The Winners: Seven’s night, easily, surprisingly so. Ten and Nine just can’t force viewers to change at the moment. Both networks had a couple of duds last night. Seven’s Conviction Kitchen benefited from being behind a cooking program with 942,000, its highest audience so far after two weeks at 9.30pm on Tuesdays after Packed to the Rafters.
- My Kitchen Rules (Seven) (7.30pm) — 1.406 million
- Seven News (6pm) — 1.232 million
- Nine News (6pm) — 1.169 million
- A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.147 million
- Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.147 million
- Glee (Ten) (7.30pm) — 1.024 million
The Losers: Nine and Ten, again. This Is Your Life at 8.30pm on Nine, 774,000, down over a quarter of a million from the return last week. House on Ten at 8.30pm, 733,000. $#*! My Dad Says on Nine at 8pm, 644,000. Good News Week on Ten at 9.30pm, 538,000.
News & CA: Nine News won Sydney, Seven News won the rest. ACA beat Today Tonight nationally and in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. TT won the rest. ACA won with an update on the lingering Hey Dad s-xual harassment story.
- Seven News (6pm) — 1.232 million
- Nine News (6pm) — 1.169 million
- A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.147 million
- Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.147 million
- ABC News (7pm)– 960,000
- Australian Story (ABC) (8pm) — 894,000
- 7.30 (ABC) (7.30pm) — 805,000
- The 7PM Project (Ten) (7pm) — 772,000
- Four Corners (ABC) (8.30pm) — 724,000
- Ten News (5pm) — 710,000
- Media Watch (ABC) (9.15pm) — 640,000
- Q&A (ABC) (9.35pm) — 620,000
- 6PM With George Negus (Ten) (6pm) — 373,000
- Ten Evening News (6.30pm) — 342,000
- Lateline (ABC) (9.30pm) — 321,000
- SBS News (6.30pm) — 212,000
- Late News/Sports Tonight (Ten) (11pm) — 184,000
- Lateline Business (ABC) (11.05pm) — 161,000
- SBS News (9.30pm) — 135,000
In the morning:
- Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 356,000
- Today (Nine) (7am) — 306,000
The Stats:
- FTA: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 32.5% from Nine (3) on 25.0%, Ten (3) was on 19.4%, the ABC, 17.5 (4 channels) and SBS (2), was on 5.7%. Seven leads the week with 32.3% from Nine on 26.7% and Ten on 19.6%.
- Main Channel: Seven won with a share of 24.3% from Nine on 18.3%, ten was on 15.3%, ABC 1, 14.4% and SBS ONE finished with 5.1%. Seven leads the week on 23.7% from Nine on 19.6% and Ten on 15.6%.
- Digital: 7TWO won with a share of 4.6%, from a spread of rivals on 3.6%, Eleven, GO and 7Mate. Gem finished with 3.1%, ABC 2 was on 2.0%, News 24 was on 0.7%, SBS TWO, 0.6%; ABC 3 and One, 0.5%. That’s a total FTA share of 21.8% for the digital channels. GO and 7TWO lead with 4.3% each, from 7Mate on 3.4%.
- Pay TV: Seven won with a share (3 channels) of 26.9%, from Nine on 20.7% (3 channels), ten (3) was on 16.1%, Pay TV (100 plus channels) and the ABC )4) finished with 14.5% each and SBS (2) ended with 4.7%. The 15 FTA channels had a total share of prime time viewing last night of 85.5%, made up of 18.9% for the digital channels and 66.6% for the five main channels
- Regional: Prime/7Qld (3 channels) won with a share of 32.4%, from WIN/NBN (3) on 27.2%, the ABC (4) was third with 18.3%, with SC Ten (3 channels) 4th with 17.0% and SBS (2) on 5.1%. Prime 7Qld won the main channels with 23.6%, from WIN/NBN on 20.1%, ABC 1 was on 14.7% and SC Ten was 4th with 12.5%. 7TWO won the digital channels with 5.2%, from GO on 4.1% and Eleven on 3.9%. The 10 digital channels had an FTA share of 24.5% last night in prime time. Prime/7Qld leads the week on 32.2% from WIN/NBN on 27.3%.
Major Markets: It was Seven, Nine and Ten in every market overall and in the main channels, except Sydney where the ABC pushed Ten out of third in both. In fact ten and Nine were quite weak in Sydney. 7TWO won Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. GO won Melbourne. Seven leads the week everywhere from Nine and Ten.
(All shares on the basis of combined overnight 6pm to midnight All People)
Glenn Dyer’s comments: Seven’s night, easily, which was again a surprise. This Is Your Life would have been a big disappointment for Nine. It promised a lot last week, but didn’t deliver last night.
The new version of The 7.30 Report is 7.30, which is really the old program minus Kerry O’Brien, with two lesser lights to do his job in Leigh Sales in Sydney and Chris Uhlmann in Canberra. Judging on last night’s effort (the theme music with the out of tune trumpet note right at the end), there hasn’t been a change except Red Kerry’s interviews will be no longer with us and we will all be poorer for that. It was very typically ABC current affairs.
Leigh Sales interviewed the Gail Kelly of Westpac for what reason I cannot fathom. It was a poor interview. The best report on the first edition of 7.30 was from Paul Lockyer who went camel tracking in central Australia with a very spritely chap aged 89, called Wilkinson. He was a delight to watch and listen to, as was the report. That was a report in the best traditions of ABC current affairs, as was Four Corners last night.
TONIGHT: Packed to the Rafters and My Kitchen Rules on Seven from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. End of night and week. Nine has Top Gear and The Big Bang Theory. Ten has Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation (which has faded) and a fresh NCIS and then a repeat. The ABC has Foreign Correspondent at 8pm. SBS has Insight at 7.30pm.
Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports
re. the Gail Kelly interview, there was some conjecture that she was on the outer at the bank, and that she’s on the PR push…and the ABC obliged her…your tax $’s at work
Wonder if ABC management would enlighten us their employers, why it took 6 months to put that set together? A class of high school dtudents would have done a better job in a quarter of the time and bloody cheaper I imagine. What a mindless lot the so called National Broadcaster has become. News cut and pasted from their mates at News Ltd, complete lack of professionalism generally within the Journalist ranks, diction and grammer gone by the boards.
Scott has certainly made it a second rate outfit since his arrival, hopefully when the new Board members arrive he will be brought down off his high superior God Almighty perch.
Yes, the ABC News and Current Affairs is a total mess these days (apart from Media Watch).
With all the hype Leigh Sales twittered about herself and even claims that Carly Simon’s song was a song about her (in Monday’s tweet), plus her interview with SMH wanting world domination, last night’s 7.30 was the worst ABC has ever produced. The set looked cheap and the two hosts looked like young show ponies who had no genuine, sincere “work chemistry.” The format was weak and was not coherent and having interviewer interviewing interviewer was the biggest downfall. Leigh Sales should always be seated, with her starting at a standing position made her look very uncomfortable. We hope she stops constantly twittering self admiration for herself and take her job seriously and respectfully. Many have suggested that she got the job because she looks like Julia Gillard, supposedly a strong woman type, but looks can be deceiving as we all know. With another redhead-Pauline Hanson on the scene, it makes one think have we got too many redheads that all have the common denominator- narcissism ? One hopes that a change will take place…sooner rather than later-Michael Carey
Interesting watching Mike Carlton and Joe Hockey on Q&A questioning/denying the presence of the “Tea Party” in this country – “we’re too smart for that” – so who are these shock-jocks, in their various guises in our media, playing politics, appealing to and inciting? They don’t know their own audience – even if they want to “disown” the existence of such a party, because of the stigma that name elicits?
A rose by any other name has pricks.