Origin night. Queensland wins, Nine wins, but not as convincingly as hoped. In fact it was the lowest rating State of Origin games since Game Three of the 2016 series (just over 2.3 million people nationally). The audience fell 22% on a national basis from the 3.45 million national figure for Game One on June 6 to 2.63 million last night. That’s a fall of 773,000, which is substantial by any measure. Metro viewers fell to 1.77 million, down 577,000 or 24% from Game One, and the regional audience fell to 864,000 from 1.10 million, a drop of around 22%..

And hidden away down south in AFL markets, another bath for Eddie McGuire and Nine’s AFL Footy Show — it managed just 235,000 national viewers and 111,000 in the core market of Melbourne. Seven’s The Front Bar managed 375,000 nationally and 196,000 in Melbourne. In regional markets Origin was on top with 864,000, followed by Seven News with 592,000, then Seven News/Today Tonight with 479,000, the Origin Pre-Match with 453,000 and Home and Away with 425,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (39.3.0%)
  2. Seven (25.5%)
  3. Ten (15.6%)
  4. ABC (12.9%)
  5. SBS (7.7%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (31.8%)
  2. Seven (16.6%)
  3. Ten (11.2%)
  4. ABC (8.7%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.9%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. GO (4.0%)
  2. 7TWO, 7mate (2.9%)
  3. ONE (2.4%)
  4. ABC Kids/Comedy (2.3%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. State of Origin Game Three (Nine) — 2.683 million
  2. Seven News  — 1.726 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.517 million
  4. Nine/NBN News — 1.287 million
  5. State of Origin Game 3 Pre-Match (Nine) — 1.273 million
  6. Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.250 million
  7. 7pm ABC News — 1.122 million
  8. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.105 million
  9. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.041 million
  10. House Rules (Seven) — 1.003 million

Top metro programs:

  1. State of Origin Game 3 (Nine) — 1.774 million
  2. Seven News — 1.134 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.078 million

Losers: Origin a bit weak but still dominant.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.134 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.078 million
  3. Nine News — 943,000
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 893,000
  5. 7pm ABC News – 784,000
  6. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 607,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 498,000
  8. Ten Eyewitness News — 486,000
  9. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 375,000
  10. SBS World News — 158,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 456,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 359,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC, ABC News) — 275,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 253,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 175,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 91,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy), Selling Houses Australia (LifeStyle) — 65,000
  2. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 52,000
  3. Jeopardy! (Fox Classics) — 49,000
  4. Selling Houses Australia (LifeStyle) — 48,000