Another Monday night in Spring and another metro win by Nine as The Block and Married At First Sight (this is a charade of a program. There should be a plebiscite to ban it!) did the business and Seven again struggled with Zumbo’s Just Desserts. But in the regions, another story, again with Seven an easy winner  in Total People and in the main channels. Nine did well in the metro demos. Seven did OK in the regions.

The Block was the most watched non-news program nationally with 1.371 million (921,000 metro and 450,000 regional) viewers. Married At First Sight had 1.138 million national viewers with 814,000 metro and 331,000 regional viewers.

But Zumbo managed 1.096 nationally, with only 681,000 metro and 415,000 in the regions. Ten’s Australian Survivor had 887,000 nationally (672,000 metro and 216,000 regionally). It was ‘beaten’ by Ten’s Have You Been Paying Attention with 996,000 nationally (707,000 in the metros and 290,000 in the regions). And that remains the Monday night story for Ten — a program with a fraction of the budget of Survivor (and publicity from Ten), is creaming it in the ratings. Ten benefits, but the advertisers and sponsors for Survivor don’t.

The top five programs in the regions were: Seven News with 668,000, Seven News/Today Tonight with 535,000, third was Home and Away with 522,000, fourth was The Chase Australia 5.30pm with 479,000 and fifth was The Block with 450,000.

In breakfast, Seven’s Sunrise with 320,000 metro viewers, started the week with a win over Today on 291,000. Still four more mornings to go.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (27.8%)
  2. Seven (27.5%)
  3. ABC (20.3%)
  4. Ten (19.4%)
  5. SBS (5.1%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (20.6%)
  2. Seven (18.8%)
  3. ABC (15.3%)
  4. Ten (13.5%)
  5. SBS ONE (3.1%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate (4.3%)
  2. ONE (3.5%)
  3. ABC 2 (3.2%)
  4. GO, Gem (3.0%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.847 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.625 million
  3. Nine News — 1.424 million
  4. The Block (Nine) — 1.371 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.304 million
  6. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.263 million
  7. Australian Story (ABC) — 1.258 million
  8. ABC News — 1.230 million
  9. Married At First Sight (Nine) — 1.145 million
  10. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.138 million

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.179 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.089 million
  3. Nine News — 1.063 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.033 million

Losers: Just Desserts and Australian Survivor.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.179 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.089 million
  3. Nine News — 1.063 million
  4. Nine News (6.30pm) — 1.033 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 908,000
  6. Australian Story (ABC) — 882,000
  7. 7pm ABC News —803,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 776,000
  9. Four Corners (ABC) — 733,000
  10. Media Watch (ABC) — 637,000

Morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 320,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 291,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 177,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC 88,000 + 52,000 on News 24) — 140,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 119,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 78,000

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. TVHITS  (2.4%)
  2. Fox 8  (1.8%)
  3. LifeStyle  (1.7%)
  4. Fox Footy, Nick Jr (1.6%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) — 118,000
  2. Monday Night With Matty Johns (Fox Sports 1) — 115,000
  3. AFL: On The Couch (Fox Footy) — 78,000
  4. The Simpsons (Fox8) — 75,000
  5. Family Guy (Fox8) — 73,000

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