Thursday Ratings – Nine’s RBT is #1 non news in primetime for overnights, whilst Seven’s Home and Away wins in Total TV

Analysis for Total TV (9 February, 2023) and Overnight (16 February, 2023) ratings.

TOTAL TV – Total People

Seven

Seven News and Home and Away were star performers but the network was let down by a Red Faces repeat.

#1 Seven News at 6:30 – 1,180 000 (+3%)

#2 Seven News – 1,171 000 (+4%)

#5 Home and Away – 903 000 (+26%)

#6 Home and Away – Late – 849 000 (+30%)

#10 The Chase Australia – 663 000 (+3%)

#15 The Chase Australia – 5pm – 456 000 (+3%)

#18 The Best of the Best and Worst of Red Faces (R) – 393 000 (+7%)

#19 Sunrise – 371 000 (+5%)

#23 Seven News at 4:30 – 309 000 (+3%)

#29 Seven News at 4 – 267 000 (+3%)

Nine

A consistent night for Nine led to a winning performance.

#3 Nine News – 930 000 (+5%)

#4 Nine News 6:30 – 921 000 (+5%)

#7 A Current Affair – 844 000 (+7%)

#11 RBT – 630 000 (+7%)

#12 Paramedics – 536 000 (+7%)

#16 Hot Seat – 441 000 (+4%)

#20 Tipping Point – 347 000 (+7%)

#22 Nine’s Afternoon News – 335 000 (+3%)

#25 Today – 297 000 (+8%)

#27 Australia Behind Bars (R) – 280 000 (+7%)

#28 Hot Seat – 5pm – 275 000 (+4%)

10

Taskmaster had another 500k+ audience but then the night started to fall away.

#13 Taskmaster Australia – 506 000 (+21%)

#21 10 News First – 339 000 (+2%)

#24 The Project 7pm – 307 000 (+4%)

#30 The Project 6:30pm – 251 000 (+4%)

ABC

ABC had mixed results as some slots continued with summer repeats and others were new content.

#8 ABC News – 811 000 (+4%)

#9 730 – 671 000 (+6%)

#14 Grand Designs: House of the Year – 458 000 (+15%)

#17 You Can’t Ask That (R) – 399 000(+7%)

#26 Joanna Lumley’s Hidden Caribbean (R) – 291 000 (+7%)

TOTAL TV – 25-54

Home and Away was #1 with 310 000, a rise of 50%. Home and Away – Late was #2 with 304 000, an upswing of 54%. Taskmaster Australia was #3 with 271 000, a lift of 25%.

OVERNIGHT RATINGS

Analysis

Seven

Seven News was #1 with wins in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Seven News at 6:30 was #2 with wins in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. Home and Away was #8 with 456 000 viewers, an average of the 7pm and 7:30pm episodes. Home and Away – Late was #11 with 402 000 for the 8pm episode. A repeat of The Very Best of the Best and Worst of Red Faces was #19 with just 249 000 viewers. A repeat of Mrs. Brown’s Boys had a viewership of 156 000. The Latest: Seven News had 81 000. An encore of The Front Bar: All Stars Edition had a low 32 000.

Nine

Nine News was #4 with a win in Sydney. Nine News 6:30 was #3 with wins in Sydney and Brisbane. A Current Affair (ACA) was #5, but #1 in its slot with 591 000. RBT was the #1 non news program in primetime with 460 000. A repeat of Paramedics was #12 with 382 000. A repeat of Australia Behind Bars had 203 000. Nine News Late was watched by 121 000. The season final of Emergency Call had 73 000. The NBC burn off continued with Council of Dads on 30 000.

10

The Project 6:30 was on 159 000. The Project 7pm was #20 with 248 000. Taskmaster Australia was #14 with 314 000 viewers. The Montreal Comedy Festival: Ronny Chieng and Friends had 132 000 viewers. An encore of Would I Lie to You had 76 000. A new episode of Law & Order was relegated to the 10:30 slot and had just 73 000. There should be sizeable Total TV lifts for the show next week. 10 has decided to move SVU to Wednesdays at 8:40pm from next week, where it should get an uninterrupted run.

ABC

ABC News was #6 for the night and #2 in its slot. 730 was #10 with 422 000. Foreign Correspondent returned for 2023 and was #13 with 337 000, which immediately lifted the slot from last week’s repeat of You Can’t Ask That (226 000). Grand Designs: House of the Year also went up, last night, #17 with 291 000, versus 247 000 last week. A repeat of Joanna Lumley’s Great Cities of the World had 201 000.

16-39

1. Seven News at 6:30
2. Taskmaster Australia
3. Nine News 6:30
4. Seven News
5. A Current Affair

8. RBT
9. Home and Away
10. Paramedics

25-54

1. Nine News 6:30
2. Seven News at 6:30
3. Seven News
4. Nine News
5. Taskmaster Australia

8. RBT
9. Paramedics
10. Home and Away

Multi Channels

Winner: 7two (3.3%)

Second: 9GO and ABC Kids / ABC TV Plus (3.0%)

7two was #1 last night thanks to Father Brown at #16 with 77 000 and Murdoch Mysteries #17 with 75 000.

9GO! was equal second off the back of the movie Knight and Day doing well at #13 with 81 000.

ABC Kids / ABC TV Plus was equal second thanks to kids programming in the early part of the evening and then QI later.

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

NINE

PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS:
 

• The 9Network wins Thursday night with all key demographics and Channel 9 wins Thursday night as No.1 primary channel across all key demographics and Total People
• 9News was the No. 1 program last night with people 25-54, GS + CH and Total People in Sydney
• RBT won its timeslot with total people across 5 city metro, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide
• Paramedics dominated its timeslot with people 25-54 across all Australian cities
• A Current Affair won its timeslot with Total People across 5 city metro, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane
• TODAY wins breakfast slot with people 25-54 and GS + CH across 5 city metro, East Coast, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne
• Nine takes out the top 3 programs live streamed yesterday against all broadcasters

Nine takes out the top 2 programs streamed on catch up yesterday against all broadcasters

SEVEN

TEN

LAST NIGHT

Overnight ratings Thursday, 16 February 2023.

BY THE NUMBERS

• Taskmaster Australia: 411,000 national viewers. Peaked at 516,000 viewers.
• Taskmaster Australia: #1 entertainment show in under 50s, 25 to 54s and 16 to 39s.
• Taskmaster Australia: #2 show in 16 to 39s.
• Network 10: #2 network in 25 to 54s.

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

• #2 network in 25 to 54s.
• 30.8% commercial share in 25 to 54s, 30.7% in 16 to 39s and 30.4% in under 50s.
• Up 13% in 25 to 54s week-on-week, 11% in 16 to 39s and 4% in under 50s.
• 10: Up 7% in 25 to 54s week-on-week.
• 10 Peach: #1 multi-channel in its key demo of 16 to 39s.
• 10 Shake: Up 173% week-on-week and 92% in its key demo of under 40s.

Taskmaster Australia:  

• 411,000 national viewers. Peaked at 516,000 viewers.
• #1 entertainment show in under 50s, 25 to 54s and 16 to 39s.
• #2 show in 16 to 39s.
• 31.9% commercial share in 16 to 39s and 30.9% in under 50s.
• Up 3% week-on-week.
• Up 15% in 16 to 39s week-on-week, 13% in 25 to 54s and 7% in under 50s.
• Lifts 10’s timeslot 37% compared with the same night in 2022.
• #1 in its timeslot in under 50s, 25 to 54s and 16 to 39s.

The Project 7pm:

• 320,000 national viewers. Peaked at 423,000.
• Up 16% week-on-week.

10 News First:

• 351,000 viewers nationally. Peaked at 448,000.
• Up 4% week-on-week.

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