More Commonwealth Games on Seven, more jingoism, more gibberish from commentators — it’s an Australian sport special. Hello? Is anyone else at the games? They averaged 927,000 nationally on Seven from 7pm until 10 pm and then 464,000 until past midnight.
Hunted held up again — 811,000 nationally for Ten — as did Have You Been Paying Attention? — 808,000. Beauty and the Geek on Nine also did well with 607,000 from 7.30pm, and A Current Affair scrubbed up for 937,000 national viewers.
Network channel share:
- Seven (34.1%)
- Nine (25.0%)
- Ten (19.2%)
- ABC (16.3%)
- SBS (5.4%)
Network main channels:
- Seven (25.2%)
- Nine (18.2%)
- Ten (14.2%)
- ABC (12.5%)
- SBS ONE (2.7%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7mate (5.1%)
- 7TWO, Gem (2.9%)
- 10 Bold (2.1%)
- 10 Peach (2.0%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.544 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.459 million
- Nine News — 1.182 million
- Nine News 6.30 —- 1.150 million
- Commonwealth Games day 4, night — 967,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 937,000
- 7pm ABC News — 894,000
- Commonwealth Games day 4, evening — 864,000
- The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 838,000
- Hunted (Ten) — 811,000
Top metro programs: none with a million or more viewers.
Regional top 5: Seven News, 559,000; Seven News 6.30, 532,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 332,000; Nine News, Commonwealth Games, night, 322,000.
Losers: none. The games are a one-off.
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 985,000
- Seven News 6.30 — 927,000
- Nine News — 860,000
- Nine News 6.30 — 842,000
- ACA (Nine) — 660,000
- 7pm ABC News — 605,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 534,000
- Four Corners (ABC) — 402,000
- Media Watch (ABC) — 394,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 326,000
Morning (national) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 398,000/235,000
- Today (Nine) — 282,000/188,000
- ABC News Breakfast — 275,000/179,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 250,000
- ABC Morning News — 233,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 166,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 34,000
Top 5 pay TV programs:
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 62,000
- Credlin (Sky News) — 58,000
- NRL: 360 (Fox League) — 56,000
- AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) — 55,000
- The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 52,000
What absolute disappointment the commonwealth GAMES were on channel 7 all we got to see was swimming they did a great job however why could we see
a more balanced games between all other sports channel 7 were really biased in reporting these games but as usual money is the driver of these games we as af
as a family lost interest it seems the only excited people were the commentors