Seven’s night for the first time this week as the AFL game between Adelaide and Geelong meant big audiences across southern AFL states. The game drew nearly a million viewers — 738,000 on Seven and 248,000 on Foxtel. MasterChef did better on Ten with 1 million nationally, but the AFL went on for much longer, as it always does (wake me up when it’s over, puhleese?).

Todd Sampson’s BodyHack 2.0 — 260,000 viewers nationally from 9.30pm, but it beat the The NRL Footy Show on Nine. In the metros, 7.30 with 419,000 people again had fewer viewers than Ten’s Eyewitness News from 5pm to 6pm (424,000) while The Project had 476,000. Not a good look. 

In the regions, Seven’s 6pm News with 588,000 was on top, followed by Seven News/Today Tonight with 451,000, then Home and Away with 399,000, the 5.30pm part of The Chase Australia with 368,000 and the 7pm ABC News with 343,000. The AFL game could only manage 173,000 people. Not very popular in regional NSW and Queensland.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (36.4%)
  2. Nine (22.5%)
  3. Ten (19.5%)
  4. ABC (13.0%)
  5. SBS (8.5%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (24.1%)
  2. Nine (14.5%)
  3. Ten (14.1%)
  4. ABC (8.6%)
  5. SBS ONE (6.1%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate (4.9%)
  2. 7mate (4.5%)
  3. GO (4.1%)
  4. ONE (3.2%)
  5. ABC Kids/Comedy (2.4%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.533 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.407 million
  3. Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.236 million
  4. Nine/NBN News — 1.213 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.029 million
  6. 7pm ABC News — 1.011 million
  7. MasterChef (Ten) — 1.007 million
  8. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.003 million
  9. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) —959,000
  10. AFL – Adelaide v Geelong (Seven) — 738,000

Top metro programs:

Losers: Ten and Nine and the ABC – weak stuff. 

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 975,000
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 956,000
  3. Nine News — 916,000
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 913,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 706,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 668,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 476,000
  8. Ten Eyewitness News — 424,000
  9. 7.30 (ABC) — 419,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 283,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 416,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 348,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: Adelaide v Geelong (Fox Footy) — 248,000
  2. Aussie Gold Hunters (Discovery) — 83,000
  3. AFL: Thursday Night Footy On Fox (Fox Footy) — 74,000
  4. NRL: The Late Show With Matty Johns (Fox League) — 64,000
  5. AFL: Thursday Night Footy On Fox (Fox Footy) — 61,000