Seven’s My Kitchen Rules ruled the roost with 1.98 million national viewers, though the Mark Bouris-hosted The Mentor which followed was underwhelming (732,000, a drop of more than 1.2 million). It did win the commercial network battle in its slot, but lost to to Four Corners and Media Watch on the ABC. Nine’s The Voice averaged 1.3 million viewers and hung in, but was swamped by MKR. Tens The Bachelor in Paradise averaged 810,000.

Given the media apologies around the Banking Royal Commission — on Media Watch (820,000) and Q&A last night — there’s an opening for an ABC or SBS program called “Mea Culpas”. It would skew naturally towards News Corp papers, where the apologists for the banks have so far been concentrated.

In regional markets MKR won with 658,000, then Seven News with 590,000; Seven News/Today Tonight was third with 513,000, then Home and Away with 473,000 and finally  the 5.30pm bit of The Chase Australia with 392,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (31.5%)
  2. Nine (26.3%)
  3. Ten (17.8%)
  4. ABC (18.6%)
  5. SBS (7.2%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (23.4%)
  2. Nine (19.2%)
  3. ABC (12.7%)
  4. Ten (12.6%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.9%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (3.6%)
  2. ONE (3.4%)
  3. 7mate, GO (2.9%)
  4. ABC Kids/Comedy (2.6%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. MKR (Seven) — 1.988 million
  2. Seven News  — 1.900 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.574 million
  4. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.339 million
  5. The Voice (Nine) — 1.300 million
  6. Nine/NBN News — 1.279 million
  7. Nine/NBN News — 1.279 million
  8. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.237 million
  9. 7pm ABC News — 1.104 million
  10. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 963,000

Top metro programs:

  1. MKR (Seven) — 1.330 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.061 million
  3. Seven News — 1.038 million

Losers: No one really. 

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.061 million
  2. Seven News — 1.038 million
  3. Nine News (6.30pm) — 980,000
  4. Nine News — 960,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 950,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 753,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 593,000
  8. Australian Story  (ABC) — 576,000
  9. Media Watch (ABC) — 573,000
  10. Four Corners (ABC) — 531,000

Morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 453,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 365,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 234,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC, 140,000 + 82,000 on News 24) — 222,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 172,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 96,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) — 86,000
  2. Westworld (showcase) — 76,000
  3. AFL: On The Couch (Fox Footy), NRL: 360 (Fox League)— 60,000
  4. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 56,000