Wednesday, 8 February 2017

RATINGS: January 2017 news and actuality free to air highlights

Below are the viewership figures for the free to air news bulletins in January:

  • Xhosa news (SABC1, 7pm): 3,95 million 
  • Zulu news (SABC1, 7pm): 3.86 million
  • Afrikaans news (SABC2, 7:30pm): 2.11 million 
  • eNews Diect Headlines (etv, 6pm Sundays): 2.07 million
  • Multilingual news (SABC2, 6pm): 1.80 million
  • English News (SABC3, 6:30pm): 719 951
Actuality highlights:
  • Speak Out (SABC2, 9:30pm Thursday):  3.10 million
  •  Zwa Maramani (SABC2, 8pm, Tuesday): 2.79 million
  • Ngula Yavutivi (SABC2, 8pm, Tuesday); 1.72 million


Stray observations:

  • The announcement of the matric results on SABC1 did quite well, attracting 3.73 million viewers on average over its 69 minute broadcast.
  • Not one AFCON match made SABC1's top 20 broadcasts. In addition, viewers finding that their shows were displaced tuned in elsewhere with quite a few competing shows seeing spikes in their viewership as viewers turn away from Afcon. These include 7de Laan who had a peak viewership of 2.7 million, up greatly from the 1.6 million peak a month earlier.
    Also, as seen above, news bulletins airing on channels other than SABC1 did very well compared to standard viewership.
    But perhaps  the biggest loss SABC1 suffered as a result of AFCON was the massive void left by Generations not airing at 8pm which created a free for all for other channels who even saw some shows doubling viewership in that slot.

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