Weekly Ratings Australia – Nine takes total people in network and primary channel shares. Nine also wins 16-39 and 25-54 demographics in network and primary channel shares.
Sunday 1 October to Saturday 7 October, 2023
Weekly Ratings Australia – Week 40
Network Share Total People
Primary Share Total People
Network Share 16-39
Primary Share 16-39
Network Share 25-54
Primary Share 25-54
Multi Channel Total People
5 Capital City Network Total People
5 Capital City Primary Total People
Weekly Ratings Australia – Analysis
Nine wins in Total People Network and Total People Primary Channel shares.
Nine wins in 16-39 demographics in Network and Primary Channel shares.
Nine wins in 25-54 demographics in Network and Primary Channel shares.
7two was the highest multi channel in Total People.
10 Peach was the highest multi channel in 16-39.
10 Peach was the highest multi channel in 25-54.
ABC did beat 10 in total people network and primary channel shares. However, it should be noted that ABC have a massive advantage in older age brackets. In 16-39, 10 smashed ABC (19.7% to just 9.9%) and in 25-54 (20.8% to 10.8%) with network shares.

Weekly Ratings Australia – Top 10 Shows
Top 10 Shows – Total People (Commercial Networks)
1 | NRL GRAND FINAL DAY -MATCH | Nine | 2,045,000 |
2 | NRL GRAND FINAL DAY -ENTERTAINMENT | Nine | 1,051,000 |
3 | NRL GRAND FINAL DAY -POST MATCH | Nine | 922,000 |
4 | SEVEN NEWS – SUN | Seven | 829,000 |
5 | SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 | Seven | 814,000 |
6 | SEVEN NEWS | Seven | 812,000 |
7 | SEVEN NEWS – SAT | Seven | 721,000 |
8 | THE BLOCK -MON | Nine | 714,000 |
9 | NINE NEWS 6:30 | Nine | 712,000 |
10 | NINE NEWS | Nine | 699,000 |
Top 10 Shows – 16-39 (Commercial Networks)
1 | NRL GRAND FINAL DAY -MATCH | Nine | 499,000 |
2 | NRL GRAND FINAL DAY -ENTERTAINMENT | Nine | 228,000 |
3 | NRL GRAND FINAL DAY -POST MATCH | Nine | 224,000 |
4 | THE BLOCK -MON | Nine | 150,000 |
5 | THE BLOCK -TUE | Nine | 135,000 |
6 | HAVE YOU BEEN PAYING ATTENTION? | 10 | 111,000 |
7 | THE BLOCK -WED | Nine | 108,000 |
8 | WOMEN’S NRL PREMIERSHIP -GRAND FINAL -POST MATCH | Nine | 108,000 |
9 | THE MASKED SINGER AUSTRALIA – REVEAL | 10 | 100,000 |
10 | NINE NEWS SUNDAY | Nine | 96,000 |
Top 10 Shows – 25-54 (Commercial Networks)
1 | NRL GRAND FINAL DAY -MATCH | Nine | 868,000 |
2 | NRL GRAND FINAL DAY -ENTERTAINMENT | Nine | 420,000 |
3 | NRL GRAND FINAL DAY -POST MATCH | Nine | 408,000 |
4 | THE BLOCK -MON | Nine | 319,000 |
5 | THE BLOCK -TUE | Nine | 288,000 |
6 | THE AMAZING RACE AUSTRALIA: CELEBRITY – LAUNCH | 10 | 243,000 |
7 | HAVE YOU BEEN PAYING ATTENTION? | 10 | 226,000 |
8 | THE BLOCK -WED | Nine | 224,000 |
9 | WOMEN’S NRL PREMIERSHIP -GRAND FINAL -POST MATCH | Nine | 204,000 |
10 | THE MASKED SINGER AUSTRALIA – REVEAL | 10 | 202,000 |
Weekly Ratings Australia – How the Networks Analysed their Own Performance
Note: N/A means the network has not sent out a report today
Note: This post will update as networks often send out releases later on Sunday OR Monday morning
NINE
The main points to summarise this week from a Nine perspective are:
- Across the network shares (prime time), the 9Network won all key demos and total people with the following shares:
- People 25-54: 45.3%
- People 16-39: 50%
- Grocery Shopper + Child: 48%
- Total People: 43.2%
- Across the primary channel shares (prime time), Channel 9 also won all key demos and total people with the following shares:
- People 25-54: 34.7%
- People 16-39: 40.7%
- Grocery Shopper + Child: 38.7%
- Total People: 32.9%
- Sunday night’s NRL Premiership decider between the Penrith Panthers and Brisbane Broncos attracted a record Australian Grand Final streaming audience with 605,000 on 9Now – the largest for a rugby league game in history.
- The NRL Grand Final scored a national average audience of 2.919 million viewers on Linear TV (Metro: 2.045 m / Regional: 874,000) which, with the Live BVOD figure of 605,000 took the TotalTV audience to 3.524 million viewers.
- The NRLW Grand Final between the Newcastle Knights and the Gold Coast Titans recorded the highest ever BVOD/streaming Audience for an NRLW game, and was up 64% on the 2022 NRLW Grand Final.
- The NRLW Grand Final was also the most watched ever on Linear TV with 719,000, 18% more than the previous best from 2022, tuning in for a record Total TV figure of 807,000.
Monday night’s episode of The Blockrecorded a Live BVOD Audience of 116,000 (+30% YoY), making it the highest reveal episode to date
SEVEN
N/A
TEN
N/A
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