ASTRA Weekly Ratings Release 2008 - Week 33 (10 August - 16 August 2008)

Subscription television continued to demonstrate its commitment to live and national coverage of a wide variety of sport through the first week of the Olympics. 224,000 watched Live: NRL Titans v Knights, 200,000 watched Live & Active: AFL West Coast v Essendon and 88,000 watched the Springboks play the All Blacks in Live: Rugby Union: Tri Nations. In entertainment programming, Project Runway Australia was seen by 182,000, the largest audience of the season for the program, while American Dad and King of the Hill also had year-to-date record audiences with 128,000 and 115,000 viewers respectively. Eastenders also had its biggest audience of the year with 95,000 viewers. Subscription TV accounted for 15.1% of all metropolitan viewing, 15.9% of regional viewing and 44.1% in STV homes (6am-12mn). (Listings attached; Friday & Saturday based on preliminary schedules).