Top 20 Sydney Overnight Ratings: Updated Daily
The Top 20 Free to Air Overnight Sydney TV Ratings deliver the most up to date ratings across all major free to air channels: Seven, Nine, Network Ten, SBS, and ABC. With the use of advanced technology such as the Unitam “people meter,” overnight viewership of top shows can be recorded in real time and sent to OzTAM for analysis across the major cities in Australia, which include Sydney.
Top 20 Free to Air Programs for Sydney
The Top 20 Free to Air programs from OzTAM displayed below feature the actual live viewing figures from the previous night. The table below also shows the combined number for the five major cities where metropolitan ratings are measured, which include Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. For this page, however, we’re only showing the combined viewership of the 5 cities and the breakdown for Sydney.
The Top 20 free to air list is compiled from a full 24 hours of viewing data, instead of just relying on peak viewing hours. Hence, this table represents the true top 20 shows that was on offer across all major free-to-air channels on that day.
Sydney, among all 5 major cities, has always had some of the highest viewer ratings in the country alongside Melbourne. What makes it interesting is how Sydney’s ratings are neck and neck with Melbourne, in which there would be instances when the former would have the lead than the latter and vice versa depending on the shows and channels. To see more of these differences between Sydney and Melbourne viewership, do check out the table below that represents real-time picture of what’s keeping eyes glued to TV screens within these major hubs in Australia.
Top 20 Programs
All free-to-air Channels
| Rank | Description (grouped) | Channel\Market | (r) 5 City Metro | Sydney | Melbourne |
| 1 | NCIS EP 2 RPT | 10 Bold | 180,000 | 47,000 | 45,000 |
| 2 | BLUEY-AM | ABC Kids/ABC TV Plus | 174,000 | 50,000 | 57,000 |
| 3 | NCIS RPT | 10 Bold | 150,000 | 43,000 | 29,000 |
| 4 | WEEKEND BREAKFAST: 10AM-AM | ABC NEWS | 147,000 | 42,000 | 35,000 |
| 5 | NCIS: LOS ANGELES RPT | 10 Bold | 146,000 | 41,000 | 34,000 |
| 6 | DEATH IN PARADISE -EV | 9Gem | 138,000 | 35,000 | 41,000 |
| 7 | ABC NEWS SPECIAL COVERAGE: CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC-AM | ABC NEWS | 129,000 | 53,000 | 27,000 |
| 8 | PEPPA PIG-AM | ABC Kids/ABC TV Plus | 122,000 | 25,000 | 42,000 |
| 9 | BLUEY-EV | ABC Kids/ABC TV Plus | 105,000 | 33,000 | 35,000 |
| 10 | THE ADVENTURES OF PADDINGTON-EV | ABC Kids/ABC TV Plus | 99,000 | 21,000 | 36,000 |
| 11 | NODDY TOYLAND DETECTIVE-AM | ABC Kids/ABC TV Plus | 99,000 | 26,000 | 29,000 |
| 12 | HEY DUGGEE-EV | ABC Kids/ABC TV Plus | 98,000 | 23,000 | 36,000 |
| 13 | LOVE MONSTER-AM | ABC Kids/ABC TV Plus | 96,000 | 22,000 | 35,000 |
| 14 | WEEKEND BREAKFAST-AM | ABC NEWS | 96,000 | 23,000 | 26,000 |
| 15 | BANANAS IN PYJAMAS-AM | ABC Kids/ABC TV Plus | 96,000 | 20,000 | 36,000 |
| 16 | THE BIG BANG THEORY EP 3 RPT | 10 Peach | 96,000 | 32,000 | 25,000 |
| 17 | THE PEACEMAKER -EV | 9GO! | 92,000 | 24,000 | 30,000 |
| 18 | DOG LOVES BOOKS-EV | ABC Kids/ABC TV Plus | 90,000 | 31,000 | 33,000 |
| 19 | RUSTY RIVETS-AM | ABC Kids/ABC TV Plus | 90,000 | 26,000 | 24,000 |
| 20 | PLAY SCHOOL-AM | ABC Kids/ABC TV Plus | 89,000 | 21,000 | 32,000 |
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