List of Australian television ratings for 2004
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The following is a list of Australian television ratings
Australian television ratings
Television ratings in Australia are collected by three main organisations: OzTAM in metropolitan areas, Regional TAM in regional areas serviced by three commercial television networks, and in areas with two commercial networks, Nielsen Media Research Australia. Ratings are collected for 40 weeks...

for the year 2004.

Network Shares - 2004

Market Network Shares
ABC Seven Nine Ten SBS
5 Cities 16.9% 24.9% 29.9% 23.8% 4.6%
Sydney 16.5% 25.5% 30.0% 23.1% 4.9%
Melbourne 16.9% 23.7% 31.2% 23.9% 4.4%
Brisbane 16.2% 24.5% 31.5% 23.4% 4.4%
Adelaide 16.8% 25.1% 28.4% 25.4% 4.3%
Perth 18.7% 26.6% 25.7% 24.2% 4.8%

2004 Was a year of 'feats' for Australian television ratings:
  • The Seven Networks worst-ever share result in all markets and in the combined 5-City share.

  • For the first time since the introduction of 'People Meters' in 1991; Seven finished third behind Ten in the markets of Melbourne and Adelaide.

  • The Nine Network (Despite huge win) experienced its lowest ever 5-City share; the first time below the 30% mark. It experienced lowest ever shares in the markets of Sydney and Adelaide.

  • The Ten Network experienced its best ever 5-City share since the introduction of 'People Meters'; experienced best ever shares in the markets of Sydney, Melbourne (finishing 2nd overall), Brisbane and Adelaide (finishing 2nd overall).

  • The ABC experienced its best ever 5-City share and also best ever shares in all of the capital markets.

Most Watched Broadcasts - 2004

Rank Broadcast Date Network Audience
1 Australian Idol – The Final 21 November 2004 10 3,344,000
2 Australian Idol – Live 21 November 2004 10 2,874,000
3 Big Brother 2004: Winner Announced 26 July 2004 10 2,864,000
4 AFL Grand Final 2004 27 September 2004 10 2,796,000
5 Seven News – Sunday 15 August 2004 7 2,564,000
6 2004 Melbourne Cup: The Race 2 November 2004 7 2,471,000
7 Australian Idol 10 October 2004 10 2,380,000
8 Australian Idol 14 November 2004 10 2,374,000
9 Australian Idol 24 October 2004 10 2,356,000
10 Australian Idol 7 November 2004 10 2,313,000
11 2004 Olympics: Opening Ceremony 14 August 2004 7 2,304,000
12 The Block 2: The Auction 25 July 2004 9 2,276,000
13 46th TV Week Logie Awards 18 April 2004 9 2,274,000
14 Friends 22 November 2004 9 2,273,000
15 2004 Olympics: Day 2 15 August 2004 7 2,213,000
16 Seven News – Saturday 14 August 2004 7 2,211,000
17 National Nine News – Sunday 8 February 2004 9 2,178,000
18 Big Brother – The Final Eviction 26 July 2004 10 2,169,000
19 CSI 3 August 2004 9 2,154,000
20 Australian Idol 20 September 2004 10 2,148,000

Top Rating Regular Programmes - 2004

Rank Programme Network Audience
1 Australian Idol
Australian Idol
Australian Idol is a Logie Award-winning Australian singing competition, which began its first season on July 2003 and ended its run in November 2009. As part of the Idol franchise, Australian Idol originated from the reality program Pop Idol, which was created by British entertainment executive...

10 2,095,000
2 CSI
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...

9 1,898,000
3 Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars (Australian TV series)
Dancing with the Stars is a Logie Award-winning, Australian light entertainment reality show airing on the Seven Network and filmed live from the HSV-7 studios in Melbourne...

7 1,868,000
4 Kath & Kim
Kath & Kim
Kath & Kim is a Logie Award-winning character-driven Australian television situation comedy series. The series was created by, and is written by Jane Turner and Gina Riley who play the title characters: a suburban mother and daughter with a dysfunctional relationship...

 Series 3
ABC 1,829,000
5 National Nine News Sunday 9 1,779,000
6 Friends
Friends
Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...

9 1,716,000
7 CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....

9 1,679,000
8 CSI
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...

 Repeats
9 1,644,000
9 Law & Order SVU 10 1,640,000
10 Cold Case 9 1,619,000

Weeknight News Champs - 2004

Market 1st Ranked
Broadcast
Average ^ Peak ^ WEEKLY
WINS
2nd Ranked
Broadcast
Average WEEKLY
WINS
Sydney National Nine News 383,725 439,000 27/40 Seven Nightly News/Seven News 365,125 13/40
Melbourne National Nine News 471,000 534,000 40/40 ABC News 352,625 0/40
Brisbane National Nine News 311,750 343,000 38/40 Seven Nightly News/Seven News 228,050 2/40
Adelaide Seven Nightly News/Seven News 159,775 188,000 30/40 National Nine News 149,000 10/40
Perth Seven Nightly News/Seven News 197,550 247,000 40/40 ABC News 162,125 0/40
Winner National Nine News 1,447,375 1,592,000 38/40 Seven Nightly News/Seven News 1,281,475 2/40

Weekly Ratings - 2004

Week Network Shares Top Programs
ABC Seven Nine Ten SBS
- 6 Summer non-ratings period
7 17.2% 25.2% 30.4% 23.2% 3.9%
Nine - National Nine News Sunday
National Nine News
Nine News is the news service of the Australian Nine Network.Nine News's flagship bulletin is the nightly 6:00pm localised bulletin, produced by networked owned-and-operated stations in Sydney , Melbourne , Brisbane and Darwin alongside localised bulletins produced by the WIN-owned Nine Network...

(2,178,000)

Nine - One Day Cricket (1,872,000)

Nine - CSI
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...

(1,828,000)
8 17.2% 23.4% 31.4% 23.9% 4.0%
Nine - CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....

(1,824,000)

Nine - CSI
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...

(1,813,000)

Nine - Friends
Friends
Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...

(1,775,000)
9 17.5% 24.6% 31.0% 22.3% 4.7%
Nine - CSI
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...

(1,856,000)

Nine - CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....

(1,828,000)

Nine - Friends
Friends
Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...

(1,775,000)
10 16.6% 24.4% 32.4% 22.1% 4.5%
Nine - CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....

(2,049,000)

Nine - CSI
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...

(1,770,000)

Nine - 60 Minutes (1,740,000)
11 18.3% 23.6% 30.3% 23.5% 4.3%
Nine - CSI
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...

(2,052,000)

Nine - CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....

(1,797,000)

Nine - Friends
Friends
Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...

(1,768,000)
12 18.6% 24.2% 30.4% 22.2% 4.7%
Nine - Friends
Friends
Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...

(1,950,000)

Nine - CSI
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...

(1,895,000)

Ten - Malcolm in the middle
Malcolm in the Middle
Malcolm in the Middle is an American television sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Network. The series was first broadcast on January 9, 2000, and ended its six-and-a-half-year run on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons and 151 episodes...

(1,797,000)
13 19.1% 24.0% 30.4% 22.1% 4.4%
  Nine - CSI
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...

(1,939,000)

  Nine - Friends
Friends
Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...

(1,858,000)

  Nine - National Nine News
National Nine News
Nine News is the news service of the Australian Nine Network.Nine News's flagship bulletin is the nightly 6:00pm localised bulletin, produced by networked owned-and-operated stations in Sydney , Melbourne , Brisbane and Darwin alongside localised bulletins produced by the WIN-owned Nine Network...

 Sunday
(1,663,000)

  Nine - Without A Trace
Without a Trace
Without a Trace is an American television drama which originally ran on CBS from September 26, 2002 to May 19, 2009. The series was set in New York City and concerned a fictitious FBI Missing Persons Unit.-Premise:...

(1,634,000)

  Nine - 60 Minutes
60 Minutes
60 Minutes is an American television news magazine, which has run on CBS since 1968. The program was created by producer Don Hewitt who set it apart by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation....

(1,619,000)
14 17.7%
S 18.0
M 17.5
T 16.1
W 16.9
T 11.5
F 21.8
S 22.5
23.5%
S 24.2
M 24.9
T 25.3
W 22.6
T 22.5
F 23.4
S 21.2
31.6%
S 31.8
M 29.1
T 30.7
W 35.4
T 34.4
F 34.1
S 25.8
22.8%
S 22.4
M 24.2
T 23.7
W 21.2
T 26.4
F 16.8
S 24.8
4.3%
S 3.5
M 4.3
T 4.2
W 3.8
T 5.1
F 3.9
S 5.7

  Nine - CSI
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...

(1,939,000)

  Nine - 60 Minutes
60 Minutes
60 Minutes is an American television news magazine, which has run on CBS since 1968. The program was created by producer Don Hewitt who set it apart by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation....

(1,844,000)

  Nine - Olympic Swim Team Trials Thursday (1,835,000)

  Nine - National Nine News
National Nine News
Nine News is the news service of the Australian Nine Network.Nine News's flagship bulletin is the nightly 6:00pm localised bulletin, produced by networked owned-and-operated stations in Sydney , Melbourne , Brisbane and Darwin alongside localised bulletins produced by the WIN-owned Nine Network...

 Sunday
(1,817,000)

  Nine - Olympic Swim Team Trials Wednesday (1,745,000)

  Nine - Getaway
Getaway
Getaway is Australia's longest-running and most popular holiday and travel television programme. Debuting on 14 May 1992, it is currently broadcast on the Nine Network and TLC...

(1,697,000)

  Nine - CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....

(1,653,000)

  Ten - Law and Order SVU (1,630,000)

  Nine - McLeod's Daughters
McLeod's Daughters
McLeod's Daughters is a Logie award-winning Australian drama series that aired on the Nine Network from 2001 to 2009. It tells the story of two sisters, Claire and Tess McLeod, who are reunited after they inherit the family farm...

(1,582,000)

  Nine - Backyard Blitz
Backyard Blitz
Backyard Blitz was an Logie Award winning Australian lifestyle and DIY television program that aired on the Nine Network between 2000 through to 2007 before its cancellation...

(1,552,000)
15 18.9%
S 18.8
M 18.2
T 15.8
W 16.9
T 12.2
F 19.5
S 28.1
23.3%
S 22.2
M 26.4
T 27.5
W 23.5
T 23.3
F 24.8
S 14.6
31.1%
S 33.3
M 27.1
T 30.9
W 32.7
T 34.3
F 33.3
S 23.9
22.1%
S 21.6
M 23.2
T 21.6
W 22.8
T 24.0
F 18.3
S 27.6
4.6%
S 4.0
M 5.1
T 4.1
W 4.0
T 6.2
F 4.1
S 5.8

  Nine - National Nine News
National Nine News
Nine News is the news service of the Australian Nine Network.Nine News's flagship bulletin is the nightly 6:00pm localised bulletin, produced by networked owned-and-operated stations in Sydney , Melbourne , Brisbane and Darwin alongside localised bulletins produced by the WIN-owned Nine Network...

 Sunday
(1,955,000)

  Nine - 60 Minutes
60 Minutes
60 Minutes is an American television news magazine, which has run on CBS since 1968. The program was created by producer Don Hewitt who set it apart by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation....

(1,822,000)

  Nine - Backyard Blitz
Backyard Blitz
Backyard Blitz was an Logie Award winning Australian lifestyle and DIY television program that aired on the Nine Network between 2000 through to 2007 before its cancellation...

(1,785,000)

  Nine - CSI
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...

(1,704,000)

  Nine - Location Location (1,547,000)

  Nine - Survivor: All-Stars
Survivor: All-Stars
Survivor: All-Stars is the eighth season of the United States reality show Survivor. It was filmed in 2003 and debuted in the United States on CBS on February 1, 2004 after Super Bowl XXXVIII. It was set on the Pearl Islands of Panama, where the previous Survivor: Pearl Islands had just finished...

(1,523,000)

  Seven - The Great Outdoors (1,484,000)

  Nine - Friends
Friends
Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...

(1,483,000)

  Nine - Getaway
Getaway
Getaway is Australia's longest-running and most popular holiday and travel television programme. Debuting on 14 May 1992, it is currently broadcast on the Nine Network and TLC...

(1,467,000)

  Nine - National Nine News
National Nine News
Nine News is the news service of the Australian Nine Network.Nine News's flagship bulletin is the nightly 6:00pm localised bulletin, produced by networked owned-and-operated stations in Sydney , Melbourne , Brisbane and Darwin alongside localised bulletins produced by the WIN-owned Nine Network...

Weeknights
(1,442,000)
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