Seven crushes Tuesday’s ratings as SBS2 relaunch continues to struggle

Tim Burrowes

April 3, 2013 9:24

Seven was the only network at the races on Tuesday night with a free to air audience share double that of any other channel.

Driven by a metro audience of 1.9m for My Kitchen Rules, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTAM, Seven had a share of 28.6 per cent.

Next came Nine with 14.5 per cent, ABC1 with 13.9 per cent and Ten with 13.6 per cent.

SBS1 aired a new episode of Who Do You Think You Are? featuring entertainer Adam Hills. It rated 552,000, ranking it the 20th most watched show of the night and a rare occasion for SBS to get something into the top 20.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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4 COMMENTS

nick bartlett 3 Apr 13

Did SBS2 have a relaunch? I must have missed it.

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Stephen Conroy 3 Apr 13

There’s a SBS 2?

I must legislate against it, pronto.

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The Picky Pedant 3 Apr 13

Pass me that calculator please. Thanks. Let’s see.

One … four … point …. five …. multiply by … two … press equal … and it says 29.0. And I always thought that 28.6 was less than 29.0. Silly me.

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BD 3 Apr 13

A year-old episode of Russell Howard’s Good News – this from the network that, more than 20 years ago, was rushing to air episodes of the topical newsroom comedy Drop the Dead Donkey within a day of their screening in the UK. Somebody’s dropped more than the donkey at SBS.

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