ARIAs fail to sing to everyone, but in tune with Ten’s teenagers
The ARIA Awards failed to set the ratings on fire with just 461,000 people tuning in to the annual music awards, well down on last years audience of 574,000.
In a slow Thursday night for TV where no show managed to attract more than 1m metro viewers, the ARIAs struggled into the top 20 at 18, while the red carpet attracted just 406,000.
The ARIAs have been a perennial problem child for the networks which have struggled to find a model that bring in big audience numbers.
The awards were outrated by Ten’s other shows, Eyewitness News First at Five (489,000), The Project (472,000) and Family Fued (470,000).
The music industry night of nights – primetime TV, full of celebs, rock stars and performances but gets out rated by Family Feud.
And it was easily one of the best ARIA broadcasts for many years but people just don’t care.
the media constantly overestimate peoples interest in music. it just isn’t really there and probably never was at mass levels.
I caught the last part of it, I thought the musical performances were good, but then it’s just typical awards show wanky self congratulatory rubbish.
Rove bombed pretty badly.
There were no artists on this year’s ARIAs that really interested me. Judging by the ratings I don’t think I’m alone on that.
Blame X factor. At my place we’re so over hearing singers being told how earth shattering they as human beings simply because they can hit notes. Then along came the ARIAS.
In typical ARIA’s fashion, one person sweeped most of the night – and I have no idea who Courtney Barnett is. Nice to see Tina Arena perform with the twins – The Veronicas were good too 😛
Here’s the issue… it wasn’t live. The target audience could go online (ANY news outlet) and get live updates and video on the awards – who won, what they were wearing, who said something controversial, did Taylor show up… etc.
Welcome to the modern world, old-fashioned TV.
These dinosaurs that couldn’t foresee the rise of Netflix, et al. or understand that global TV shows are being watched in the 12 months before they show it here, also couldn’t work out that the young target audience didn’t want to watch something 2 hours after it happened just because that’s when you wanted to schedule it. It was online and they’d already seen the best bits before your broadcast even began.
Seriously, get with the times, TV people! It isn’t that hard.
Rove is about as interesting as a wet tissue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE6lW8TazZM
The red carpet coverage was the most tedious half hour on TV this year, wouldn’t be surprised if most people lost interest there.
And Rove proving he is better at producing funny people than being one
I switched off after five minutes – although I was impressed with Tina’s slap down to *some* radio programmers when I saw it on you-tube!