Sunrise vs Today: The ratings are in
The brekkie TV war rages on, but it seems Sunrise has yet again won the weekly battle. Newly-released OzTam figures reveal Samantha Armytage and David Koch are pulling more viewers than Today’s Karl Stefanovic and Georgie Gardner.
Today only won two of the last six days, attracting a measly 8,000 more metro viewers on Wednesday and 9,000 more on Monday. The rest of the week, however, was dominated by Channel 7, which pulled a staggering 30,000 more metro viewers than its Channel 9 rival.
The dip has only worsened since Lisa Wilkinson’s shock departure. For the majority of 2016-17, Today came out on top of Sunrise, but Lisa’s exit and Karl Stefanovic’s very public split and engagement to Jasmine Yarbrough have certainly affected ratings.
Last July, entertainment reporter Peter Ford revealed Karl “rates poorly” with female viewers because of his bitter divorce and quick jump into a new relationship with a younger woman.
“The Today show ratings are bad,” he told the Kyle and Jackie O Show at the time. “At the moment they’ve done private market research at Nine into Karl and it’s coming up that women have turned on him.”
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