Sunday Ratings – Married at First Sight on Nine is #1 non news in primetime for overnights and in Total TV

Analysis for Total TV (26 February, 2023) and Overnight (5 March, 2023) ratings.

TOTAL TV – Total People

Seven

Seven continues to pull a crowd above 800k for Australian Idol.

#3 Seven News – Sunday – 1,275 000 (+3%)

#8 Australian Idol – Sunday – 844 000 (+25%)

#14 Weekend Sunrise – Sunday – 332 000 (+4%)

#17 George Michael v Elton John – 308 000 (+8%)

#19 Olivia Newton-John – Memorial – 294 000 (+11%)

#26 Weekend Sunrise – Sunday – Early – 231 000 (+4%)

Nine

Nine has another 2 million+ crowd for Married at First Sight.

#1 Married at First Sight – Sunday – 2,026 000 (+58%)

#5 Nine News Sunday – 1,053 000 (+5%)

#9 60 Minutes – 740 000 (+14%)

#11 Nine News Late – Sunday – 425 000 (+7%)

#18 Olivia Newton-John State Memorial – 308 000 (+11%)

#20 RBT – 279 000 (+4%)

#21 Australian Crime Stories – 271 000 (+17%)

#28 Weekend Today – Sunday – 219 000 (+7%)

10

Australian Survivor continues to sit above Australian Idol.

#7 Australian Survivor – Sunday – 867 000 (+41%)

#12 The Sunday Project 7pm – 379 000 (+5%)

#16 10 News First Sunday – 315 000 (+2%)

#22 The Sunday Project 6:30pm – 262 000 (+4%)

#23 10 News First Sunday 6pm – 257 000 (+3%)

#25 NCIS: Hawaii – 249 000 (+23%)

ABC

Vera is an absolute smash hit with over 1.3 million+ viewers and is #2 for the night behind MAFS.

#2 Vera – 1, 376 000 (+46%)

#4 Death in Paradise – 1,079 000 (+21%)

#6 ABC News – Sunday – 938 000 (+3%)

#10 Insiders – 478 000 (+20%)

#13 Landline – 339 000 (+8%)

#15 Antiques Roadshow – 316 000 (+6%)

#24 Offsiders – 254 000 (+7%)

#27 ABC News at Noon – 220 000 (+2%)

#30 Butterfly – 210 000 (+18%)

SBS

#29 Ancient Egypt by Train – 213 000 (12%)

TOTAL TV – 25-54

Married at First Sight was #1 with 1,017 000 viewers, a rise of 86%. Australian Survivor – Sunday was #2 with 490 000, an upswing of 50%. Australian Idol – Sunday was #5 with 301 000, a lift of 48%. 60 Minutes was #6 with 264 000, an increase of 21%. Vera was #8 with 174 000, a boost of 135%. Death in Paradise was #12 with 123 000, growth of 45%.

OVERNIGHT RATINGS

Analysis

Seven

Seven News – Sunday was #2 with wins in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. Australian Idol was #9 with 453 000. 7NEWS Spotlight was #15 with 237 000 viewers as Michael Usher interviewed Peter Bol. The Latest: Seven News had a special one off Sunday edition with 132 000. A repeat of Manhunt had 64 000. A new episode of Born to Kill? had 44 000 viewers.

Nine

Nine News Sunday was #3 with wins in Sydney and Brisbane. Married at First Sight – Sunday was #1 with 993 000 viewers with the show dominating the time slot. 60 Minutes was #8 with 464 000. Nine News Late – Sunday had an audience of 256 000 and beat The Latest: Seven News, despite the Seven bulletin airing earlier in the night. A repeat of Australian Crime Stories had an audience of 160 000. A new episode of The First 48 was on 80 000.

10

The Sunday Project 6:30pm started the evening with 175 000. The Sunday Project 7pm rose to #11 with 285 000 viewers. Australian Survivor – Sunday was #7 with 534 000. A new episode of NCIS: Hawaii was #19 with 181 000 viewers. A repeat of FBI was on 102 000.

ABC

ABC News Sunday was #4 for the evening. Death in Paradise was #6 with 569 000. Vera was #5 with 608 000 and was only behind MAFS in the top non news rankings of the night. Butterfly aired to 125 000.

16-39

1. Married at First Sight
2. Australian Survivor
3. Nine News Sunday
4. Seven News – Sunday
5. Sunday Afternoon NRL Live

6. 60 Minutes
7. Australian Idol

25-54

1. Married at First Sight
2. Australian Survivor
3. Nine News Sunday
4. Seven News – Sunday
5. 60 Minutes

6. Australian Idol

Multi Channels

Winner: 10 Peach (2.4%)

Second: 9Go (2.2%)

10 Peach was the #1 multi channel thanks to 7 repeat episodes of The Big Bang Theory and 6 repeat episodes of Friends. Of all these episodes, the first repeat episode of Friends ranked the highest at 75 000 and the second repeat episode of Friends drew 59 000.

9GO! was the #2 multi channel thanks to the movie, The Hitman’s Bodyguard which was the #18 show on the multi channels with 64 000 viewers.

How the Networks Analysed their Own Performance
Note: N/A means the network has not sent out a report today

NINE

PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS:

• 9Network and Channel 9 take an easy Sunday win across key demographics and Total People
• Married at First Sight continues to dominate and soars to series high ratings episode
• MAFS Episode 21 recorded a Live + VOD BVOD Audience of 313,000 (+54% YoY)
• MAFS takes out the top program streamed on catch up yesterday against all broadcasters, recording a VOD BVOD Audience of 162,000 (+57% YoY)
• MAFS grows audience year on year across Total TV (+6% YOY)
• 60 Minutes wins the timeslot in all markets with GS + Child
• 60 Minutes recorded a Live + VOD BVOD Audience of 61,000 (+28% YoY)
• Sunday Afternoon NRL recorded the highest rating metro game since 2018
• Sunday Afternoon NRL recorded the highest ever Live BVOD Audience for a Sunday match on Nine, recording a Live BVOD Audience of 40,000 (+85% YoY)
• Sunday Afternoon NRL completely dominated its timeslot in Syd and Bris across all demos

9News wins the timeslot across the East Coast and in Sydney and Brisbane with Total People

SEVEN

TEN

LAST NIGHT

Overnight Audience Sunday, 5 February 2023.

BY THE NUMBERS

• Australian Survivor: #2 show in under 50s, 25 to 54s and 16 to 39s.
• Australian Survivor: Biggest overnight audience of the season.
• Australian Survivor: Live stream audience of the season up 53% on the same episode in 2022.
• Network 10 & 10:  #2 network and channel in under 50s, 25 to 54s and 16 to 39s.
• 10 Peach: #1 multi-channel in its key demo of 16 to 39s.

Network 10 (10 + 10 Bold + 10 Peach + 10 Shake):

• #2 network in under 50s, 25 to 54s and 16 to 39s.
• Up 6% week-on-week.
• Up 28% in 16 to 39s week-on-week, 14% in under 50s and 6% in 25 to 54s.
• 31.7% commercial share in under 50s and 30.1% in people 16 to 39s.

• 10: #2 channel in under 50s, 25 to 54s and 16 to 39s.
• 10: Up 9% week-on-week.
• 10: Up 26% in 16 to 39s week-on-week, 14% in under 50s and 9% in 25 to 54s.

• 10 Bold: #2 multi-channel in its key demo of over 40s.
• 10 Peach: #1 multi-channel in its key demo of 16 to 39s.
• 10 Peach: Up 27% week-on-week in its key demo of 16 to 39s.
• 10 Shake: Up 41% week-on-week in its key demo of under 40s.

Australian Survivor:  

• 725,000 national viewers (metro + regional + live stream). Peaked at 855,000 viewers.
• #2 show in under 50s, 25 to 54s and 16 to 39s.
• Biggest overnight audience of the season.
• Up 11% week-on-week.
• Up 22% in 16 to 39s week-on-week, 15% in under 50s and 11% in 25 to 54s.
• 18% bigger audience than closest competitor.
• 109% bigger audience than closest competitor in 16 to 39s, 93% in 25 to 54s and 91% in under 50s.
• 31.5% commercial share in under 50s and 30.1% in 16 to 39s.
• #SurvivorAU trending #1 on twitter.
• Live stream audience up 53% compared with the same episode in 2022.
• Biggest live stream audience of the season.
• Series: Achieving biggest BVOD audience ever.
• Series: Live stream audience up 22% compared with 2022 series average.

The Sunday Project 7pm:

• 377,000 national viewers (metro + regional + live stream). Peaked at 553,000.
• Up 4% week-on-week.

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