Torchbearers at the Opening Ceremony for the Tokyo Paralympic Games (Image: AAP/Bob Martin)

NRL — 547,000 on Nine and 176,000 on Foxtel — and the Paralympics — 443,000 for the evening and 473,000 for the night sessions of day two — made for a pleasant evening’s viewing. Tonight it’s a repeat dose but add AFL semi-finals, also on tomorrow and Sunday.

Monday morning you’ll be a new person — especially if you ignore The Voice et al on Sunday night. Oh, and don’t forget Netflix, Stan, Amazon and Prime.

The games made sure it was Seven’s night last night, from Nine with its NRL game and Ten with the fading Bachelor — 572,000. Foreign Correspondent had a good report from South Korea where the online retail boom is killing drivers — 525,000 viewers for a solid report. Q+A was kids and COVID and other concerns — 367,000 viewers, which was about what you’d expect with children involved. Adults just turn off.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (33.71%)
  2. Nine (24.8%)
  3. Ten (18.4%)
  4. ABC (14.9%)
  5. SBS (8.1%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (19.2%)
  2. Nine (18.4%)
  3. Ten (11.8%)
  4. ABC  (10.4%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.1%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate (8.9%)
  2. 7TWO (4.0%)
  3. 10 Peach, 10 Bold (3.0%)
  4. ABC Kids/Plus (2.1%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.775 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.678 million
  3. Nine News  — 1.418 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.346 million
  5. 7pm ABC News — 1.098 million
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.028 million
  7. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 969,000
  8. Home and Away (Seven) — 968,000
  9. Home and Away – Late (Seven) — 858,000
  10. 7.30 (ABC) — 808,000

Top metro programs: 

1. Seven News  — 1.132 million
2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.069 million
3. Nine News —1.035 million


Losers:The Bachelor… just flat, again.

Metro news and current affair

  1. Seven News — 1.132 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 —1.069 million
  3. Nine News — 1.035 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 987,000
  5. ACA (Nine) — 707,000
  6. 7pm ABC News — 698,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 524,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 480,000
  9. Ten News First (ABC) — 367,000
  10. Foreign Correspondent (ABC) — 347,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 475,000/265,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 374,000/247,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC) — 335,000/220,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 302,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 212,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) —  54,000

Top five Pay TV programs: 

  1. NRL: Newcastle vs Gold Coast (Fox League) — 176,000
  2. Aussie Gold Hunters (Discovery) — 79,000 
  3. Credlin (Sky News) — 66,000
  4. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 65,000
  5. Paul Murray (Sky News), AFL: 360 (Fox Footy)  — 63,000