TV Ratings: Last night's Australian free to air shows - October 24, 2023
If you’ve ever wondered why your favourite show moved to a new time slot or a different day, or disappeared entirely, chances are it was because of the results of the official ratings that showed exactly how many people were watching it (you can also check when your favourite show is on with this TV guide). Hence the TV networks are enabling the right shows to be viewed at the right time based on audience measurement performance data.
TV ratings in Australia last night
OzTAM now provides the data to publishers like us who make it known to the public about what shows last night performed. Here’s an overview for free to air TV and streaming services in Australia.
Top 20 Programs
All free-to-air Channels
| Rank | Description (grouped) | Channel\Network | (r) 5 City Metro | Sydney | Melbourne |
| 1 | SEVEN NEWS | Seven Network | 813,000 | 194,000 | 232,000 |
| 2 | SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 | Seven Network | 809,000 | 190,000 | 238,000 |
| 3 | NINE NEWS | Nine Network | 707,000 | 204,000 | 228,000 |
| 4 | NINE NEWS 6:30 | Nine Network | 699,000 | 198,000 | 217,000 |
| 5 | THE BLOCK -TUE | Nine Network | 650,000 | 171,000 | 205,000 |
| 6 | A CURRENT AFFAIR | Nine Network | 639,000 | 174,000 | 194,000 |
| 7 | ABC NEWS-EV | ABC TV | 559,000 | 134,000 | 210,000 |
| 8 | THE CHASE AUSTRALIA | Seven Network | 486,000 | 126,000 | 132,000 |
| 9 | 7.30-EV | ABC TV | 448,000 | 135,000 | 163,000 |
| 10 | SAS AUSTRALIA – TUE | Seven Network | 426,000 | 109,000 | 107,000 |
| 11 | HOME AND AWAY | Seven Network | 410,000 | 115,000 | 108,000 |
| 12 | THE MASKED SINGER AUSTRALIA TUES – REVEAL | Network 10 | 401,000 | 129,000 | 145,000 |
| 13 | THE CHEAP SEATS | Network 10 | 371,000 | 99,000 | 168,000 |
| 14 | TAKE 5 WITH ZAN ROWE-EV | ABC TV | 363,000 | 122,000 | 128,000 |
| 15 | HOT SEAT | Nine Network | 334,000 | 98,000 | 131,000 |
| 16 | THE MASKED SINGER AUSTRALIA TUES | Network 10 | 331,000 | 103,000 | 110,000 |
| 17 | OLD PEOPLE’S HOME FOR TEENAGERS-EV | ABC TV | 326,000 | 114,000 | 108,000 |
| 18 | THE CHASE AUSTRALIA-5PM | Seven Network | 289,000 | 74,000 | 79,000 |
| 19 | THE PROJECT 7PM | Network 10 | 281,000 | 55,000 | 113,000 |
| 20 | TIPPING POINT | Nine Network | 251,000 | 58,000 | 74,000 |
Daily Free-to-Air Channels
| Channel | Overnight 24/10/2023 | Consolidated 7 17/10/2023 | Consolidated 28 26/09/2023 |
| ABC TV | 12.5% | 12.1% | 11.5% |
| ABC Kids/ABC TV Plus | 2.2% | 2.4% | 2.3% |
| ABC ME | 0.4% | 0.5% | 0.6% |
| ABC NEWS | 2.5% | 1.9% | 1.9% |
| ABC TV Network | 17.7% | 16.9% | 16.4% |
| Seven | 18.6% | 19.0% | 24.4% |
| 7TWO | 3.7% | 4.2% | 3.3% |
| 7mate | 3.1% | 3.7% | 4.1% |
| 7flix | 1.7% | 0.9% | 0.8% |
| 7Bravo | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.8% |
| Seven Network | 27.9% | 28.7% | 33.5% |
| Nine | 20.2% | 21.6% | 20.1% |
| 9GO! | 1.8% | 2.1% | 1.9% |
| 9Gem | 2.4% | 3.0% | 2.8% |
| 9Life | 1.9% | 2.2% | 1.8% |
| 9Rush | 1.2% | 1.4% | 0.9% |
| Nine Network | 27.5% | 30.3% | 27.6% |
| 10 | 11.8% | 10.0% | 9.9% |
| 10 Bold | 2.7% | 2.6% | 2.3% |
| 10 Peach | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.1% |
| Nickelodeon | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.8% |
| Network 10 | 17.8% | 15.8% | 15.1% |
| SBS | 4.9% | 3.3% | 3.9% |
| SBS VICELAND | 1.5% | 1.9% | 1.8% |
| SBS Food | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.0% |
| NITV | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% |
| SBS World Movies | 1.3% | 1.4% | 0.6% |
| SBS WorldWatch | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| SBS Network | 9.2% | 8.2% | 7.4% |
Top 20 Consolidated program ratings for Free To Air
| Rank | Description (grouped) | Network Channel\ | Consolidated 28 | Consolidated 7 | Overnight | 000s Increase on Consolidated 7 | 000s Increase on Overnight |
| 1 | SEVEN NEWS | Seven Network | 915,000 | 915,000 | 914,000 | 0 | 1,000 |
| 2 | SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 | Seven Network | 901,000 | 901,000 | 900,000 | 0 | 2,000 |
| 3 | THE BLOCK -TUE | Nine Network | 731,000 | 714,000 | 624,000 | 17,000 | 107,000 |
| 4 | NINE NEWS 6:30 | Nine Network | 720,000 | 720,000 | 719,000 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | NINE NEWS | Nine Network | 715,000 | 715,000 | 713,000 | 0 | 2,000 |
| 6 | A CURRENT AFFAIR | Nine Network | 680,000 | 676,000 | 670,000 | 4,000 | 10,000 |
| 7 | MY KITCHEN RULES – TUE | Seven Network | 620,000 | 608,000 | 563,000 | 12,000 | 57,000 |
| 8 | ABC NEWS-EV | ABC TV | 584,000 | 584,000 | 584,000 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | THE CHASE AUSTRALIA | Seven Network | 549,000 | 548,000 | 547,000 | 1,000 | 2,000 |
| 10 | HOME AND AWAY | Seven Network | 475,000 | 469,000 | 432,000 | 5,000 | 43,000 |
| 11 | RFDS | Seven Network | 471,000 | 425,000 | 299,000 | 46,000 | 171,000 |
| 12 | 7.30-EV | ABC TV | 429,000 | 429,000 | 426,000 | 0 | 3,000 |
| 13 | KITCHEN CABINET-EV | ABC TV | 368,000 | 365,000 | 327,000 | 3,000 | 41,000 |
| 14 | THE CHEAP SEATS | Network 10 | 348,000 | 347,000 | 325,000 | 1,000 | 23,000 |
| 15 | HOT SEAT | Nine Network | 329,000 | 328,000 | 328,000 | 0 | 1,000 |
| 16 | THE CHASE AUSTRALIA-5PM | Seven Network | 310,000 | 309,000 | 309,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| 17 | THE PROJECT 7PM | Network 10 | 289,000 | 287,000 | 286,000 | 2,000 | 3,000 |
| 18 | THE WHITELEY ART SCANDAL-EV | ABC TV | 262,000 | 262,000 | 253,000 | 0 | 10,000 |
| 19 | SHARK TANK | Network 10 | 253,000 | 237,000 | 216,000 | 16,000 | 37,000 |
| 20 | TIPPING POINT | Nine Network | 234,000 | 228,000 | 225,000 | 6,000 | 9,000 |
About the OzTAM Ratings System
Working out the viewer numbers for Australian free to air and subscription TV channels is a complex task made much more accurate by advances in technology. Today the OzTAM ratings, an acronym for ‘Australian Television Audience
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TV shows on Free To Air
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Frequently Asked Questions for TV ratings Australia
There’s a lot of “industry lingo” used in the official ratings, as you’ll see when you browse the results. While much of it is straightforward, there are some terms that are well worth explaining:
OzTAM installs a special device in the homes of those selected to be a part of the ratings panel. Known as Unitam, the device is better-known to some as a “people meter”. This clever little device can monitor and record a full range of information about the channels and shows being watched, as well as who’s watching them.
Selection of homes to take part in OzTAM ratings is the result of a survey of thousands of homes across Australia each year. Any home can be selected and interviewed, and from those results a pool of 5,250 homes is chosen in the five largest cities. A separate pool of homes is chosen for regional ratings (3,198 homes) while for subscription TV ratings, 2,120 homes are chosen from both the metropolitan and regional pools.
These numbers include not just TV watched live, but also include viewings of recordings of shows later that night, within the following seven days or during the four weeks after broadcast. Those numbers are all brought together to give a much more accurate picture of how many people watched a show using technology like DVRs as well as the basic time-shifting features found on some TVs.
These numbers extract just the viewers from the ratings homes in the five major capital cities that are surveyed – Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.
Subscription TV – basically, any form of TV that requires payment to view. In most cases, that simply refers to Fetch TV and more importantly Foxtel. Note that it doesn’t include paid streaming services like Netflix and Stan, or “catch-up” streaming services.
While it might sound straightforward, the “overnight” viewership figure is the least accurate – as it doesn’t include playback of recorded shows watched after 2am the following morning and doesn’t yet incorporate the time schedule corrections sent by the various TV networks to OzTAM the following day. It does, however, give an incredibly fast basic idea of how many people watched exactly what the previous night. If you see media referring to “the overnights,” that refers to these numbers.
© OzTAM Pty Limited 2021. The Data may not be reproduced, published or communicated (electronically or in hard copy) without the prior written consent of OzTAM. Program performance and ranking information subject to change when not based on final program logs. Ranking information is for individual episodes. Includes Preliminary data.
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