The Block’s delayed satisfaction pays off

The Block reveal (1.39 million) postponed from Sunday gave Nine an easy win last night. Four Corners with 919,000 beat Seven’s SAS Australia on 869,000 and Ten’s Have You Been Paying Attention on 900,000. The Masked Singer (TMS) clocked 800,000, with its reveal on 958,000, for an average of 878,000.

Four Corners’ look at tax rorting by the wealthy is more interesting than the faux suffering of a bunch of minor celebs on SAS Australia — or more minor celebs on TMS — though both TMS and ‘Paying Attention did very well in the demos, as they always do.

Tonight it’s the final of TMS. Nothing else matters, not the return of train-wreck TV — The Weakest Link on Nine, which is almost as bad as The Cheap Seats on Ten.

Regional top five: Seven News, 617,000; Seven News 6.30, 591,000; The Block, 397,000; ACA, 372,000; 7pm ABC News 370,000.

Network channel share:

1. Nine (30.9%)
2. Seven (24.0%)
3. Ten (19.6%)
4. ABC (18.0%)
5. SBS (7.5%)

Network main channels:

1. Nine (23.4%)
2. Seven (17.6%)
3. Ten, ABC (13.8%)
4. SBS ONE (4.5%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

1. 10 Bold (3.3%)
2. 7TWO (3.1%)
3. Gem (2.6%)
4. 7mate (2.4%)
5. 9Life, 10 Peach (2.0%)

Top 10 national programs:

1. Seven News — 1.632 million
2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.590 million
3. The Block (Nine) — 1.392 million
4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.335 million
5. Nine News  — 1.333 million
6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.181 million
7. 7pm ABC News — 1.089 million
8. 7.30 (ABC) — 992,000
9. Home and Away (Seven) — 962,000
10. The Masked Singer – Reveal (Ten) — 958,000

Top metro programs: 

1. Seven News — 1.015 million

Losers: SAS Australia on Seven just can’t crack a million national viewers and The Block couldn’t crack a million metro viewers either…

Metro news and current affair

1. Seven News — 1.015 million
2. Seven News 6.30 — 999,000
3. Nine News 7 — 988,000
4. Nine News 6.30 —  970,000
5. ACA (Nine) — 809,000
6. 7pm ABC News — 720,000
7. 7.30 (ABC) — 655,000
8. Four Corners (ABC) — 608,000
9. Media Watch (ABC) — 560,000
10. Australian Story (ABC) — 516,000

Morning (National) TV:

1. Sunrise (Seven) — 393,000/233,000
2. Today (Nine) — 327,000/211,000
3. News Breakfast (ABC) — 284,000/188,000
4. The Morning Show (Seven) — n/a
5. Today Extra (Nine) — 227,000
6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 42,000

Top 5 Pay TV programs: 

1. Alan Jones (Sky News) — 75,000
2. Paul Murray Live (Ski News) — 64,000
3. Credlin (Sky News) — 62,000
4. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 57,000
5. Newsday (Sky News) — 50,000