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I have a theory about the different coloured garb for the BBL teams. It’s so casual sports fans can tell the teams apart because the game looks the same, match to match, hit, top, giggle, roar, choke, rush, yell, whack, slap, slip, whack, run, scamper, catch, take a wicket (big cheers for that being so infrequent) and then wake up for the post-game chat and realise you should have been watching Bridgerton (again) on Netflix because it is far more interesting.

Last night an average of 599,000 watched one of the Sydney teams play the other Sydney team on Seven (and another 199,000 on Foxtel). The city was convulsed! Traffic stopped for that one! Watching the morning COVID updates from Annastacia and our Glad (sans Dazza) is far more entertaining.

I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here — 917,000, beaten from 7-7.30pm again by the ABC News with 947,000. But it was the most watched non-news program and enough to push Ten to a win in total people while the BBL and the news helped Seven win the main channels.

The non-main channels of the five free-to-air networks had a total share of 34.1% last night.

In breakfast, Sunrise, 426,000 national and 237,000 metro viewers; ABC News Breakfast, 291,000 and 203,000; Today, 284,000 and 183,000.

In regional markets: Seven News, 523,000; Seven News 6.30, 504,000; 7pm ABC News, 316,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 282,000; Nine News, 257,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Ten (24.3%)
  2. Seven (23.9%)
  3. Nine (24.3%)
  4. ABC (18.3%)
  5. SBS (9.8%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (16.7%)
  2. Ten (15.6%)
  3. Nine (14.7%)
  4. ABC (13.0%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.8%)

Top 5 digital channels:

  1. 10 Bold (4.9%)
  2. 7TWO (3.5%)
  3. 10 Peach (3.3%)
  4. Gem (3.2%)
  5. GO (2.6%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.41 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.33 million
  3. Nine News — 1.11 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.04 million
  5. 7pm ABC News — 947,000
  6. I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here (Ten) — 917,000
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 830,000
  8. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 712,000
  9. 7.30 Summer (ABC), Hard Quiz Rpt (ABC) — 660,000

Top metro programs: No program had a million or more viewers.

Losers: Just a terrible night for FTA and Foxtel, so it was the streamers, again.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 889,000
  2. Nine News — 854,000
  3. Seven News 6.30 — 828,000
  4. Nine News 6.30 –795,000
  5. 7pm ABC News – 630,00
  6. ACA (Nine) — 586,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 443,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 429,000
  9. Ten News First —325,000
  10. The Project 6.30 (Ten) — 303,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 426,000/237,000
  2. News Breakfast (ABC) — 291,000/203,000
  3. Today (Nine) – 284,000/183,000
  4. The Morning Show — summer (Seven) – 180,000
  5. Today Extra — summer (Nine) — 138,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 48,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Cricket — BBL (Fox Cricket) — 206,000
  2. Cricket — BBL (Fox Cricket) — 193,000
  3. Cricket: Between the Innings (Fox Cricket) — 189,000
  4. Cricket: BBL Post Game (Fox Cricket) — 82,000
  5. B4 The Bash (Fox Cricket) — 49,000