The Score: SEN struggling for rating with AFL coverage, Triple M doing well without Garry Lyon
THE revamp of SEN has failed to capture the imagination of listeners with the station’s flagship breakfast show struggling. WHO’S BEEN A RATINGS HIT?
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THE revamp of SEN has failed to capture the imagination of listeners with the station’s flagship breakfast show struggling.
David Schwarz’s move to mornings to be reacquainted with Francis Leach, who returned to the station for his third stint, dropped again in the ratings going from a meagre 3.4 to an embarrassing 3.1.
Eddie McGuire and Triple M’s Hot Breakfast won the FM slot with a 9.5 share.
SEN had a horror survey with its football coverage taking a massive hit, particularly on Friday night’s.
Its hour-long pre-game show, ‘The Coaches Box’, which was a stunning success last year, has dropped from 7.5 to 2.4.
One of the biggest questions coming into 2016 was how Triple M would cope without Garry Lyon.
According to the ratings, they’ve done it extraordinarily well given a big spike on Friday nights and victory over 3AW on Saturday afternoon.
With Jason Dunstall replacing Lyon as the main special comments man and a rotation of former and current players next to him, Triple M has jumped on Friday nights from 6.6 last year to 10.3.
The Saturday night and Sunday slots were won by 3AW while the ABC didn’t have great numbers, with its Friday night figures down almost four ratings points.
AFL legend Kevin Bartlett continues to be SEN’s best ratings man while the new afternoon and drive programs had small rises.
Station management is hopeful the horror numbers were just a “bad book”, which can happen from time to time, but changes will be made if things don’t improve in the next survey.
AWKWARD PHONE CALL
IT’S obviously been a while since Carlton was newsworthy in South Australia.
On Monday morning the phone of former Carlton media manager Ian Coutts rang with a radio station from SA looking for an interview with a player.
When Coutts politely pointed out he hadn’t been at Carlton for more than three years, they then asked if football manager Col Kinnear was still there.
Kinnear hasn’t been at Princes Park for more than a decade.
ON THE MAP
MELBOURNE Cup-winning owner Sandy McGregor brought out two Kenyans to race in his home town of Stawell in March to lift the profile of the distance races at the Gift.
Nicholas Kiplangat Kipkoech certainly did that, bringing the crowd at Central Park to its feet with two sterling efforts from 14 metres behind scratch.
He’s certainly kicked on after his visit to Stawell and with the Rio Olympics just a couple of months away, Kipkoech sits at the top of the world list over 800m after a recent personal best of 1min43.37sec.
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