Seven’s audience dips as Nine improves, while Family Feud was Ten’s highest rating show
Seven drama series Winners and Losers had one of the bigger falls in audience last night shedding 50,000 on last week to record a metro audience of 770,000.
The result came on a night in which Nine’s share firmed while Seven’s softened, with Bringing Sexy Back at 7.30pm also posting a decline in audience for the third straight week with an audience of 681,000, down from 687,000 last week. However the show, fronted by Sunrise presenter Samantha Armytage is still above its debut of 654,000.
Nine’s The Block: Glasshouse had the biggest audience of night with 1.21m viewers tuning in for renovation show at 7.30pm, while Family Feud was Ten’s highest rating show of the night with the simulcast across Ten, Eleven and One recording 697,000, according to the OzTam overnight metro ratings.
The ratings systems is designed to proportionately sample the population. NITV is a channel made for and about Indigenous and Torres Straight Islander people. Some statistics from 2006 put about 70% of the Indigenous and Torres Straight Islander population outside of the major cities.
Nationally they represent roughly 2.5% of the population so if they only watched NITV and they all lived in the top 5 capitol city markets then the station would rate 2.5%. So it’s not surprising it’s viewers (assuming it has some) are not being picked up by Oztam.