TV Wrap: AO men’s final pulls 1.3m metro viewers; The Bachelors’ final decision closes with 372k

Darcy Song

January 30, 2023 10:37

Nine’s Australian Open ended on a high note on Sunday, as the men’s final match drew in 1.322 million metro viewers and won all three key advertising demos.

The session saw Novak Djokovic (Serbia) beat Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece), to take his tenth win at the Australian Open and tie with Rafael Nadal on total Grand Slam titles. The presentation afterwards also attracted 1.05 million metro viewers on Nine.

L-R: Aryna Sabalenka and Novak Djokovic. Source: Facebook

Meanwhile, women’s final between Aryna Sabalenka (Russia) and Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) drew in 851,000 metro viewers on Saturday night. However, the number was no match to last year’s session between Australian Ash Barty and Danielle Collins (USA), which pulled in 2.838 million metro viewers.

Nine network was the overall winner in the week ending 28 January, with a 35.3% share. It was followed by Seven network with 27.1%. The top primary channel of the week was Nine with a 26.5% share.

Next in entertainment on Sunday night was Australian Open’s pre-match session with 585,000 metro viewers. It is followed by a repeat of Vera on ABC, with 388,000 metro audience.

The Bachelors’ final decision drew in just 372,000 metro viewers, which aired after the penultimate episode with 356,000 metro viewers. Last season’s finale saw 629,000 metro viewers tuning in to the final decision segment.

Seven News on Sunday had 864,000 metro viewers, followed by Nine News with 682,000.

Nine network won the overall network share on Sunday with 47.4%, followed by Seven with 20.7%, ABC with 13.7% and Ten with 12.6%. Nine was also the top-rated primary channel with a 40.7% share, and the top-rated multichannel was 9GO! with 2.3%.

In the latest Daily Consolidated Total TV Report for 22 January, Seven News was the #1 program nationally across linear, with 1.216 million viewers, including 27,000 on BVOD and an uplift of 2%.

However, the program with the biggest uplift was The Bachelors with an uplift of 54% and had a total of 564,000 viewers overall, and BVOD audience of 152,000 nationally.