Nine’s night, with the lightweight tribute to The Bee Gees warbling along for 90 minutes and doing the job, aided by weak programming from Seven. Salute To The Bee Gees managed to hold 1.19 million national viewers, while Masterchef (1.19 million national) and especially House Rules (1.06 million national) fell short. With The Voice resting its chords for a few nights, Masterchef and House Rules should have really done better, but the nostalgia of the Bee Gees won out.
House Rules’ pick up on Tuesday night was lost and then some — 645,000 in the metros. Seven compounded the problem by running the weak Aussie Property Flippers (Floppers, more like) from 8.40 pm, right after House Rules, ended in the now vain hope of some viewer ’synergy’. There is not much at all the the Floppers could only manage 761,000 national viewers. The Weakly With Charlie Pickering did better, with over 800,000 national viewers from 8.30pm.
But the four top programs in the metros again told the real story of the night — a lack of viewer interest. The top four were the various news programs for Seven and Nine from 6 to 7 pm. Nationally it was the Bee Gees harmonies at third. In breakfast a big win nationally and in the metros for Sunrise over Today – 528,000 to 427,000.
The top five regional programs were Seven News with 715,000, Seven news/TT with 535,000, Home and Away 3rd with 476,000, The 5.30pm bit of The Chase with 462,000 and House Rules with 423,000. The Bee Gees salute managed 404,000.
Network channel share:
- Nine (28.7%)
- Seven (25.7%)
- Ten (22.2%)
- ABC (16.1%)
- SBS (7.3%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (20.5%)
- Seven (17.5%)
- Ten (15.4%)
- ABC (11.0%)
- SBS ONE (5.1%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- ONE (3.6%)
- 7TWO (3.5%)
- Gem,7Mate (3.2%)
- GO (3.1%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.734 million
- Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.542 million
- Nine/NBN News (6.30pm) — 1.292 million
- Nine/NBN News — 1.281 million
- Salute To The Bee Gees (Nine) — 1.193 million
- Masterchef Australia (Ten) — 1.190 million
- Home and Away (Seven) — 1.184 million
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.132 million
- House Rules (Seven) — 1.068 million
- The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.051 million
Top metro programs:
- Seven News — 1.024 million
- Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.007 million
- The X Factor (Seven) — 1.083 million
Losers: Seven – just weak.
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 1.024 million
- Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.007 million
- Nine News — 966,000
- Nine News (6.30pm) — 956,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) – 787,000
- 7pm ABC News – 718,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 637,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 541,000
- Ten Eyewitness News — 454,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 409,000
Morning (national) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) – 528,000
- Today (Nine) – 427,000
- News Breakfast (ABC, 166,000 + 82,000 on News 24) — 248,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 203,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 172,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 142,000
Top five pay TV programs:
- Selling Houses Australia (LifeStyle) — 131,000
- The Big Bang Theory (Comedy) — 69,000
- AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) — 64,000
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 63,000
- Mickey and The Roadsters Races (Disney Jr) — 60,000
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