A very bad night for Ten with the debut of A League Of Their Own, which added its name to the growing list of flops from the current network management team.  But while that was a terrible result, Seven can’t be all that happy about its debutante Million Dollar Minute. While it did well, with 1.205 million national/ 811,000 metro/ 394,000 regional viewers, and boosted the Seven News audience well past 2 million viewers nationally, it didn’t help in Sydney or Melbourne where Nine News again won big.

Nine News had 411,000 viewers in Sydney to Seven’s 314,000 and in Melbourne Nine News had 451,000 viewers and Seven News had 362,000. Million Dollar Minute provided a small boost for Seven News in Sydney and Melbourne, but the gaps to Nine are very, very large. In fact the biggest boost came in Perth where Seven’s News beat Nine’s struggling bulletin by a massive 194,000 viewers. Boosting the national figures and audiences in markets such as Perth and Adelaide is not what Seven wants, it wants to boost its weak news bulletin in Sydney and Melbourne.

The ABC was very solid with Australian Story (1.511 million national/ 983,000 metro/ 528,000 regional viewers). An excellent episode that got the good figures it deserved, and once again showed up the high profile 60 Minutes and Sunday Night in telling difficult stories well. Q&A was better for the end of the election and the absence of mainstream politicians (except for the Queensland Greens Senator Larissa Waters, who couldn’t avoid politicking instead of joining in the debate) — the 1.214 million national viewers on ABC1 and News24 was proof of the high level of interest and ABC1 easily won the timeslot.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (30.9%)
  2. Nine (27.6%)
  3. ABC (21.4%)
  4. Ten (15.4%)
  5. SBS (4.8%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (23.1%)
  2. Nine (20.6%)
  3. ABC1 (15.9%)
  4. Ten (9.78)
  5. SBS2 ONE(3.7%)

Top digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO  (4.3%)
  2. GO (3.9%)
  3. 7mate (3.4%)
  4. Eleven, ABC2 (3.2%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. The X Factor Results (Seven) — 2.180 million
  2. Seven News — 2.132 million
  3. Nine News — 1.964 million
  4. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.664 million
  5. Australian Story (ABC 1) — 1.511 million
  6. ABC News — 1.469 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.387 million
  8. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.374 million
  9. 7.30 (ABC1) — 1.345 million
  10. Big Brother (Nine) — 1.338 million

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.419 million
  2. The X Factor Results (Seven) — 1.400 million
  3. Nine News — 1.331 million
  4. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.166 million
  5. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.088 million
  6. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.047 million

Losers: Ten, again. How long can this round of failures continue?Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.419 million
  2. Nine News — 1.331 million
  3.  A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.166 million
  4. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.088 million
  5. Australian Story (ABC 1) — 983,000
  6. ABC News — 975,000
  7. Q&A (ABC1, 705,000, 102,000 News24) — 807,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC1) — 891,000
  9. Four Corners (ABC1) — 766,000
  10. Media Watch (ABC1) — 690,000

Metro morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 383,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 319,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC1 74,000 + 35,000 on News24) — 109,000

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox 8 (2.4%)
  2. LifeStyle, TV1 (2.3%)
  3.  A&E, Fox Footy, Sky News (1.7%)
  4. Foxtel Movies, UKTV (1.6%)
  5. Fox Classics  (1.5%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: All Australian Awards (Fox Footy) – 135,000
  2. AFL; 360 (Fox Footy) – 113,000
  3. AFL On The Couch (Fox Footy) – 83,000
  4. Good Luck Charlie  (Disney) – 66,000
  5. The Simpsons (Fox 8) – 62,000

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