Seven claims first week of ratings
Posted February 15th, 2010 by debritz
Channel Seven is claiming a win in south-east Queensland the first official week of ratings for 2010. Despite crowd-pullers like the Inifgenous All Stars v NRL All Stars rugby league game (on Nine, 359,00 viewers and second overall) and Two and a Half Men (also Nine, 293,000 viewers and third most popular program) , the biggest show of the week was Seven's Sunday News with Sharon Ghidella, which scored 417,000 viewers. Seven claims a 29.9% share, including 7Two, and 26.8% for the main station on its own. Seven claimed half the Top 10, Nine had three programs and Ten had two (although not the much-touted Biggest Loser). In a small victory for local programming, Seven's Queensland Weekender with Dean Miller beat Nine's Funniest Home Vidoes (aka the show where children and animals hurt themselves for our benefit).
Who is winning the war with the new digital channels? Out of all the channels, I don't watch 7Two because it just shows repeats during the day and at night I'm more interested whats in the other networks.
Percentages for digital stations are: GO! - 3.6%, 7TWO - 3.1%; ONE 1.1%, ABC1 14.0%; ABC2 1.3%; ABC3 0.5%, SBS Two 0.4%.
Brett, This should be enough proof, of what Seven should spend their share of the licence rebate on.
At least a pilot for weekdays at 5:30, as well as beginning to develop a Gold Coast news product, by targeting weekends, with a local news service at 5pm Sat/Sun should be funded. The only victim would be Creek to Coast, as it is often pre-empted by sport, and would simply get the axe.
All up, this would cost at least $5million (3/5ths goes Brisbane 5:30 (and boost to GSE), the rest to funding more journos, camera operators for the weekend Gold Coast News service.)
Wouldn't Nine feel hot under the collar, if suddenly Seven had weekend GC news...