Albanese’s address to Australia was a TV ratings smash
Albanese took over TV screens at 7pm Wednesday (Mumbrella)
The Prime Minister’s address to the nation on Wednesday evening was a television ratings success, a result that was almost assured considering it aired across all five free-to-air networks at the height of prime time.
The briefing, which ran for less than four minutes, started at 7pm. To compile the numbers, we’ve taken the average audience for the shows that ran during that timeslot across Nine, Seven, ABC, and Ten (SBS World News isn’t included, as it failed to make Oztam’s top thirty programs for the day), and added them together.
Using this metric, which must under-represent the true viewing audience (given SBS’s absence), 3.722 million Australians tuned into the address via free-to-air. Sky News, which doesn’t share its ratings, also screened the address.
