Nine’s night in total people and the demos, and Australian Ninja Warrior added viewers from Monday night, but lost them from its lead in last night. Monday night it averaged 1.17 million (and 1.31 million on Sunday night). Last night it averaged 1.19 million which looks OK, but 38,000 less than A Current Affair at 7pm which averaged 1.23 million. A year ago, the third episode of series one averaged 2.13 million. The regional audience in 2017 was 667,000, against 345,000 last night. Nine will win the night and the week with the third State of Origin Rugby League game tonight but the collapse in the Ninja Warrior audience is a blow to the channel’s 2018 ratings ambitions. House Rules managed 1.13 million last night and Masterchef improved to average 1.08 million.

In regional markets a Seven night again with the 6pm News on top with 608,000, followed by Seven News/Today Tonight with 508,000, House Rules with 447,000, then Home and Away with 408,000 and the 5.30pm part of The Chase Australia with 401,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (30.7%)
  2. Seven (28.1%)
  3. Ten (18.2%)
  4. ABC (15.6%)
  5. SBS (7.5%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (22.1%)
  2. Seven (19.4%)
  3. Ten (13.4%)
  4. ABC (10.6%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.5%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate (3.9%) 
  2. GO, Gem (3.7%)
  3. 7TWO, ONE (2.8%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.681 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.553 million
  3. Nine/NBN News — 1.391 million
  4. Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.384 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.234 million
  6. Australian Ninja Warrior — 1.196 million
  7. House Rules (Seven) — 1.139 million
  8. 7pm ABC News — 1.133 million
  9. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.092 million
  10. MasterChef(Ten) — 1.086 million

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.073 million
  2. Nine News — 1.072 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.049 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.025 million

Losers: Australian Ninja Warrior — not the mega hit it was a year ago.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.073 million
  2. Nine News — 1.072 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.049 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.025 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 883,000
  6. 7pm ABC News —778,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 563,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 543,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 440,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 364,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 472,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 341,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 265,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC, ABC News) — 261,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 163,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 101,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 98,000
  2. Wentworth (showcase) — 83,000
  3. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 62,000
  4. Back Page (Fox Sports) — 61,000
  5. Family Guy (Fox8) — 60,000