The Block did it again last night for Nine, while Seven faded with its second-tier line up. The ABC inflicted more pain on Ten, which says bring on the Games. The Block from had 1.658 million national/ 1.134 million metro/ 424,000 regional viewers and the week’s highlights package at 8pm had 1.342 million national/ 854,000 metro/ 488,000 regional viewers. Nine won the metro and regional markets and the ABC beat Ten in metro and regional areas.

A Current Affair had another weak night at 7pm — its 784,000 metro viewers meant it again ran third behind ABC News with 874,000, and Home and Away with 884,000 metro viewers .

Nine’s Today regained the 300,000 metro level yesterday morning with 306,000, but Seven’s Sunrise remained in front with 355,000. Ten’s The Project saw a good lift in its audience to 429,000 metro viewers last night after a couple of nights around 100,000 viewers or more lower.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (31.4%)
  2. Seven (25.9%)
  3. ABC (19.5%)
  4. Ten (17.4%)
  5. SBS (5.9%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (22.4%)
  2. Seven (18.5%)
  3. ABC 1 (13.8%)
  4. Ten (9.4%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.8%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. GO (5.4%)
  2. ONE (5.0%)
  3. 7mate (4.4%)
  4. Gem (3.6%)
  5. ABC 2 (3.2%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1.  The Block (Nine) — 1.658 million
  2. Seven News 6pm — 1.594 million
  3. Nine News — 1.441 million
  4. Home and Away (Seven) – 1.407 million
  5. The Block Unlocked (Nine) — 1.342 million
  6. ABC News — 1.280 million
  7. 7.30 (ABC1) — 1.129 million
  8. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.089 million
  9. QI repeat (ABC1) — 1.060 million
  10. Coastwatch Oz (Seven) — 1.058 million

Top metro programs:

  1. The Block (Nine) — 1.134 million
  2. Seven News 6pm — 1.059 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.033 million

Losers:  A pretty weak night except for The Block — it might be an old format, but there’s still life in it).Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News 6pm — 1.059 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.033 million
  3. Nine News — 969,000
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 892,000
  5. ABC News — 874,000
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) – 784,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC1) — 741,000
  8. Ten Eyewitness News — 572,000
  9. The Project (Ten) — 429,000
  10. ABC Late Edition News — 191,000

Metro morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 355,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 306,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 150,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC 1, 59,000 + 45,000 on News 24) — 104,000
  5. Mornings (Nine) — 97,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 53,000
  7. Wake Up (Ten) — 47,000

Top pay TV channels:

  1. Fox 8 , TVHITS!  (2.7%)
  2. LifeStyle (2.6%)
  3. UKTV (2.0%)
  4. A&E, Fox Classics (1.9%)
  5. Discovery (1.7%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Selling Houses Australia  (LifeStyle) – 58,000
  2. The Simpsons (Fox 8) – 55,000
  3. Top 20 Funniest, The Simpsons (Fox 8) — 48,000
  4. Family Guy (Fox8), How I Met Your Mother (TVHITS!) – 47,000
  5. Storage Wars (A&E) — 46,000

This weekend: Brush up on your pucks, axels, triples, half pipes, moguls, downhill, stocks, gates and all the other forgettable jargon of winter sports, Ten’s Sochi experience starts tonight. Getting through the coming days of mostly meaningless commentary will need something stronger than what you keep in your Samovar. Sunday night sees the INXS telemovie on Seven,Rake on ABC 1, So You Think You Can Dance Australia on Ten (which will get squeezed, again) and Nine’s docudrama called Mayday Mayday – Terror on QF 32 on the Qantas A380 from Singapore that almost crashes several years ago. And of course the snow and ice from Sochi on Ten.

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