2.13 million people watched Australia lose 2-1 to France on SBS Saturday night in our first game in the 2018 World Cup (the next is on Thursday night against Denmark). 

It was the grand final of The Voice on Nine Sunday night. The winner’s announcement averaged 1.38 million, which was lower than the actual grand final performance lead-in which averaged 1.42 million. Weak compared to previous years. You’d expect the grand final and winner’s announcement of a popular program like The Voice to do well last night and at least win its target younger demos. It didn’t. It couldn’t even top the night in the metros where its appeal is highest. It was beaten by the 6pm-7pm news broadcasts of Seven and its own network. Seven swept the demos with House Rules grabbing 1.42 million nationally. Nine topped total people and the main channels. Ten’s Masterchef struggled  with 1.05 million.

In regional markets Seven 6pm News was tops with 628,000, House Rules was second with 511,000, The Voice was third with 438,000, followed by The Voice Winner’s Announcement with 420,000 and the 7pm ABC News with 383,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (31.8%)
  2. Seven (30.7%)
  3. Ten (17.3%)
  4. ABC (14.0%)
  5. SBS (6.3%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (23.1%)
  2. Seven (20.2%)
  3. Ten (13.1%)
  4. ABC (10.0%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.8%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate (5.1%)
  2. Gem, GO (3.3%)
  3. 7TWO (3.2%)
  4. ONE (2.4%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.876 million
  2. Nine News — 1.539 million
  3. The Voice – Grand Final (Nine) — 1.425 million
  4. House Rules (Seven) — 1.421 million
  5. The Voice – Winner Announced (Nine) — 1.388 million
  6. 7pm ABC News — 1.091million
  7. Masterchef (Ten) — 1.056 million
  8. Sunday Night (Seven) — 952,000
  9. Mystery Road (ABC) — 920,000
  10. Grand Designs NZ (ABC) — 803,000

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.24 million
  2. Nine News — 1.10 million

Losers: The Voice on Nine.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.248 million
  2. Nine News — 1.108 million
  3. 7pm ABC News —708,000
  4. Sunday Night (Seven) — 614,000
  5. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 524,000 
  6. The Sunday Project 7pm (Ten) —450,000
  7. Ten Eyewitness News — 363,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Insiders (ABC, ABC News) — 539,000
  2. Landline (ABC) — 462,000
  3. Weekend Sunrise (Seven) — 408,000
  4. Weekend Today (Nine) — 313,000
  5. Sports Sunday (Nine) — 251,000
  6. Offsiders (ABC)  — 201,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: Geelong v Richmond  (Fox Footy) — 368,000
  2. NRL: Wests v Canberra (Fox League) — 276,000
  3. NRL: Newcastle v Melbourne (Fox League) — 218,000
  4. Supercars Darwin, Race 16 (Fox Sports) — 144,000
  5. AFL: Bounce (Fox Footy) — 137,000