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Once again Seven’s night thanks to the games. It brought in the biggest share so far with 52.3%. The average of the evening and night viewer figures for day five were 1.89 million, the second highest so far of the games after Sunday’s 2.128 million. Non-Games programs saw The Bachelor on 437,000, Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell on 664,000, and Nine’s repeated Travel Guides on 640,000 — all travel-deprived desperates.

Breakfast had Sunrise, 559,000 national and 343,000 metro, Today 3541,000 and 235,000, News Breakfast, 347,000 and 221,000.

Regional top five: Seven News 6.30, 662,000; Seven News, 619,000; Tokyo Games Day 5 – Night, 555,000; Tokyo Games Day 5 – Evening, 551,000; Tokyo Games Day 5 – Afternoon, 389,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (52.3%)
  2. Nine (19.1%)
  3. Ten (12.5%)
  4. ABC (11.3%)
  5. SBS (4.8%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (35.9%)
  2. Nine (13.3%)
  3. ABC (8.1%)
  4. Ten (7.0%)
  5. SBS ONE (2.5%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate(11.2%)
  2. 7TWO (4.0%)
  3. 10 Bold (3.0%)
  4. 10 Peach (2.1%)
  5. GO (1.9%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.987 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.942 million
  3. Tokyo Games Day 5 – Night (Seven) — 1.920 million
  4. Tokyo Games Day 4 – Evening (Seven) — 1.827 million
  5. Nine News  — 1.435 million
  6. Tokyo Games Day 4 – Afternoon (Seven) — 1.435 million
  7. Nine News 6.30 — 1.294 million
  8. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.118 million
  9. 7pm ABC News — 1.024 million
  10. Tokyo Games Day 4 – Late Afternoon (Seven) — 1.005 million

Top metro programs: 
1. Seven News  — 1.368 million
2. Tokyo Games Day 5 – Night (Seven) — 1.364 million
3. Seven News 6.30 — 1.280 million
4. Tokyo Games Day 5 – Evening (Seven) — 1.276 million
5. Nine News —1.100 million
6. Tokyo Games Day 5 – Afternoon (Seven) — 1.046 million

Losers: The Bachelor… weak

Metro news and current affair

  1. Seven News — 1.368 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 —1.280 million
  3. Nine News — 1.100 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 995,000
  5. 7pm ABC News — 693,000
  6. ACA (Nine) — 671,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 495,000
  8. Ten News First (ABC) — 428,000
  9. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 398,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 297,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 559,000/343,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 354,000/235,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC) — 347,000/221,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — Pre-empted by the Games
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 182,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) —  72,000

Top five Pay TV programs: 

  1. Credlin (Sky News) — 58,000
  2. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 51,000
  3. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 46,000
  4. Newsday (Sky News) — 41,000
  5. Alan Jones (Sky News) — 39,000