TV ratings have you been paying attention

Have You Been Paying Attention pulled in 1.17 million national viewers last night and finished the year on a high. Apart from Seven’s news between 6pm and 7pm and Sunrise, no other program does what Attention does — delivers the numbers for Ten — and at a great low cost, so that the country’s third network gets more bang from this program than it does from any other.

The first part of Tracey Spicer’s Silent No More at 8.30 drew in 650,000 nationally. It beat The Rookie on Seven and Paramedics on Nine but not Have You Been Paying Attention on Ten.

In the regions it was Seven’s 6pm News with 521,000, Seven News/Today Tonight with 500,000, Australian Story and Home and Away tied with 350,000 each and 7.30 with 333,000.

Network channel share:

Seven (27.5%)
Nine (24.7%)
Ten (22.4%)
ABC (18.3%)
SBS (7.2%)

Network main channels:

Nine (17.5%)
Seven (16.8%)
Ten (16.3%)
ABC (13.9%)
SBS ONE (4.2%)

Top 5 digital channels:

7mate (4.7%)
7TWO (3.8%)
10 Bold (3.7%)
Gem (3.2%)
GO, ABC Kids/Comedy, 10 Peach (2.4%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.47 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.41 million
  3. Have You Been Paying Attention (Ten) — 1.17 million
  4. Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.16 million
  5. Nine News — 1.13 million
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.01 million
  7. Australian Story (ABC) — 996,000
  8. 7pm ABC News — 989,000
  9. Home and Away (Seven) — 961,000
  10. 7.30 (ABC) — 953,000

Top metro programs: None with a million or more viewers

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 954,000
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 910,000
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 880,000
  4. Nine News — 879,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 735,000
  6. 7pm ABC News — 673,000
  7. Australian Story (ABC) — 646,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 620,000
  9. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 453,000
  10. Media Watch (ABC) — 415,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise: National: 475,000, Metro: 285,000
  2. Today: National: 310,000, Metro: 207,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC, ABC News) — 241,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 214,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) —128,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) —76,000

Top 5 pay TV programs:

  1. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 63,000
  2. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 59000
  3. Credlin (Sky News) —- 48,000
  4. Family Guy (fox8) — 43,000
  5. Kennyon Media (Sky News) — 41,000