No objections as Fisk wins Wednesday entertainment; Seven takes the night

Darcy Song

November 24, 2022 10:00

No objections as Fisk wins Wednesday entertainment; Seven takes the night

Kitty Flanagan’s legal comedy Fisk on ABC topped entertainment on Wednesday; however, it was the FIFA World Cup games of Morocco vs Croatia and France vs Australia that split the wins of three key advertising demographics.

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For Wednesday Overnights, Fisk aired to 500,000 metro viewers, followed by the FIFA World Cup match of France vs Australia on SBS, drawing in 461,000 metro viewers.

On top of metro viewers, the France vs Australia game drew in 134,000 regional viewers, 246,000 on BVOD and a total average of 841,000 viewers. It was also SBS’s most watched program or event of 2022 to date.

Hard Quiz on ABC attracted 451,000 viewers, while The Chase on Seven locked in an audience of 449,000. It is followed by Home and Away, also on Seven, with 444,000 metro viewers.

Question Everything on ABC pulled in a metro audience of 386,000 viewers, followed by the World Cup match of Morocco vs Croatia on ABC which drew in 362,000 metro viewers.

Meanwhile, Seven News won overall TV viewing on Wednesday night with 815,000 metro viewers, followed by Seven News at 6:30 with 799,000 metro viewers, while Nine News at 6:30 had 631,000 metro viewers. Nine News brought in 623,000, ABC News pulled in 562,000 metro views, and A Current Affair had a metro audience of 488,000.

In terms of overall shares, Seven and Nine went head to head, but it was Seven who won with an overall network share of 24.5%, followed by Nine with 24.3%. ABC took 20.4% while SBS, boosted by the World Cup, secured 16.5%.

Nine won the primary channel share with 16.6%, and the top-rating multi-channel on Wednesday was 10 Peach with a share of 3.6%.

In the latest Daily Consolidated Total TV Report for Wednesday 16 November, Seven News was the #1 program nationally across linear, with 1.385 million viewers, including 34,000 on BVOD, and an increase of 3%. The biggest uplift of the week was an episode of Love Island Australia on Nine with a rise of 655%, viewed by a total audience of 355,000, and a BVOD audience of 258,000.