Seven takes lead with Highway Patrol as Nine’s Hostages sinks to lowest ratings yet
Channel Seven regained its lead over Nine following The Ashes test as audiences tuned in for Highway Patrol and James Bond film The World is Not Enough as Nine’s Hostages fell to its lowest ratings yet, preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam show.
Highway Patrol was the most-watched non-news program of the night recording 774,000 metro viewers and was third in people 25-54, helping Seven win a 21.3 per cent share of the audience as Nine’s fell to 16.2 per cent.
Meanwhile Nine’s Makeover Street Christmas Special, featuring renovations throughout a residential street and a street party, was fourth in its timeslot with an average 434,000 metro viewers.
Nine’s Hostages dropped to fourth in the 9pm timeslot with 371,000 viewers as Seven’s Bond film averaged 521,000, ranking third in its timeslot after Ten’s Shrek and The Agony of Christmas which had 570,000 viewers on ABC1.
The World is Not Enough jumped to first in its timeslot at 9.30pm as ABC1 continued its Christmas lineup with Michael McIntyre’s Christmas Comedy Roadshow averaging 447,000, and Ten’s rating dropped to 274,000 for the Ben Stiller comedy Tropic Thunder from 9.30pm.
Seven’s Sunrise won the breakfast battle with an average 330,000 metro viewers as Nine’s Today had 284,000.
Wednesday’s top 15 shows:
- Seven News Seven 986,000
- Nine News Nine 951,000
- Today Tonight Seven 822,000
- Highway Patrol Seven 774,000
- A Current Affair Nine 758,000
- ABC News ABC1 721,000
- 7.30 Summer Edition ABC1 698,000
- Better Homes and Gardens Summer Seven 649,000
- QI ABC1 637,000
- Shrek Ten 597,000
- Ten Eyewitness News Ten 584,000
- The Agony of Christmas ABC1 570,000
- ABC News Update ABC1 568,000
- The World is Not Enough Seven 521,000
- Million Dollar Minute Seven 450,000
Wednesday’s share:
- Seven 21.3%
- Nine 16.2%
- TEN 14.3%
- ABC1 13.3%
- SBS ONE 5.2%
- GO! 4.7%
- 7mate 4.5%
- 7TWO 3.8%
- Gem 3.3%
- ABC2 3.2%
- ONE 3.0%
- ELEVEN 3.0%
- ABC News 24 1.7%
- ABC3 1.2%
- SBS 2 1.0%
- NITV 0.3%
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Any word on what the LFL got on 7mate? They’re boasting the ratings were higher than the A league but I haven’t seen any actual numbers anywhere.
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