Tennis won again last night, and it’s also looking likely this evening with Ash Barty playing Madison Keys in the first of the two women’s semi finals (on the same night — at last some decent programming for women in a Grand Slam).
Before that match, Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott plays Sam Schroder of the Netherlands in the men’s quad singles final, and before that Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nick Kyrgios play a men’s doubles semi final.
Last night’s long match between Daniil Medvedev of Russia and Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada was the best match of the Open so far — five sets over more than four hours. That attracted more than 850,000 people from 7pm to well after 11.30pm (prime time ends at 10.30pm).
So it was Nine’s night easily, as Australians showed they will watch non-Australians playing thrilling tennis. But tonight they will flock to Nine for Barty’s game just after 7pm and if she wins, will return on Saturday night for the final.
Regional Top 5: Seven News, 489,000; Seven News 6.30, 460,000; Nine News, 338,000; Nine News 6.30, 322,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 267,000.
Network channel share:
- Nine (39.0%)
- Seven (24.7%)
- Ten (18.79%)
- ABC (11.6%)
- SBS (6.1%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (30.6%)
- Seven (16.7%)
- Ten (13.0%)
- ABC (8.7%)
- SBS ONE (4.4%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7TWO (3.9%)
- GO (3.3%)
- 7mate (2.8%)
- 10 Bold (2.7%)
- Peach (2.4%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.377 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.314 million
- Nine News — 1.279 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 1.190 million
- 2022 Australian Open Tennis, Day 10, Night Session 2 (Nine) — 968,000
- 2022 Australian Open Tennis, Day 10, Night (Nine) — 903,000
- 7pm ABC News — 872,000
- The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 717,000
- 2022 Australian Open Tennis, Day 10, Late (Nine) — 706,000
- I’m A Celebrity… (Ten) — 698,000
Top metro programs: none with a million or more viewers.
Losers: it’s summer, Nine has the tennis for the next fortnight, so no TV losers — and it was Invasion Day as well.
Metro news and current affairs:
- Nine News —941,000
- Seven News — 888,000
- Nine News 6.30 — 867,000
- Seven News 6.30 — 854,000
- 7pm ABC News — 554,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 392,000
- 10 News First — 352,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 231,000
- SBS World News — 118,000
Morning (National) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 397,000/231,000
- Today (Nine) — 325,000/211,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 284,000
- ABC News Breakfast (ABC) — 233,000/159,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — pre-empted
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 49,000
Top five pay TV programs:
- BBL: Challenger: Sixers vs Striker (Fox Cricket) — 177,000
- BBL: Challenger: Sixers vs Striker (Fox Cricket) — 163,000
- BBL: Between The Innings (Fox Cricket) — 138,000
- BBL Post-Game (Fox Cricket) — 84,000
- BBL Pre-Game (Fox Cricket) — 60,000
