And the winner is… tennis, followed by the Nine Network which is after, of course, Ash Barty and Rafael Nadal.
The audience for Barty’s final win on Saturday over Danielle Collins was 3.57 million, a record for women’s tennis. Including the 241,000 who watched it on BVOD via 9Now, the total was 3.91 million.
The presentation did better — more than 3.86 million were watching, and probably closer to 4 million once the BVOD audience (not issued by Nine) is accounted for. The men’s doubles finals attracted an audience of 2.29 million, while Sunday night’s men’s final epic averaged 2.15 million — astonishingly, 1.42 million people stayed for the presentation well after 1.20am.
For the record, the highest non-Olympics audience in Australian TV was 4.01 million for Lleyton Hewitt’s 2005 loss in the men’s singles final to Marat Safin of Russia.
Nine’s share of the free-to-air audience on Sunday night was 54.4% overall and 49.9% for the main channel. Saturday’s shares were much, much higher — 68.1% overall and 61.8% for the main channel. And of course Nine won the week which was also the final week of summer ratings.
Ten’s I’m A Celebrity ended with the winner’s announcement averaging 848,000. The second ep of Muster Dogs on the ABC averaged 706,000. In the morning Insiders returned with 515,000 national viewers.
Tonight a ratings battle kicks off: MAFS on Nine versus the small run of The Voice; Generations and Australian Survivor on Ten.
Regional top five: 2022 Australian Open tennis, men’s singles final (Nine) — 539,000; Seven News, 485,000; 2022 Australian Open tennis, men’s singles final presentation, 366,000; Nine News, 328,000; Muster Dogs, 284,00.
Network channel share:
- Nine (54.4%)
- Seven (23.2%)
- Ten (16.8%)
- ABC (16.3%)
- SBS (8.3%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (49.9%)
- Seven (10.3%)
- Ten (9.4%)
- ABC (9.3%)
- SBS ONE (3.5%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7mate (2.3%)
- 10 Bold (2.0%)
- GO (1.9%)
- 7Flix (1.8%)
- 10 Peach (1.4%)
Top 10 national programs:
- 2022 Australian Open tennis, men’s singles final (Nine) — 2.15 million
- Seven News — 1.44 million
- 2022 Australian Open tennis, men’s singles final presentation (Nine) — 1.42 million
- Nine News — 1.23 million
- 2022 Australian Open tennis, men’s singles final pre-match (Nine) — 1.09 million
- I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here — winner announced (Ten) — 848,000
- 7pm ABC News — 793,000
- Border Security (Seven) — 780,000
- I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here — grand finale (Ten) — 777,000
- Vera (ABC) — 717,000
Top metro programs:
1. 2022 Australian Open tennis, men’s singles final (Nine) — 1.61 million
2. 2022 Australian Open tennis, men’s singles final presentation (Nine) — 1.05 million
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 960,000
- Nine News —920,000
- 7pm ABC News — 511,000
- Sunday Project 7pm (Ten) — 405,000
- Ten News First — 320,000
- Sunday Project 6.30 (Ten) — 260,000
- SBS News — 159,000
Morning (national) TV:
- Insiders (ABC) — 515,000
- Weekend Sunrise (Seven) — 378,000
- Weekend Today (Nine) — 310,000
- Landline Summer (ABC) — 274,000
- Offsiders (ABC) — 244,000
Top pay TV programs:
- BBL: final (Fox Cricket) — 122,000
- Cricket: women’s Test, Aust v Eng, post game (Fox Cricket) — 95,000:
- Cricket: women’s Test, Aust v Eng, day four (Fox Cricket) — 76,000:
- Cricket: women’s Test mini, women’s Test, Aust v Eng, day four (Fox Cricket) — 60,000
