Mid year ratings: It’s Seven and TEN

July 12, 2009  Filed Under News, 25 Comments » 

Week 28 is officially the half-way mark of the survey year. And what a week it turned out to be.

In a result symbolic of the year so far, Seven won every night except one, TEN finished second and Nine was relegated to third. And in a move sure to be giving commercial networks a headache, SBS also had its best week of the year.

Seven won with 27.5% ahead of TEN’s 23.1% and Nine’s 23.0%. The ABC had 16.1% and SBS 10.4%.

TEN won 16-39 and 18-49 while Seven snatched 25-54 demos. Last …

Three way brawl for ratings week

June 28, 2009  Filed Under News, 29 Comments » 

Week 26 was the tightest ratings race all year.

TEN was riding high on MasterChef, Nine had the State of Origin and Seven… well, Seven really just had another week of regular programming. By Saturday we had ourselves a three way tie.

But a cleverly timed Michael Jackson tribute helped Nine take the final night and all three had to contend with ABC programming too.

Nine won Week 26 with a 26.3% share ahead of TEN’s 25.8% and Seven’s 25.5%. The ABC had 17.6% and SBS 4.8%.

TEN again won key demos 16-39, 18-49 and …