ABC wins the election ratings while Ten slumps to 3.6%
The public turned first to the ABC for last night’s election coverage, while Ten’s return to current affairs programming delivered an embarrassing low, Saturday’s TV ratings reveal.
The ABC’s live election night show, based at its Sydney headquarters in Ultimo, averaged 940,000 metro viewers, which rose to 1.336m nationally, with regional viewing included too.
Viewers looked to the ABC’s Antony Green to analyse the numbers
Of the commercial players, Nine did best, with Australia Decides rating 466,000 metro viewers rising to 597,000 nationally.
Your ratings are currently in line with my viewing. Good work.
ABC deserves its numbers, for Antony Green if no other.
Nine deserved its figures for the effort and enthusiasm on display, something SkyNews can also claim (why no mention in this story?)
Seven delivered its usual also-ran performance.
But there are ns surprises about TEN’s disaster.
Sadly once pretty good at news in a target audience, offbeat way, it now produces a mediocre product in the 5pm slot that plods along with no particular journalist or production high points. So why would anybody consider watching it for election night coverage. (Indeed why DID those people who watched do so?).
It is time CBS did some serious thinking about what its Australian news service is doing, and what that service is doing to TEN.
If you want actual election coverage, the ABC is the only choice. I flicked across to 7 and 9 at one point to see what they were saying. 9 (I think) had a stupid boot kicking losing MPs. Without a doubt this is the most idiotic idea I have seen in election coverage, and shows how abysmal 9 is these days. 7 had Alan Jones, so it was straight back to the ABC and some intelligence.
Honestly, the state of news in this country is shocking. 9 and 7 should be absolutely ashamed.
What a shame – I dipped in and out of all four channels and thought Ten’s was easily the best. Accessible, conversational, focussed, good panel guests (Christopher Pyne came across as almost human for most of it).
It’s difficult to compete against an entrenched leader in this space like the ABC, even though one look at their coverage told you this was Public Service Broadcasting with Full Capitalisation. But kudos to Ten for trying something slightly different.
Why no cover of Skynews? I watched it and enjoyed it . At least they knew along with me that Scott would win. Good to be on a winner.