No My Kitchen Rules on Seven, so Nine wins with The Block and its The Block:Unlocked half hour addendum at 8pm. Ten was again very weak. The ABC’s main channel clearly beat Ten’s mix of The Biggest Loser and the Winter Games which viewers are just so over.

The Block had 1.673 million national/ 1.102 million metro/ 571,000 regional viewers and the Unlocked episode which followed had 1.386 million national/858,000 metro/ 528,000 regional viewers. Ten’s The Biggest Loser had 520,000 national/355,000 metro/ 165,000 regional viewers. The second series of The ABC’s The Checkout returned  with a solid audience of 1.048 million national/716,000 metro/ 332,000 regional viewers. It easily beat Ten’s main channel, as did 7.30 with 1.031 million national/ 678,000 national/ 353,000 regional viewers.

The special Q&A with IMF boss Christine Lagarde had 579,000 viewers nationally on ABC1 and News 24. It also had more viewers than The Biggest Loser and Nine’s Sherlock, which averaged 481,000 nationally (but wasn’t shown in Perth).  Those were good numbers for a pretty dry program like Q&A and Lagarde talking about economic growth, debt, climate change etc. That’s encouraging.

In the morning Seven’s Sunrise with 376,000 metro viewers, beat a surprisingly weak Today on Nine with 270,000. Nine News clearly beatSeven News by a big margins, again.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (30.1%)
  2. Seven (25.7%)
  3. Ten (20.0%)
  4. ABC (19.4%)
  5. SBS (4.8%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (21.9%)
  2. Seven (17.2%)
  3. ABC1 (13.3%)
  4. Ten (9.4%)
  5. SBS ONE (3.8%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. ONE (7.2%)
  2. GO (4.5%)
  3. 7mate (4.4%)
  4. 7TWO (4.0%)
  5. Eleven (3.3%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. The Block (Nine) — 1.673 million
  2. Nine News — 1.500 million
  3. Seven News — 1.421 million
  4. The Block Unlocked (Nine) — 1.386 million
  5. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.360 million
  6. ABC News — 1.183 million
  7. The Checkout (ABC1) — 1.048 million
  8. 7.30 (ABC1) — 1.031 million
  9. A Current Affair (Nine) — 994,000
  10. Seven News/Today Tonight — 960,000

Top metro programs:

  1. The Block (Nine) — 1.102 million
  2. Seven News — 1.018 million
  3. Nine News — 1.009 million

Losers: Ten, again.Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.018 million
  2. Nine News — 1.009 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 959,000
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 935,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 821,000
  6. ABC News — 797,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC1) — 678,000
  8. Ten Eyewitness News — 583,000
  9. The Project (Ten) — 395,000
  10. Q&A (ABC1) — 369,000

Metro morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 376,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 270,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 178,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC1 66,000 + 39,000 on News24) — 105,000
  5. Mornings (Nine) — 80,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 37,000
  7. Wake Up (Ten) — 28,000

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox Sports 3 (7.0%)
  2. TVHITS! (2.6%)
  3. LifeStyle (2.1%)
  4. Fox 8 (2.0%)
  5. UKTV, Discovery (1.7%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Cricket: 2nd Test South Africa v Australia. Session 1 (Fox Sports 3) – 274,000
  2. Cricket: 2nd Test South Africa v Australia. Session 2 (Fox Sports 3) – 202,000
  3. AFL: NAB Challenge (Fox Footy) — 93,000
  4. The Simpsons (Fox 8) – 77,000
  5. Inside Cricket (Fox Sports 3) – 72,000

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