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:
- Seven (30.0%)
- Nine (26.3%)
- ABC (20.0%)
- Ten (15.4%)
- SBS (8.2%)
Network main channels:
- Seven (21.6%)
- Nine (18.9%)
- ABC (14.1%)
- Ten (8.5%)
- SBS ONE (3.7%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7TWO (4.1%)
- ABC Kids/TV Plus (3.3%)
- 10 Peach (3.2%)
- 7mate (3.1%)
- Gem (3.0%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.396 million
- Seven News 6.30pm — 1.386 million
- Nine News — 1.054 million
- Nine News 6.30pm — 1.043 million
- 7pm ABC News, A Current Affair (Nine) — 896,000
- This Is Your Life (Seven) — 838,000
- The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 764,000
- Home and Away (Seven) — 759,000
- 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:
- Seven News — 884,000
- Seven News 6.30pm — 878,000
- Nine News — 784,000
- Nine News 6.30pm — 775,000
- ACA (Nine) — 630,000
- 7pm ABC News — 607,000
- Australian Story (ABC) — 514,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 473,000
- Media Watch (ABC) — 380,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 337,000
Morning (national) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 375,000/227,000
- Today (Nine) — 308,000/195,000
- ABC News Breakfast — 274,000/181,000
- ABC News Mornings — 233,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 201,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 138,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 36,000
Top 5 pay TV programs:
- F1: Brazil Race (Fox Sports 506) — 79,000
- Credlin (Sky News) — 51,000
- The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 49,000
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 48,000
- Cricket: WBBL (Fox Cricket) — 36,000
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