Seven’s night easily, again thanks to House Rules (1.33 million nationally, another series high for a Wednesday night). Ten’s Masterchef averaged 1.07 million nationally. The World Cup on SBS from 9.30 (Portugal-Morocco) was decided in the first few minutes with another Ronaldo goal, but 667,000 viewers watched and that dominated the night until the end around 12.30am. That is why the commercial networks were happy to have Optus stream most of the games instead of SBS. Now that SBS has all the qualifiers plus some of the finals, commercial viewing will be disrupted and SBS will make some nice dough from selling ads to desperates who thought they would have been locked out.

With another AFL game on tonight, Nine’s AFL Footy Show and Seven’s The Front Bar were broadcast last night. And it was a very easy win for The Front Bar with 357,000 national viewers and 191,000 in Melbourne, to 276,000 and just 134,000 in Melbourne for the AFL Footy Show on Nine. The Nine effort tried to trade off Australia’s presence in the World Cup – that was a fail – 175,000 were watching the Portugal-Morocco game in Melbourne.

In the regions, Seven’s 6pm News was on top again with 600,000 viewers, followed by House Rules with 527,000, Seven News/Today Tonight with 490,000, Home and Away with 414,000 and the 5.30pm part of The Chase Australia with 403,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (27.7%)
  2. Nine (24.1%)
  3. Ten (18.8%)
  4. ABC (16.7%)
  5. SBS (12.7%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (18.0%)
  2. Nine (16.1%)
  3. Ten (13.7%)
  4. ABC (12.7%)
  5. SBS ONE (10.8%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.0%)
  2. GO (3.9%)
  3. 7mate (3.1%)
  4. ONE (2.7%)
  5. Gem (2.4%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.676 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.508 million
  3. House Rules (Seven) — 1.333 million
  4. Nine/NBN News — 1.243 million
  5. Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.237 million
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.136 million
  7. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.109 million
  8. Masterchef Australia (Ten) — 1.071 million
  9. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.054 million
  10. 7pm ABC News — 1.032 million

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.076 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.018 million

Losers: Nine again – going backwards.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.076 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.018 million
  3. Nine News — 942,000
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 922,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 792,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 696,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 554,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 511,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 436,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 330,000

Morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) —442,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 353,00

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox 8  (2.8%)
  2. LifeStyle  (1.9%)
  3. TVHITS  (1.9%)
  4. UKTV, Fox Classics (1.7%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Selling Houses Australia (LifeStyle) — 81,000
  2. Selling Houses Australia (LifeStyle) — 68,000
  3. Criminal Minds (TVHITS) — 66,000
  4. AFL: On The Couch (Fox Footy) — 60,000
  5. The Bolt Report (Sky News), Nella Princess Knight (Nick Jr) — 55,000