TV Ratings September 5: Sports smorgasbord drives crowds to Nine, Seven

Thursday Week 36 2019

• Thursday sports smorgasbord drives crowds to Nine, Seven
• Thursday love smorgasbord keeps crowd at 10’s The Bachelor
• A Current Affair does good…real good, viewers and bank help out

• Seven News 837,000/779,000
• Nine News 781,000/790,000
• A Current Affair 711,000
• ABC News 567,000
• 7.30 461,000
• The Project 265,000/428,000
• 10 News First 329,000
• The Drum 145,000
• SBS World News 131,000

Breakfast TV

• Sunrise 302,000
• Today 199,000

Seven

Home and Away ended the week on 442,000 (four markets only) after three nights close to 650,000 or less.

The first match of the 2019 AFL finals series was live on Seven from Perth last night. The one-side match saw West Coast cruise to victory. The audience was 633,000.

Nine

A pro-gun grandmother and then the release of prisoner Michael Guider were the lead items on A Current Affair. The Thursday audience was 711,000 after audiences between 805,000 and 728,000 earlier in the week. The big news of the week for ACA though was what happened to mum and wife Caroline Boileu after the program revealed earlier this week that ANZ was threatening to sell her house as she cared for her terminally ill husband. The bank relented and gave her an interest-only rate of 2.7% and a GoFund me page raised $25,000. Then a mystery viewer came forward with an additional $50,000!

Nine then had a big night of live sport with NRL and cricket.

The NRL match between Souths and the Roosters did 360,000.

The second day of the fourth Ashes Test featured the continuation of the Steve Smith show. The run feast helped keep viewers out of bed with the second session featuring Smith walking back to the pavilion before umpires called him back after being given out on what was a no ball. He lived to sail past 200 again. The first session drew 623,000 with 415,000 staying on for the second session.

10

The Project too had a story about a family member caring for another and Waleed Aly’s report was the highlight of the Thursday episode that did 428,000 after 7pm.

Despite live sport on offer on Nine and Seven, 10’s Thursday numbers held up reasonably well with 633,000 watching The Bachelor, and then 607,000 watching Gogglebox. Both crowds were down close to 100,000 week-on-week, yet the two shows were one and two in the key demos.

ABC

Escape From The City was on 342,000 with the house hunting in Daylesford, Victoria.

SBS

The numbers dipped here too with Going Places with Ernie Dingo on 129,000 followed by Gourmet Farmer on 106,000.