The Winners: Seven News was the most watched program with 1.472 million viewers, ahead of Top Gear on Nine at 7.30pm with 1.434 million. Today Tonight was third with 1.421 million and Ten’s repeat of NCIS at 8.30pm averaged 1.264 million. Bondi Rescue (a new episode) averaged 1.180 million in 5th spot at 8pm for Ten. A Current Affair was next with 1.167 million and Nine News was 7th with 1.137 million people. The 7pm repeat of Two and a Half Men averaged 1.124 million for Nine and the 7pm ABC News averaged 1.101 million, with Seven’s Home and Away averaging 1.094 million viewers and 10th. The Biggest Loser averaged 1.030 million for Ten from 7.30pm to 8pm. Nine’s Survivors episode at 8.40pm, 997,000. Seven’s Criminal Minds repeats, 848,000 at 8.30pm and 808,000 at 9.30pm.

The Losers: Coastwatch on Seven, 7.30pm to 8.30pm, 770,000 over the hour.

News & CA: Seven News again won nationally and in every market as did Today Tonight. The 7.30 Report averaged 776,000, Lateline, 199,000, Lateline Business, 105,000. Ten News averaged 920,000. The late News/Sports Tonight, 317,000. SBS News at 6.30pm, 170,000, 189,000 for the late edition, 265,000 for Insight at 7.30pm. 7am Sunrise, 369,000, 7am Today, 325,000.

The Stats:

FTA: Nine won with a share of 28.4% from Seven with 26.0%, Ten with 23.6%, the ABC with 16.6% and SBS with 5.3%. Nine won Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Seven won Adelaide and Perth. Nine leads the week 27.9% from Seven with 27.1%.

Main Channel: Nine won with a share of 25.9% from Seven with 23.6%, Ten on 23.1%, ABC 1 with 14.9% and SBS with 4.8%. Nine won Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Seven won Adelaide, Ten won Perth. Nine leads with a share of 24.2%, from Seven with 24.0%.

Digital: GO and 7TWO shared the night with 2.5% each. ABC 2 finished with 1.4%, ONE, 0.6%, SBS TWO, 0.5%, ABC 3, 0.3%. The six FTA digital channels averaged 7.8%, GO leads the week, 3.6% from 7TWO with 3.1% and ONE with 2.6%.

Pay TV: Nine won the night with 23.4%, from Seven with 21.4%, Ten with 19.4%, Pay TV with 15.4%, the ABC with 13.6% and SBS with 4.4%. The 11 FTA channels had a total share of 84.6% on the night, the 100 plus channels for Pay TV had 15.4%.

Regional: WIN/NBN won with a share of 27.5%, from Prime/7Qld with 26.2%, SC Ten with 22.1%, the ABC with 16.9% and SBS with 7.3%. WIN/NBN (25.9%) won the main channels from Prime/7Qld (24.8%). GO (1.6%) won the digitals from 7TWO (1.3%) and ABC 2 with 1.2%

(All ratings on the basis of combined overnight All People 6 pm to midnight)

Glenn Dyer’s comments: Last night: Nothing much to say about last night except that it was another fairly boring night of TV. Foreign Correspondent was solid (what’s Four Corners doing faffing about with buy-ins from offshore when Foreign Correspondent shows there are good yarns on our doorstep?). Or are Four Corners and Foreign Correspondent dividing up the ABC’s TV current affairs coverage into offshore/onshore, with Four Corners using buy-ins for one off foreign stories?

Ten’s The 7pm Project, 809,000. A solid figure for a program many in the newspaper TV reporting clique reckon is endangered. That’s more viewers (and for Ten, the right viewers, 16 to 49) than watched The 7.30 Report last night on a night when the high profile Malcolm Turnbull was the big story (776,000). But The 7.30 Report did have more viewers than Coastwatch did across the hour on Seven (770,000).

TONIGHT: Spicks and Specks on the ABC, The Biggest Loser and So You Think You Can Dance Australia on Ten, a repeat on Nine of Cold Case, after Customs and repeats of Two and a Half Men. Seven has a repeat of Saving Private Ryan to warm up us for the start of its mega series The Pacific. SBS has repeats of Inspector Rex at 7.30pm and then Carla Cametti PD at 8.30pm.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports