damianPreview- Top 20 Metro TV Ratings 18th- 25th June
July 5th 2006 01:00
Here's a report I did for last weeks TV ratings. It's obviously a week old but you should get the idea. Over the next few days I'll start doing the first reports for music, movies and this weeks TV. All comments welcome as I try to work out the best way to do this 
Top 20 Metropolitan TV Ratings 18th- 25th June
Local Content Score- 15 of top 20
Report card- Channel 9 cops a flogging as PBL share holders start giving Eddie ‘please explain’ stares.
For those who haven’t been exposed to a lot of Aus TV culture history, this week’s TV ratings result might be interesting. But for those who are aware of the before-mentioned, things are looking downright significant. A bit melodramatic maybe but after decades at the top of the pile it has taken Big Kezza’s legacy about 3 months to implode and Channel 9’s new Man At The Top, one Eddie MacGuire, had better get his act together.
There were four, count ‘em, only four Channel 9 TV shows in the Top Twenty this week, a number beaten into submission and left for dead by a barn-storming nine Top Twenty shows from Channel 7. Of perhaps more significance was the fact that seven of these were local productions for Channel 7 along with three of Channel 9’s top four. With figures like this local content is doing very healthy trade which even extends beyond the typical news and current affairs shows which always do well (a sad day indeed if we ever start watching CNN News over a locally produced news service). Again, much of this can be attributed to the Reality TV which seems to be the flavour at the moment with Border Security again reigning as the weeks most watched show but there was also some respectable showings by its partner-in-crime Medical Emergency and Channel 9’s Missing Persons Unit. Even Big Brother and It Takes Two managed to pitch their tents in the top twenty so there’s still room for the game-show RTV as well.
The other story of this weeks figures was the presence of SBS. One ‘SBS’ scrawled on the OZTAM sheet is significant but to have 3? That’s just weird. (This is after all the channel that struggles to get 5% of national TV audience share and rarely ever gets a showing in the top 20 outside of this years Socceroos rampage) Personally I was surprised that the Brasil game didn’t rate higher than it did but when you consider the time of morning it was on it’s probably not that surprising. Unfortunately, with our loss to Italy fresh in our minds (not to mention some disturbingly murderous thoughts towards a certain match official) it’s going to be hard for SBS to make too many more showings in the top twenty beyond next week. The final will be the one to look out for.
Beyond that the American dramas were back with a vengeance making me wonder where they went in the first place and there was another quiet, yet quite significant, showing in at number 20 with the telemovie The Society Murders. This, I think, could have been one of the most significant results of the week as the first made-for-TV movie produced in a while is still able to make it’s way into the top 20. This shows made-for-TV movies are still a viable option in Australia, which will be important in the future if cinema releases continue to struggle. Perhaps this will become a format to watch in the future of Aussie culture production. Unlikely; but possible.
To view the Top Twenty list yourself go here.
Top 20 Metropolitan TV Ratings 18th- 25th June
Local Content Score- 15 of top 20
Report card- Channel 9 cops a flogging as PBL share holders start giving Eddie ‘please explain’ stares.
For those who haven’t been exposed to a lot of Aus TV culture history, this week’s TV ratings result might be interesting. But for those who are aware of the before-mentioned, things are looking downright significant. A bit melodramatic maybe but after decades at the top of the pile it has taken Big Kezza’s legacy about 3 months to implode and Channel 9’s new Man At The Top, one Eddie MacGuire, had better get his act together.
There were four, count ‘em, only four Channel 9 TV shows in the Top Twenty this week, a number beaten into submission and left for dead by a barn-storming nine Top Twenty shows from Channel 7. Of perhaps more significance was the fact that seven of these were local productions for Channel 7 along with three of Channel 9’s top four. With figures like this local content is doing very healthy trade which even extends beyond the typical news and current affairs shows which always do well (a sad day indeed if we ever start watching CNN News over a locally produced news service). Again, much of this can be attributed to the Reality TV which seems to be the flavour at the moment with Border Security again reigning as the weeks most watched show but there was also some respectable showings by its partner-in-crime Medical Emergency and Channel 9’s Missing Persons Unit. Even Big Brother and It Takes Two managed to pitch their tents in the top twenty so there’s still room for the game-show RTV as well.
The other story of this weeks figures was the presence of SBS. One ‘SBS’ scrawled on the OZTAM sheet is significant but to have 3? That’s just weird. (This is after all the channel that struggles to get 5% of national TV audience share and rarely ever gets a showing in the top 20 outside of this years Socceroos rampage) Personally I was surprised that the Brasil game didn’t rate higher than it did but when you consider the time of morning it was on it’s probably not that surprising. Unfortunately, with our loss to Italy fresh in our minds (not to mention some disturbingly murderous thoughts towards a certain match official) it’s going to be hard for SBS to make too many more showings in the top twenty beyond next week. The final will be the one to look out for.
Beyond that the American dramas were back with a vengeance making me wonder where they went in the first place and there was another quiet, yet quite significant, showing in at number 20 with the telemovie The Society Murders. This, I think, could have been one of the most significant results of the week as the first made-for-TV movie produced in a while is still able to make it’s way into the top 20. This shows made-for-TV movies are still a viable option in Australia, which will be important in the future if cinema releases continue to struggle. Perhaps this will become a format to watch in the future of Aussie culture production. Unlikely; but possible.
To view the Top Twenty list yourself go here.
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