Seven’s night, but kudos to Ten for keeping Masterchef around to amuse us last night — it averaged a solid 1.286 million national viewers and was the best performed non-news program across the country. The AFL game from Adelaide on Seven featured some amazingly bad kicking from the Crows who nevertheless still won. Rake managed to surprise and get a bit serious in the second half — the jealousy of Cleaver was a nice way to bring the story around in full circle, seeing he has so blithely ignored his responsibilities.

Rake managed 855,000 national viewers, Kitchen Cabinet (a boozing, natter session) 785,000 both on the ABC. The AFL game averaged 743,000 on Seven and 7mate, plus 299,000 on Fox Footy for more than a million all up.

The NRL Footy Show managed its best audience of the year so far with its post-Origin gloat, sorry show. It had 450,000 national viewers: 250,000 in the metros and 199,000 in the regions. 128,000 were in suffering Sydney, 122,000 in gloating Brisbane (and higher than normal).

In regional markets Seven News was the most watched program with 646,000 people, followed by Home and Away with 527,000, Seven News/Today Tonight with 511,000, The Chase Australia 5.30pm with 455,000 and Nine’s RBT with 413,000

In metro breakfast, Today with 334,000 viewers beat Sunrise with 310,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (30.8%)
  2. Nine (24.7%)
  3. Ten (21.8%)
  4. ABC (16.9%)
  5. SBS (5.8%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (19.8%)
  2. Nine (17.2%)
  3. ABC (16.4%)
  4.  Ten (11.8%)
  5. SBS ONE (3.6%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.7%)
  2. 7mate (3.4%)
  3. ABC 2 (3.3%)
  4. ONE (3.2%)
  5. GO (3.1%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.718 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.452 million
  3. Nine News — 1.434 million
  4. Masterchef (Ten) — 1.286 million
  5. ABC News — 1.191 million
  6. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.164 million
  7. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Sven) — 1.161 million
  8. RBT (Nine) — 1.024 million
  9. Nine News 6.30  — 964,000
  10. ACA (Nine) — 856,000

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.072 million
  2. Nine News — 1.065 million
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 1.022 million

Losers: Rake was promising at the start, then faded, then got better, all in an hour. Goal kicking practice for the Adelaide Crows today and over the weekend: 28 behinds, Sheesh, if half of those had been straighter, the Crows would have beaten North by a mile or three.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.072 million
  2. Nine News — 1.065 million
  3. Nine News (6.30pm) — 1.022 million
  4. Seven News/Today Tonight — 942,000
  5. ABC News – 823,000
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) – 813,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 604,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 592,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 515,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 472,000

Morning TV:

  1. Today (Nine) – 334,000
  2. Sunrise (Seven) – 310,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 164,000
  4. Today Extra (Nine) — 153,000
  5. News Breakfast (ABC, 92,000 + 40,000 on News 24) — 132,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 85,000

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox Footy (4.7%)
  2. Fox 8  (2.6%)
  3. TVHITS  (1.9%)
  4. LifeStyle, UKTV (1.7%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: Adelaide v North Melbourne (Fox Footy) – 299,000
  2. AFL: Thursday Night Football on Fox  (Fox Footy) — 134,000
  3. AFL: Thursday Night Football on Fox  (Fox Footy) –121,000
  4. NRL: 360 (Fox Sports 1) – 66,000
  5. Family Guy (Fox8) — 62,000

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