Snore, what’s that? Oh, its Masterchef Australia (1.422 million national viewers), oh, it’s Shaun Micallef being Mad (Funny) As Hell (972,000 national viewers), and the Chasers are still at their Election Desk (956,000 national viewers). Oh well, back to sleep again. The rest of the night was a snore. Do you know how bored viewers were last night? A repeat of Seven’s middle tier program Highway Patrol averaged 1.072 million national viewers. That’s for a repeat.

In the metros Nine might have topped all people and the main channels, but Ten with Masterchef gobbled up some nice demos. In the regions, Seven was again an easy winner thanks to its domination of the most watched list. Seven News was again tops with 599,000, followed by the 5.30pm part of The Chase Australia with 494,000. Home and Away was third with 484,000 people, Seven News/ Today Tonight was fourth with 471,000 and the repeat of Highway Patrol was fifth with 448,000.

Nine scored first in the Roger Rogerson battle with Seven. A 60 Minutes special on Rogerson and his conviction yesterday in a Sydney court (along with another former NSW detective) of murder was rushed to air on Nine at 7.30 last night. It averaged 962,000 national viewers. Seven airs its special next Monday night.

In breakfast Today with 316,000 again beat Sunrise with 302,000, but Sunrise won nationally.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (26.5%)
  2. Seven (25.6%)
  3. Ten (22.5%)
  4. ABC (18.5%)
  5. SBS (6.9%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (17.6%)
  2. Seven (17.2%)
  3. Ten (16.9%)
  4. ABC (13.1%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.8%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.3%)
  2. GO (4.1%)
  3. ABC2 (3.4%)
  4. Gem (3.0%)
  5. ONE (2.9%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.676 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.491 million
  3. Nine News — 1.465 million
  4. Masterchef Australia (Ten) — 1.422 million
  5. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.248 million
  6. ABC News — 1.168 million
  7. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.165 million
  8. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.151 million
  9. Highway Patrol repeat (Seven) — 1.072 million
  10. Nine News 6.30  — 1.054 million

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.077 million
  2. Masterchef Australia (Ten) — 1.062 million
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 1.054 million
  4. Nine News — 1.053 million
  5. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.020 million

Losers: Apart from Masterchef and Mad as Hell and The Chaser’s Election Desk it was a pretty average night.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.077 million
  2. Nine News (6.30pm) — 1.054 million
  3. Nine News — 1.053 million
  4. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.020 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 965,000
  6. ABC News – 810,000
  7. 60 Minutes Special (Nine) — 677,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 642,000
  9. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 635,000
  10. Ten Eyewitness News — 520,000

Morning TV:

  1. Today (Nine) – 316,000
  2. Sunrise (Seven) – 302,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 177,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC,  103,000 + 40,000 on News 24) — 143,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 137,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 82,000

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox 8  (2.4%)
  2. TVHITS  (2.1%)
  3. Nick Jr, Sky News (1.9%)
  4. LifeStyle  (1.8%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 86,000
  2. The Simpsons (Fox8) – 82,000
  3. Family Guy (Fox8) — 65,000
  4. The Simpsons (Fox8) – 63,000
  5. Britain’s Royal Weddings (UKTV) — 59,000

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