Australian cricketer Marnus Labuschagne during the Second Test between Australia and the West Indies (Image: AAP/Matt Turner)

Seven’s night because of the second (day-night pink ball test) against the Windies from Adelaide with a 671,000 national average — the audience average again didn’t top 700,000 for the third and prime time session. It averaged a further 222,000 on Fox Cricket.

The ratings data continues to show the Australian TV audience slowly tuning out and settling down for summer — COVID is in the rear-view mirror, ScoMo is in a vault somewhere with a silver cross and rosemary on his chest, and all worries economic are on hold until the new year.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (32.5%) 
  2. Nine (27.4%)
  3. Ten (15.9%)
  4. ABC (15.3%)
  5. SBS (8.9%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (23.3%)
  2. Nine (17.9%)
  3. ABC (9.8%)
  4. Ten (8.6%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.1%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.1%)
  2. 7mate (3.8%)
  3. Gem (3.6%)
  4. 10 Peach (3.5%)
  5. 10 Bold (3.2%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News 6.30pm — 1.011 million
  2. Seven News — 986,000
  3. Nine News — 872,000
  4. Nine News 6.30pm — 869,000
  5. 7pm ABC News — 725,000
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 724,000
  7. Cricket: Second Test, Aust. v Windies Day 1, Session 3 (Seven) — 671,000
  8. Cricket: Second Test, Aust. v Windies Day 1, Session 2 (Seven) — 583,000
  9. 7.30 (ABC) — 521,000
  10. Cricket: Second Test, Aust. v Windies Day 1, Dinner (Seven) — 487,000

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

Regional top 5: Seven News 6.30pm, 376,000; Seven News, 360,000; Nine News, 241,000; Cricket: Second Test, Aust. v Windies Day 1, Session 3, 237,000; ACA, 236,000.

Losers: Seven’s Test coverage in prime time — OK, almost unchanged from a week earlier.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Nine News — 640,000
  2. Seven News 6.30pm — 635,000
  3. Nine News — 631,000
  4. Seven News — 627,000
  5. 7pm ABC News — 491,000
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 488,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 435,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 230,000
  9. 10 News First — 221,000
  10. The Project 6.30 (Ten) — 166,000

Morning (national) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 372,000/214,000
  2. ABC News Breakfast (ABC, ABC News) — 267,000/161,000
  3. Today (Nine) — 261,000/165,000
  4. ABC News Mornings — 201,000
  5. The Morning Show (Seven) — 188,000
  6. Today Extra (Nine) — 139,000
  7. Studio 10 (Ten) — 43,000

Top 5 pay TV programs:

  1. Cricket: Second Test, Aust. v Windies Day 1, Session 3 (Fox Cricket) — 222,000
  2. Cricket: Second Test, Aust. v Windies Day 1, Post Game (Fox Cricket) — 213,000
  3. Cricket: Second Test, Aust. v Windies Day 1, Session 2 (Fox Cricket) — 162,000
  4. Cricket: Second Test, Aust. v Windies Day 1, Tea Break (Fox Cricket) — 162,000
  5. Cricket: Second Test, Aust. v Windies Day 1, Session 1 (Fox Cricket) — 133,000