The Winners: Today Tonight averaged 1.475 million at the top of the list last night with rival A Current Affair rested for the cricket. Ten’s NCIS was second with 1.384 million and Seven’s My Kitchen Rules was 3rd with 1.355 million at 7.30pm. Seven News was 4th with 1.304 million, Nine News was next with 1.223 million and 6th was the Twenty20 from 6.30pm to around 8.50pm with 1.126 million. Seven’s Grey’s Anatomy averaged 1.016 million at 8.30pm, 8th was Home and Away at 7pm for Seven with 1.013 million and Bondi Rescue was 9th with 1.002 million at 8pm for Ten.

The Losers: No one really, not with the Twenty20 on Nine. Nine’s Hot Seat beat Seven’s Deal Or No Deal by 60,000 viewers, 624,000 to 564,000.

News & CA: Seven News won nationally, but again lost Sydney and Melbourne to Nine. ACA was rested, so TT‘s win was immaterial. The 7pm ABC News averaged 905,000, The 7.30 Report, 671,000. Foreign Correspondent, 601,000 at 8pm, Lateline, 154,000, Lateline Business, 87,000. Ten News averaged 866,000, 385,000 for the late News/Sports Tonight. SBS News at 6.30pm, 145,000, Insight at 7.30 pm, 206,000, the late News, 146,000. 7am Today back in front with 362,000, 7am Sunrise on 341,000.

The Stats:

FTA: Nine won 6pm to Midnight All People with a share of 29,8% from Seven with 29.3%, Ten with 22.1%, the ABC with 14.1% and SBS with 4.6%. Nine won Sydney, and Brisbane. Seven won Melbourne by 0.1% (the main channels were tied). Seven also won Adelaide and Perth more clearly. Seven says it won prime time in 16 to 39, 18 to 49 and in 25 to 54s, meaning Nine won All People with a lot of over 55s.

Digital: GO won with 2.8% share, from 7TWO with 2.5%, ABC 2, 1.1%, SBS TWO 0.7% and ABC 3 and ONE with 0.5% each. That’s a total of 8.1%. GO leads the week, 3.3% to 2.9% for 7TWO.

Main Channels: Nine won with a 27.0% share, from Seven with 26.8%, Ten with 22.1%, the ABC with 12.5%, and SBS with One with 3.9%. Nine leads the week, 27.6% to 25.4% for Seven.

Pay TV: With Pay TV in the mix, Nine won with a combined overnight share of 24.8%, from Seven with 24.4%, Ten on 18.4%, Pay TV with 14.4%, the ABC with 11.8% and SBS with 3.8%.

Regionally: WIN/NBN won for Nine with a combined overnight All People 6 pm to midnight share of 32.5%, from Prime/7Qld with 25.5, Southern Cross (Ten) with 20.9%, the ABC with 14.3% and SBS with 6.8%. Nine’s GO won the digital battle with 2.6% versus 7TWO with 1.4%.

Glenn Dyer’s comments: The final Twenty20 cricket match between Australia and the West Indies did the job for Nine last night, thanks to the thrilling batting by Dave Warner and Shane Watson. Kev McCloud’s final Grand Tour on the ABC confirmed it as an early starter in the most interesting doco series of the year. Nothing else really mattered except My Kitchen Rules at 7.30pm on Seven and NCIS on Ten at 8.30pm.

Seven News got done again in Sydney last night (and in Melbourne). Waiting until after the games, is the right strategy. But there will have to be a turnaround in Sydney by the end of March. Seven is now promoting Chris Bath’s 22 years in journalism, Nine has countered with 24 for Peter Overton. Any advance? Mungo MacCallum and Richard Farmer from Crikey have both been in the game for generations, Farmer started in 1958. I’m 40 years in the business … are we news reader material?

TONIGHT: Spicks and Specks, perhaps Hungry Beast on the ABC. Criminal Minds on Seven, So You Think You Can Dance Australia on Ten, the Winter Games on Nine (wasn’t it nice not to have Eddie McGuire in the host’s chair last night).

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports