A new low for Love Island

Seven’s night overall, but the individual winner was The Bachelorette on Ten — 928,000 nationally — the most watched non-news program on the night, snaffling all the prime demos. Love Island on Nine continued to flop. 289,000 viewers is a new all time low — appropriate for a program that is a new all time low for Australian TV. The difference between the shows is the difference between a well-dressed meat market and an abattoir. Certainly The Bachelorette, with all its contrived empathy, is streets ahead of the grubbiness on Flop Island. In breakfast TV, that little bump on for Today on Wednesday faded back to 185,000 metro viewers (from 201, 000) with the national audience at 274,000.

Sunrise, with 287,000 and 473,000 respectively, won easily. In regional areas Seven’s News led with 491,000, then Seven News/TT with 470,000, The Chase Australia 5.30pm with 328,000, 7pm ABC News with 310,000 and Home and Away with 309,000.

Network channel share:

1. Seven (30.2%)
2. Nine (25.7%)
3. Ten (21.4%)
4. ABC (15.6%)
5. SBS (7.0%)

Network main channels:

1. Seven (18.32%)
2. Nine (16.1%)
3. Ten (15.5%)
4. ABC (10.2%)
5. SBS ONE (3.8%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

1. 7mate (4.9%)
2. GO (4.0%)
3. 7TWO (3.8%)
4. 10 Bold (3.7%)
5. Gem, ABC Kids/Comedy (3.0%)

Top 10 national programs:

1. 1. Seven News — 1.372 million
   2. Seven News/TT — 1.340 million
   3. Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.048 million
   4. Nine /NBN News   — 977,000
   5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 932,000
   6. The Bachelorette (Ten) — 928,000
   7. 7pm ABC News  — 921,000
   8. Home And Away (Seven) — 841,000
   9. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 828,000
   10. Grand Designs Australia (ABC) — 779,000

Top metro programs: None with a million or more viewers

Losers: Nine

Metro news and current affairs:

1. Seven News — 881,000
2. Seven News/TT — 80,0000
3. Nine News  6.30 — 793,000
4. Nine News — 749,000
5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 666,000
6. 7pm ABC News — 612,000
7. 7.30 (ABC) — 482,000
8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 415,000
9. Ten News First — Pre-empted by racing coverage
10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 251,000

Morning (National) TV:

1. Sunrise: National: 473,000, Metro: 287,000
2. Today: National: 274,000, Metro: 185,000
3. News Breakfast (ABC, ABC News) —231,000
4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 220,000
5. Today Extra (Nine) —129,000
6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 80,000

Top five pay TV programs: N/A

1. The Great Australian Bake-Off (LifeStyle) — 97,000
2. Opal Hunters (Discovery) — 62,000
3. Gold Rush (Discovery) — 60,000
4. The War Of The Worlds (Foxtel One) — 53,000
5. Love It Or List It Australia (lifeStyle) — 52,000