Seven’s night in metro and regional markets. Ten did very well in the demos thanks to The Bachelor and Offspring — bodice-ripping TV — especially among female viewers. Men though liked Gruen.

Gruen was OK; more of the same. The Katering Show lived up to the hype. Gruen ended up the third-most watched national program with 1.316 million viewers (954,000 metro/361,000 regional viewers).

The meat market (aka The Bachelor) had 1.127 million national viewers — 819,000 metro and 308,000 regional viewers. Offspring had 1.109 million national viewers — 783,000 metro and 326,000 regional viewers.

Today won metro breakfast yesterday — 303,000 to Sunrise’s 284,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (26.8%)
  2. Nine (24.7%)
  3. Ten (22.5%)
  4. ABC (19.9%)
  5. SBS (6.1%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (17.8%)
  2. Nine (16.5%)
  3. Ten (16.1%)
  4. ABC (13.8%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.2%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.4%)
  2. GO (4.3%)
  3. ABC 2 (3.7%)
  4. ONE (3.5%)
  5. 7mate (3.1%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.722 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.5038 million
  3. Gruen (ABC) — 1.316 million
  4. Nine News — 1.315 million
  5. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.230 million
  6. 7pm ABC News — 1.216 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.194 million
  8. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.156 million
  9. The Bachelor (Ten) — 1.10827 million
  10. The Force (Seven) — 1.118 million

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.094 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.002 million

Losers: More choice than on Tuesday night (and tonight and tomorrow night — except for the sport and the start of the games).

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.094 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.002 million
  3. Nine News (6.30pm) — 989,000
  4. Nine News — 968,000
  5. Gruen (ABC) — 954,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 844,000
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) – 826,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 725,000
  9. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 683,000
  10. Ten Eyewitness News — 508,000
  11. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 458,000

Morning TV:

  1. Today (Nine) – 303,000
  2. Sunrise (Seven) – 284,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 179,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC,  100,000 + 46,000 on News 24) — 146,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 113,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 79,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. The Recruit (Fox8) — 102,000
  2. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 85,000
  3. The Simpsons (Fox8) – 79,000
  4. Family Guy (Fox8) — 67,000
  5. The Day Henry Met (Nick Jr) — 65,000

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