Rafael Nadal (Image: AAP/Mark Evans)

Tennis again did it for Nine — Rafa Nadal’s loss to Stefanos Tsitsipas in five sets was watched by 823,000 people for more than four hours and gave Nine a clear win. Nine averaged more than 870,000 people for much of the night and that provided the clear winning margin. Ash Barty’s three sets loss from 11am was watched by a very solid 557,000 people nationally.

Seven boasted it had two top shows — the 6pm news (yes it was with an average of 1.48 million for the hour) and the “#1 commercial entertainment show” in Home and Away with 894,000. Well, that is not a ratings category, and the top entertainment show on the night was ABC TV’s Hard Quiz with 944,000 (which was made to look even better when Nadal was in full flight in the first two sets of the match on Nine).

Seven didn’t highlight how the much-hyped Ambulance Code Red stumbled to 575,000 from 7.30pm to 8.30pm and a distant third behind Nine and the ABC.

In regional markets it was Seven News with 524,000; Seven News 6.30pm, 516,000; Home and Away, 357,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 323,000; 7pm ABC News, 321,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (34.6%)
  2. Nine (23.2%)
  3. ABC (17.4%)
  4. Ten (16.5%)
  5. SBS (8.3%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (26.2%)
  2. Nine (15.57%)
  3. ABC (12.8%)
  4. Ten (8.8%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.0%)

Top 5 digital channels:

  1. 10 Bold (3.7%)
  2. 10 Peach (3.3%)
  3. GO (3.1%)
  4. 7TWO (3.0%)
  5. 7mate (2.3%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.520 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.446 million
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 1.132 million
  4. Nine News — 1.096 million
  5. 7pm ABC News —1.032 million
  6. Hard Quiz (ABC) — 863,000
  7. Home and Away (Seven) — 894,000
  8. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 891,000
  9. Tennis: Day 10 Night Session 2 (Nine) — 872,000
  10. 7.30 (ABC) — 851,000


Top metro programs: no program had a million or more viewers.

Losers: Seven

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 996,000
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 930,000
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 882,000
  4. Nine News —875,000
  5. 7pm ABC News — 710,000
  6. 7.30 (ABC) — 590,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 437,000
  8. Ten News First —370,000
  9. The Project 6.30 (Ten) —272,000
  10. SBS World News — 171,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 458,000/274,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 303,000/198,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC) — 292,000/187,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 236,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — preempted for the AO tennis
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 67,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Gogglebox Australia (LifeStyle) — 183
  2. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 87,000
  3. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 78,000
  4. Credlin (Sky News) — 76,000
  5. Alan Jones (Sky News) — 75,000