Australia’s vital World Cup qualifier last night won the night for Nine — 1.520 million national viewers, with 1.160 million in the metros — top spot for both. But not in the regions where the game, won 3-1 by Australia — could only manage 360,000 viewers and sixth spot. They are not so nuts about soccer (football to the rest of the world) in regional Australia. On Foxtel, 328,000 watched the game on Fox Sports — so the total average national audience was 1.85 million viewers.

And that was the night. In regional markets, Seven news was tops with 501,000, then Home and Away with 439,000, third was Seven News/TT with 424,000, Instant Hotel was fourth with 389,000 and Secret Daughter averaged 375,000 (and 867,000 nationally). Gruen hung on well against the soccer on the ABC with just over 1 million viewers. Seven’s Instant Hotel also did well against the soccer with 908,000 viewers.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (34.4%)
  2. Seven (25.8%)
  3. ABC (187%)
  4. Ten (13.7%)
  5. SBS (7.0%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (27.0%)
  2. Seven (17.1%)
  3. ABC (13.3%)
  4. Ten (8.6%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.0%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (3.8%)
  2. GO (3.3%)
  3. ABC 2 (3.2%)
  4. 7mate, Eleven (3.1%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. World Cup Qualifier – Australia v Honduras (Nine) — 1.520 million
  2. Seven News  — 1.455 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.331 million
  4. Nine/NBN News — 1.154 million
  5. Nine/NBN News  6.30 — 1.125 million
  6. 7pm ABC News — 1.072 million
  7. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.065 million
  8. Gruen (ABC) — 1.003 million
  9. Instant Hotel (Seven) — 908,000
  10. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 875,000

Top metro programs:

  1. World Cup Qualifier – Australia v Honduras (Nine) — 1.160 million

Losers: Ten. Sisters.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 955,000
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 908,000
  3. Nine News — 892,000
  4. Nine News (6.30pm) — 847,000
  5. 7pm ABC News — 746,000
  6. ACA (Nine) — 600,000*
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 557,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 493,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 431,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 347,000

*Pre-empted in some markets by the World Cup qualifier on Nine’s main channel.

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) —549,000
  2. Today (Nine) —410,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC, 168,000 + 88,000 on News 24) — 256,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 248,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 200,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 128,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. World Cup Qualifier – Australia v Honduras (Fox Sports) — 328,000
  2. World Cup Qualifier – Australia v Honduras Post Game (Fox Sports) — 219,000
  3. Gogglebox Australia (LIfeStyle) — 177,000
  4. World Cup Qualifier – Australia v Honduras Pre-Game (Fox Sports) — 119,000
  5. Love IT Or List It Australia (LifeStyle) — 112,000

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