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Glenn Dyer

The Voice sings up a storm for Seven

Seven’s night again with The Voice dominating the evening viewing with 1.06 million viewers nationally. The 6 to 7pm news averaged 1.47 million; Nine’s hour of news averaged 1.14 million; Home and Away averaged 800,000. 

Ten’s MasterChef struggled to 565,000 for the competition and 465,000 for the masterclass. Below average. Hard Quiz on the ABC, 766,000, and The Weekly returned to 646,000 viewers at 8.30pm.
On Foxtel Piers Morgan saw a slide to 63,000 (third on the night) from the opening night of 86,000 on Sky News. Gogglebox Australia 119,000 and Selling Houses Australia, 82,000, were ahead of Morgan.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (29.8%)
  2. Nine (27.9%)
  3. Ten (18.2%)
  4. ABC (16.5%)
  5. SBS (7.5%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (22.5%)
  2. Nine (19.6%)
  3. ABC (12.7%)
  4. Ten (12.3%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.5%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (3.4%)
  2. 10 Peach (2.9%)
  3. Gem (2.8%)
  4. 10 Bold (2.6%)
  5. GO (2.2%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.517 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.424 million
  3. Nine News — 1.170 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.114 million
  5. The Voice (Seven) — 1.064 million
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 933,000
  7. 7pm ABC News — 927,000
  8. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 857,000
  9. Travel Guides (Nine) — 854,000
  10. Home and Away (Seven) — 800,000

Top metro programs: none with a million or more viewers.

Regional top 5: Seven News, 564,000; Seven News 6.30, 520,000; The Voice, 389,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 331,000; Home and Away, 319,000.

Losers: even Netflix was dull.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News 6.30 — 905,000
  2. Nine News— 896,000
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 860,000
  4. ACA (Nine) — 666,000
  5. 7pm ABC News — 645,000
  6. 7.30 (ABC) — 477,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 407,000
  8. 10 News First — 295,000
  9. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 248,000

Morning (national) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 386,000/233,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 289,000/185,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC) — 281,000/183,000
  4. ABC News Mornings — 217,000
  5. The Morning Show (Seven) — 206,000
  6. Today Extra (Nine) — 154,000
  7. Studio 10 (Ten) — 34,000

Top 5 pay TV programs:

  1. Gogglebox Australia (LifeStyle) — 119,000
  2. Selling Houses Australia (LifeStyle) — 82,000
  3. Piers Morgan (Sky News) — 63,000
  4. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 62,000
  5. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 50,000 
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