Cricket lifts Nine share in summer non-ratings
Ratings: One Day Cricket rules over Big Bash, leaving Seven in third place for the week.
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A summer of Cricket continued last week with Nine’s One Day International as the top show of the week on 1.19m viewers.
Nine drew a whopping 40.7% share on Friday helping it to an easy win over the competition last week. The Big Bash League continued to push TEN ahead of Seven. But Seven’s Australian Open begins today with Seven poised to increase its share.
Network:
Nine: 28.8
TEN: 23.6
Seven 22.8
ABC: 17.3
SBS: 7.6
Primary channel:
Nine: 19.3
TEN: 17.3
Seven: 15.5
ABC: 11.8
SBS: 5.0
Multichannels:
7TWO: 4.0
GO!: 3.8
ABC2: 3.4
7mate / ELEVEN: 3.2
9Life / ONE: 3.1
GEM: 2.6
SBS Food Network: 1.5
ABC News 24: 1.4
SBS 2: 1.0
ABC3: 0.7
NITV: 0.1
Nine also won the Demos 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54, with TEN in second position.
There are 3 more weeks before the start of official ratings.
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6 Responses
Ten’s Big bash commentary seem far more informative and entertaining than Nine’s commentary team. Nine could learn an whole lot of Ten’s innovative coverage. I just seems Nine’s coverage has been lagging in terms of excitement and interest in recent years. They still seem to be sticking with a few old heads and can’t move properly with audience demographics and expectations.
Haven’t watched a Test match on 9 since Aus played India at the Gabba about 5 years ago, the commentary drove me away (especially Mark Taylor and Ian Healy and the rest in various percentages), they never stop rabbitting on, there was never a silent moment to hear the crowd, a snick, the crash of the ball into the stumps etc. 50 over games followed not long after
I was just enjoying the Kyrgios tennis match in glorious HD when I had to change over to 7 crappy definition because the news was over and 7-mate had to play yet another border security show. So frustrating. Why the heck can’t they simulcast on 7-mate. I think I’ll watch the rest of the game on my iPad so I don’t notice the poor resolution.
They going to the games though. Test crowds were way down this summer. Only 47k at The G last night for a ODI against India, and most of those were Indian.
Families seem to prefer the night games of the BBL.
@Pertinax: I think this is due to the ticket prices being around $100 more for international matches than the Big Bash. The TV ratings all summer have shown that international cricket is still a bigger drawcard despite all the hype.
I notice that Ch7 have the Australian Open on all three channels today, a full simulcast without the 6pm news on 7Two and only during the news on 7Mate. Sport is that important to ratings. I suspect that the new channel 76 will be a simulcast of the main channel in HD but, like 7Two today, sport won’t be interrupted by other programs. The “Exciting New Store Opening Soon” banner is always a harbinger of disappointment.