It was a night to forget, frankly. Nine struggled to a win in total people, despite Celebrity Apprentice (507,000 nationally) beating both Big Brother (537,000) and MasterChef Australia (660,000) to the bottom of the reality ranking list last night.
Hard Quiz on the ABC brought in 827,000, and The Weekly with Charlie Pickering, 811,000, easily won the 8pm to 9pm battle — as did 7.30, which won the 7.30pm to 8pm battle with 806,000.
Seven’s 5.30pm part of The Chase Australia was the most watched non-news program with 941,000. That tells us all we want to know about commercial TV.
Network channel share:
- Nine (27.3%)
- Seven (26.4%)
- ABC (20.0%)
- Ten (17.8%)
- SBS (8.5%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (18.9%)
- Seven (17.8%)
- ABC (14.6%)
- Ten (11.7%)
- SBS ONE (4.6%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7mate (4.4%)
- GO (3.2%)
- ABC News (3.1%)
- 10 Peach (3.0%)
- 7mate (2.6%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.601 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.465 million
- Nine News — 1.197 million
- Nine News 6.30pm — 1.138 million
- 7pm ABC News — 974,000
- The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 941,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 925,000
- Hard Quiz (ABC) — 827,000
- The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (ABC) — 811,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 806,000
Top metro programs: Seven News — 1.007 million.
Regional top 5: Seven News, 594,000; Seven News 6.30pm, 545,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 349,000; 7pm ABC News, Home and Away, 310,000.
Losers: MasterChef — oh, and yes, Big Brother, a show still 20 years out of date.
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 1.007 million
- Seven News 6.30pm — 920,000
- Nine News — 888,000
- Nine News 6.30pm — 841,000
- ACA (Nine) — 658,000
- 7pm ABC News — 651,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 583,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 365,000
- Ten News First — 324,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 255,000
Morning (national) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 385,000/232,000
- News Breakfast (ABC) — 321,000/224,000
- Today (Nine) — 283,000/183,000
- ABC News Mornings — 281,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 217,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 140,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 52,000
Top 5 pay TV programs:
- Selling Houses Australia (LifeStyle) — 86,000
- Credlin (Sky News) — 67,000
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 59,000
- The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 56,000
- AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) — 47,000
