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Whitney Houston comes back from the grave to kill Seven’s ratings

autopsy logoThe second episode of Seven’s celebrity post-mortem series Autopsy helped kill the network’s ratings on Thursday night, with just metro 470,000 viewers tuning in to hear the medical evidence behind singer Whitney Houston’s death.

The audience for the show – which aired at 8.30pm –  was even worse than for the first episode of Autopsy covering Michael jackson’s death which rated 644,000 last week.

The show was 20th for the night, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTAM.

Ratings across the board are down this week, in part because of networks holding back prime programmig until school holidays are over.

Seven’s share of the free-to-air audience for the night was just 17.1 per cent, one of its weakest of the year. Nine won the night with 21.8 per cent, while Ten rated 16.5 per cent.

Ten’s Masterchef – which aired from 7.35pm to 8.50pm – won its timeslot with a metro audience of 1.086m.

Nine’s double bill of Big Bang Theory repeats, which aired from 7.30pm, rated 714,000 and 746,000. And The Footy Show, from 8.30pm, rated 766,000 for Nine.

Seven split its schedule with Melbourne and Adelaide viewers catching up on Sunday Night, which did not air in those cities at the weekend because of AFL, while Sydney, Perth and Brisbane viewers saw Border Security.

The most watched show of the night was Nine News, which rated 1.272m metro viewers from 6pm. Seven News rated 986,000 at 6pm. Seven said that “on-air technical issues” impacted the ratings for Seven News. Viewers reported signal interference and no sound.

Ten Eyewitness News rated a metro audience of 593,000 at 5pm.

Seven never really recovered from its technical failures in Melbourne, with a particularly awful ratings night in the city, fourth behind Nine (25.4%); Ten (17.2%) and ABC1 (14.2%).

Meanwhile, in the key advertising age demographic of 25-54, Masterchef was top show across the five city metro.

Thursday’s top 15 metro shows:

  1. Nine News – 1.272m
  2. Nine News 6.30pm – 1.086m
  3. Masterchef – Ten – 1.086m
  4. Seven News – 986,000
  5. Seven News/ Today Tonight – 916,000
  6. A Current Affair – Nine – 905,000
  7. Home And Away – Seven -814,000
  8. The Footy Show – Nine – 766,000
  9. The Checkout – ABC1 – 763,000
  10. 7.30 – ABC1 – 749,000
  11. Big Bang Theory – Nine – 746,000
  12. ABC News – ABC1 – 726,000
  13. Big Bang Theory – Nine – 714,000
  14. Law And order – Ten – 675,000
  15. Hot Seat – Nine – 648,000

Thursday’s share:

  • Nine – 21.8%
  • Seven – 17.1%
  • Ten – 16.5%
  • ABC1 – 12.9%
  • Go – 4.5%
  • 7Mate – 4.1%
  • 7Two – 4%
  • Eleven – 3.6%
  • SBS One – 3.6%
  • One – 3.1%
  • Gem – 2.9%
  • ABC2 – 2.8%
  • ABC3 – 1.2%
  • ABC News 24 – 1%
  • SBS Two – 0.6%
  • NITV – 0.3%

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