Campbell Live

Marginal increase for Seven Sharp this week, up to an average audience per episode of 393,446 viewers, the second best week the show has had since launch.

Campbell Live dropped 7% on last week with an average audience of 311,192 viewers per episode.

Here is the updated graph:

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Last night, Campbell Live beat Seven Sharp for the fifth time by 362,670 viewers on TV3 to TV One’s 351,800, a difference of 10,870

Here are the number for the 14th week of ratings between Campbell Live and Seven Sharp.

Both programmes were up on last week with Campbell Live making the biggest increase by more than 6% up to an average audience of 332,236 viewers per episode compared to Seven Sharp who moved up less than 1% to 391,228 viewers.

Friday once again saw Campbell Live come within a breath of passing its TV One rival with only 1610 viewers separating them.

Friday’s rating for Seven Sharp was it’s lowest in over a month.

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It may be difficult to believe that we’ve had an entire quarter of a year worth of ratings data now in the battle for 7pm between TV3′s Campbell Live and TV One’s new format, Seven Sharp but now we do.

Both shows managed to draw slightly higher audiences last week with Seven Sharp up to an average audience of 388,228 viewers per episode while Campbell Live was up to 310,774.

For the entire period, Seven Sharp have had an average audience of 360,202 viewers per episode while Campbell Live has had 291,409.

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Campbell Live began last week with one of its highest rating episodes in recent years, topping the figures set the week before and clocking up its fourth win over TV One and Seven Sharp.  It was all downhill from there.

When Seven Sharp first hit our screens, critics panned the show and lambasted the fact that it had lost approximately 200,000 viewers in its first week, a 40% drop.  Last week’s fall by Campbell Live saw the show’s ratings drop from its high of 374,090 down to an average audience of 218,930 viewers, a fall of 155,160 and a 41% loss of audience.  Friday’s episode was also one of the lowest rating of the year.

Compared to the 12% gain Campbell Live enjoyed the week before, it was a 13% loss this time around taking the average audience per episode back to 302,442.

Seven Sharp also has a 5% drop in viewers, down to an average audience of 380,192 viewers per episode.

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JohnCampbellTV3 has released a statement responding to the criticism an Auckland judge reportedly levelled at Campbell Live regarding a story from 2011.

The story in question was about Tracy Hibberd, an early childhood teacher who was last month found guilty of forging her New Zealand Tertiary College qualification documents.

Campbell Live ran the story in 2011, prior to Hibberd’s case entering court.

Today, Judge Roy Wade is reported to have criticised John Campbell for a comment he made regarding a document that was later identified as a forgery. Continue reading »

There will be a lot smiles at Flower St this morning. While The X Factor didn’t quite manage to slam the breaks on the TV2 juggernaut MKR, they held their own and drew an average audience of 449,740 viewers, less than 5,000 behind MKR’s 454,210. It was a slightly lesser number than the 467,360 they pulled on debut.

However, when you combine the +1 channels, The X Factor picks up an additional 62,190 viewers taking their total to 511,930 giving them an end result that was 57,720 ahead. Continue reading »

Campbell Live’s average audience across the week has been hovering just below 300,000 viewers per episode.  The great week last week saw it land one of its highest rating episodes since the show began and delivered a 12% increase in viewers with an average of 341,032 tuning in each night.

Also having a good week was Seven Sharp who saw their highest ever rating for a Tuesday with an average audience of 450,390 viewers, and their second highest rating episode yet. Overall, it was a 4% increase on the previous week for TV One.

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When Paul Holmes departed TVNZ for Prime, TV3 jumped at the chance to put a new current affairs show up against the replacement, Close Up.  Campbell Live debuted with an average audience of 415,200 viewers on the 21st of March, 2005 and that record remains as the highest rating episode in the show’s history.

Fast forward to 2013 and Close Up is gone, replaced by Seven Sharp, a show that has been described as a light-hearted take on current affairs, in the hope that TV One could stem the falling viewership problems they’d been experiencing.  Then, for the first time in Campbell Live’s history, TV3 beat TV One in the 7pm timeslot.  That monumental occasion was repeated three times in the first two months.

The stars are definitely rising for John Campbell and his team.  The 30 day moving average is up nearly 100,000 viewers per episode on the start of the year and is at the highest point in the show’s history.

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Seven Sharp has once again increased its Monday night rating by an extra 7% on last week delivering an average audience of 450,390 viewers for TV One.  TV3′s Campbell Live was also up 7% on last week but was was 100,000 viewers behind with an average audience of 350,120.

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Both Seven Sharp and Campbell Live increased their average audience per episode last week.

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