Seven slams summer ratings week
With evening shares of up to 42.5%, Seven Network dominates the week in ratings -winning all seven nights and all 5 metro cities.
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The first week of the Australian Open has served up a mighty win for Seven.
With Aussies such as Bernard Tomic and Lleyton Hewitt at play, network shares have soared -including a 40.7% share on Friday and 42.5% on Saturday.
Seven finished the week with a dominant 34.9% share over Nine’s 23.7%, TEN’s 19.0%, ABC’s 15.8% and SBS’ 6.6%.
In Primary Channels Seven was 27.0%, Nine 15.4%, TEN 11.6%, ABC1 11.5%, SBS ONE 5.3%.
GO! gave Nine a bright spot, leading Multichannels with 4.6%, then 7TWO and ELEVEN both on 4.4%, GEM 3.6%, 7mate 3.5%, ONE 3.0%, ABC2 2.5%, SBS TWO 1.2%, ABC3 and ABC News 24 both on 0.9%.
Seven won three key demos 16-39, 18-49, 25-54, all seven nights and all 5 metro cities.
ABC beat TEN on Saturday.
The top show for the week was Friday night’s Bernard Tomic match averaging 1.25m viewers. But Nine’s Third Test (Sess. 2) came close with 1.22m viewers.
Official survey ratings return in three weeks.
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13 Responses
geez channel 10 lucky last night tomic game finished so early, wouldn’t have watched Homeland otherwise, quite liked it in the end..
well if 7 weren’t pulling the organzers strings like they’re every year. we would have seen more of djockovic who is number 1 in the world and defending champion. we have seen a sum total of 10 games if that of his matches this tournement. same goes with andy murry. is don’t think the 181rst player in the world would be put on center court 4 times in a row at night at wimbledon.nto say the coverage has been great from them. you must be watching an international feed. 7s coverage has been it’s usual shambolic self
Tennis is an awesome sport with a clean image. How often do you hear of a tennis player in court on drunken, sexual assault,drug or assault charges? We need more Aussie kids playing and we should all get behind this.
@dylan
Umm… no you don’t… I haven’t watched any of it and don’t plan to.
@mr Chandler of course seven controls who plays on centre court – they pay for the tournament… Don’t quite get your point… It’s blindingly obvious.
Aussies in games mean ratings
@ Mr Chandler . Of course it helps they select what matches are on at night. But it’s a pretty stupid point because the tournament directors would want the most eye balls watching the games to help their cause too. So regardless the same matches would be on there anyway
On another note the coverage has been excellent and fully live. The only negative is that I would have Joh Griggs with the role at night. Put simply she makes too many verbal mistakes. Really she should be mornings and one of the guys nights. But really a small issue
It helps when you control who gets to play on centre court at night
Seven are going to smash the other networks this year…..
@ GG
im not sure if that was being sarcastic or not but of course the figures will drop slightly when tomic and hewitt lose. people are allowed to support their countrymen who are playing fantastic
Gotta love tennis. Gotta love seven fantastic coverage.
Let’s see what happens to those figures when the ‘locals’ drop out of the tennis.
Channel 10 on screen logo has just gone shaded.
The tennis has had no competition so far so the big percentages are not that impressive. Suppose it will be more interesting starting tonight.