Sunday Ratings – Nine’s Married at First Sight is #1 non news in primetime for overnights, whilst the 2023 Australian Open on Nine wins in Total TV

Analysis for Total TV (29 January, 2023) and Overnight (5 February, 2023) ratings.

TOTAL TV – Total People

Seven

Seven had almost 600k watching the Big Bash League Knockout.

#3 Seven News – Sunday – 1,316 000 (+3%)

#10 Seven’s Cricket: Big Bash League – The Knockout – 593 000 (+0%)

#15 Seven News at 5 – 366 000 (+2%)

#16 Weekend Sunrise – Sunday – 360 000 (+4%)

#27 Weekend Sunrise – Sunday – Early – 223 000 (+4%)

#28 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line (R) – 210 000 (+2%)

Nine

Nine has a massive lead and night with the conclusion of the 2023 Australian Open.

#1 2023 Australian Open Day 14 – Men’s Final – 1,993 000 (+14%)

#2 2023 Australian Open Day 14 – Men’s Final – Presentation – 1,546 000 (+15%)

#4 Nine News Sunday – 959 000 (+5%)

#5 2023 Australian Open Day 14 – Men’s Final – Pre Match – 887 000 (+11%)

#13 Territory Cops – 405 000 (+5%)

#17 Nine News: First at Five – 345 000 (+5%)

#21 2023 Australian Open Day 14 – Women’s Doubles Final – 258 000 (+4%)

#22 Weekend Today – Sunday – 254 000 (+7%)

10

With Total TV and demographics factored in, The Bachelors Australia ended on a high note.

#8 The Bachelors Australia Grand Finale – The Final Decision – 715 000 (+34%)

#9 The Bachelors Australia Grand Finale – 679 000 (+32%)

#12 10 News First Sunday – 421 000 (+2%)

#14 The Sunday Project 7pm – 391 000 (+5%)

#19 The Sunday Project 6:30pm – 281 000 (+4%)

#23 10 News First Sunday 6pm – 250 000 (+3%)

#25 All 4 Adventure – 234 000 (+9%)

ABC

ABC ran repeats up against the Australian Open, Big Bash League and The Bachelors Australia and still come out competitive.

#6 ABC News Sunday – 842 000 (+3%)

#7 Vera (R) – 728 000 (+23%)

#11 Joanna Lumley’s Unseen Adventures (R) – 531 000 (+4%)

#18 Antiques Roadshow – 321 000 (+7%)

#20 Landline Summer – 280 000 (+2%)

#24 Rural Flavours – 236 000 (+2%)

#26 ABC News at Noon – 232 000 (+2%)

#30 Weekend Breakfast – 202 000 (+5%)

SBS

#29 SBS World News – 204 000 (+3%)

TOTAL TV – 25-54

The 2023 Australian Open Day 14 – Men’s Final was #1 with 861 000, a rise of 22%. The 2023 Australian Open Day 14 – Men’s Final – Presentation was #2 with 650 000, an uplift of 23%. The Bachelors Australia Grand Finale – The Decision was #3 with 386 000, an increase of 42%. The Bachelors Australia Grand Finale was #4 with 356 000, a boost of 43%. Seven’s Cricket: Big Bash League – The Knockout was #8 with 195 000, growth of 1%.

OVERNIGHT RATINGS

Analysis

Seven

Seven News – Sunday was #1 with wins in all markets. Australian Idol was #9 with 434 000 and sat 4000 viewers behind Australian Survivor. The new series premiere of Maternal was watched by 186 000 viewers and placed #16 for the night. The new season premiere of What the Killer Did Next opened with 97 000 viewers. The season return of Born to Kill aired late night to 68 000.

Nine

Nine News Sunday was #3 with no wins in any market. The closest Nine got was just a 3000 viewer gap in Melbourne. Married at First Sight (MAFS) was #2 with 834 000 and absolutely dominated the competition. The figure was the second highest for the season and only 6000 viewers off its opening episode of the season. 60 Minutes was strong at #4 overall and crushed the competition in the slot with 623 000 viewers. Nine News Late Sunday was #10 with 373 000. The First 48 had 100 000 viewers just after 10pm. A repeat of Manhunt: The Wests was on 49 000. From next week, Nine will shift The First 48 and Manhunt: The Wests an hour later and fill the earlier slot with a repeat of Australian Crime Stories.

10

The Sunday Project started the evening at #19 with 166 000 viewers. The Sunday Project 7pm was #11 with 265 000. Australian Survivor was #8 with 438 000 and placed just ahead of Australian Idol. It was fairly close across the capital markets with the main difference being Brisbane preferring Survivor and Perth preferring Idol. A repeat of NCIS: Hawaii had 117 000 viewers and a repeat of FBI had 90 000 viewers.

ABC

ABC News Sunday was #5 for the night. A repeat of Joanna Lumley’s Unseen Adventures was #6 with 468 000 and beat both Survivor and Idol. A repeat of Vera was #7 with 453 000. The season final of Wreck had 51 000 watching.

16-39

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

6. Australian Idol
7. The Sunday Project 7pm
9. Maternal

25-54

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

6. Australian Idol
8. The Sunday Project 7pm
15. Maternal

Multi Channels

Winner: 10 Bold / 10 Peach (2.7%)

Second: 7two / 7mate (2.3%)

With all the tentpoles on the main channel and the ABC doing well, there wasn’t much action on the multi channels with a two way two for first with just a 2.7% share. SBS WorldWatch got off its 0.0 rating to be 0.1 last night.

10 Bold was equal first with three repeat episodes of NCIS taking positions #2, #14 and #17.

10 Peach was equal first with 7 repeat episodes of The Big Bang Theory and 6 repeat episodes of Friends.

7two was equal second with three repeat episodes of Border Security: Australia’s Front Line taking positions #8, #10 and #20.

7mate was equal second with two movies – The Amazing Spiderman and Pacific Rim.

Home Shopping

I thought I would throw a somewhat interesting result in here today. Most people are annoyed by the amount of infomercials that the the networks play and wonder if anyone actually watches them. As I flicked through the rankings today, here are some results:

69 000 – Nine

55 000 – Seven

Putting that in perspective – more people watched Nine’s Home Shopping than watched Born to Kill, For the Love of Pets, the movie Rocky, a repeat of The Big Bang Theory, Bondi Vet and the movie Dirty Harry on 9Gem. The same amount of people watched Home Shopping on Seven as they did The Amazing Spiderman movie in primetime on 7mate.

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

NINE

PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Married At First Sight is Australia’s dominant No.1 program across the 5 City Metro and with all key demos 
• Married At First Sight grew audience year on year across Total TV (+1.9%)
• Married At First Sight dominates timeslot with Total People and all key demos across the 5 City Metro and in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide 
• Married At First Sight Episode 5 recorded the highest overnight VOD BVOD Audience season to date of 114,000 (+43% YoY)
• Married At First Sight Episode 5 recorded its highest Live + VOD BVOD Audience season to date of 209,000 (+34% YoY)
• 60 Minutes return dominated its timeslot with all key demographics across the 5 City Metro
• Nine takes out the top 4 programs live streamed yesterday against all broadcasters with MAFS at #1 recording a Live BVOD Audience of 96,000 (+24% YoY)
• 9News won its timeslot with People 25-54 and GS + Child in Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide 
• Weekend Today was breakfast show of choice with Total People and all key demos in Brisbane 

9Network and Channel 9 wins Sunday with Total People and all key demos

SEVEN

TEN

N/A

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