My Kitchen Rules (2.744 million national/ 1.9 million metro/ 845,000 regional) on Seven and nothing else to compete with it meant Seven was an easy winner, again and has the week wrapped up. It was a one-program night, helped by a good 7.30 (1.085 million national/ 683,000 metro/ regional) and solid 7pm ABC1 News (1.495 million national/ 1.039 million metro/ 456,000 regional). The Biggest Loser on Ten averaged national 1.034 million/ 753,000 metro /281,000 regional. OK, but next week will be different.

Nine was very weak, as you’d expect with a TV network so contemptuous of its audience. It was beaten for second overall in Brisbane by Ten and by the ABC in Adelaide and Perth (which tells us  just how weak the Bruce Gordon-owned WIN affiliates in those cities are).

Tonight: The Elegant Knife Fighting Gentlemen on ABC1 at 9pm will be better and more interesting than the Tractor Monkeys at 8.30pm (which is a bit too derivative). Seven has My Kitchen Rules and then Last Resort (surely the last resort of this poor travel series?). Nine is full of tired repeats except for Hot Property at  7.30pm, which is pretty cool in ratings terms, despite the way some property markets are rising. Ten has Mr and Mrs Murder at 8.30pm and then The Good Wife (she never has an nice easy episode, does she?). Back to ABC1; the highlight of the night is Mad As Hell on another busy night for Shaun Micallef at 8pm.

Network share:

  1. Seven (35.3%)
  2. Nine (20.5%)
  3. Ten (18.5%)
  4. ABC (18.5%)
  5. SBS (7.1%)

Main Channels: 

  1. Seven (28.6%)
  2. Nine (14.5%)
  3. ABC1 (13.9%)
  4. Ten (13.6%)
  5. SBS ONE (6.3%)

Top five digital channels:

  1. 7TWO (3.8%)
  2. GO 3.3?%)
  3. ABC 2 (3.2%)
  4. 7mate (2.8%)
  5. Gem (2.7%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. My Kitchen Rules (Seven) – 2.744 million
  2. Seven News – 1.745 million
  3. Nine News — 1.716 million
  4. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.539 million
  5. ABC1 News — 1.495 million
  6. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.347 million
  7. New Tricks repeat (ABC 1) — 1.276 million
  8. 7.30 (ABC1) — 1.085 million
  9. The Biggest Loser (Ten) — 1.034 million
  10. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.027 million

Top metro programs:

  1. My Kitchen Rules (Seven) — 1.900 million
  2. Seven News — 1.196 million
  3. Nine News — 1.175 million
  4. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.104 million
  5. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.040 million
  6. ABC1 News – 1.039 million

Losers: Viewers who might have been watching Nine, let down again by the network’s cost saving ahead of its post-Easter break ratings surge from Sunday. 

Metro/regional: Seven won big again. End of night, end of week. Ten wasn’t as strong in regional markets as it was in the metros, but that is always the story.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News – 1.196 million
  2. Nine News  – 1.175 million
  3. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.104 million
  4. ABC1 News — 1.039 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 856,000
  6. 7.30 (ABC1) – 683,000
  7. Ten News — 658,000
  8. The Project (Ten) — 578,000
  9. Foreign Correspondent (ABC1) — 556,000
  10. Insight (SBS ONE) — 323,000

Metro Morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 354,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 332,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC1) – 67,000 + 33,000 on News 24

Top five pay TV channels: (Pay TVs share: %)

  1. Fox 8 – 2.6
  2. TV1, LifeStyle – 2.4%
  3. FX– 2.0%
  4. UKTV – 1.9%.
  5. Sky News  – 1.8%

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. The Walking Dead (FX) – 147,000
  2. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 97,000
  3. The Simpsons (Fox 8) – 91,000
  4. Family Guy (Fox 8) — 91,000
  5. Geordie Shore  (MTV) – 63,000

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