Apart from the still-high levels of interest in news and current affairs between 5pm 8pm, viewers last night practiced a form of social distancing for viewing — they simply vanished. Nine ended up winning the night from Seven, Ten and the ABC, but the most watched non-news program was again Gogglebox Australia with 1.09 million national viewers.
Rebel Wilson’s Pooch Perfect on Seven should be doing well but it languished again last night with 448,000 national.
Nine News averaged 1.498 across its hour of news, which Nine boasted was the highest Thursday night figure for the program in 2020. Seven News averaged 2.04 million at 6pm (the highest for a Thursday night news for any network for years). The 7pm ABC News had another very solid night — 1.34 million nationally was the fifth best nationally. And that was the night.
In the regions it was Seven News with 723,000, Seven News 6.30 with 644,000, The Chase Australia 5.30pm with 434,000, 7pm ABC News, 430,000, and Seven News: The Latest, 404,000
Network channel share:
- Nine (27.9%)
- Seven (23.4%)
- Ten (21.3%)
- ABC (18.5%)
- SBS (8.9%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (17.3%)
- Seven (16.0%)
- Ten (14.9%)
- ABC (12.5%)
- SBS ONE (6.1%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- Gem (5.5%)
- 10 Bold (3.6%)
- 7TWO (3.1%)
- 7mate,10 Peach (2.9%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 2.041 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.848 million
- Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.4799 million
- Nine/NBN News — 1.497 million
- 7pm ABC News —1.342 million
- ACA (Nine) — 1.158 million
- The Latest: Seven News — 1.142 million
- The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) —1.140 million
- Gogglebox Australia (Ten) — 1.092 million
- 7.30 (ABC) — 1.120 million
- Seven News: The Latest — 1.020 million
Top metro programs:
- Seven News — 1.317 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.203 million
- Nine News — 1.160 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 1.140 million
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 1.317 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.203 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 1.160 million
- Nine News — 1.140 million
- 7pm ABC News — 912,000
- ACA (Nine) — 851,000
- Seven News: the Latest — 737,000
- 7.30 (ABC) —703,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten), Seven News: The Latest — 584,000
- Ten News First — 553,000
Morning (National) TV:
- Sunrise: National: 578,000, Metro: 353,000
- Today: National: 377,000 Metro: 255,000
- News Breakfast (ABC, ABC News) — 370,000/243,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 355,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 242,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 105,000
Top five pay TV programs: N/A
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 74,000
- The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 70,000
- Credlin (Sky News) — 68,000
- Chris Smith Tonight (Sky News) — 66,000
- Outback Opal Hunters (Discovery) — 62,000
Crikey is committed to hosting lively discussions. Help us keep the conversation useful, interesting and welcoming. We aim to publish comments quickly in the interest of promoting robust conversation, but we’re a small team and we deploy filters to protect against legal risk. Occasionally your comment may be held up while we review, but we’re working as fast as we can to keep the conversation rolling.
The Crikey comment section is members-only content. Please subscribe to leave a comment.
The Crikey comment section is members-only content. Please login to leave a comment.