The expensively refurbished Footy Show on Nine continues its slide under Eddie McGuire. It was moved to last night at 9.40pm because of tonight’s broadcast on Seven of the first qualifying semi-final in the AFL, and so was Seven’s more modest The Front Bar, which aired for an hour from 8.30pm, and was over before Eddie appeared. The result — The Front Bar, with 177,000 viewers in Melbourne (the market that matters), lead The Footy Show fronted by Eddie on 166,000. In the five city metro, The Front Bar averaged 253,000 viewers, The Footy Show, 242,00. Nationally The Front Bar managed 337,000, The Footy Show 306,000.

Nine’s night, easily, again. Doctor Doctor provided a nice boost for Nine with 1.099 million national viewers. Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell on the ABC ended on a strong note with 1.06 million nationally and Utopia departed with 1.02 million. Both topped Doctor Doctor in the metros. In regional markets Seven News led the way with 580,000 viewers, followed by Seven News/Today Tonight with 481,000, The Block with 477,000, Home and Away was fourth with 454,000, and Doctor Doctor was fifth with 396,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (30.3%)
  2. Seven (26.0%)
  3. Ten (18.2%)
  4. ABC (17.3%)
  5. SBS (8.2%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (22.6%)
  2. Seven (17.0%)
  3. Ten (13.1%)
  4. ABC (12.9%)
  5. SBS ONE (6.1%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (3.7%)
  2. GO (3.1%)
  3. 7mate, ONE (2.8%)
  4. ABC 2 (2.5%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.539 million
  2. The Block (Seven) — 1.514 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.419 million
  4. Nine/NBN News — 1.303 million
  5. Nine/NBN News — 1.301 million
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.161 million
  7. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.106 million
  8. Doctor Doctor (Nine) — 1.099 million
  9. Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell (ABC) — 1.068 million
  10. Utopia (ABC) — 1.025 million

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.100 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.093 million
  3. The X Factor (Seven) — 1.083 million
  4. Nine News — 1.022 million
  5. Nine News 6.30 — 1.037 million

Losers: The Footy Show in Melbourne.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Nine News — 982,000
  2. Nine News (6.30pm) — 982,000
  3. Seven News — 959,000
  4. Seven News/Today Tonight — 938,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) —821,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 675,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 621,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 547,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 429,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 380,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 504,000
  2. Today (Nine) —405,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC,  157 +78,000 on ABC News) — 158,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 200,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 169,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 125,000

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox Sports More (3.2%)
  2. TVHITS  (2.4%)
  3. Fox8  (2.0%)
  4. Sky News  (1.9%)
  5. Nick Jr (1.8%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Second Cricket Test: Bangladesh v Australia, Day 3 (Fox Sports More) — 103,000
  2. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 85,000
  3. Mrs Brown’s Boys (UKTV) — 59,000
  4. Test Rugby: Kick and Chase (Fox Sports More) — 52,000
  5. Mrs Brown’s Boys (UKTV) — 52,000