Category: Other News

Ratings Report, 14 Mar, 2010: V bombs for Nine, GO! beats SBS ONE & TWO

Ratings Report, 14 Mar, 2010: V bombs for Nine, GO! beats SBS ONE & TWO

It was a shocking night for the Nine Network’s new drama series V with a huge drop in audience from last weeks premiere sending a clear message to Nine. 1,290,000 viewers tuned in to watch the first episode of the new series however only 1,026,000 watched the show last night providing Nine with a woeful [...]

$1 billion reasons to begin AFL broadcast negotiations

$1 billion reasons to begin AFL broadcast negotiations

One of the hot topics for this years AFL season in addition to the 2011 start for the new Gold Coast team and the 2012 start fro the Greater Western Sydney team will be the new broadcasting agreement to be negotiated between the three free-to-air networks and Foxtel.
The last AFL broadcast rights deal fetched a [...]

Ratings Report, 9 Mar, 2010: NCIS, Kitchen’s & Car’s rule Tuesday’s

Ratings Report, 9 Mar, 2010: NCIS, Kitchen’s & Car’s rule Tuesday’s

Tuesday night was a closer night than Monday with impressive gains made by Network Ten, however victory on Tuesday night went to the Seven Network with an overall combined audience share of 30.4% to Nine’s 27.0% and Ten’s 22.2%. If we look back at last year Tuesday was dominated by Seven every week and Nine [...]

C31 Melbourne lacking funds to go digital

C31 Melbourne lacking funds to go digital

Soon our community TV channels in the main capital cities will go digital, TVS in Sydney has already commenced test transmissions of channel 44 with an official launch date of March 1, 2010. However Channel 31 or C31 as it is known on air claim that despite Federal Government funding to go digital, it is [...]

Ratings Report, 8 Mar, 2010: Two and a Half Men rule the night, Ten in the crapper

Ratings Report, 8 Mar, 2010: Two and a Half Men rule the night, Ten in the crapper

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It was another close battle between the Seven and Nine Networks, but it was Nine with a marginal victory on Monday night with an overall audience share of 31.0% to Seven’s 30.5%. It was an absolutely shocking night for Network Ten, the networks combined total for the night was 15.6% with ABC1 alone [...]

Ratings Report, 7 Mar, 2010: Factual programming and Seven News on top

Ratings Report, 7 Mar, 2010: Factual programming and Seven News on top

Sunday night was a close one but it was the Seven Network who took out the top honour winning the night with an overall combined share of 30.5% to the Nine Network’s 30.1%. On individual channel shares Seven beat Nine comfortably however with an impressive 4% share for GO! Nine almost took the night away [...]

Ratings Report, 4 Mar, 2010: Seven News on top, but Nine wins the night

Ratings Report, 4 Mar, 2010: Seven News on top, but Nine wins the night

With five of the top ten shows for the night it was the Nine Network who took out Thursday night despite the top two shows coming from Seven. Nine had an overall share of 30.3% to the Seven Network’s 27.6% with Network Ten in a distant third once again on a 21% overall share. The [...]

Ratings Report, Mar 3, 2010: Seven News & Criminal Minds on top

Ratings Report, Mar 3, 2010: Seven News & Criminal Minds on top

The Seven Network scraped in another victory on Wednesday night with a combined network total of 31.3% over the Nine Network’s 29.1%, Network Ten was in a distant third on 18.4%. A shocking result for Ten with the ABC’s combined total equalling Ten’s stand alone share for the night of 17.6%, only One HD got [...]

Ratings Report, 2 Mar, 2010: Top Gear cools, My Kitchen Rules heats up

Ratings Report, 2 Mar, 2010: Top Gear cools, My Kitchen Rules heats up

It was an interesting night for television with Tuesday night a very close affair between the Seven and Nine Network’s, both primary channels drawing the same audience share of 27.9% for the night, however overall the honours went to Seven with 7TWO getting the network over the line on a combined total of 30.1% with [...]

Ratings Report, Mar 1, 2010: Seven News number 1 again

Ratings Report, Mar 1, 2010: Seven News number 1 again

Monday night saw the Seven Network win on a 31.1% audience share in the five city metro area with the Nine Network coming in a close second at 30.3% indicating we could slowly see Nine loose audience share this week without the Winter Olympic Games. Last night was the final time the games were broadcast [...]

Ratings Report, Feb 25, 2010: Aussie Gold boosts Nine’s Olympic coverage

Ratings Report, Feb 25, 2010: Aussie Gold boosts Nine’s Olympic coverage

Winning an Australian Gold medal seems to be the trick for Nine to boost its Winter Olympic Games coverage. Lydia Lassila won gold for Australia in the Aerial Skiing and over one million viewers tuned in last night to see her win replayed and her live studio interview.
The Nine Network once again won the night [...]

Ratings Report, Wed 24 Feb, 2010: Nine on a winning streak, but Seven News wins the night

Ratings Report, Wed 24 Feb, 2010: Nine on a winning streak, but Seven News wins the night

The Nine Network continued its winning streak on Wednesday taking out the night with a comfortable 31.2% share over the Seven Network’s 28.6% share. Network Ten is still in a lot of trouble not even able to manage to crack the 20% mark for the night, and traditionally the strongest night for the ABC only [...]

Ratings Report, Feb 22, 2010: Charlie Sheen wins the night for Nine

Ratings Report, Feb 22, 2010: Charlie Sheen wins the night for Nine

It was another win for the Nine Network on Monday night taking out a 30.5% share, however Seven came in at a close second at 29.1% leaving Network Ten in the wilderness at 19.0%. Nine had six of the top ten shows for the night, Australia’s fascination with Charlie Sheen’s Two and a Half Men [...]

Ratings Report, Sun 21 Feb, 2010: Nine dominates but Seven has top shows

Ratings Report, Sun 21 Feb, 2010: Nine dominates but Seven has top shows

The Nine Network has taken out Sunday ratings by a strong margin on the back of its Twenty/20 coverage which saw the West Indies go down to Australia once again in Hobart. However Nine still only managed to have two programmes in the top ten for the night, despite winning the night comfortably this will [...]

Classic TV Flashback: The Ice Dream With Roy & H.G.

Classic TV Flashback: The Ice Dream With Roy & H.G.

While the Winter Olympics don’t have a passionate following in Australia, eight years ago in Salt Lake City two men had Australian’s talking nothing but Winter sport and most would agree they are long overdue to return to our television screens. Of course we talk of Roy & H.G. as we re-live this ‘Classic TV [...]

Review: Mobile Foxtel iPhone app

Review: Mobile Foxtel iPhone app

A few days ago we revealed how Telstra have launched an iPhone application which allows direct access to the Mobile Foxtel suite of channels, it also includes a TV Guide for the Mobile Foxtel channels and a regular Foxtel guide which can be used to programme you IQ device on the go.
So rather than just [...]

Ratings Report, Feb 18, 2010: Thursday dominated by news

Ratings Report, Feb 18, 2010: Thursday dominated by news

What a horrible night for television, it appears Thursday night people have better things to do with exceptionally low ratings across the board last night. This was highlighted by the fact the top 5 programmes for the night included Seven News, Today Tonight, Nine News and A Current Affair. Seven News won the mantle as [...]

Ratings Report, Feb 17, 2010: Customs proves factual programming is number 1

Ratings Report, Feb 17, 2010: Customs proves factual programming is number 1

Wednesday’s ratings saw a close competition between Seven and Nine while Ten still lags in a distant third position. The top programme for the night was the Nine Networks factual show Customs with an audience share of 1,277,000 demonstrating this countries love of these shows and why Seven has so many of them.
Having said that [...]

Ratings Report, Feb 16, 2010: Top Gear pulls a massive 1.6 million

Ratings Report, Feb 16, 2010: Top Gear pulls a massive 1.6 million

Today the Nine Network will be beside themselves as the networks newest acquisition Top Gear pulled in a massive 1,694,000 viewers making it the most watched programme for the night, a night which has traditionally been weak for Nine. Ten’s NCIS came out in second spot with 1,369,000.

Telstra launches Mobile Foxtel iPhone app

Telstra launches Mobile Foxtel iPhone app

Telstra has launched a new iPhone application for its customers so they can watch Mobile Foxtel without having to navigate to the Mobile Foxtel website. The app allows Telstra customers to subscribe to the Mobile Foxtel service and includes a TV Guide for the mobile channels and access to four Olympic Winter Games channels.

Last year [...]

Live Friday night AFL to dominate rights negotiations

Live Friday night AFL to dominate rights negotiations

Both the Nine and Ten networks have now committed themselves to showing live Friday night AFL matches if they win the next broadcast rights to begin from 2012 to 2016. The Nine Network was the first to confirm it was in discussions with the AFL over showing Friday night matches live into Melbourne and live [...]