Nine wins fragmented night on back of the NRL, while Catalyst top non-news show

August 15, 2014 10:18

Thursday night saw audiences down across the board but Nine won the night on the back of its footy coverage, as the competition for the NRL comes to the pointy end of the season.

Different programming schedules in each state made for a fragmented leader board with the ABC’s Catalyst actually coming in as the highest non-news related program of the night with 842,000 viewers, for a special looking at could our food be making people sick.

In the 7.30 slot 629,000 tuned in to Nine in Sydney and Brisbane to watch South Sydney Rabbitohs take on the Brisbane Broncos, while in the other states an episode of The Block drew 525,000. On Ten The Bachelor drew 639,000 viewers while on Seven there was an hour of Home and Away drawing 802,000 viewers followed by 587,000 at 8pm for a documentary on Hercules the Human Grizzly Bear.

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Nic Christensen

Nic Christensen worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2016, in roles including deputy editor and media & technology editor. He is former media writer for The Australian and has also worked as a reporter for The Daily Telegraph and senior producer for Radio 2GB.

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1 COMMENTS

jenny2 15 Aug 14

The Block, the Bachelor, Home and Away – the ‘Human Bear’ the Footy Show many episodes of criminal minds, same old SVU – good grief TV stations shouldn’t take winning a timeslot as indicating the viewing audience is actually interested in what they are show, there is simply NOTHING worth watching on at all. I though summer was the basket case for ratings?

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