Australian Survivor returned to Ten last night. Ten says its audience was up 17% on a year ago — 923,000, 716,000 in the metros and 207,000 in the regions, which is hardly anything to boast about. That was 12th nationally. The most popular non-news program last night was the second ep of Seven’s Highway Patrol with 1.04 million. The first ep was watched by 952,000 people nationally, so the average was 998,000 for the hour from 7.30pm. Seven also started airing a new reality program (in the same genre of Highway Patrol/Motorway Patrol etc) called 9-1-1 at 8.30 pm — 893,000 nationally. Ho Hum. Seven’s night, clearly.

In regional areas Seven’s night with the 6pm News on top with 559,000 viewers, followed by Seven News/Today Tonight with 468,000, then the second episode of Highway Patrol with 388,000, followed by Home and Away with 370,000, along with the first episode of Highway Patrol with370,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (28.6%)
  2. Nine (25.7%)
  3. Ten (19.9%)
  4. ABC (17.7%)
  5. SBS (8.1%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (19.4%)
  2. Nine (17.8%)
  3. Ten (14.3%)
  4. ABC (12.9%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.0%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. ONE (3.7%
  2. 7TWO, 7mate, ONE(3.5%)
  3. ABC Kids/Comedy(2.6%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.529 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.389 million
  3. Nine/NBN News — 1.284 million
  4. Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.249 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.072 million
  6. Highway Patrol – Ep 2 (Seven) — 1.045 million
  7. 7pm ABC News — 1.039 million
  8. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.035 million
  9. Anh’s Brush With Fame (ABC) — 965,000
  10. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) —962,000

Top metro programs: None with a million or more viewers – a weak night really.

Losers: Did anyone catch Australian Survivor?

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Nine News— 979,000
  2. Seven News —970,000
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 936,000
  4. Seven News/Today Tonight — 930,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 776,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 704,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 565,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 506,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 422,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 309,000

Morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 449,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 368,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) — 88,000
  2. Selling Houses Australia (LifeStyle) —67,000
  3. NRL Hall Of Fame (Fox League) — 65,000
  4. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 60,000
  5. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 58,000