TEN’s V8 Supercars victory outranks primetime shows
Ratings: 1.29m viewers watch Craig Lowndes & Steven Richards on the podium -but Nine wins the night.
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Craig Lownes & Steven Richards win at Bathurst was a winner for TEN yesterday with 1.29m viewers watching the moment they celebrated on the podium. The biggest audience was in Sydney with 436,000 viewers, Melbourne was 349,000.
TEN divided up its daytime broadcast of the V8 Supercars into various segments with 1.1m averaging for the Race itself.
But, like the AFL Grand Final, out of primetime it was unable to directly lift TEN’s evening share
The Block became the top entertainment show at a season high of 1.16m viewers.
Seven didn’t grab any early evening timeslot wins but Beach Cops began well with 1.00m viewers, maintaining its Sunday Night lead in.
ABC’s Vera pipped premieres of both Quantico and Limitless in the 8:30 drama battle.
Nine network won with 29.3% then Seven 28.8%, TEN 18.7%, ABC 16.7% and SBS 6.5%.
Nine News (1.18m) led for Nine then The Block (1.16m), 60 Minutes (827,000) and Events that Changed the Eighties (457,000).
Seven News (1.16m) was best for Seven then Sunday Night (1.09m), Beach Cops (1.00m), Quantico (696,000) and Castle (446,000 / 253,000). The last ever Covert Affairs bows out on 79,000.
In primetime TBL Families was 576,000 for TEN, Scorpion was 557,000, Limitless was 538,000 and TEN Eyewitness News was 390,000 in 3 cities.
ABC News (773,000) led for ABC then Vera (708,000), Doctor Who (511,000) and Compass (278,000).
On SBS it was Treasures Decoded: The Sphinx (401,000), The Seventies (234,000)and SBS World News (171,000).
7TWO’s Escape to the Country led multichannels with 251,000.
OzTAM Overnights: Sunday 11 October 2015
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24 Responses
Limitless was great last night, Pleased I watched and Scorpion, but why not dispose of Family Feud with Bathurst and BBL…..
The Limitless 1st ep was terrific. If they can keep up the momentum I’m hooked and we half a chance with it being on 10 that it will play out and maybe even in the same timeslot..
Really believe that 10 dropped the ball by not going with a News at 6pm out of Bathurst, they had done this previously in the mid 2000s when they had the AFL Grand Final (doing a local news in Melbourne anyways) with their figures doing 7 figures.
Bump Family Feud to 6:30pm and move the rest of the schedule 30mins wouldn’t have done any damage
At least FF did a decent (its best Sunday numbers since it went into that slot)
The problem with ten news on the weekend is that is national. I’m not sure it would’ve done anything for tens news brand if their not prepared to offer a state based weekend news.
OzTAM really need to start doing national ratings instead of just Metro as Ten has announced their Bathurst rated 2million, which is around double the metro viewers.
TEN is not alone. I get releases every day from Seven, Nine and TEN with “national” numbers. Who owns OzTAM? Seven, Nine and TEN. The number would also be a peak.
Makes you wonder doesn’t it? Mind you, one is a system with some statistical rigour while the other are rubbery figures and double-speak designed to make the network look as good as possible.
Would be happy for ratings to be truly national but stick with averages not fleeting peaks. It may become academic in 5 years or so anyway as people discover that there are far better alternatives than the silly games that Aus commercial FTA networks play.
Cause the networks themselves own oztam than things can easily be twisted.
No – they’re not really national numbers at all as a number of the regional markets are not included.
I don’t live in the 5CM. Annoys me that 7/9/10 choose to count my TV in their ratings given that the affiliates I have aren’t owned by any of 7/9/10. Sad thing is, a lot of people take figures such as Network Ten’s suggestion of what the ratings are as fact.
David, can you get the FOX sports numbers, the broadcast was excellent.
See under today’s Ratings.
I watched Scorpion and Limitless last night and kept thinking how much better they would be in HD. Limitless was an interesting pilot – hopefully it stays that way as it morphs into an episodic drama.
I watched Limitless, wasn’t that bad to be honest. Will give it another go again next week
Quantico and Limitless both flopped. American series are just not attracting an audience any more.
Quantico’s 700,000 or so for 8:30 is not a flop.
Sure not a flop but not high enough to prevent 7 playing musical shows with it.
In the context of ratings these days, 700k is a hit for a show starting 8.40 ish.
2 years ago The Blacklist premiere after the GF to 1.3m on a Wednesday and averaged 1.1m for the first block into December. 700k is not great for Sunday with 1m lead in.
Quantico was dreadfully written and acted (apart from Chopra) It’s done its big reveal and is likely to be doing Castle type numbers in a week or twos time.
None of this makes it a “flop” as yet.
Why would viewers bother when they have to play guess the timeslot?
Limitless will be safe. TEN 1) don’t have other new content to chop and change around and 2) Left both NCIS: New Orleans and CSI: Cyber in the slot doing 400k-ish
Ten should also put CSI Cyber back now its airing in the US
I think that ten might stick with limitless. Didn’t try it myself as wasn’t into the movie. I was thinking more about quantico when I wrote that comment.