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Television ratings

Glenn Dyer vs. Channel Nine

The Australian / Monday, 14 December 2009

Is Crikey’s TV ratings reporter Glenn Dyer a “Nine-hater”, with a bias towards Channel Seven? That’s what The Oz and ACA’s Leila McKinnon seem to think.

The White House boosts Fox News’ ratings

Business Insider / Wednesday, 28 October 2009

All the attention the White House is giving to Fox News on other news channels seems to be backfiring: the network’s ratings have been soaring even higher since Obama officials started slagging it off in the media.

NRL Grand Final out-rates the AFL

Crikey / Glenn Dyer / Monday, 5 October 2009

For the second time in three years, the NRL Grand Final has out-rated the AFL’s Grand Final, with 3.49 million viewers tuning in for the big game between Melbourne Storm and the Parramatta Eels.

Nine dances its ratings away

Crikey / Glenn Dyer / Thursday, 23 July 2009

The Nine Network continues to give Australian TV viewers turkeys — and it’s not even Christmas yet.

MasterChef plates up the biggest ratings ever

Crikey / Glenn Dyer / Monday, 20 July 2009

MasterChef set a record last night many in the Australian media thought they’d never see: a Free-To-Air TV program rating its socks off.

Channel Ten cooks up a big year in ratings

Crikey / Glenn Dyer / Monday, 13 July 2009

In its toughest year financially since the 1990s when it was bailed out of bankruptcy, Ten is having its one of its best years ever on the screen.

Busting the small-screen myths

The Sun-Herald / Monday, 6 July 2009

Network TV is dead and Australians prefer US dramas and comedies to anything home grown — this is the conventional wisdom on Aussie TV. But the TV ratings for 2009 so far tell a very different story.