Gogglebox has gone for a rest, leaving MasterChef as the only moderately interesting program on TV last night — 747,000 and tenth nationally, down an odd 20,000 viewers from the week before. Still it beat a boring NRL game between Canberra and Souths (566,000). Seven’s The Front Bar had 449,000, with 214,000 of those in Melbourne, the fifth most-watched program in that market. It’s probably why Seven just got home from Nine — 18.9% to 18.1% in the main channels.
Q+A — 364,000 last night, down from a week ago. Still anodyne, boring, predictable, bubble speak. Any more? NRL tonight is the battle of south-east Queensland — Brisbane v the Gold Coast. Not too many people in Sydney or Melbourne will care.
Regional top five: Seven News, 529,000; Seven News 6.30, 516,000; Home and Away, 313,000; 7pm ABC News, 312,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 291,000.
Network channel share:
- Seven (28.7%)
- Nine (26.2%)
- Ten (20.6%)
- ABC (15.7%)
- SBS (8.7%)
Network main channels:
- Seven (18.9%)
- Nine (18.1%)
- Ten (13.3%)
- ABC (10.6%)
- SBS ONE (5.3%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7mate (4.2%)
- 7TWO (3.7%)
- 10 Bold (3.6%)
- 10 Peach (2.9%)
- ABC Kids/Comedy/Plus (2.8%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.497 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.446 million
- Nine News — 1.180 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 1.143 million
- 7pm ABC News — 939,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 876,000
- Home and Away (Seven) — 836,000
- The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 763,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 762,000
- Masterchef Australia (Ten) — 747,000
Top metro programs: None with a million or more viewers
Losers: Q+A. A very tiresome program.
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News —968,000
- Seven News 6.30 — 930,000
- Nine News — 906,000
- Nine News 6.30 — 876,000
- 7pm ABC News — 627,000
- ACA (Nine) — 618,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 508,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 400,000
- Ten News First — 344,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 272,000
Morning (National) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 452,000/256,000
- Today (Nine) — 303,000/204,000
- News Breakfast (ABC) — 280,000/183,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 213,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 123,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 60,000
Top five pay TV programs:
- NRL: Canberra vsSouths (Fox League) — 244,000
- NRL: The Late Show With Matty Johns (Fox League) — 107,000
- NRL: Pre-Game Thursday (Fox League) — 85,000
- Credlin (Sky News) — 72,000
- Outback Opal Hunters (Discovery), The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 58,000
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