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Nine’s night, again because of the Australian Open tennis and a fine performance by Australian Alex De Minaur who beat Pablo Cuevas in front of 850,000 people watching on Nine nationally. That saw Nine win the night in total people and the main channels from Seven.

Ten was third in total people but the ABC was third in the main channels — and by a fair margin at that.

Seven buried Wife Swap at 8.30pm (while the tennis was dragging in the eyeballs on Nine) and pulled in 524,000. It was planned to be a Married At First Sight titillation rip off but collapsed under its own pretensions. Burying it on a Thursday night up against the tennis, knowing it would be swamped, tells us Seven was under some sort of contractual or ratings related pressures schedule it. If it had been a ratings winner, it would not have been shown in a ratings wasteland.

Q&A on the ABC, 451,000 — after the Back Roads lead in averaged 727,000 at 8pm. That was a drop of 276,000 people, or more than a third. Not a good look, again.

In breakfast it was Sunrise with 407,000/268,000, ABC News Breakfast with 292,000/187,000, and Today with 292,000/197,000.

In regional markets it was Seven News 6.30 with 493,000, Seven News with 481,000, 7pm ABC News with 325,000, Home and Away with 324,000, and Back Roads with 273,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (32.1%)
  2. Seven (25.4%)
  3. Ten (16.8%)
  4. ABC (16.4%)
  5. SBS (9.2%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (23.0%)
  2. Seven (16.8%)
  3. ABC (11.3%)
  4. Ten (9.4%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.1%)

Top 5 digital channels:

  1. 7TWO (3.9%)
  2. 10 Bold (3.5%)
  3. GO (3.4%)
  4. 7mate, 10 Peach (3.0%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.38 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.36 million
  3. Nine News — 1.14 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.08 million
  5. 7pm ABC News — 1.01 million
  6. Australian Open Day Four Night (Nine) — 859,000
  7. Home and Away (Seven) — 765,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 755,000
  9. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 730,000
  10. Backroads (ABC) — 727,000

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 899,000
  2. Nine News — 892,000
  3. Seven News 6.30 — 875,000
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 845,000
  5. 7pm ABC News —688,000
  6. 7.30 (ABC) — 522,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 407,000
  8. Ten News First — 340,000
  9. Q&A (ABC) — 294,000
  10. The Project 6.30 (Ten) — 237,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 407,000/268,000
  2. News Breakfast (ABC) — 292,000/187,000
  3. Today (Nine) — 292,000/197,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 195,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — N/A — AO tennis
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 48,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Credlin (Sky News) — 63,000
  2. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 59,000
  3. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 57,000
  4. Outback Opal Hunters (Discovery) — 56,000
  5. Alan Jones (Sky News) — 51,000