Seven’s night in total people (thanks to its two main digital channels, 7TWO and 7mate) Nine’s night in the demos. MasterChef (1.07 million nationally) kept Ten in the hunt, but overall a very weak night if it hadn’t been for MasterChef and the NRL game on Nine (695,000 nationally and 230,000 on Foxtel). In Melbourne, in the battle of the AFL footy shows, The Front Bar on Seven with 211,000 viewers easily beat the more expensive AFL Footy Show on Nine, which could only crack 176,000. That’s a six goal win!

In breakfast, Sunrise (418,000) beat Today (387,000) nationally. But in the metros Sunrise scored one of its lowest five metro market figures for some time, 228,000, while Today stayed about where it has been lately with 253,000 viewers. That’s a rare and big win by Karl and Georgie and a big loss for David and Sam. Are Seven viewers over the Royal Marriage story already? And Hot Seat closed the metro gap on Seven’s The Chase Australia at 5.30pm to within just 10,000 viewers — 554,000 to 565,000.

In regional markets Seven News was tops with 583,000, then Seven News/Today Tonight with 501,000, then Home and Away in third with 430,000, followed by the 5.30pm part of The Chase with 377,000 and Nine News 6.30 with 343,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (29.2%)
  2. Nine (27.8%)
  3. Ten (19.9%)
  4. ABC (15.6%)
  5. SBS (7.5%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (20.6%)
  2. Seven (17.5%)
  3. Ten (14.8%)
  4. ABC (9.7%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.4%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.70%)
  2. 7mate (4.4%)
  3. ABC Kids/Comedy (3.5%)
  4. GO (3.0%)
  5. Eleven (2.9%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.532 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.428 million
  3. Nine/NBN News — 1.283 million
  4. Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.253 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.126 million
  6. MasterChef Australia (Ten) — 1.070 million
  7. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.053 million
  8. 7pm ABC News — 999,000
  9. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 942,000
  10. Hot Seat (Nine) — 762,000

Top metro programs: None with a million or more viewers

Losers: All viewers and Wests Tigers fans (like me, sigh).

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Nine News — 961,000
  2. Seven News —949,000
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 927,000
  4. Nine News (6.30pm) — 910,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 790,000
  6. 7pm ABC News — 664,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 523,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 476,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 429,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 338,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 418,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 387,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC, News 24) — 258,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 202,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 182,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 102,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. NRL: Penrith v Wests (Fox League) — 230,000
  2. NRL: The Late Show With Matty Johns (Fox League) — 104,000
  3. NRL: Thursday Night League (Fox League) — 84,000
  4. Selling Houses Australia (LifeStyle) — 80,000
  5. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 70,000