Australia’s vital World Cup qualifier last night won the night for Nine — 1.520 million national viewers, with 1.160 million in the metros — top spot for both. But not in the regions where the game, won 3-1 by Australia — could only manage 360,000 viewers and sixth spot. They are not so nuts about soccer (football to the rest of the world) in regional Australia. On Foxtel, 328,000 watched the game on Fox Sports — so the total average national audience was 1.85 million viewers.

And that was the night. In regional markets, Seven news was tops with 501,000, then Home and Away with 439,000, third was Seven News/TT with 424,000, Instant Hotel was fourth with 389,000 and Secret Daughter averaged 375,000 (and 867,000 nationally). Gruen hung on well against the soccer on the ABC with just over 1 million viewers. Seven’s Instant Hotel also did well against the soccer with 908,000 viewers. — Read the rest of TV ratings on the website