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Seven hung on even though its coverage of the Winter Olympics is now in the familiar late fade. (When will they end?) No session made the national top 10 and the main channels saw Nine win easily because Married at First Sight picked up and its viewers jumped to a very solid 1.25 million for any night, let alone Wednesdays. The power of a dinner party gone wrong? We’ve all been there.

The games coverage audience figures were: 607,000 for the evening; 606,000 for the night; 532,000 for the late sessions.

The ABC’s Hard Quiz averaged a solid 824,000 and Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell averaged 694,000 nationally. And that was the night. Ten was a weak fourth behind the ABC.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (32.0%)
  2. Nine (31.4%)
  3. ABC (15.5%)
  4. Ten (13.5%)
  5. SBS (7.6%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (23.8%)
  2. Seven (22.2%)
  3. ABC (11.3%)
  4. Ten (8.0%)
  5. SBS ONE (3.9%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate (4.3%)
  2. 7TWO (3.4%)
  3. 10 Peach (2.6%)
  4. Gem (2.5%)
  5. 10 Bold (2.3%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News 6.30 — 1.430 million
  2. Seven News — 1.427 million
  3. Married at First Sight (Nine) — 1.248 million
  4. Nine News — 1.060 million
  5. Nine News 6.30 — 1.033 million
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 913,000
  7. 7pm ABC News — 893,000
  8. Home and Away (Seven) — 835,000
  9. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 830,000
  10. Hard Quiz (ABC) — 824,000

Top metro programs: none with a million or more viewers.

Losers: the Winter Olympics are in the usual late games fade.

Regional Top 5: Seven News 6.30, 514,000; Seven News, 468,000; Home and Away, 327,000; MAFS, 326,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 288,000.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 959,000
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 917,000
  3. Nine News — 785,000
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 769,000
  5. ACA (Nine) — 648,000
  6. 7pm ABC News — 606,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 519,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 367,000
  9. 10 News First — 278,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 199,000

Morning (national) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 413,000/246,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 307,000/213,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC) — 269,000/178,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 199,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 160,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 42,000

Top 5 pay TV programs:

  1. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 56,000
  2. Credlin (Sky News) — 55,000
  3. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 54,000
  4. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 38,000
  5. The Rita Panahi Show, The Kenny Report (Sky News) — 32,000