For the second time this week, the bands have broken on the elastic keeping the Oztam ratings system connected to the wider world — or so it seems. National and regional data were delayed this morning, (there is Pay TV data) but the metro info lodged in the pipe was pushed out in time. 

What we did learn from the metro data was that it was another Nine night as Seven trundled along in second without a real winner after 7pm. Ten gave us another night of the 2017 Bachelor meat market. Seven News and Seven News/Today Tonight were the only programs with a million or more viewers in metro markets. Ten’s Offspring could only manage 559,000 metro viewers — that was after The Bachelor had 715,000. That’s a drop of 21%. Nasty. The Bachelor’s core audience should have hung around in greater numbers for Offspring (which is reality TV compared to the rubbish on The Rose Killer AKA The Bachelor).

Shaun Micallef was more cheeky than mad on Mad As Hell — although the Citzenship stuff on our MPs and Senators was spot on. Utopia re-called media training sessions I have seen in the past — disasters because those who succeed rarely understand what they are saying. And when the minister in Utopia appears, why am I reminded of a younger, slicker Barnaby Joyce?

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (30.6%)
  2. Seven (25.7%)
  3. Ten (18.7%)
  4. ABC (17.5%)
  5. SBS (7.5%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (22.6%)
  2. Seven (17.7%)
  3. Ten (13.1%)
  4. ABC (12.7%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.1%)

Top 5 digital channels:

  1. GO (3.4%)
  2. 7TWO (3.2%)
  3. Eleven (3.0%)
  4. ABC 2 (2.8%)
  5. ONE (2.7%)

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.041 million
  2. Seven News — 1.032 million

Losers: Seven, Ten and Offspring

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.041 million
  2. Seven News — 1.032 million
  3. Nine News — 990,000
  4. Nine News (6.30pm) — 950
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 859,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 745,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 549,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 539,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 454,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 354,000

Morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 274,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 266,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC,  97,000 + 55,000 on ABC News) — 152,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 129,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 111,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 75,000

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. TVHITS  (3.0%)
  2. LifeStyle/Fox8  (1.9%)
  3. Sky News  (1.8%)
  4. UKTV (1.6%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 76000
  2. Nella The Princess Knight (Nick Jr) — 57,000
  3. Paw Patrol (Nick Jr) — 55,000
  4. Curious George (Nick Jr) — 52,000
  5. NCIS (TVHITS) — 52,000