damianThis Weeks Top Twenty TV Shows
September 28th 2006 03:43
The footy season is upon us, and with it some big figures.
Top 20 Metropolitan TV Ratings 17th- 23rd September
Local Content Score- 15 of top 20
Things are starting to get exciting in TV Land, not to mention a little topsy turvy. For the second week in a row Channel 9 was effectively shut out of The Twenty off the back of a network tag team from Ten and Seven. If it wasn’t for the League prelim finals The Eddie Network would have had a tiny three shows in the Top Twenty, two of those being news programs, so things aren’t looking good for our highest paid network executive.
As far as the locals go it was the standard fair at the top with Border Security, as always, heading the list with 2.243 million viewers. Behind it in third was the next local, Thank God You’re Here, on 1.852 million, and behind it was Medical Emergency on 1.787 million.
It was in at sixth that the footy ratings kicked in, the first prelim AFL game between Sydney and Fremantle doing very nice figures in the metro areas with 1.638 million viewers. Behind them was another Channel Ten stable mate, Aussie Idol, which was followed by TV Turns 50 from Channel 7 in eighth and then another Aussie Idol in at ninth.
Honestly, Channel Ten has to be tickled pink with the performance of it’s lineup at the moment. Not only does it have the top performing import (House in at second) but Aussie Idol and the AFL are both getting multiple shows in The Twenty, making it seven Channel Ten shows on the Oztam charts this week. That’s an awesome effort from a channel who doesn’t care about anyone under the age of forty.
From ninth it was down to eleventh where the second AFL game between Adelaide and West Coast drew a crowd of 1.421 million, proving that AFL really is the leading national football code at the moment, especially in Perth where they’re getting some huge figures.
Thirteenth saw a very impressive performance from All Saints which is doing extremely well. Go Aussie drama!
Fourteenth was the Rugby League final between St George and Melbourne. This was another rare instance where rugby league was shown live in Melbourne and it achieved a very interesting result- there was more Melburnians watching the League game involving the Storm than there were Sydneysiders watching the Swans in the AFL prelim. With a result like that it makes you wonder why they don’t show the league in Melbourne more often.
The other interesting thing about the football figures is the different performances of the various codes in the various states. This years figures were the ultimate justification for football executives expanding their codes as quickly and widely as possible, with League getting higher figures in the cities that it was shown but AFL’s broader reach, covering all five major capitals, giving it that few hundred thousand extra viewers to give it the title of ‘Most Watched Football Code’. (League isn’t shown in Perth and Adelaide until late at night and you can see the result- 18 and 9 thousand viewers respectively. The AFL’s lowest figures on the other hand was 73,000 viewers in Brisbane for the Sydney/Fremantle game) For anyone lamenting the nationalisation/globalisation of their sport, these figures aren’t going to help your cause.
Unfortunately Oztam figures don’t cover regional areas, so there probably wont be a clear picture of the football ratings until a bit later, but as it’s something most football fans are interested in I’ll try to knock up a report later on that is a bit more inclusive. Probably after the two grand finals.
And from the league it was down to Home and Away which was in at twentieth to round out the chart, the other four local shows not mentioned being current affairs or news programs.
Stay tuned next week as we get more footy results, as well as figures from the Channel 9 interview with Terri Irwin.
To see all the tv rating figures head over to Oztam.
Top 20 Metropolitan TV Ratings 17th- 23rd September
Local Content Score- 15 of top 20
Things are starting to get exciting in TV Land, not to mention a little topsy turvy. For the second week in a row Channel 9 was effectively shut out of The Twenty off the back of a network tag team from Ten and Seven. If it wasn’t for the League prelim finals The Eddie Network would have had a tiny three shows in the Top Twenty, two of those being news programs, so things aren’t looking good for our highest paid network executive.
AFL had a really good week.
As far as the locals go it was the standard fair at the top with Border Security, as always, heading the list with 2.243 million viewers. Behind it in third was the next local, Thank God You’re Here, on 1.852 million, and behind it was Medical Emergency on 1.787 million.
It was in at sixth that the footy ratings kicked in, the first prelim AFL game between Sydney and Fremantle doing very nice figures in the metro areas with 1.638 million viewers. Behind them was another Channel Ten stable mate, Aussie Idol, which was followed by TV Turns 50 from Channel 7 in eighth and then another Aussie Idol in at ninth.
Honestly, Channel Ten has to be tickled pink with the performance of it’s lineup at the moment. Not only does it have the top performing import (House in at second) but Aussie Idol and the AFL are both getting multiple shows in The Twenty, making it seven Channel Ten shows on the Oztam charts this week. That’s an awesome effort from a channel who doesn’t care about anyone under the age of forty.
From ninth it was down to eleventh where the second AFL game between Adelaide and West Coast drew a crowd of 1.421 million, proving that AFL really is the leading national football code at the moment, especially in Perth where they’re getting some huge figures.
Thirteenth saw a very impressive performance from All Saints which is doing extremely well. Go Aussie drama!
Fourteenth was the Rugby League final between St George and Melbourne. This was another rare instance where rugby league was shown live in Melbourne and it achieved a very interesting result- there was more Melburnians watching the League game involving the Storm than there were Sydneysiders watching the Swans in the AFL prelim. With a result like that it makes you wonder why they don’t show the league in Melbourne more often.
The other interesting thing about the football figures is the different performances of the various codes in the various states. This years figures were the ultimate justification for football executives expanding their codes as quickly and widely as possible, with League getting higher figures in the cities that it was shown but AFL’s broader reach, covering all five major capitals, giving it that few hundred thousand extra viewers to give it the title of ‘Most Watched Football Code’. (League isn’t shown in Perth and Adelaide until late at night and you can see the result- 18 and 9 thousand viewers respectively. The AFL’s lowest figures on the other hand was 73,000 viewers in Brisbane for the Sydney/Fremantle game) For anyone lamenting the nationalisation/globalisation of their sport, these figures aren’t going to help your cause.
Unfortunately Oztam figures don’t cover regional areas, so there probably wont be a clear picture of the football ratings until a bit later, but as it’s something most football fans are interested in I’ll try to knock up a report later on that is a bit more inclusive. Probably after the two grand finals.
And from the league it was down to Home and Away which was in at twentieth to round out the chart, the other four local shows not mentioned being current affairs or news programs.
Stay tuned next week as we get more footy results, as well as figures from the Channel 9 interview with Terri Irwin.
To see all the tv rating figures head over to Oztam.
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