Wake Up debuts with 52,000 with just 29,000 watching first half hour
Ten’s new morning show Wake Up rated just 52,000 metro viewers on its first day, according to preliminary overnight numbers from OzTAM.
The number is only fractionally more than its ill-fated predecessor Breakfast which averaged 49,000 on its first day.
In the ranking of shows, Wake Up was 219th for the day. It averaged 11,000 in Sydney, 13,000 in Melbourne, 15,000 in Brisbane, 8,000 in Adelaide and 6,000 in Perth. However, despite the show running from 6.30am to 8.30am, only the final 90 minutes were included in the rating, helping it to a higher average.
During its first half hour it averaged 29,000. Averaged across the full two hours, the show rated 47,000 – below the first day numbers of its predecessor.
Meanwhile, Seven’s Sunrise rated 368,000 and Nine’s Today averaged 321,000.
Ahead of launch, Ten declined to give a figure it was aiming for although industry speculation suggested that 100,000 should be the initial target.
Ten’s new mid morning show Studio 10 averaged 61,000. Seven’s Morning Show rated 189,000 and Nine’s Mornings averaged 135,000.
Adam Boland, director of morning TV for Ten, has tweeted that the numbers indicate a “promising start”.
And a Network Ten spokesperson added: “We are happy with the shows, which look great, and the day one numbers. We are taking a long-term view of the breakfast and morning TV market. It will take time to establish our new line up.”
Monday’s top program was Nine News with 1.136m metro viewers followed by Seven News with 1.131m, while a new episode of the Big Bang Theory shot to the top of the night’s entertainment line up with 1.125m viewers for Channel Nine.
The show was ahead of Seven’s US import, James Spader’s The Blacklist, which achieved a metro audience of over 1m at 8.30pm. Channel Ten’s Homeland dropped to 323,000.
Meanwhile Seven’s brand funded show about the work of the Westpac helicopter Air Rescue rated 794,000.
The Big Bang Theory and the repeat episode that followed were the top two programs in people 25-54 followed by Nine’s Big Brother.
Big Brother, now in its final week, averaged 992,000, ahead of Seven’s Highway Patrol and Air Rescue, and Ten’s A League of Their Own, which averaged 326,000.
Nine won the night with a 22.7 per cent share of the audience while Seven had 20.8 per cent.
Ten’s audience share was 8.6 per cent.
Monday’s top 15 shows:
- Nine News Nine 1.136m
- Seven News Seven 1.131m
- The Big Bang Theory 1.125m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.037m
- The Blacklist Seven 1.006m
- Big Brother Nine 992,000
- The Big Bang Theory – Rpt Nine 944,000
- A Current Affair Nine 934,000
- Highway Patrol Seven 871,000
- Home and Away Seven 868,000
- Australian Story ABC1 864,000
- ABC News ABC1 833,000
- 7.30 ABC1 802,000
- Air Rescue Seven 794,000
- Four Corners ABC1 718,000 2
Monday’s share:
- Nine 22.7%
- Seven 20.8%
- ABC1 15.2%
- Ten 8.6%
- ONE 4.3%
- SBS ONE 4.2%
- 7mate 3.9%
- GO! 3.8%
- ELEVEN 3.8%
- ABC2 3.8%
- 7TWO 2.9%
- Gem 2.7%
- ABC News 24 1.3%
- ABC3 0.9%
- SBS 2 0.8%
- NITV 0.1%
Ratings data is copyright OzTAM and may not be reproduced, published or communicated without the prior written consent of OzTAM.
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So. Who’s making tea?
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I’m watching Studio 10 now, and it’s just… awkward. Awkward silences, awkward laughs, and Ita Buttrose looks like she absolutely doesn’t want to be there. It’s going to be interesting to see how their new morning line-up goes in the future.
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Hi Encyclic,
Alex Hayes. He’s already delivered. He doesn’t do a bad cuppa. That’s why we hired him.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
Call me old fashioned but I don’t like the “funky” names these hosts have.
Trash, Trish and Metho just doesn’t sound right.
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I thought TEN were going to reinvent morning TV! There was nothing new or clever about Wake Up, it was all rather stilted and pedestrian. I actually thought the Paul Henry breakfast show was a more interesting concept and at least provided a point of difference. I gave Wake up a go but I’m now heading straight back to Sunrise.
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Give it time.
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All that publicity and marketing behind it and they still only got 52,000! Imagine how much lower that number would’ve been without it.. Then again wasn’t Breakfast around 30,000? So I guess you can call it an improvement.
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Agree with Justin…nothing new and a very awkward, non flowing show to watch.
Predict it will settle around 32,000.
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The show this morning was cringeworthy. It was crude and the constant calling of the ladies ‘guys’ was yucky at best, particularly in a debut week.
Granted the team is facing an uphill battle against monster ratings, but you’d think they’d at least show respect for it’s audience taking a leap onto their channel for the morning.
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We produced a Christmas show last year with a budget of just $27000 and managed a national audience of 110 000 viewers.
We’re happy to submit our CVs and ideas on TV shows that are cheap to make and actually worth watching!
It would have been cheaper for TEN to put on a live show at ANZ stadium instead of these morning shows.
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I think they launched this show so they could have something positive to say about the ratings for Meet The Press and Bolt.
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I agree about the names Nick Bartlett. I hate the forced attempts to Australianise names by converting them into nicknames or abbreviating them in some way. In this case it seems particularly forced. If it’s going to happen, at least let it happen naturally
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Bring back cartoons…
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OMG duh – their target market doesn’t watch TV. Really, I can’t believe people are still employed to make TV programs.
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Bring back Jerry Springer….
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Is this being filmed at Queenscliff?
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pretty sure they didn’t stand a chance in week one with sunrise beefing up it’s giveaways and today doing their promo thing…I think it’s got huge potential this one and will creep up. You heard it here first
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There’ something the people running channel 10 just aren’t seeing and its obvious to anybody who doesn’t work there…and they are wasting millions trying to discover it…..the audience has moved on…they see the formula’s….and they are bored by the formula’s…stop working off the old tired formula’s and break new ground. If you try and create in a culture of fear you will stick to the formula…the formula the audience are bored with….and on and on it goes. Channel 10 you are failing because you’re afraid and out of touch. Stop listening to the people who think they know, they obviously don’t.
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