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SBS ratings release for week 50, 2009
Man vs Wild captured 593,000 viewers in the five metro areas and 335,000 in regional Australia, according to figures from OzTAM.
The still-popular program is achieving more than double the year-to-date average audience in the Monday 8.30pm timeslot, with 526,000 metro viewers and 310,000 regional.
The second episode of new food and lifestyle program, Oz & James’s Big Wine Adventure, attracted 305,000 viewers in metro areas and 162,000 in regional.
The informative and entertaining show that guides viewers to French regions and wines lifted the timeslot’s metro audience average by 20 per cent since SBS’s new Food and Lifestyle programs launched in August this year.
Finally, Sunday’s documentary History of Scotland appealed to 447,000 metro viewers and 215,000 regional.
The top 10 SBS programs in the five metro markets for week 50 (w/c December 6) were:
| Rank | Program | Audience (000s) |
| 1 | TOP GEAR rpt (Mon) | 733 |
| 2 | MAN VS WILD | 593 |
| 3 | DESTINATION: FIFA WORLD CUP | 570 |
| 4 | DESTINATION: FIFA WORLD CUP rpt | 487 |
| 5 | A HISTORY OF SCOTLAND | 447 |
| 6 | TOP GEAR (Fri) | 423 |
| 7 | MYTHBUSTERS | 349 |
| 8 | WHY DO WE DREAM? | 329 |
| 9 | ARE YOU MY MOTHER? | 314 |
| 10 | OZ & JAMES'S BIG WINE ADVENTURE | 305 |
The top 10 SBS programs in regional Australia for week 50 (w/c December 6) were:
| Rank | Program | Audience (000s) |
| 1 | TOP GEAR rpt (Mon) | 343 |
| 2 | MAN VS WILD | 335 |
| 3 | DESTINATION: FIFA WORLD CUP | 306 |
| 4 | DESTINATION: FIFA WORLD CUP rpt | 240 |
| 5 | A HISTORY OF SCOTLAND | 215 |
| 6 | MYTHBUSTERS | 199 |
| 7 | TOP GEAR (Fri) | 188 |
| 8 | THE CIRCUIT | 179 |
| 9 | LAST CHANCE SALOON | 177 |
| 10 | WORLD NEWS AUSTRALIA LATE | 175 |
Source, metro data: OzTAM week 50, 2009 – five metro markets, Sunday – Saturday
Source, regional data: RegTAM week 50, 2009 – regional aggregated markets, Sunday – Saturday
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Sylvia Geaitani
Access Public Relations
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