Round and round they go… and where the rabbiting stops nobody knows (or cares)

It was Nine’s night from Seven, Ten and the ABC. 

Gogglebox Australia was again the entertainment with 877,000 national viewers. Q&A averaged 419,000 and just in front of Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed on SBS which was very similar to watching Q&A: talking heads rabbiting on about the reopening the country. Round and round went the ground radar and other gizmos — but at least something was found at Stonehenge. On Q&A agreement was postponed to another week, month or year. All very circular.

In breakfast, Today continues to eat away at Sunrise’s lead: in the metros it was just 6000 behind yesterday and less than 80,000 nationally. It was more than 100,000 behind nationally in early September.

Collectively well over 1.1 million people are tuning in to Sunrise, Today and News Breakfast at the moment — and that’s probably closer to the real figure given that on normal workdays the audience turns over as people come and go for work, school and exercise. But with lockdowns in Sydney, Melbourne and the ACT, much of the audience is anchored at home. Today said it won Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

For the weekend there may or may not be an NRL grand final — anything could be on TV on Sunday night.

Breakfast: Sunrise, 463,000 nationally and 279,000 metro; Today, 386,000 and 273,000; News Breakfast, 331,000 and 220,000 metro.

Regional top five: Seven News, 569,000; Seven News 6.30, 558,000; Home and Away, 369,000, Nine News, 367,000; 7pm ABC News, 361,000.

Network channel share:

1. Nine (27.9%)
2. Seven (25.4%)
3. Ten (20.1%)
4. ABC (17.1%)
5. SBS (9.4%)

Network main channels:

1. Nine (19.6%)
2. Seven (17.9%)
3. Ten (13.9%)
4. ABC (11.7%)
5. SBS ONE (5.5%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

1. 7TWO (3.9%)
2. 10 Bold (3.0%)
3. ABC Kids/Plus (2.8%)
4. 10 Peach (2.7%)
5. GO (2.5%)

Top 10 national programs:

1. Seven News — 1.634 million
2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.595 million
3. Nine News  — 1.410 million
4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.334 million
5. 7pm ABC News — 1.083 million
6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.019 million
7. Home and Away (Seven) — 947,000
8. Gogglebox Australia (Ten), Home and Away — late (Seven) — 877,000
9. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 869,000

Top metro programs: 

1. Seven News — 1.065 million
2. Nine News — 1.037 million
3. Seven News 6.30 — 1.037 million

Losers: so many…

Metro news and current affairs:

1. Seven News — 1.065 million
2. Nine News  — 1.043 million
3. Seven News 6.30 — 1.037 million
4. Nine News 6.30 —981,000
5. 7pm ABC News — 722,000
6. ACA (Nine) — 716,000
7. 7.30 (ABC) — 571,000
8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 444,000
9. Foreign Correspondent (ABC) — 430,000
10. Ten News First (Ten) —353,000

Morning (national) TV:

1. Sunrise (Seven) — 463,000/279,000
2. Today (Nine) — 386,000/273,000
3. News Breakfast (ABC) — 331,000/2201,000
4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 302,000
5. Today Extra (Nine) — 232,000
6. Studio 10 (Ten) —  51,000

Top five pay TV programs:

1. Alan Jones, Paul Murray (Sky News) — 79,000
2. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 72,000
3. Credlin (Sky News) — 68,000
4. AM Agenda, Newsday (Sky News) — 55,000