Newcastle resists national trends

Newcastle TV ratings week 37, 2008

While the Nine Network has struggled since the Olympics against a resurgent Seven, the trend hasn't translated as strongly through to Newcastle viewing habits.

Last week NBN won handily again, with a 12 point lead over Prime, despite individual programs performing quite well for the Seven affiliate station.

Prime and NBN shared the Top 10 programs evenly while SC TEN was nowhere to be seen. Interestingly, the NRL numbers have disappeared from the Top 10 despite the finals season just beginning.

Most watched programs:
1  NBN Evening News Sunday  NBN  113000
2 Find My Family PRIME 100000
3 NBN Evening News Monday to Friday NBN 100000
4 City Homicide PRIME 91000
5 The Strip NBN 89000
6 RSPCA Animal Rescue PRIME 86000
7 Crash Investigation Unit PRIME 84000
8 A Current Affair NBN 84000
9 Domestic Blitz NBN 83 000
10 Medical Emergency PRIME 78000

Station ratings:       

            Week 37 2008    Week 37 2007    Prog 2008    Prog 2007
NBN           34.5                   35.0             34.0           34.7
PRIME        22.1                   23.6              23.3           24.8
TEN           16.8                   20.0              19.0           18.2
ABC           18.1                   15.6              17.1           16.3
SBS              7.1                   5.8                6.5            5.9

Comments

[Matt]

I don't watch much tv, and I watch absolutely no free to air tv, and I don't recognise the name of most of those shows in the top 10. I'm not entirely un-happy about that either.