Mornings on Ten (block)
Type | Weekday morning block |
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Country | Australia |
Availability | National |
Owner | Ten Network Holdings |
Launch date | 6 August 2012 |
Dissolved | 30 November 2012 |
Affiliation | Network Ten |
Mornings on Ten was a Weekday morning block on Network Ten from 6am to 12pm, which began on Monday 6 August 2012.
Background
On 30 July 2012, Network Ten axed its morning talk show program The Circle which aired 9am to 11:30am weekdays due to financial costs.[1] They also shortened early morning program Breakfast by 30 minutes to air 6am to 8.30am.
To fill spaces created by the changes, the network began showing a series of American titles including The Talk, Entertainment Tonight and The Insider. Children's program Wurrawhy moved to 8:30am after Breakfast and a reintroduced Ten Morning News airs at 10am.[1]
The Talk rates lower than the former local offering, achieving just 29,000 viewers on 15 August[2] compared to the axed show's 39,000 two months earlier,[3] and well below rival programs The Morning Show (Seven Network) and Mornings (Nine Network) which rated 200,000 and 119,000 viewers respectively.[2] It achieved just 13,000 viewers on 31 October of the same year.[4]
In November 2012, Breakfast was axed, which lead Mornings on Ten to an end.
Programming
The line-up consists of:
- 6:00am Breakfast
- 8:30am Wurrawhy
- 9:00am The Talk
- 10:00am Ten Morning News
- 11:00am Entertainment Tonight
- 11:30am The Insider
See also
References
- 1 2 Knox, David (30 July 2012). "Axed: The Circle". TV tonight. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
- 1 2 Knox, David (16 August 2012). "Puberty Blues hits sweet spot for TEN". TV tonight. Retrieved 16 August 2012.
- ↑ Knox, David (19 June 2012). "3.1m as Karise is announced as The Voice". TV tonight. Retrieved 16 August 2012.
- ↑ Knox, David (1 November 2012). "Mornings beats The Morning Show". TV tonight. Retrieved 1 November 2012.