Nine won the night narrowly from Seven with Ten lifting past the ABC into third with the return of The Bachelorette (AKA the beef market mark 11) with 785,000 national viewers — 628,000 in the metros and 157,000 in the regions.
The national audience however was down 19% from 2019’s return episode figure of 971,000. That’s a big fall despite the publicity about having sisters (The Bachelorettes). Not a good first up performance given the publicity campaign.
Hard Quiz on the ABC, 920,000, The Block on Nine with 1.01 million. Shaun Micaleff’s Mad As Hell, 791,000 for the final episode of the year. It will be missed.
In breakfast, still no bounce back from the impact of daylight saving, although school holidays are having an impact. Sunrise, 399,000 nationally and 225,000 metro viewers, then Today, 272,000 and 186,000, followed ABC News Breakfast, 271,000/181,000.
In regional markets: Seven News, 507,000; Seven News 6.30, 504,000; Home and Away, 346,000; 7pm ABC News, 337,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 325,000.
Network channel share:
- Nine (26.8%)
- Seven (26.4%)
- Ten (21.4%)
- ABC (17.5%)
- SBS (7.9%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (19.6%)
- Seven (19.0%)
- Ten (14.4%)
- ABC (13.4%)
- SBS ONE (4.7%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 10 Bold (4.0%)
- 7TWO (3.6%)
- 10 Peach (2.7%)
- Gem (2.3%)
- 7mate (2.1%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.54 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.53 million
- Nine/NBN News — 1.16 million
- Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.11 million
- The Block (Nine) — 1.01 million
- 7pm ABC News — 992,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 988,000
- Home and Away (Seven) — 941,000
- Hard Quiz (ABC) — 920,000
- The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 861,000
Top metro programs:
- Seven News — 1.03 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.02 million
Losers: Weak Wednesday, apart from the ABC.
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 1.05 million
- Nine News — 1.02 million
- Nine News — 898,000
- Nine News 6.30 — 826,000
- 7pm ABC News – 656,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 708,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 654,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 524,000
- Ten News First — 355,000
- The Project 6.30 (Ten) — 319,000
Morning (National) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 454,000/261,000
- Today (Nine) – 306,000/211,000
- News Breakfast (ABC, ABC News) — 271,000/181,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 220,000
- Today Extra (Nine) – 148,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 66,000
Top five pay TV programs:
- Gogglebox Australia (LifeStyle) — 161,000
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 81,000
- The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 76,000
- Alan Jones (Sky News) — 66,000
- Credlin (Sky News) — 65,000
Leigh Sales at least tried to ask Morrison some pertinent questions last night. He walked all over her, as he does with everyone.
I read an interesting comment re Trump but it applies to Morrison too. Everything he says is about constructing an alternative reality, to prevent people seeing the truth.