Nothing to say about last night except that if HardQuiz hadn’t been on it would have been a weak night indeed. It averaged 938,000 regional viewers.  Instant Hotel averaged 975,000 national viewers and did its bit for Seven. No such joy for viewers of Nine or Ten. 

The digital channels had a combined share of 33.8%. This was boosted by the Matildas game versus China on SBS Viceland, which attracted 144,000 viewers, plus 76,000 on Fox Sports — they saw a winning performance from the team and superstar striker Sam Kerr — Australia’s sports person of the year! Seven ran back to back eps of The Secret Daughter, 921,000 and 798,000. Not a good look for the future when a network does that. Tonight Ten is the place to be for Gogglebox Australia, the weekly dose of reality about TV. The Good Doc is on Seven.

In regional markets Seven won easily, again with Seven News on top with 476,000, followed by Home and Away with 423,000, Seven News/Today Tonight was third with 415,000, then came The Secret Daughter with 391,000 and Instant Hotel was fifth with 365,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (30.3%)
  2. Nine (28.7%)
  3. ABC (19.1%)
  4. Ten (14.1%)
  5. SBS (7.8%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (20.1%)
  2. Nine (19.0%)
  3. ABC (12.7%)
  4. Ten (8.9%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.6%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.7%)
  2. GO (4.3%)
  3. ABC 2 (3.9%)
  4. 7mate (3.8%)
  5. 9Life (2.9%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.410 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.313 million
  3. Nine/NBN News — 1.134 million
  4. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.076 million
  5. Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.070 million
  6. 7pm ABC News — 980,000
  7. Instant Hotel (Seven) — 975,000
  8. A Current Affair (Nine) — 967,000
  9. Hard Quiz (ABC) — 938,000
  10. The Secret Daughter (Seven) — 921,000 

Losers: Apart from hard Quiz on the ABC, a boring night.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 934,000
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 899,000
  3. Nine News — 884,000
  4. Nine News (6.30pm) — 820,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 679,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 677,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 556,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 465,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 443,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 340,000

Morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) —488,000
  2. Today (Nine) —369,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC,  170,000 + 95,000 on ABC News) — 265,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 198,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 142,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 124,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Gogglebox Australia (LifeStyle) —193,000
  2. Love It Or List It Australia (LifeStyle) — 158,000
  3. Football: Matildas v China  (Fox Sports) — 76,000
  4. Pau Murray Live (Sky News) — 52,000
  5. Paw Patrol (Fox8) — 51,000