Win The Week (Image: ABC)

ABC’s Win The Week lost ground, as predicted — 589,000 last night, down 118,000 viewers or around 16% from the 708,000 debut last week. That’s around 40% less than some of the weak nights for Hard Quiz. No matter how hard they flog it, this horse is already drooping. To rub it in even further, 139,000 extra viewers tuned in to watch Shaun Micalleff’s Mad As Hell afterwards. It averaged 728,000 with the first audience in 18 months.

In the mornings, the hour of news on the ABC from 9am easily won the slot once again with more than 450,000 viewers watching. That topped the 324,000 watching Seven’s Morning Show and Nine’s Today Extra with 224,000. The need for COVID-19 updates boosted the ABC News figures, as it did for ABC News Breakfast, which added about 20,000 extra viewers. Nine’s Today added a similar figure but the audience for Seven’s Sunrise fell around 5000 on a week earlier.

In the 5pm to 8pm news and current affairs slots around half a million extra people watched last night than a week earlier. Audiences rose for Ten News from 5pm, The Project from 6.30 to 7.30pm, Seven and Nine’s news, ACA, 7.30 and the 7pm ABC News.

Overall Nine won the night in total people and the main channels. Australian Ninja Warrior on Nine had 911,000, Masterchef on Ten 801,000, and Home and Away on Seven 1.03 million. The 374,000 for Nine’s Sydney 6pm to 6.30pm news was again the most watched program or part program anywhere last night.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (29.8%)
  2. Seven (26.9%)
  3. Ten (19.2%)
  4. ABC (15.5%)
  5. SBS (8.6%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (20.0%)
  2. Seven (18.2%)
  3. Ten (12.0%)
  4. ABC (10.5%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.2%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. Gem (4.5%)
  2. 7TWO (4.2%)
  3. 10 Bold (4.1%)
  4. 10 Peach (2.6%)
  5. ABC News, 7mate (2.5%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.842 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.741 million
  3. Nine News  — 1.497 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.404 million
  5. 7pm ABC News — 1.145 million
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.059 million
  7. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.036 million
  8. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.031 million
  9. 7.30 (ABC) — 964,000
  10. Australian Ninja Warrior (Nine) — 911,000

Top metro programs: 
1. Seven News  — 1.181 million
2. Nine News — 1.174 million
3. Seven News 6.30 — 1.122 million
4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.062 million

Losers: MasterChef,  Win The Week, ha!

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.181 million
  2. Nine News — 1.174 million
  3. Seven News 6.30 — 1.122 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.062 million
  5. 7pm ABC News — 768,000
  6. ACA (Nine) — 739,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 656,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 533,000
  9. Ten News First (ABC) — 462,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 324,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 454,000/264,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 345,000/236,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 324,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC) — 308,000/209,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 224,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) —  59,000

Top five Pay TV programs: 

  1. Alan Jones (Sky News) — 74,000
  2. The Bolt Report (Sky News) —71,000
  3. Credlin (Sky News) — 68,000
  4. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) — 68,000
  5. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 66,000