Nine’s night as Lego Masters returned to send us off into the land of well-spaced-out nod — 1.67 million people watched nationally. Seven was weak even though House Rules managed 1.03 million viewers. It ran fourth behind Nine, Ten and the ABC from 7pm to 9.30pm.
The ABC’s Insiders had another strong morning with 797,000 national viewers. We had the gospel from St Greg Sheridan on a News Corp-dominated chat on the national broadcaster. His cynical closing comments about the ABC and George Pell came right at the end with no time left for a rebuttal.
In the regions: Seven News, 653,000, 7pm ABC News, 461,000, Lego Masters 435,000, House Rules, 396,000, The Virus, 395,000.
Network channel shares
- Nine (32.2%)
- Seven (22.6%)
- Ten (21.2%)
- ABC (16.6%)
- SBS (7.4%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (24.9%)
- Seven (16.1%)
- Ten (15.6%)
- ABC (12.3%)
- SBS ONE (5.2%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 10 BOLD(3.7%)
- GO, Gem, 7mate (2.5%)
- 7TWO (2.4%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.91 million
- Lego Masters – return (Nine) — 1.67 million
- Nine/NBN News — 1.50 million
- 7pm ABC News — 1.37 million
- Masterchef Australia (Ten) — 1.29 million
- The Virus (ABC) — 1.15 million
- Spicks and Specks (ABC) — 1.03 million
- House Rules (Seven) — 1.03 million
- Mystery Road (ABC) — 1.02 million
- 60 Minutes (Nine) — 1.01 million
Top metro programs:
- Seven News — 1.253 million
- Lego Masters – return (Nine) — 1.24 million
- Nine News — 1.11 million
- 7pm ABC News — 1.01 million
Losers: Seven — just weak
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 1.25 million
- Nine News — 1.11 million
- 7pm ABC News – 905,000
- The Virus (ABC) — 756,000
- 60 Minutes (Nine) — 723,000
- The Sunday Project 7pm (Ten) — 613,000
- Nine News Late — 531,000
- Ten News First — 546,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 436,000
- SBS World News — 244,000
Morning (national) TV:
- Insiders (ABC, ABC News) – 797,000
- Weekend Sunrise (Seven) — 570,000
- Landline (ABC) – 499,000
- Weekend Today (Nine) — 310,000
- Offsiders (ABC) — 263,000
- Sports Sunday (Nine) — 158,000
Top five pay TV programs:
- Outsiders (Sky News) – 77,000
- Outsiders (Sky News) – 73,000
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 66,000
- Blaze and The Monster Machines (Nick Jr) – 47,000
- Peppa Pig (Nick Jr) – 41,000
It’s not clear how Greg Sheridan thinks the ABC should have reported the allegations & court proceedings differently in the Pell case. Apart from presenting the facts where did the national broadcaster go wrong?
I guess that presenting the facts is wrong, in Sheridan’s view.
I am looking forward to reading the unredacted sections of the report by RC in to organisational abuse of children – sections were kept unavailable while the case against Pell was continuing. But now they can be released and that might refute some of the sanctimony.