Sevens Rating Release for February 20 to 26

PDF: Sevens Rating Release for February 20 to 26

Channel Seven has won the third consecutive week of official ratings , February 20 to February 26, 2011 inclusive in Queensland.

• Packed To The Rafters was the number one program of the week and Seven had 7 of the Top Ten including the first 5 programs.

• During the rolling coverage of New Zealand’s devastating earthquake, Queenslanders turned to 7 News and Today Tonight for the most comprehensive coverage of news and public
affairs.

• 7 News – 7 days (246,000 av. viewers) with Kay McGrath, Rod Young and Sharyn Ghidella won the ‘7 day’ News and beat Nine News by 33,000 av. viewers.

• 7 News – Sunday (283,000 av. viewers) with Sharyn Ghidella, Shane Webcke and Angie Asimus crushed Nine News – Sunday by a massive 105,000 av. viewers.

• 7 News – Saturday (244,000 av. viewers) with Sharyn Ghidella, Pat Welsh and Angie Asimus thrashed Nine News - Saturday by a huge 90,000 av. viewers.

• 7 News – Mon to Fri (239,000 av. viewers) with Kay McGrath, Rod Young, Shane Webcke, Pat Welsh and John Schluter beat Nine News by 10,000 av. viewers.

• Today Tonight (211,000 av. viewers) hosted by Matthew White overpowered A Current Affair by a substantial 34,000 av. viewers.

• The River boys continue to keep Home and Away (177,000 av. viewers) as the number one 7.00pm Monday to Friday program, ahead of both Two and a Half Men and The 7PM Project.

• Once again all three nights of My Kitchen Rules were placed in the top 10 programs for this week.

• Sunrise (97,000 av. viewers) hosted by Melissa Doyle and David Koch has won the breakfast timeslot and was ahead of Today by 25,000 av. viewers.

• Weekend Sunrise – Saturday (85,000 av. viewers) hosted by Andrew O’Keefe and Samantha Armytage beat Weekend Today – Saturday by a significant 41,000 av. viewers.

• Weekend Sunrise - Sunday (63,000 av. viewers) hosted by Andrew O’Keefe and Samantha Armytage was ahead of Weekend Today – Sunday by a 20,000 av. viewers.

• Great South East (152,000 av. viewers) hosted by Sofie Formica and Queensland Weekender (156,000 av. viewers) hosted by Dean Miller easily won their respective 5.30pm Weekend timeslots.

• The prime time ratings in south east Queensland for the week February 20 to February 26 inclusive:

Seven Network – 29.8%; Nine Network – 27.5 %; Ten Network – 20.2%; ABC Network – 16.9%; SBS Network – 5.6%
Seven – 22.9; 7TWO – 4.0%; 7mate- 2.9%; Nine – 19.8%; GO! – 4.5%; Gem- 3.3%; Ten – 15.7%; One – 1.3% ;Eleven – 3.1%; ABC1 –13.5%; ABC2 -1.7 %; ABC3 –0.6 %; ABC News 24 - 1.1%; SBS ONE- 4.9%; SBS TWO -0.7 %.

• Seven had 7 of the top 10 programs for the week including the top 5 programs: Top Ten programs for February 20 to February 26 inclusive for south east Queensland:

RNK Description STN Brisbane
1 PACKED TO THE RAFTERS Seven 313,000
2 MY KITCHEN RULES-TUE Seven 288,000
3 SEVEN NEWS - SUN Seven 283,000
4 MY KITCHEN RULES-MON Seven 280,000
5 SEVEN NEWS - SAT Seven 244,000
6 NCIS Ten 241,000
7 MODERN FAMILY Ten 240,000
8 SEVEN NEWS Seven 239,000
9 MY KITCHEN RULES-WED Seven 236,000
10 NINE NEWS Nine 229,000