SBS’s night — 2.064 million watched Australia draw with Denmark in their World Cup qualifier (did Princess Mary watch too?). That was down on the 2.13 million who watched the Australia-France game last Saturday night. Seven had more viewers in total people because of the 6pm-7pm audience for the news. SBS creamed the demographics and the main channels easily. Seven, Nine and Ten were ignored from 9pm onwards when SBS started its coverage until the game ended well after midnight.

Support last night was strongest among young viewers where SBS had a 34.7% share in 16 to 39s, compared with a 30.8% share in 18 to 49s and a 29.8% share in 25 to 54. It was top in the metros with more than 1.65 million people, but not so popular in the regions where it was third with 409,000. The AFL match between West Coast and Essendon had 682,000 viewers on Seven and 218,000 on Foxtel. Masterchef on ten managed 1.09 million before the World Cup game started.

In the regions Seven’s 6pm News was on top with 540,000, followed by Seven News/Today Tonight with 471,000, the Australia-Denmark World Cup game with 409,000, then Home and Away with 384,000 and the 5.30pm part of The Chase Australia with 352,000

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (26.7%)
  2. SBS (25.2%)
  3. Nine (16.2%)
  4. Ten (19.0%)
  5. ABC (18.6%)

Network main channels:

  1. SBS ONE (23.4%)
  2. Seven (16.0%)
  3. Nine (12.7%)
  4. Ten (12.3%)
  5. ABC (8.8%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate (5.0%)
  2. 7TWO (3.6%)
  3. GO (3.0%)
  4. ABC Kids/Comedy, ONE (2.2%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. World Cup: Australia v Denmark (SBS) — 2.064 million
  2. Seven News  — 1.471million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.381 million
  4. Nine/NBN News — 1.288 million
  5. Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.216 million
  6. Masterchef Australia — 1.099 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.073 million
  8. Home and Away (Seven) — 985,000
  9. 7pm ABC News — 962,000
  10. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 937,000

Top metro programs: 

  1. World Cup: Australia v Denmark (SBS) — 1.655 million

Losers: No one, but the soccer disrupted the night.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News —931,000
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight —910,000
  3. Nine News — 904,000
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 885,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 748,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 657,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 515,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 495,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 412,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 349,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 419,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 335,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: West Coast v Essendon (Fox Footy) — 218,000
  2. AFL:Thursday Night Footy on Fox (Fox Footy) — 96,000
  3. Aussie gold Hunters (Discovery) — 75,000
  4. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 62,000
  5. Selling Houses Australia (LifeStyle) — 57,000