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GO! ties with SBS ONE

GO's share for Sunday night tied with SBS ONE on 4.2% each. And Liza helped Australian Idol.

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wipeout ballsCorrected: Sunday night there were winners and losers, but the big victory was GO! which took a 4.2% share for the night.

Wipeout enjoyed 294,000 viewers (maybe it’s time to bring back It’s a Knockout to Sundays, TEN?). That put it well ahead of World News Australia‘s 136,000. GO! tied for the night with SBS ONE also on 4.2%.

GO’s share once again helped Nine snatch a Sunday win from Seven.

But Seven had five of the top six shows for the night, led by The Force on 1.53m viewers.

Liza Minnelli’s appearance on Australian Idol gave it a modest lift, enough to pass the one million mark. At 1.06m it also eclipsed 60 Minutes on 1.05m. Rescue: Special Ops had to settle on fourth in its slot at 1.02m.

The ABC’s The 39 Steps tied with Bones on 1.14m but broadly speaking numbers for the traditional 8:30 Sunday slot across all channels were well down. Where is everybody going?

Who Do You Think You Are? shed around 100,000 of its audience for SBS.

An earlier story which claimed GO! beat SBS was incorrect. Apologies for any confusion.

Week 43

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  1. How interesting ! We love Its a Knockout and it should be back – Start a Campaign Please. It’s the best fun ever – it really breaks down the barriers and with fun fun fun all the way doing Its A Knockout games that’s for sure. Recommended !

  2. Danny D (12:47pm),

    Nine’s 23.9 rating share Vs GO!’s 4.2 share is “people [coming] in droves to watch a sister channel,” is it? From my math, it looks like the “droves” are still watching Nine…

  4. SBS is strange. It can occasionally get a million viewers for a show like Top Gear. But its other prime time shows usually get between 100k -300k

    I watched a few hours of GO on Sunday. It is nice that Channel Nine are getting the rewards for scheduling good content. The quality of GO is well beyond my initial expectations.

  5. @Rob good point, GO! will be pretty even with it’s numbers where as ONE with vary a lot depending on the sporting events each week, a weekly or monthly total is a much better guide.

  7. Good on GO! for having a go at playing stuff people want to watch.

    Whilst Wipeout is hardly my idea of entertainment, the fact that they have a great deal of entertainment shows (most of which failed on TV initially) is testament to the success of the concept. I just hope Channel Seven decides to directly compete.

  8. Looking at 9’s own ratings reports the comparative between GO and ONE HD is a ratio of approx 3:2 where early on it was 2:1.

    I think we need to look at ratings over 3 or 6 months to have a better perspective as well as daily/weekly numbers that are current.

    SBS has had some rubbish on lately as well as last minute schedule changes which annoy viewers

  10. “Where is everybody going?” Well I don’t know about everyone else but our household tends to watch our own stuff on Sunday nights – a movie or couple of episodes of a TV show that we’ve accumulated on DVD. We started this practice a while ago when Channel 9 started screwing with CSI (i.e. they’d play a new episode one week then 2 weeks of repeats then sneak in a new one and so on). We got so annoyed that we virtually stopped watching TV as it goes to air unless it’s something that has to be seen live such as sports. For dramas and comedies we like we rent or buy DVDs and watch them at our leisure without having to put up with the ludicrous scheduling changes of the networks.

  11. Doesn’t this prove how desperate people are for alternative programming to each channel’s own lineup? When people come in droves to watch a sister channel, one has to wonder if people are doing the right thing on their original channel.

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