MKR is heading towards the end and the audience last night rose nicely to average 1.81 million nationally and lead Seven to a win in the night (and some very tasty demos). The Voice held in for Nine and averaged a solid 1.45 million nationally (and some yummy demos). And that was the night. Ten’s The Project at 7pm picked up sharply to average 809,000 nationally, 11th most watched across the country.

Tonight is more interesting, the ABC returns its second core Wednesday night line up for the year — Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery at 8pm, Gruen at 8.30pm and The Weekly With Charlie Pickering and around 9.10pm. Now will this trio top the solid effort of Hard Quiz and Shaun Micaleff’s Mad As Hell and Sando? Yep, because Sando was the weak one. Nine starts the tired old Britain’s Got Talent at 8.30pm and then follows it with a fresh ep of Young Sheldon at 10pm. Over on Seven, new eps of Modern Family at 9pm which has moved from Ten, after Fox ended the supply contract with them. Oh, and Seven starts the MKR semi finals tonight.

In regional areas Seven News won with 631,000 viewers, over MKR with 583,000, Seven News/Today tonight with 544,000, then The Voice with 449,000 and Home and Away with 447,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (31.7%)
  2. Nine (30.3%)
  3. Ten (19.0%)
  4. ABC (18.6%)
  5. SBS (5.2%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (24.1%)
  2. Nine (18.3%)
  3. Ten (15.5%)
  4. ABC (15.2%)
  5. SBS ONE (7.3%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. GO (3.3%)
  2. 7mate (3.1%)
  3. ABC Kids/Comedy, 7TWO (2.6%)
  4. ONE (2.5%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. MKR (Seven) — 1.812 million
  2. Seven News  — 1.711 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.607 million
  4. The Voice (Nine) — 1.457 million
  5. Nine/NBN News 6.30pm — 1.250 million
  6. Nine/NBN News — 1.249 million
  7. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.211 million
  8. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.186 million
  9. 7pm ABC News — 1.117 million
  10. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1. 016 million

Top metro programs:

  1. MKR (Seven) — 1.229 million
  2. Seven News — 1.080 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.063 million
  4. The Voice (Nine) — 1.008 million

Losers: No one really.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.080 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.063 million
  3. Nine News — 951,000
  4. Nine News (6.30pm) — 934,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 811,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 740,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 560,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 508,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 437,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 365,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 467,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 399,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC, 162,000 + 85,000 on News 24) — 247,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 191,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 168,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 85,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 73,000
  2. Back Page (Fox Sports) — 58,000
  3. NRL: 360 (Fox League) — 56,000
  4. Family guy (Fox8) —53,000
  5. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 52,000