It was a very dull Wednesday night that saw the ARIA Awards on Nine (551,000 national viewers for two and a half hours from 7.30pm) join Nine’s Logies and Seven’s Brownlow Medal broadcasts (and the AFL Draft last night on Foxtel — 98,000 on Fox Footy) as the most boring TV for the year.
The final episode for 2019 of Gruen on the ABC was the most watched non-news program with 926,000. Seven won the night from Nine and the ABC with Ten a distant 4th (main channel share just 6.7%. It is going to be a miserable summer).
In regional markets Seven’s 6pm News led with 489,000, with Seven News/Today Tonight with 475,000, Home and Away was in 375,000, The Good Doctor, 334,000, The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 317,000.
Network channel share:
Seven (30.7%)
Nine (28.3%)
ABC (18.7%)
Ten (13.7%)
SBS (8.6%)
Network main channels:
Seven (21.3%)
Nine (19.5%)
ABC (13.8%)
Ten (6.7%)
SBS ONE (5.0%)
Top 5 digital channels:
10 Bold (4.5%)
7TWO (4.1%)
Gem (3.6%)
GO (3.0%)
ABC Kids/Comedy (2.7%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.370 million
- Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.317 million
- Nine/NBN News — 1.054 million
- Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.041 million
- Home and Away (Seven) — 968,000
- Gruen (ABC) — 926,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 926,000
- 7pm ABC News — 865,000
- The Good Doctor (Seven) — 851,000
- The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 815,000
Top metro programs: None with a million or more viewers
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News —881,000
- Seven News/Today Tonight —841,000
- Nine News — 775,000
- Nine News 6.30 — 750,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 651,000
- 7pm ABC News — 600,000
- 7.30 (ABC) —545,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 442,000
- Ten News First — 365,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 2509,000
Morning (National) TV:
- Sunrise: National: 436,000, Metro: 256,000
- Today: National: 289,000, Metro: 187,000
- News Breakfast (ABC, ABC News) — 246,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 190,000
- Today Extra (Nine) —139,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 68,000
Top 5 pay TV programs:
- Love It Or List It Australia (LifeStyle) — 101,000
- AFL Draft (Fox Footy) — 98,000
- Find Me A Beach House (LifeStyle) — 63,000
- Jones & Credlin (Sky News) — 60,000
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 57,000
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