Comments on: Race that tops the nation

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:34:44 +0000

I agree Hoople. You can Never compare a 3-5 minute coverage to a 3 hr sports coverage. The only way you can do that is if you look at the AFL peak. AFL GF will always be bigger than Melb Cup sorry Jerome.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:33:07 +0000

@ Dan – I disagree with you and over Ape overlords – I think OneHD has served to prove two points – a) Given the choice between sport and general entertainment – the bulk of the television audience will choose the latter b) Sport itself in this country is fragmenting, for all of FTA’s protestations about anti-siphoning and keep sport free, there are now only 5 mass audience sports during the year: Summer Cricket, Tennis, AFL, NRL, Melbourne Cup Carnival. That’s it, nothing else pulls huge ratings unfortunately.

I think Ten will keep OneHD but OneSD is toast, they’ll use that space to compete with GO! and 7TWO because Ten (the mothership) is haemorrhaging viewers to the new upstarts.

By: hoople

hoople — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:29:04 +0000

i really do get that the melbourne cup was hugely successful – but lets keep in mind it was 5 minutes of content!
its not really comparable to a whole game of sport… but a great result all the same.

By: Linda

Linda — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:00:02 +0000

Does this mean only 3 more weeks of Bones?

By: Craig(Buzz)

Craig(Buzz) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:28 +0000

Just so people know all the figures are not seperate Go! for example has been added to Channel 9 in the overall total,which in my opinion is wrong

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:53:28 +0000

7TWO’s share will no doubt rise when viewer awareness becomes more prevalent. If I’m ever talking to someone about TV and I happen to mention that there’s a new channel called 7TWO, most people have no clue what I’m talking about…

By: Jerome

Jerome — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:49:12 +0000

huge revised numbers for the cup. next year it’s the 150th. could be the biggest sporting event of the year in a few years time. beating the AFL GF

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:07:52 +0000

I garantee you Damon he didnt get aske to quit. i know Toby and he was afraid he was going to win and didn’t want to give up his job at Star of the Sea.

By: damo

damo — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:31:55 +0000

i think one hd will stay.

it will be interesting to see how bad idol rates tonight again. i wonder if they will ask a contestant to quit like they did last week. dont tell me they didn’t ask him to quit

By: Brodie

Brodie — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:09:52 +0000

The Melbourne Cup was huge this week. In revised figures it was pushed up from 2.56m to 2.673m.

By: Dan Barrett

Dan Barrett — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:27:17 +0000

OneHD is a long-term investment strategy that will still be around long after 7TWO and Go! have disappeared. With TV moving towards content on demand, with direct downloads and other similar distribution methods, sport will remain viable on TV because it’s something people want to watch live.

When the uprising takes place and this becomes a Planet of The Apes, our ape overlords will still be able to watch Grand Slam tennis events from Ape City live on OneHD.

By: David Knox

David Knox — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:12:13 +0000

Seven won Saturday as correctly noted here and incorrectly noted in Saturday figures, now corrected. Apologies. Bogues: 7TWO had advertising as soon as it started as noted here. If you mean promotion for the channel, there was still quite a bit of media on it. It's a good start and it will pick up.

By: Harry

Harry — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:11:59 +0000

Disappointing to see Rush on 800k this week – should be rating much higher.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:22:19 +0000

Not a good sign for Nine!

By: Sharpy

Sharpy — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:20:36 +0000

Just how committed is Ten to maintaining OneHD as a 24hr sports channel? 7two is already beating it in share and One has been on the air the longest… surely the cost of all the sports rights would outweigh any advertising revenue that might be coming in…

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:06:16 +0000

David so I’m guessing you got nine and seven mixed up in the saturday ratings with their percentages then?