MKR (1.87 million) meant it was Seven’s night, though the ABC’s second Wednesday line up did very well — Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery with actor Rebecca Gibney was a classy first up ep (858,000). Gruen did OK, and while it was savaging the banks, a story broke that just underlined how useless the sector is – the Commonwealth Bank lost millions of old customer records. If Gruen had put that in “The Pitch”, viewers would have thought that fantastical.

Nine suffered with the weak Britain’s Got Talent (772,000, beaten by MKR by more than 1 million viewers) and Gruen (1.02 million) and The Weekly (846,000). Young Sheldon at 7.30 averaged 1.05 million nationally — that’s down half a million from its opening ep. Modern Family on Seven for the first time, 796,000 from 9pm. The Weekly beat it, but not the talent show on Nine. The Project at 7pm with 720,000 viewers was Ten’s best performed show — it was also the 19th most watched nationally. Just not in the hunt.

Seven’s Sunrise continues to whack Nine’s Today — in the metros yesterday 275,000 to 249,000. Its been that way now for weeks (with the odd morning where Today is closer). In regional markets Seven News was on top with 609,000, above MKR with 599,000, Seven News/Today Tonight with 519,000, Home and Away with 448,000 and the 7pm ABC News was with 360,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (33.2%)
  2. Nine (26.5%)
  3. ABC (18.7%)
  4. Ten (14.5%)
  5. SBS (7.0%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (23.9%)
  2. Nine (19.0%)
  3. ABC (13.7%)
  4. Ten (9.2%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.1%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.1%)
  2. GO (3.2%)
  3. Eleven (3.0%)
  4. 7mate (2.8%)
  5. ABC Kids/Comedy (2.7%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. MKR (Seven) — 1.870 million
  2. Seven News  — 1.637 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.515 million
  4. Nine/NBN News — 1.229 million
  5. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.189 million
  6. Nine/NBN News 6.30pm  — 1.187 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.146 million
  8. 7pm ABC News — 1.059 million
  9. Young Sheldon (Nine) — 1.051 million
  10. Gruen (ABC) — 1.021 million

Top metro programs:

  1. MKR (Seven) — 1.221 million
  2. Seven News — 1.028 million

Losers: Nine — Young Sheldon, Britain’s Got Talent. Ten.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.028 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 996,000
  3. Nine News — 899,000
  4. Nine News (6.30pm) — 862,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 808,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 699,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 584,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 507,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 409,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 372,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 459,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 376,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC, 162,000 + 74,000 on ABC News) — 236,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 207,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 163,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 100,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Selling Houses Australia (LifeStyle) —149,000
  2. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) — 74,000
  3. Paul Murray Live (Sky News), NRL: 360 (Fox League)  — 56,000
  4. Grand Designs Australia (LifeStyle) — 52,000