It’s meant to be one of many greatest award reveals within the nation however TV audiences have all however rejected the ARIAs.
Overnight scores have proven extra folks watched Channel Seven’s Home and Away than the awards ceremony.
Considered to be the Australian model of the Grammy Awards, the ARIAs use to carry an vital place with audiences butthat sentiment has dipped in recent times.
The ARIAs haven’t been on free-to-air since 2020. That 12 months, the published had viewers of 287,000, throughout 5 metro cities (Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Adelaide, – which was their lowest broadcast occasion.
Unfortunately, this 12 months’s scores have been even decrease.
Coming off the again of Tracy Grimshaw’s closing episode of A Current Affair, there was an expectation that the awards present would be capable of maintain an enormous viewers.
That was not the case.
ACA introduced in 554,000 viewers throughout the 5 metro cities (Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Adelaide), whereas the ARIAs introduced in 243,000.
That’s an enormous drop of greater than half the viewers who tuned in to A Current Affair, and lover even than the 287,000 that tuned into final 12 months’s ceremony streamed on YouTube.
Seven’s long-running drama sequence, Home and Away outperformed the ARIAs with 414,000 viewers for the 7pm slot; 375,000 for the 7.30pm to eight.30 double episode.
Online, social media customers slammed the awards present for a scarcity of organisation.
Throughout the published, there have been many technical difficulties together with presenters strolling off stage on the incorrect instances, microphones lacking, a number of cues misses by the co-hosts and dangerous digicam photographs.
Thankfully, for the performers there weren’t any main mess-ups, nevertheless, viewers have been left lower than impressed by the Olivia Newton John Tribute.
