Monday, 25 April 2016

RATINGS: Free to Air Highlights from March

Below are the news  and actuality programming highlights from the free to air channels (and a few from more popular DStv channels):
etv

  • Benefiting from its lead in of the popular WWE Raw, eNews Direct Headlines on Sunday evenings continue to average over 2 million viewers in its two minute slot at 6pm. This on the heels of the channel's desire to move the under performing weekday edition out of prime time.
  • In what was a very strong month for the independent broadcaster, no other news or actuality show made the channel's top 20 programming for the month.
MNet
  • Carte Blanche continues to be the channel's strongest regularly schedule program, with its nearly 218 000 viewers beating out The Voice South Africa for the channel's top spot.
SABC1
  • Both the Xhosa and Zulu news bulletins continue to do exceptionally well for the channel, averaging over 4 million viewers each. To put that into perspective, the only tv shows on free to air television other than on SABC1 that are beating these news bulletins are Muvhango (SABC2) and Scandal (etv).
SABC2
  • Consumer rights show, Speak Out, was the number one actuality show on SABC 2, averaging over 2.7 million viewers for the month.
  • The daily Afrikaans news bulletin averaged just over 1.6 million viewers.
  • Ayanda-Allie Paine's Visionaries Lounge, which got off to a slow start, now averages over 1.5 million viewers.
  • Daily live youth show, Hectic Nine-9, the most watched youth show in the country, averaged 1.37 million viewers for the month.
  • The recently moved Sesotho and Setswana and Sepedi news bulletin now averages 1.3 million viewers in the historically weak 6pm slot on SABC2,
SABC3
  • The daily English news bulletins continues to average just over 800 000 viewers.

Extra
  • V Entertainment on Vuzu averaged just over 70 000 viewers for the month of March, the last month featuring Denise Zimba and Shelton Forbes before the introduction of the now negatively reviewed "#Vuzu5". It is important to remember that this vewership excludes viewers watching on the DStv Premium-only Vuzu Amp channel. 

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