Viewers are paying attention to Ten

Have You Been Paying Attention? (987,000 nationally) and Celebrity MasterChef (759,000) had the field to themselves last night and dominated the demos. They saw Ten share the most watched guernsey for the main channels with Nine, which depended on the news from 6 to 7pm — 1.21 million, ACA, 973,000 and then a fading Parental Guidance with 644,000. 

Love Island, which followed PG, could only average 254,000 and needs parental guidance and good taste to avoid, which a lot of the audience are. But there are a group of young women mostly streaming it each night (probably while studying for the HSC or equivalent or watching with the lights off). So the streaming and seven-day viewing will see that figure doubled or more.

Big Brother VIP got 471,000 last night, but streaming and overnight viewing (and seven-day) will see that rise by 30% or more based on the previous Monday night’s figures. More than 350,000 people would have streamed Love Island and/or BBVIP last night and most would have been young women.

Universe on the ABC at 8.30pm (from the BBC) was worthy, interesting but slow (like the time it took for the universe to get to where we are today).

The T20 World Cup attracted an average of 127,000 for the game from about 1am Monday to the end (after 5am Sydney time). Doesn’t sound much, but it was the biggest audience for any program from midnight onwards. And there were no streaming figures for Kayo released. 

Perhaps the weak figures on Sunday night for TV generally was just a group of cricket tragics getting an early sleep before getting up around midnight or earlier (in Queensland, the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia) to watch the final.

Regional top five: Seven News, 536,000; Seven News 6.30, 526,000; Home and Away, 360,000; Nine News 6.30, 339,000; 7pm ABC News 330,000.

Network channel share:

1. Nine (25.8%)
2. Seven (25.7%)
3. Ten (23.8%)
4. ABC (16.6%)
5. SBS (8.3%)

Network main channels:

1. Seven (16.9%)
2. Nine, Ten (16.8%)
3. ABC (12.3%)
4. SBS ONE (4.3%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

1. 7TWO (3.8)
2. 10 Bold (3.7%)
3. GO (3.0%)
4. 7mate, 10 Peach (2.6%)

Top 10 national programs:

1. Seven News — 1.471 million
2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.436 million
3. Nine News 6.30 — 1.266 million
4. Nine News  — 1.225 million
5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.038 million
6. 7pm ABC News — 998,000
7. Home and Away (Seven) — 895,000
8. Parental Guidance (Nine) — 831,000
9. 7.30 (ABC) — 821,000
10. Have You Been Paying Attention? (Ten) — 811,000

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

Losers: the night?

Metro news and current affairs:

1. Seven News 6.30 — 933,000
2. Seven News  — 925,000
3. Nine News 6.30 — 895,000
4. Nine News  — 881,000
5. ACA (Nine) — 676,000
6. 7pm ABC News — 604,000
7. 7.30 (ABC) — 531,000
8. Australian Story (ABC) — 459,000
9. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 435,000
10. Media Watch (ABC) — 337,000

Morning (national) TV:

1. Sunrise (Seven) — 438,000/254,000
2. Today (Nine) — 323,000/229,000
3. News Breakfast (ABC) — 294,000/195,000
4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 238,000
5. Today Extra (Nine) — 175,000
6. Studio 10 (Ten) —  36,000

Top 5 pay TV programs: 

1. Cricket: T20 World Cup Final, Australia v NZ (Fox Cricket) — 129,000
2. Cricket: T20 World Cup Final, Australia v NZ – Innings Break (Fox Cricket) — 125,000
3. Cricket: T20 World Cup Final, Australia v NZ (Fox Cricket) — 119,000
4. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 62,000
5. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 61,000