Packed To The Rafters
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THE TRIBAL MIND ARCHIVE 2013: The TV Australia loved
David Dale The most watched programs of 2013 and the most watched programs of all time, based on research by OzTAM and Nielsen, compiled for The Tribal Mind by David Dale, updated to June, 2013.
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THE RATINGS RACE: Week 9, when 176,000 liked Josh Thomas
David Dale How Australia watched in the week ending March 3
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THE RATINGS RACE: Week 10, when Seven news struggled in Sydney and Melbourne
David Dale How Australia watched TV in the week ending March 9.
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THE RATINGS RACE: Week 7
David Dale How Australia watched in the week ending February 16, when Masterchef: The Professionals bingled down to half a million while My Kitchen Rules soared above 2 million.
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THE RATINGS RACE: Week 8, when The Block beat Home and Away, Today beat Sunrise
David Dale Ten has the best shows of the moment, but nobody's noticed. How Australia watched in the week ending February 23.
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THE RATINGS RACE: Week 5, when My Kitchen Rules creamed MasterChef
David Dale How Australia watched in the week ending February 2. Australia's Abba addiction won the ABC its biggest audience for the year so far, and The Doctor Blake Mysteries was a surprise hit
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THE RATINGS RACE: Week 6
David Dale Even with new contestants, and even on traditionally slow Thursday, My Kitchen Rules still pulls a huge crowd. How Australia watched in the week ending February 9.
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THE RATINGS RACE: A year of timeshifting desperately
David Dale How Australia watched television during 2012, plus how we watched in week 49, when Annabel Crabb was bigger than Jesus.
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WHO WE ARE Finally, we know what is Australia's national sport
David Dale Is it cricket, tennis, swimming, or one of the permutations of football? Or could it be cooking, renovating, or FX-fighting? No, it's something else.
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THE RATINGS RACE: Week 34
David Dale The ABC's main audience is the kind that stays home on Saturday night. So what does the ABC provide? Repeats of New Tricks and repeats of Poirot. Such lazy programming.
WHO WE ARE: How Phoebe, Gabrielle, Rachel and Bree reflected the real Australia
David Dale Australians loved Friends and Desperate Housewives much more than Americans did, because we saw ourselves in them.
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THE ARCHIVE: Australia's favourite TV shows
David Dale The most watched programs of the 20th and 21st century, compiled by David Dale and based on data from OzTAM and ACNielsen, last updated December 31, 2012.
Triumphs and embarrassments: How Australia watched television in 2011
David Dale Why did millions wilfully shorten their lives by sticking with old media? Downton Abbey, The X-Factor, Paper Giants, The Block, Underbelly, The Big Bang Theory ...
THE RATINGS RACE: Week 44
David Dale Updated daily, this is how Australians entertained themselves in the week ending October 29..
THE RATINGS RACE: Week 43
David Dale Pay TV sets a viewing record with the rugby. Or, look at how many viewers didn't trust Channel Nine.
THE RATINGS RACE: Week 42
David Dale When a network chooses Friday night to schedule new episodes of a once-successful US series, clearly that network thinks the show has jumped the shark. Look at how the new House performed on Friday.
THE RATINGS RACE: Week 41
David Dale Car racing and posh rugby. Just when you hoped programming could return to normal, the networks found more sport to clutter their schedules.
THE RATINGS RACE: Week 39
David Dale Look at the difference in our audience chart for Friday night between the AFL and the rugby.
THE RATINGS RACE: Week 38
David Dale Monroe and Doctor Who have sunk to embarrassingly low audience levels, but they might recover once the biffo and aerial pingpong is out of the way.
THE RATINGS RACE: Week 37
David Dale On Friday, SBS explained the orgasm, but Australians preferred the footy. It just shows we've got our priorities right. And anyway, the orgasm was a repeat -- had one, had 'em all.
