(5 city metro combined – all figures in millions)
1. New Year’s Eve 2010 – Countdown – Nine – 1.275
2. Seven News – Seven – 1.051
3. Nine News – Nine – 0.937
4. Ten News at Five – Ten – 0.818
5. Today Tonight – Seven – 0.780
6. A Current Affair – Nine – 0.746
7. New Years Eve 2010 – Nine – 0.736
8. Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2010 – ABC1 – 0.733
9. ABC News – ABC1 – 0.726
10. Better Homes and Gardens Summer – Seven – 0.590
11. 7:30 Report Summer Edition – ABC1 – 0.561
12. Hot Seat – Nine – 0.484
13. Australia’s Funniest Home Videos (Daily Edition) – Nine – 0.472
14. 2010 – The Way it Was – Nine – 0.471
15. The Bold and the Beautiful – Ten – 0.465
The 7pm Project – Ten – 0.433
Sunrise – Seven – 0.359
Today – Nine – 0.271
We’re back – even though the ratings season doesn’t start proper until week 5. Still, seeing how the networks are performing in the “off season” is interesting enough. New Years Eve is no real example, though, as a large proportion of all of us were out partying. The biggest individual casualty was clearly The 7pm Project having it’s audience almost halve. Of course Ch9’s various New Year’s Eve broadcasts feature heavily in the list – those of us that spent the evening at home will have caught at least one broadcast of the fireworks. Happy New Year!