Nick Kyrgios
Nick Kyrgios (AAP/Dave Hunt)

Nick Kyrgios won the Wednesday night ratings battle singlehandedly last night. His five-set thriller over Frenchman Ugo Umberto (from around 7.40pm to just after 11pm) occupied just under three hours of prime time, and the average for the game of 924,000 made it the most watched program after 7pm.

Nine’s audience for the night session from 7pm to 10.30pm averaged 952,000 nationally. It’s why Nine’s ratings for the tennis perked up and why it easily beat Seven, the ABC and Ten in total people and the main channels.

The Kyrgios-Umbert match was not coded separately because of the way Nine breaks up the ratings for the night session of the tennis, so the solid figures for the Kyrgios match were not clear because it went on for so long. 

The peak session as presented by Nine for the ratings was 952,000, coded for the period of 9 to 10.30pm — the middle of the match. The night part was from 7.15 to 9pm and averaged 849,000, while the late part of the night runs from 10.30pm (end of the main ratings period) to midnight (the end of official ratings for the night). It averaged 539,000 and was dragged down by people turning off and going to bed after the match finished just before 11.10pm. Nine will break out the figures for the individual games like Kyrgios’ effort last night and will do the same for Ash Barty tonight.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (27.8%)
  2. Nine (25.2%)
  3. ABC (19.8%)
  4. Ten (19.6%)
  5. SBS (7.7%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (19.7%)
  2. Nine  (17.7%)
  3. ABC (14.1%)
  4. Ten (11.6%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.0%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 10 Bold (4.5%)
  2. 7TWO (4.0%)
  3. Gem (3.0%)
  4. ABC Kids/Comedy/10 Peach (2.8%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.493 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.422 million
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 1.102 million
  4. Nine News — 1.062 million
  5. 7pm ABC News — 929,000
  6. Kyrgios v Umbert — Aust Open Night 3 (Nine) — 924,000
  7. Hard Quiz (ABC) — 863,000
  8. Home and Away (Seven) — 855,000
  9. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 849,000
  10. 7.30 (ABC) — 739,000

Top metro programs: no program had a million or more viewers.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 994,000
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 939,000
  3. Nine News 6.30  — 841,000
  4. Nine News  —829,000
  5. 7pm ABC News — 633,000
  6. 7.30 (ABC) — 495,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 429,000
  8. Ten News First —359,000
  9. The Project 6.30 (Ten) —251,000
  10. SBS World News — 168,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 421,000/249,000
  2. News Breakfast (ABC) — 287,000/187,000
  3. Today (Nine) — 294,000/189,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 205,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — pre-empted for the AO tennis
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 55,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 65,000 
  2. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 61,000
  3. Credlin (Sky News) — 53,000 
  4. Alan Jones (Sky News) — 51,000
  5. PML Later (Sky News) — 44,000