Just one of those nothing nights when the 5.30pm portion of Seven’s The Chase Australia can once again be the top-rating non-news program in the nation, its 923,000 viewers ranking it seventh nationally from 5.30-6pm.
When a cheaply made quiz program that’s a local version of a foreign format (UK, in this case) does better than the expensively made local versions of foreign formats like Lego Masters, MasterChef and Big Brother) you know wised-up viewers are not all that eager to watch FTA TV … nor are they really watching pay TV.
That put it ahead (though in a different timeslot) of Nine’s Lego Masters with a solid 866,000, while MasterChef Australia stagnated with 662,000 and Big Brother fell under 600,000 to 598,000 (but no doubt will do well in the BVOD streaming figures in a week.
Network channel share:
- Nine (28.2%)
- Seven (27.2%)
- Ten (19.4%)
- ABC (15.8%)
- SBS (9.3%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (19.5%)
- Seven (18.1%)
- Ten (12.8%)
- ABC (11.0%)
- SBS ONE (5.5%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7TWO (4.1%)
- 7mate (3.5)
- 10 Bold (3.2%)
- Gem (3.1%)
- 10 Peach (2.9%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.577 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.469 million
- Nine News — 1.196 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 1.134 million
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 971,000
- 7pm ABC News — 948,000
- The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 923,000
- Lego Masters (Nine) — 866,000
- Home And Away (Seven) — 842,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 734,000
Top metro programs: none with a million or more viewers.
Regional top 5: Seven News, 580,000; Seven News 6.30, 547,000; Home and Away, 341,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 328,000; 7pm ABC News, 327,000.
Losers: just the entire night, really.
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 997,000
- Seven News 6.30 — 922,000
- Nine News 6.30 — 890,000
- Nine News — 881,000
- ACA (Nine) — 668,000
- 7pm ABC News — 621,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 491,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 391,000
- Ten News First — 287,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 268,000
Morning (national) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 393,000/226,000
- Today (Nine) — 301,000/202,000
- News Breakfast (ABC) — 279,000/181,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 242,000
- ABC Morning News — 216,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 153,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 40,000
Top 5 pay TV programs:
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 82,000
- The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 62,000
- Credlin (Sky News) — 48,000
- AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) — 56,000
- The Repair Shop Australia (LifeStyle) — 51,000