1.1m viewers watch Socceroos match
More than 1.1 million Australians were up early on Monday morning to watch the Socceroos take on Germany.
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More than 1.1 million Australians were up early yesterday morning to watch the Socceroos take on Germany.
The early morning match, which began at 4:30am AEST, pulled a whopping 1.106m viewers yesterday with the biggest audience in Sydney (480,000). In Melbourne it pulled 310,000. In Perth where it began at 2:30am on a working Monday there were 92,000 viewers.
But outside of the 6pm-midnight primetime, the big audience does not factor into SBS’ nightly share.
As audiences settled back into the working week, the top show for Monday was MasterChef Australia with 1.93m viewers, beating Two and a Half Men and Big Bang Theory repeats on 1.23m / 1.08m and Breaking the Magician’s Code on 1.1m.
Good News Week also won its slot with a huge 1.4m viewers, its biggest audience this year. NCIS star Pauley Perrette is clearly a big drawcard in this country (get her back for the Logies next year?). Also scoring on a public holiday was The 7PM Project with 1.1m, second in its slot behind Nine’s sitcom (1.23m).
Nine’s million dollar Hot Seat question pulled in 877,000, well ahead of Deal or No Deal on 736,000. The million dollars didn’t go off. Beating both was TEN News on 1.08m.
Elsewhere Santo, Sam and Ed’s Cup Fever was 264,000, The Circle was 130,000 but remained in third position, and the Australia v Germany replay on SBS TWO was 116,000 which may well be a new high for the digital channel.
Seven won the night in network figures however TEN was first in primary channels.
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The “Vuvuzela Effect”?
Losers!!
It’s funny how Australians jump on the bandwagon for almost anything.
@DanR; You can’t use a public holiday to provide a projection for a regular weekday slot. The dynamics between the two are very different. Also, putting Neighbours on at 5.00pm excludes it from being counted towards local drama points, so Ten would never do that.
1. Public holiday so more people watching the match places other than their own TV.
2. Ratings are the average for the broadcast, a lot of people would have only watched about half the match because of how bad Australia played.
3. In 2006 we had our first WC match in 32 years, a match against the most famous national team in the world, and a match that decided if we’d get out of the group. All good reasons for higher ratings than a “normal” Australia WC match. If we beat Ghana you can expect higher numbers for the Serbia match, for the same reason as Croatia four years ago.
I think GNW just has a good lead-in with MC.
I wonder if the London week will be in the 2m+ range.
Story on the HS site says BBC is considering getting a clean feed of the World Cup games without the constant annoying buzzing sound. Lets hope SBS grows a brain and gets that version too
I love how the socceroos got 90percent market share at that time of a morning – begs the question – what were the other 10percent watching??
i think SBS would be pretty disapointed wih that. in 2006 first round world cup matches pulled over 2mil on a schoolnight at 4:30. this was on a public holiday. the score probably sent people back to bed early but still i think it could have expected 1.6ish…. add another 20 000 people to it for the huge crowd in sydney
maybe people who normally watch man vs wild tuned in to good news week.
@Bass,
I completely agree. TEN has some of the best shows on TV on their main channel and could easily win overall if their secondary channel showed more than just sport. Though ONE may get a boost when the Commonwealth Games come around.
Ten should start their hour of news from 5.30pm if yesterday’s ratings are any guide to what they could expect. Admittedly, it did benefit from the live AFL but it would go some way to fixing their 6-7pm black hole
Neighbours could move to 5pm after Bold and they could commission new shows for the 6.30pm slot. Biggest Loser could work well at that time so that’s three months of programming sorted out….
@Johnson i was talking about the croatia game which wouldn’t have been any earlier than 2am in Perth.
i think the major reason for the drop in ratings is that last year it was the first time in decades that Australia had made the world cup, it was really something special that was hyped up in the leadup. this year the meh factor is kicking in. the score and general decline in ratings, i don’t hink is enough to explain such a fall.
@Jerome: the match against Japan in 2006 (which pulled 2.166 million) was on late night Monday, and due to time difference, was actually up against Desperate Housewives in Perth.
“Many people would have watched the Socceroos game at live sites, pubs, bars etc. so the 1.1 million wouldn’t reflect the true audience size.”
Being that it was a public holiday in most states, more people were probably at pubs etc than the last time when the game was on a “school night”.
I thnk the game was over before it began, had it been closer/a draw then you could be sure the figures would’ve been much higher.
That has got to be an all time record for GNW, unbelievable night for 10.
Now if only they could fix 6pm, and ONE (Ditch it and rebrand as entertainment, the ‘Sports’ model isn’t cutting it)
Many people would have watched the Socceroos game at live sites, pubs, bars etc. so the 1.1 million wouldn’t reflect the true audience size.
Good ratings for anything at 4:30am but the ratings would have been much higher if Australia didn’t get thrashed. I would like to see a peak figure 🙂 I also can’t believe that GNW increased about 400-600k on their average figure just because of the chick from NCIS, although I thought she was great and I don’t even watch NCIS!
i think SBS would be pretty disapointed wih that. in 2006 first round world cup matches pulled over 2mil on a schoolnight at 4:30. this was on a public holiday. the score probably sent people back to bed early but still i think it could have expected 1.6ish.