In the battle for coverage of the byelections on Saturday night, ABC News easily won with 226,000 national viewers — Sky News averaged 41,000. Sunday morning and ABC’s Insiders cleaned up with 601,000, nearly 100,000 nationally above recent figures.

Seven did well with the one-off The Real Full Monty — 1.57 million for fantasy. Nine’s Ninja Warrior had their best outing of this disappointing series — 1.39 million nationally, still hundreds of thousands short of last year. Tonight House Rules ends on Seven and MasterChef starts its two episode final.

In regional markets Seven News was tops with 590,000, then The Real Full Monty with 552,000, Australian Ninja Warrior was third with 425,000, Nine News was fourth with 419,000 and the 7pm ABC News was fifth with 313,000

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (33.7%)
  2. Nine (28.7%)
  3. Ten (16.7%)
  4. ABC (14.3%)
  5. SBS (6.5%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (23.7%)
  2. Nine (20.8%)
  3. Ten (13.0%)
  4. ABC (10.6%)
  5. SBS ONE 5.2%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate (5.1%)
  2. GO 3.6%)
  3. 7TWO (2.8%)
  4. Gem (2.5%)
  5. ABC Kids/Comedy, Eleven (2.1%)y

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.772 million
  2. The Real Full Monty (Seven) — 1.579 million
  3. Nine/NBN News — 1.518 million
  4. Australian Ninja Warrior (Nine) — 1.399 million
  5. MasterChef (Ten) — 1.122 million
  6. Masterchef Masterclass (ten) — 1.027 million
  7. 7pm ABC News — 931,000
  8. Jack Irish (ABC) — 912,000
  9. Sunday Night (Seven) — 875,000
  10. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 875,000

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.182 million
  2. Nine News — 1.099 million
  3. The Real Full Monty (Seven)  — 1.027 million

Losers: A certain Swans and Wests Tigers supporter.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.182 million
  2. Nine News — 1.099 million
  3. The Real Full Monty (Seven)  — 1.027 million
  4. 7pm ABC News – 618,000
  5. Sunday Night (Seven) — 590,000
  6. 60 Minutes (Nine) —561,000
  7. The Sunday Project 7pm (Ten) — 409,000
  8. Ten Eyewitness News — 311,000
  9. The Sunday Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 249,000
  10. SBS World News — 222,000

Morning TV:

  1. Insiders (ABC, ABC News) — 601,000
  2. Landline (ABC) —- 450,000
  3. Weekend Sunrise (Seven) — 417,000
  4. Weekend Today (Nine) — 336,000
  5. Sports Sunday (Nine) — 217,000
  6. Offsiders (ABC, ABC News) — 205,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. NRL: Easts v St George (Fox League) — 240,000
  2. AFL: North Melbourne v West Coast (Fox Footy) — 198,000
  3. NRL: Gold Coast v NZ Warriors (Fox League0 — 184,000 
  4. AFL:Fremantle v Hawthorn (Fox Footy) — 158,000
  5. AFL: Footscray v Port Adelaide (Fox Sports) — 137,000