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2014 Ratings Thread

Tuesday 28 Oct

Total 591,000 #14
25-54 #4
18-49 #2
16-39 #1

Previous week
Overnight 620,00
Consolidate 683,000
+63,000 10.2% number 5 timeshifted (NCIS number one with 158,000 extra)
 
Total 591,000 #14

Shit, that's awful, for an eviction night - but placed against Big Adventure dropping from a million down to 600,000 in one week, it's quite good!
 
buck07 said:
There's their younger audience again. Nine will be pleased, I guess. :confused: :arghh:
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And what beat it in the older demos...

25-54: 1. Home and Away 2. Nine News 6:30 3. Nine News 4. Big Brother
18-49 1. Home and Away 2. Big Brother

Even in the two demos where it didn't come first, the shows that beat it were on at a different time so it came first in its timeslot for those demos. So yeah, 9 and its advertisers will be very happy and I guess we should expect more of the same from episodes on Mon-Wed at least. Thursday is all I have left to cling to.
 
I think the talk of demographics from Ch 9 is all spin. Really, what's the point in being the relative number 1 in the 16-39 demo if the absolute (total) numbers are so low? It's clutching at straws.
 
I was just thinking about the annoying behaviour of Channel 9 swapping BB out for a movie. I'd tip it's all about Cost v Returns. Say, the movie costs Channel 9 about 3/4 of stuff-all to show and returns 345k viewers. BB might cost a shed-load more to get to air (for that Friday night) but return "less viewers per $ spent" than the Movie. Or similar for the advertising revenue/profit. Just speculating. {BTW I'm a long term lurker. Gave up on BB this year, a few weeks in. I use - and value - BBB to keep in touch and get the hot news}
 
I really don't understand how there aren't more viewers. I know our populations are significantly different, but BBUS pulls in around 6.5 millions viewers an episode, yet many super fans actually prefer BBAU, and to a lesser extent BBUK. It would be great if they'd try airing it in the states, even at a delay. The shows that are brought here, like Wilfred & J'amie, have done well. The problem isn't with the show (besides this years casting..,) it's the inconsistencies in the schedule and not being able to recognize and profit from their entire market.
 
LovelyCoconuts said:
I really don't understand how there aren't more viewers. I know our populations are significantly different, but BBUS pulls in around 6.5 millions viewers an episode, yet many super fans actually prefer BBAU, and to a lesser extent BBUK. It would be great if they'd try airing it in the states, even at a delay. The shows that are brought here, like Wilfred & J'amie, have done well. The problem isn't with the show (besides this years casting..,) it's the inconsistencies in the schedule and not being able to recognize and profit from their entire market.
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Not to mention the U.S. live feed subscribers who would pay for live feeds if they were offered.
But you really have to understand that the entire population of Australia is roughly close to the population of New York state, so they are doing very well per capita.
Not to mention that people in Australia seem generally to get ready for bed and go to bed about 2 hours earlier than in the U.S..
 
LovelyCoconuts said:
I really don't understand how there aren't more viewers. I know our populations are significantly different, but BBUS pulls in around 6.5 millions viewers an episode, yet many super fans actually prefer BBAU, and to a lesser extent BBUK. It would be great if they'd try airing it in the states, even at a delay. The shows that are brought here, like Wilfred & J'amie, have done well. The problem isn't with the show (besides this years casting..,) it's the inconsistencies in the schedule and not being able to recognize and profit from their entire market.
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Unfortunately they can't air in the US; just like BBUS can't air here. Same with UK and vice versa despite so many Aussies living in the UK. I imagine they'd all jump at the chance if they could. But it's something to do with how their contracts are structured. They can't air in a country where another BB is taking place. If those three regions especially could cross air it would only be beneficial to the producers and advertisers, even local ones, but they're not contractually allowed to. It friggen sucks. I watched enough BBUS when I was still living there so I'm not concerned on missing out on that but to gyive each country three options of a different version each year as a viewer would be great. From a production and advertising standpoint though, I can understand why it'd be seen as potentially oversaturating the viewer and heaven forbid viewers liked one version more than than their home country's. That'd be a shit result for them.
 
The number of US folk wanting to watch BBAU is miniscule at best - certainly not enough to justify anyone airing it, even if CBS permitted it.

In the UK we've had a few international versions air here over the years - a couple of seasons of BBUSA (and we even got round the clock live feed via the TV, though delayed to fit the time zone) and in the past BB Africa too. I think one network screen BB Greece while BB India still screens here nightly on Colors and often does well enough to be trending on Twitter.

JamesD said:
I think the talk of demographics from Ch 9 is all spin. Really, what's the point in being the relative number 1 in the 16-39 demo if the absolute (total) numbers are so low? It's clutching at straws.
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Networks only ever gloat about demos when the headline figure is poor.
 
Brekkie said:
The number of US folk wanting to watch BBAU is miniscule at best - certainly not enough to justify anyone airing it, even if CBS permitted it.

In the UK we've had a few international versions air here over the years - a couple of seasons of BBUSA (and we even got round the clock live feed via the TV, though delayed to fit the time zone) and in the past BB Africa too. I think one network screen BB Greece while BB India still screens here nightly on Colors and often does well enough to be trending on Twitter.


Networks only ever gloat about demos when the headline figure is poor.
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Ah that's good to know. Someone had posted a snippet of the contract of BBAU and it explicitly said that BBAU wasn't allowed to air where other regions have BB. That's why they're able to show it in NZ albeit in a shortened form. I had assumed it was the same for the UK as I never saw BBAU when I lived there nor BBUS. And I definitely didn't see international versions in the US when I was still back there either.
 
It would be down to the rights holders in each country - I'm sure if the UK or US wanted to screen BBAU and local producers had cleared it then BBAU wouldn't have an issue with it.

I don't think the US would screen any version which didn't follow the US format as the networks would just think people wouldn't understand it. Similarly I don't think Australia would screen BBUSA either due to the differences in the format - they got away with it in the UK by basically running promos taking the piss out of the Yanks for screwing with the format.
 
Ah, that's better. (Not sure why 583 on a Wed seems that much better than 591 on a Tues, but I'll run with the feel.) I came to the ratings thread for solace. Nothing really bad ever happens in the ratings thread. Go, little show! I hope it can slowly choof it's way up closer to the magic million as the season starts to draw to its close, and people move away from the tawdry shit they've been watching and realise this is good tawdry shit!
 
Note: Seven ran different programs in Perth last night, so the demo rankings may not reflect viewing.
 
Ouch - proof if proof were needed that stunts just don't work. At all.

The magic million mark seems like a distant dream now. 800k with decent demos and it would probably survive, but at 600k I'm not even sure Ten would want it!
 
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