An audience of 827,000 people watched TEN’s midnight fireworks last night.
51% of the national viewing audience was tuned to TEN’s Sydney Harbour fireworks, beating 28.4% on Nine and 20.2% on Seven.
585,000 watched the earlier family fireworks.
Press Release:
A peak audience of 1.5 million rang in 2008 with TEN’s New Year’s Eve telecast, hosted by Kim Watkins and Andrew G.
TEN’s one-hour Midnight Fireworks presentation (11.30pm – 12.30am) averaged 827,000 viewers*.
More than 50 per cent of the audience watching commercial television in that timeslot was tuned to TEN [51.4% CSHR (total ppl) vs 28.4% to Nine and 20.2% to Seven].
Earlier in the evening, TEN’s Family Fireworks was the most-watched program in its timeslot, peaking at 995,000 viewers and averaging 585,000 (8.30pm-9.30pm)*.
TEN’s movie, Charlie’s Angels, also won the largest audience in its timeslot.
All data: OzTAM.
5 mainland metro markets; does not include people watching out of home (for example, in pubs or clubs) or in regional areas.
*Average audience based on OzTAM preliminary times and subject to change slightly with confirmed program logs
The camera work, presenters and performances for the 9:00 show were awful, so I avoided the midnight coverage. Idols, Kim Watkins, Andrew G and Fuzzie? Come on.
We sort-of watched this with the sound off. I seem to recall the last commercial before midnight was for Hotwheels racing cars. Wha…?
Agree with anon post 1 – I watched the Beatles movie Help (on and off as i was on pc too) and even though a bit of a silly movie, the music was FAB!!!!!
I didnt care about the fireworks, its just another year that seems hopeful and eventually let’s you down (as always the case for me!)
That is a pretty good result for channel 10, how does that compare to last year?
Andrew G and Kim W *yawns*. Richard W *yawns again*. All I’ll say is thank god for Seven and their great Beatles marathon which saved the night from total boredom.