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Just one of those nothing nights when the 5.30pm portion of Seven’s The Chase Australia can once again be the top-rating non-news program in the nation, its 923,000 viewers ranking it seventh nationally from 5.30-6pm. 

When a cheaply made quiz program that’s a local version of a foreign format (UK, in this case) does better than the expensively made local versions of foreign formats like Lego Masters, MasterChef and Big Brother) you know wised-up viewers are not all that eager to watch FTA TV … nor are they really watching pay TV.

That put it ahead (though in a different timeslot) of Nine’s Lego Masters with a solid 866,000, while MasterChef Australia stagnated with 662,000 and Big Brother fell under 600,000 to 598,000 (but no doubt will do well in the BVOD streaming figures in a week.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (28.2%)
  2. Seven (27.2%)
  3. Ten (19.4%)
  4. ABC (15.8%)
  5. SBS (9.3%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (19.5%)
  2. Seven (18.1%)
  3. Ten (12.8%)
  4. ABC (11.0%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.5%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.1%)
  2. 7mate (3.5)
  3. 10 Bold (3.2%)
  4. Gem (3.1%)
  5. 10 Peach (2.9%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.577 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.469 million
  3. Nine News — 1.196 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.134 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 971,000
  6. 7pm ABC News — 948,000
  7. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 923,000
  8. Lego Masters (Nine) — 866,000
  9. Home And Away (Seven) — 842,000
  10. 7.30 (ABC) — 734,000

Top metro programs: none with a million or more viewers. 

Regional top 5: Seven News, 580,000; Seven News 6.30, 547,000; Home and Away, 341,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 328,000; 7pm ABC News, 327,000.

Losers: just the entire night, really.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 997,000
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 922,000
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 890,000
  4. Nine News — 881,000
  5. ACA (Nine) — 668,000
  6. 7pm ABC News — 621,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 491,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 391,000
  9. Ten News First — 287,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 268,000

Morning (national) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 393,000/226,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 301,000/202,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC) — 279,000/181,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 242,000
  5. ABC Morning News — 216,000
  6. Today Extra (Nine) — 153,000
  7. Studio 10 (Ten) — 40,000

Top 5 pay TV programs:

  1. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 82,000
  2. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 62,000
  3. Credlin (Sky News) — 48,000
  4. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) — 56,000
  5. The Repair Shop Australia (LifeStyle) — 51,000