A day of spills and thrills (and that was just the ratings)

More Olympics, another win for Seven, heartbreak for the women’s soccer and the women’s hockey teams, a good result for the horsey set and a great result for the women’s basketball side. 

Seven’s Bruce McAvaney again proved to be the modern day Norman May with his calling of the athletics. Dennis Cometti would have been an ideal foil as well, but Tamsyn Manou is doing a great job with her technical stuff, as she has done before. Dennis knows his hockey. Bruce and Tamsyn got the importance of the joint gold medal decision by the two top finishers in the men’s high jump.

I watched the first of two parts of Australian Story‘s look at Australian basketball star Luke Longley. Top stuff, and shows us what all the previous stories on him missed. Michael Jordan appeared (Longley’s Chicago Bulls team mate) and was a diminished person because of the way Longley was omitted from the hit Netflix documentary on the Bulls The Last Dance. Scottie Pippen, another Bulls super star, was far more generous. Australian Story averaged 761,000 and deserved many more.

Non-games programs continued: Beauty and The Geek on 671,000, Have You Been Paying Attention, 637,000, and Australian Survivor, 752,000.

Network channel share:

1. Seven (50.7%)
2. Nine (17.9%)
3. Ten (15.6%)
4. ABC (11.9%)
5. SBS (3.9%)

Network main channels:

1. Seven (35.8%)
2. Nine (12.5%)
3. Ten (10.6%)
4. ABC (8.7%)
5. SBS ONE (2.2%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

1. 7mate (11.0%)
2. 7TWO (2.9%)
3. 10 Bold (2.7%)
4. Gem (2.0%)
5. 10 Peach (1.9%)

Top 10 national programs:

1. Seven News — 2.083 million
2. Seven News 6.30 — 2.008 million
3. Tokyo Games Day 10 – Night (Seven) — 1.984 million
4. Tokyo Games Day 10 – Evening (Seven) — 1.577 million
5. Nine News — 1.407 million
6. Tokyo Games Day 10 – Late Night (Seven) — 1.318 million
7. Nine News 6.30 — 1.291 million
8. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) —1.217 million
9. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.113 million
10. Tokyo Games Day 10 –  Afternoon (Seven) — 1.051 million

Top metro programs: 

1. Seven News — 1.406 million
2. Tokyo Games Day 10 – Night (Seven) — 1.349 million
3. Seven News 6.30 — 1.347 million
4. Tokyo Games Day 10 – Evening (Seven) — 1.078 million
5. Nine News — 1.070 million
6. Tokyo Games Day 3 – Late Night (Seven) — 1 million

Metro news and current affairs:

1. Seven News — 1.406 million
2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.347 million
3. Nine News — 1.070 million
4. Nine News 6.30 — 974,000
5. ACA (Nine) — 786,000
6. 7pm ABC News — 707,000
7. 7.30 (ABC) — 559,000
8. Australian Story (ABC) — 515,000
9. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 403,000
10. Four Corners (ABC) — 415,000

Morning (National) TV:

1. Sunrise (Seven) — 586,000/362,000
2. Today (Nine) — 358,000/246,000
3. News Breakfast (ABC) — 345,000/228,000
4. The Morning Show (Seven) — pre-empted by Games
5. Today Extra (Nine) — 240,000
6. Studio 10 (Ten) —59,000

Top five pay TV programs:

1. NRL: Cronulla vs Manly (Fox League) — 173,000
2. NRL: Canterbury vs Gold Coast (Fox League) — 130,000
3. NRL: Pre-Game (Fox League) — 125,000
4. Credlin (Sky News) — 87,000
5. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 70,000