Ratings

Leckie claims advance victory for Seven

Seven CEO David Leckie has all but claimed victory for his network in 2009, six weeks before the end of this year’s ratings season, according to the Australian. Without shows featuring Gordon Ramsey, Mr Leckie said Nine would be “f***ed”, describing its success this year ‘a fluke’. He said that Nine will also need to […]

Radio: FOX, 2GB, Nova, 94.5, 5AA top survey 6

Nielsen Media Research has released the results of the sixth metropolitan radio ratings survey for the year.
Sydney: Another win for talk station 2GB, recording 13.4 per cent audience share.  Runner up was 2DAY on 11.4 per cent, followed by 702 ABC, Nova 96.9 and 2UE.  2GB won breakfast, mornings and weekends and recorded a huge […]

Perth the first for local ACA

The Australian today reports that WIN Television’s plans for a local edition of A Current Affair will proceed first in Western Australia, because of a more urgent need to lift ratings in the 6.00-7.00pm hour.
Bruce Gordon, owner of WIN Corporation, said “we’ll be launching in Perth before we launch in Adelaide … In Perth, I’d […]

Triple M pull the plug on The Shebang

Triple M’s Sydney breakfast program The Shebang will end in November this year, after Shebanger Fifi Box was announced as Sunrise’s new weather presenter from 2009.   The remaining members of the program will go their seperate ways, with Marty Sheargold leaving the station and latest recruit Paul Murray staying on to become apart of Triple M’s Monday to […]

Newcastle survey #2 released; NX leads, NEW gains

Neilsen Media Research has released the figures for Newcastle radio Survey 2, 2008.
Austereo and Macquarie Southern Cross Media’s female hit music station NXFM continued on its winning ways (22.5), despite a 1.0 drop in its overall rating. The station’s heavily-promoted Drive program Hamish And Andy from sister station FOX Melbourne led the way with a […]

Nine claims mid-year victory

The Nine Network has claimed a ‘dramatic turnaround’ in the ratings battle, after losing last year to Seven, by declaring it has edged ahead of Seven by the mid-year point of the 2008 ratings season.
After 20 weeks of official Oztam surveys for the year, Nine has recorded 27.9 per cent year-to-date prime-time audience share (up […]

Nine is Australia’s Number 1 in mid-year ratings

1 January 2008 – 30 June 2008
(includes all Summer and Easter Non-Survey dates within this period)
In November Nine announced it was embarking on a big rebuilding phase and in the first half of the 2008 calendar year, audiences have responded to the changes.
With a renewed focus on the 25-54 demographic audience, Nine has achieved a […]

Stability at the top in latest radio ratings

Nielsen Media has released results for the fourth metropolitan radio ratings survey of 2008.
In Sydney, 2GB retained its number one position with a share of 11.6 per cent, winning breakfast, mornings, evenings and weekends. With an increase of 1.7 points from the last survey, 702 ABC has moved into second place with 10.6 per cent. […]

Fox tops US ratings year

For the first time in its two-decade history, America’s Fox network has beaten its traditional “big three” rivals to take out the US ratings year according to Nielsen Media.
In a year marked by the writers’ strike, the Rupert Murdoch-owned network owes much of its success to the reality TV phenomenon American Idol - which despite […]

Survey 3 winners: 2GB, 3AW, Nova 106.9, 5AA, Mix 94.5

Nielsen Media has released the results of the third metropolitan radio ratings survey for 2008.
In Sydney, another win for 2GB with an all-people share of 11.7 per cent.  Austereo station 2Day is not far behind on 10.7 per cent, then followed by 702 ABC and WSFM.  2GB won weekday breakfast, mornings, evenings and weekends, 2Day […]