Dancing with the Stars final gives Seven commanding share
Magician Consentino’s win in Seven’s grand finale of Dancing with the Stars brought nearly 1.4m metro viewers to the network, giving the network a commanding 30.9 per cent audience share leaving Nine with just 16 per cent and Ten and ABC1 just over 12 per cent.
The dancing competition topped the all people and people aged 25-54 demographics, according to OzTam overnight ratings.
Meanwhile Nine’s US sitcom with Rebel Wilson, Super Fun Night averaged 510,000 and Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals had 396,000 viewers on Channel Ten up against the dancing contest.
ABC1 was second in the time slot with 7.30, Foreign Correspondent and Keating, the third part of Kerry O’Brien’s interview with the former Prime Minister Paul Keating.
Ten’s best performer was NCIS, which had an audience of 667,000 at 8.30pm followed by Ten Eyewitness News with 608,000 at 5pm.
Watched Keating last night. Fantastic television and certainly proves Kerry O’Brien is worth the money he is paid. A terrific series with a guy who is surely one of Australia’s most interesting and provocative politicians with a huge ego to match. Will Mark Scott now commission Howard or is Keating just too hard an act to follow?
Howard. haha.
So, Harry, how is Kerry ‘worth the money?’.
How do you put value on that ‘worth’? Value to who?
If it was a commercial station, and the show had garnered impressive ratings, then we could put put some sort of tangible ‘worth’ to the interview.
But it’s not. His wages are paid by taxpayers, so you’d need to ask them if they thought he was ‘worth’ the money.
That’s the whole argument floating around at hte moment about the ABC.
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A puff piece on Howard? On the ABC? Dreamin’.
Robbo – is the ABC not rated against the other channels? From memory each episode of Keating has rated slightly higher – is this not showing the program is resonating with audiences, that they find it “worth” something?
Who are you to say a viewer is worth less because they’re not being sold to (notwithstanding the self-serving angle – which I happened to enjoy)?
Maybe start a petition if you’re really upset.
Allowing Wake-up and Studio TEN 1 another week to settle into a watchable and comfortable format, a bad decision, I was amazed that Ita on Studio Ten criticised the ABC regarding on-camera talent salaries.
In particular Paul Barry’s, suggesting he was not worth it.
May I suggest talent on both TEN shows check their respective ratings before they start criticising other network shows.
Not sure if my math is correct but aren’t Channel Ten the fourth rating Network BEHIND the ABC? And thousands separate TEN’s morning shows from 7 and 9 programs
Maybe THEIR salaries are not worth the poor ratings they are achieving.
A wakeup call to TEN Executives is surely on the way.
‘Worth’ is related to ‘accountability’, surely, Lachlan?
Without accountability (of which the ABC has none), any worth comparison is surely moot?
(but I take on board your point, of ratings vs ratings. Your argument being that ratings have a ‘worth’).
James, if the Chan 10 guys aren’t worth what they’re getting paid, the free market will eventually sort them out.
That doesn’t happen with the ABC, you fool.