{"id":263814,"date":"2025-11-05T07:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/263814\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T07:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:34:19","slug":"the-race-that-tops-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/263814\/","title":{"rendered":"The Race that tops the Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t2.08m viewers watched Half Yours take home the Cup at Flemington.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne Cup\u00a0was a winner for Half Yours and for Nine pulling a cool 2.08m viewers in National TV Audience yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s up on 2024\u2019s 1.91m. While it won\u2019t account for every person watching at parties, pubs and offices, it does include 9Now live BVOD.<\/p>\n<p>Some media may call it the biggest Race in a decade, which is technically true. However since 2024, ratings include Live \/ Catch-Up BVOD as well as Regional + Metro figures into both a Reach figure and a National TV Audience (aka average).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">2025: 2.08m<br \/>2024: 1.91m<br \/>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014- OzTAM Ratings revamp<br \/>2023: 1.110m<br \/>2022: 1.02m<br \/>2021: 1.21m<br \/>2020: 1.41m<br \/>2019: 1.32m<br \/>2018: 1.84m<br \/>2017: 1.8m<br \/>2016: 1.99m<br \/>2015: 2.07m<br \/>2014: 2.12m<br \/>2013: 2.17m<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile My Kitchen Rules toped entertainment at 1.05m then 7:30 (759,000), Taronga: Who\u2019s Who in the Zoo? (555,000), I Was Actually There (443,000) and\u00a0 Talkin\u2019 \u2018Bout Your Gen (304,000).<\/p>\n<p>Later The Rookie led with 479,000 then The Cheap Seats (389,000), End Game with Tony Armstrong (250,000) and Bump (230,000).<\/p>\n<p>Despite the arvo crowd, Seven has a very easy Tuesday win in primetime.<\/p>\n<p>Seven News pulled 1.34m for Seven then Home &amp; Away (859,000) and The Chase (593,000). Ron Iddles: The Good Cop was 193,000<\/p>\n<p>Nine News led with 1.37m then A Current Affair (1.01m) and Tipping Point (795,000). Nine News Late was 153,000. Worth noting Love Island at 296,000 outranked Bump on the main channel.<\/p>\n<p>ABC News scored 759,000. Hard Quiz (335,000) QI (156,000) and The Art Of , The Assembly (both TBA) followed.<\/p>\n<p>10 News drew 343,000 for 10.\u00a0 Deal or No Deal (256,000) then TBA: 10 News+, and Ghosts Australia.<\/p>\n<p>SBS shows were SBS World News (196,000 \/ TBA), Great British Railway Journeys ,Tell Me What You Really Think, Mastermind and The Cancer Killers, all TBA.<\/p>\n<p>Sunrise: 417,000<br \/>Today: 342,000<br \/>News Breakfast: 238,000<\/p>\n<p>National Total TV: <a href=\"https:\/\/tvtonight.com.au\/2025\/11\/tuesday-4-november-2025.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tuesday 4 November 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2.08m viewers watched Half Yours take home the Cup at Flemington. Melbourne Cup\u00a0was a winner for Half Yours&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-263814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}