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Seven’s night thanks to This Is Your Life — featuring Tina Arena — attracting 838,000 (still, down 86,000 from a week earlier). With Seven News on 1.391 million clearly dominating the night, the network easily won metros and nationals. The non-main channels had a total combined share of 38.0% in prime time — a good sign of how dire the main channel offerings were to viewers.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (30.0%)
  2. Nine (26.3%)
  3. ABC (20.0%)
  4. Ten (15.4%)
  5. SBS (8.2%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (21.6%)
  2. Nine (18.9%)
  3. ABC (14.1%)
  4. Ten (8.5%)
  5. SBS ONE (3.7%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.1%)
  2. ABC Kids/TV Plus (3.3%)
  3. 10 Peach (3.2%)
  4. 7mate (3.1%)
  5. Gem (3.0%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.396 million
  2. Seven News 6.30pm — 1.386 million
  3. Nine News — 1.054 million
  4. Nine News 6.30pm — 1.043 million
  5. 7pm ABC News, A Current Affair (Nine) — 896,000
  6. This Is Your Life (Seven) — 838,000
  7. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 764,000
  8. Home and Away (Seven) — 759,000
  9. Australian Story (ABC) — 746,000

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

Regional top 5: Seven News, 512,000; Seven News 6.30pm, 508,000; Home and Away, 312,000; This Is Your Life, 306,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 290,000.

Losers: Ten viewers — almost in the dark.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 884,000
  2. Seven News 6.30pm — 878,000
  3. Nine News — 784,000
  4. Nine News 6.30pm — 775,000
  5. ACA (Nine) — 630,000
  6. 7pm ABC News — 607,000
  7. Australian Story (ABC) — 514,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 473,000
  9. Media Watch (ABC) — 380,000
  10. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 337,000

Morning (national) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) —  375,000/227,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 308,000/195,000
  3. ABC News Breakfast — 274,000/181,000
  4. ABC News Mornings — 233,000
  5. The Morning Show (Seven) — 201,000
  6. Today Extra (Nine) — 138,000
  7. Studio 10 (Ten) — 36,000

Top 5 pay TV programs:

  1. F1: Brazil Race (Fox Sports 506) — 79,000
  2. Credlin (Sky News) — 51,000
  3. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 49,000
  4. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 48,000
  5. Cricket: WBBL (Fox Cricket) — 36,000