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Big Brother host Sonia Kruger (Image: Seven)

Nine’s night as Parental Guidance — 730,000 national viewers — easily accounted for the weak Big Brother VIP — 477,000 on Seven — after Seven’s hour of news from 6 to 7pm averaged 1.41 million and easily accounted for Nine (1.15 million).

Seven’s Home and Away with 903,000 had more viewers than A Current Affair with 878,000, but the 7pm ABC News won the slot with 921,000.

7.30 with 705,000 for the ABC topped the first part of BBVIP, and the lightweight Greek Islands tour thingie at 8pm ended 1000 viewers short of BBVIP with 476,000. BBVIP will add viewers from streaming and from seven-day viewing, but it is a waste of TV time.

Tonight’s a big test for Ten. Can the already meek ratings for The Bachelorette go any lower (and funnily enough, even though I am well out of the demo, I don’t mind Brooke — not as plastic as others on the program or from previous series). Gogglebox Australia wraps up tonight for the year because Ten had a live soccer broadcast on the main channel tomorrow night involving the Socceroos.

And by the way, after only two nights the replacement program for Gloria Jones — Inside the News with Rita Panahi — is already looking weak, down 10,000 or more viewers on what big Al got a week earlier and before; 35,000 on Tuesday and 44,000 on Monday is well under the 50,000 to more than 60,000 Al was getting.

Regional top five: Seven News 6.30, 507,000; Seven News, 505,000; Home and Away, 355,000; Nine News, 303,000; 7pm ABC News, 301,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine, Seven (28.0%)
  2. Ten (21.3%)
  3. ABC (14.9%)
  4. SBS (7.8%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (20.2%)
  2. Nine (17.3%)
  3. Ten (14.9%)
  4. ABC (10.2%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.0%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.6%)
  2. 10 Peach (3.6%)
  3. 7mate (3.3%)
  4. Gem, 10 Bold (2.8%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.424 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.405 million
  3. Nine News — 1.154 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.151 million
  5. 7pm ABC News — 921,000
  6. Home and Away (Seven) — 903,000
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 878,000
  8. The Dog House Australia (Ten) — 799,000
  9. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 771,000
  10. Parental Guidance (Nine) — 730,000

Top metro programs: none with a million or more viewers. 

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 918,000
  2. Seven News  6.30 — 898,000
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 853,000
  4. Nine News — 851,000
  5. 7pm ABC News — 620,000
  6. ACA (Nine) — 608,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 462,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 429,000
  9. Ten News First — 282,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 260,000

Morning (national) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 430,000/244,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 332,000/230,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC) — 310,000/201,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 266,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 160,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) —  30,000

Top five pay TV programs: 

  1. Credlin, The Bolt Report (Sky News)  — 51,000
  2. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 45,000 
  3. PML Later (Sky News) — 38,000
  4. Inside the News with Rita Panahi (Sky News) — 35,000