It’s a pretty rich state of affairs when you can’t watch early-morning TV for the drumming of rain on the roof — what does this La Niña think it is? Some sort of TV judge?
Apart from Hard Quiz on the ABC (841,000 nationally) and Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell (739,000 nationally), it was a night best watching for leaks. Why Seven chose to resurrect the Novak Djokovic saga from January is beyond me.
It’s a good thing tonight’s NRL game is being played in Newcastle, on the northern (and relatively dry) edge of the swimming pool that extends from the NSW Central Coast to the South Coast, with Sydney floating in between. The AFL is coming from the “desert” that will be Adelaide Oval. Gogglebox will be on Ten, and if at least one of them isn’t sitting in a lounge room full of water…
Otherwise, it was Nine’s night with Travel Guides (992,000 viewers): the digital/social media grandchild of Getaway.
Regional top 5: Seven News, 534,000; Seven News 6.30, 521,000; 7pm ABC News, 317,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 301,000; A Current Affair, 294,000.
Network channel share:
- Nine (30.6%)
- Seven (25.5%)
- ABC (18.6%)
- Ten (17.3%)
- SBS (8.0%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (21.6%)
- Seven (17.3%)
- ABC (14.2%)
- Ten (10.8%%)
- SBS ONE (4.3%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7TWO (3.9%)
- 10 Peach (3.1%)
- Gem (2.9%)
- GO (2.8%)
- 10 Bold (2.7%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.482 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.419 million
- Nine News — 1.128 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 1.107 million
- Travel Guides (Nine) — 992,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 944,000
- 7pm ABC News — 916,000
- Hard Quiz (ABC) — 842,000
- The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 841,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 830,000
Top metro programs: None with a million or more viewers.
Losers: Too many to name safely
Metro news and current affair:
- Seven News — 948,000
- Seven News 6.30 — 889,000
- Nine News— 839,000
- Nine News 6.30 — 816,000
- ACA (Nine) — 650,000
- 7pm ABC News — 599,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 456,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 382,000
- 10 News First — 278,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 253,000
Morning (national) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 439,000/259,000
- Today (Nine) — 337,000/234,000
- ABC News Breakfast (ABC) — 319,000/205,000
- ABC News Mornings — 241,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 232,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 174,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 37,000
Top 5 pay TV programs:
- Gogglebox Australia (LifeStyle) — 111,000
- Selling Houses Australia (LifeStyle) — 105,000
- The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 56,000
- AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) — 51,000
- Credlin (Sky News) — 49,000
