Nine’s Fast4 Tennis audience crumbles as Seven wins night
Nine’s second outing of its Big Bash style tennis Fast4 Tennis saw its audience crumble, with only 399,425 metro viewers tuning in to see Rafael Nadal take on a string of opponents including Australian player Mark Philippoussis after 713,000 metro viewers tuned in on Monday night to see Roger Federer play Lleyton Hewitt.
According to preliminary overnight metro numbers from OzTam the 7.30pm timeslot, which saw Fast4 Tennis take on the Big Bash on Ten, was won by Seven’s SCU: Serious Crash Unit which drew a metro audience of 678,000 helping Seven win the night with an audience share of 18.8 per cent ahead of Nine’s share of 14.6 per cent.
The decline in the Fast4 audience helped Ten secure second place with an audience share of 16.9 per cent after 671,000 metro viewer tuned in for the first innings of the Big Bash match, from 7.30pm to 9.30pm, which saw the Sydney Sixers take on the Adelaide Strikers.
I hope they persist with the Fast4 format. It’s pretty entertaining. They should, however, take a leaf out of the cricket book and mic up the players. That would be great.
SCU wins the night? Are viewers ghoulish or something?
That said, I do like a good aircrash investigation. But at least that generally results in airlines and aircraft makers learning stuff which prevents crashes in future.
Given the lack of ability of so many drivers, the best way to reduce crashes would be to ban cars. Or blame their victims…
I’m surprised as many as did watched the second half of the big bash. Started late, interminable talking heads instead of getting on with the action and then ran late even though the result was never in doubt. Really, 10, no-one cares about Fitzy and wots-is-name chattering away while the match was on, nor do they really care for all that excessive banter in the commentary box. Just show some bloody cricket – at the right time. Shove the project onto a secondary channel if you need to show it at all, cut that over-the-top intro down to about 10 seconds (no, make it 5) and get on with the game. It’s not rocket science.