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Last week I wrote that it was “another very weak Tuesday night that made Netflix, Stan and anything else interesting”.

Well guess what, them groundhogs were at it again last night.

Nine ran dead, the ABC snored (except for an interesting Catalyst on sustainable building products which attracted 534,000 national viewers).

Nine had nothing, Seven’s doubling up of House Rules on Monday night meant it had to run a one-off special last night looking at the Tiger King story from Netflix — fancy that, a free to air network being forced to run a program based on a popular Netflix program. 732,000 nationally watched Tiger King: What Really Went Down, a program from TMZ in the US. Desperate times for a desperate TV network. 

In breakfast, Today’s third-place performance continued — 324,000 nationally and 213,000 metro viewers, ABC News Breakfast, 353,000/236,000 and Sunrise on top with 522,000, 321,000.

It has been a good crisis for News Breakfast as many newer viewers have remained with it as their interest has faded from evening news broadcasts. Sunrise has also held on to many of its newer visitors, but Today has sagged behind News Breakfast. Still, all three programs now have more than 300,000 viewers a morning whereas before the crisis, only Sunrise did as Today faded and News Breakfast plodded along, occasionally topping Today. Now that’s happening consistently.

In the regions, Seven News, 717,000, Seven News 6.30, 666,000, The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 448,000, Home and Away 419,000, 7pm ABC News, 376,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (27.4%)
  2. Nine (24.2%)
  3. Ten (22.9%)
  4. ABC (16.2%)
  5. SBS (9.2%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (17.8%)
  2. Ten (16.5%)
  3. Nine (15.1%)
  4. ABC (11.4%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.6%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 10 Bold (4.3%)
  2. 7TWO (3.8%)
  3. 7mate (3.5%)
  4. GO, GEM (2.8%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.95 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.84 million
  3. Nine/NBN News — 1.47 million
  4. Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.42 million
  5. Masterchef Australia (Ten) — 1.30 million
  6. 7pm ABC News — 1.24 million
  7. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.14 million
  8. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.11 million
  9. ACA (Nine) — 1.1 million
  10. 7.30 (ABC) — 927,000

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.23 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.17 million
  3. Nine News — 1.12 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.08 million

Losers: Nine — dead again 

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.23 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.172 million
  3. Nine News — 1.12 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.08 million
  5. 7pm ABC News – 861,000
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) – 771,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 645,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 636,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 449,000
  10. Foreign Correspondent (ABC) — 405,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 522,000/321,000
  2. News Breakfast (ABC, ABC News) — 353,000/236,000
  3. Today (Nine) – 324,000/213,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 264,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 163,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 89,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Jones & Credlin (Sky News) — 91,000
  2. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 85,000
  3. The Bolt Report (Sky News) – 79,000
  4. Credlin (Sky News) – 61,000
  5. PML Later (Sky News) – 51,000