Top 20 Consolidated 28 Free to Air Programs

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Over recent years, there’s been a rapidly increasing use of time-shifting devices to watch TV. Whether it’s digital video recorders or the built-in time-shifting capabilities of some smart TVs and streaming devices, the audience for a channel and its shows might not all be sitting down at the same time to watch.

The Consolidated 28 ratings are designed to take this into account. Thanks to the advanced technology of the Unitam device that’s operating in every household on the ratings panel, it’s possible for OzTam to track viewing of particular shows not just when they go to air, but also when they’re played back later – at any time in the following four weeks. It doesn’t matter what device the shows are recorded with – as long as they’re played back through the TV at normal speed, they’re counted.

Top 20 Free to Air Consolidated

The Consolidated 28 list brings together viewer numbers from the live broadcast (also known as the Overnight ratings), the Consolidated 7 rankings (shows viewed some time in the week following broadcast) and the final Consolidated 28 numbers.

This paints a clear picture of the real viewer numbers for a particular show. While some shows tend to be watched live as they go to air, some pick up substantial extra viewers when people watch the episode later from their time-shifted recording. Long-term, this list provides the truest picture of how many viewers each show had.

The only drawback is that the data takes a full four weeks to be finalised – but this is still extremely useful for the TV networks to judge the true following of a show – and whether it stays on the air.

Like many of OzTAM’s lists, these rankings can also be broken down into specific age groups, but the list on this page shows you the numbers for viewers of all ages.

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Top 20 Consolidated 28 Programs
All Free-to-Air

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Rank	Description (grouped)	Channel\Network	Consolidated 28	Consolidated 7	Overnight	000s Increase on Consolidated 7	000s Increase on Overnight
1	STATE OF ORIGIN RUGBY LEAGUE QLD V NSW 1ST -MATCH	Nine	1,606,000	1,606,000	1,598,000	0	8,000
2	BLUEY-EV	ABCKIDS/COMEDY	1,464,000	953,000	196,000	510,000	1,268,000
3	SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30	Seven Network	1,055,000	1,055,000	1,053,000	0	2,000
4	SEVEN NEWS	Seven Network	1,050,000	1,050,000	1,049,000	0	1,000
5	GRUEN-EV	ABC	785,000	746,000	591,000	40,000	194,000
6	NINE NEWS 6:30	Nine	772,000	772,000	772,000	0	0
7	NINE NEWS	Nine	764,000	764,000	764,000	0	0
8	STATE OF ORIGIN RUGBY LEAGUE QLD V NSW 1ST -PRE MATCH	Nine	750,000	750,000	749,000	0	1,000
9	HARD QUIZ S5-EV	ABC	677,000	650,000	596,000	27,000	81,000
10	ABC NEWS: USA VOTES 7PM SPECIAL-EV	ABC	641,000	641,000	641,000	0	0
11	HOME AND AWAY	Seven Network	538,000	534,000	506,000	3,000	31,000
12	THE BACHELORETTE AUSTRALIA WED	Network 10	534,000	531,000	470,000	3,000	64,000
13	STATE OF ORIGIN RUGBY LEAGUE QLD V NSW 1ST -POST MATCH	Nine	491,000	491,000	486,000	0	5,000
14	BLUEY-AM	ABCKIDS/COMEDY	480,000	452,000	414,000	28,000	66,000
15	THE PROJECT 7PM	Network 10	467,000	467,000	466,000	0	1,000
16	USA VOTES: AMERICA’S DECISION-EV	ABC	384,000	384,000	384,000	0	0
17	REPUTATION REHAB-EV	ABC	358,000	337,000	292,000	20,000	66,000
18	THE PROJECT 6.30PM	Network 10	324,000	324,000	324,000	0	0
19	10 NEWS FIRST	Network 10	318,000	318,000	318,000	0	0
20	PEPPA PIG-AM	ABCKIDS/COMEDY	303,000	273,000	220,000	31,000	83,000

© OzTAM Pty Limited 2020. 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.