Australian Survivor (Image: Ten)

A close night that was dominated by the 6pm Seven News (1.62 million nationally), Nine News (1.48 million) and the 7pm ABC News (1.15 million). Farmer Wants A Wife (1.14 million national viewers) easily accounted for the return of Australian Survivor on Ten (934,000) and Nine’s dying Beauty And The Geek (567,000 against 1 million for the debut a week ago — a nasty 43% loss).

The Tour de France had 137,000 people the final stage coverage from 11pm to 2am (it ended closer to 4am). Paris looked gorgeous in the late afternoon and early evening.

On Saturday night, the third Rugby Union Test between Australia and France (won by the Wallabies with 14 players for 75 minutes) averaged 691,000 national viewers — that was more than the AFL on Saturday night on Seven (578,000) and more than any NRL game on Nine on Friday night or Sunday afternoon. A win for the Wannbees and a bigger win for Rugby Union. The series was tied 1 test all going into the game.

Breakfast saw Insiders on 703,000, Weekend Sunrise, 499,000, LandLine, 458,000 and Weekend Today, 376,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (27.6%)
  2. Nine (27.2%)
  3. Ten (21.3%)
  4. ABC (14.9%)
  5. SBS (9.0%)


Network main channels:

  1. Nine (19.9%)
  2. Seven (18.5%)
  3. Ten (14.7%)
  4. ABC (11.3%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.8%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate (5.2%) 
  2. 10 Bold (3.2%)
  3. GO, 10 Peach (2.6%)
  4. 7TWO (2.4%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.624 million
  2. Nine News — 1.4889 million
  3. 7pm ABC News —1.154 million
  4. Farmer Wants A Wife (Seven) — 1.144 million
  5. Australian Survivor (Ten) — 934,000
  6. Grand Designs (ABC) — 869,000
  7. AFL (Seven) — 774,000
  8. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 757,000
  9. Insiders (ABC, ABC News)   — 703,000
  10. Innocent (ABC) — 659,000

Top metro programs: 

  1. Seven News — 1.219 million
  2. Nine News — 1.127 million

Losers: Beauty And The Geek — flopperoo.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.219 million
  2. Nine News — 1.127 million
  3. 7pm ABC News — 794,000
  4. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 516,000
  5. Sunday Project 7pm (Ten) — 506,000
  6. Nine Late News, Ten News First — 360,000
  7. The Sunday Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 281,000
  8. SBS World News — 196,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Insiders (ABC, ABC News) — 703,000
  2. Weekend Sunrise (Seven) — 499,000
  3. Landline (ABC) — 458,000
  4. Weekend Today (Nine) — 376,000
  5. Weekend Today (Nine) — 352,000
  6. Offsiders (ABC) — 295,000
  7. Sports Sunday (Nine) — 222,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. NRL: Brisbane vs Wests (Fox League) — 253,000
  2. NRL: Souths vs Canterbury (Fox League) — 222,000
  3. AFL: North Melbourne vs. Essendon (Fox Footy) — 213,000
  4. AFL: Sunday Ticket (Fox Footy) — 181,000
  5. NRL: NZ Warriors vs Penrith (Fox League) — 178,a nasty000