Logies see audience rise as Seven’s Sunday Night Nepal report tops a million viewers
Channel Nine’s live broadcast of the 2015 Logies broke a cycle of five years of audience decline with this years awards ceremony delivering Nine a metro audience of 971,000 viewers for the three-hour ceremony, despite some stiff competition.
However it was not enough to win the night with Channel Seven’s semi final of My Kitchen Rules viewed by 1.674m from 7pm to 8.30pm, followed by Sunday Night’s controversial Nepal special which got 1.023m viewers, giving Seven a total share of 27.1 per cent for the evening.
Nine followed on 25.2 per cent with Channel Ten taking 10.2 per cent, behind the ABC’s share of 10.7 per cent.
In a break from last year’s ratings, the Logie awards ceremony pulled more viewers than the red carpet arrivals (958,000). The decision to live broadcast the Logies ceremony this year also paid off with the audience up slightly from the 962,000 who watched in 2014.
Nup, based on these numbers you can’t say “the 2015 Logies broke a cycle of five years of audience decline”. I can think of two basic media maths reasons why. Anybody….anybody…..? (Hint: last year’s average audience was 962,000). And actually it would have only been three year’s of audience decline, if it was in fact a decline.