Grant Denyer, launched a weekly session with PM Kevin Rudd and introduced a Saturday edition hosted by Samantha Armytage and the Morning Show’s Larry Emdur.
However, Nine’s Olympic coverage was not enough of a draw on its own to make a major dent in the prime time ratings. Vancouver Gold rated an average of 848,000, which left it outside the top 15 for Monday.
Monday belonged to Seven, with My Kitchen Rules top rating with nearly 1.5m viewers.
- Seven: 27.9%
- Nine: 26.6%
- Ten: 16.7%
- ABC1: 13.6%
- SBS1: 5.9%
- 7TWO 4.1%
- GO!: 2.4%
- ABC2: 1.5%
- One: 0.5%
- ABC3: 0.4%
- SBS2: 0.4%
Monday’s top rating TV shows:
- My Kitchen Rules Seven 1.5m
- Seven News Seven 1.4m
- Two and a Half Men 7:30pm Nine 1.3m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.3m
- The Mentalist Nine 1.2m
- Nine News Nine 1.2m
- Desperate Housewives Seven 1.1m
- Home and Away Seven 1.1m
- Two and a Half Men 7:00pm Nine 1.1m
- A Current Affair Nine 1.1m
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Crap tv wins again
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What the Simpsons did for 10 that crappy Two and a Half men does for 9, and in Prime Time no less. But is this really the TV we want? Of course it’s not especially when the Govt. has reduced the license fees to increase Australian content. Why don’t they do us a favour and take 9’s license away altogether. Surely we have had enough of that ego driven second rate commentator Eddie M and even dear old cheesy Kenny S is starting to grate (no pun intended).
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i watched today this morning. ‘intense’ is the only way to describe it
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