The Winners:

It was the case of a one show night, with an interesting assist to Packed to the Rafters from Minute to Win It on Seven where some bloke won half a million bucks for flipping ping pong balls into glasses (he had to throw two each time from the one hand). It makes Deal or No Deal on Seven look like Mensa material and Hot Seat‘s Eddie McGuire seem like Albert Einstein’s alter ego.

  1. Packed to the Rafters (Seven) (8.30pm) — 2.017 million
  2. Seven News (6pm) — 1.482 million
  3. Minute to Win It — (Seven) (7.30pm) — 1.437 million
  4. Today Tonight (Seven, 6.30 – 7 pm) — 1.417 million
  5. Top Gear (Nine) (7.30pm) — 1.336 million
  6. Nine News (6pm) — 1.306 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30) — 1.263 million
  8. Two and a Half Men (Nine) (7pm) (repeat) — 1.239 million
  9. Modern Family (Ten) (8pm) — 1.213 million
  10. ABC News (7pm) — 1.093 million
  11. Home and Away (Seven) (7pm) — 1.043 million

The Losers: Adults 20 to 1 at 9pm on Nine, 537,000. Nine is running this tired repeat at 9pm because Packed to the Rafters on Seven has sucked up viewers. So it’s Nine running dead. Nine had four repeats on last night — that’s nearly three and a half hours of TV. Ten had two hours of repeats. Ten and Nine do to minimise the cost of competing on a strong night for Seven.

News & CA:

Seven News won all markets and especially in Sydney where Chris Bath’s News has been under pressure from Nine. ACA beat TT in Melbourne, and surprisingly in Adelaide (the first time for eons). TT won nationally because of the big win in Perth and a solid margin in Sydney.

  1. Seven News (6pm) — 1.482 million
  2. Today Tonight (Seven, 6.30 – 7 pm) — 1.417 million
  3. Nine News (6pm) — 1.306 million
  4. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30) — 1.263 million
  5. ABC News (7pm) — 1.093 million
  6. The 7pm Project (Ten) (7pm) — 920,000
  7. Ten News (5pm) — 842,000
  8. The 7.30 Report (ABC) (7.30pm) — 782,000
  9. Foreign Correspondent (ABC) (8pm) — 608,000
  10. Ten late News/Sports Tonight (Ten) (10.30pm) — 399,000
  11. Insight (SBS) (7.30pm) — 213,000
  12. Lateline (ABC) (10.35pm) –188,000
  13. SBS News (6.30pm) — 153,000
  14. Lateline Business (ABC) (11.10pm) — 117,000
  15. SBS News (9.30pm) — 98,000

In the mornings:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 388,000
  2. Today (Nine) (7am) — 317,000

The Stats:

  • FTA: Seven won All People, 18 to 49s and 25 to 54s. Seven finished with a share of 32.9%, from Nine on 25.2%, Ten with 20.8%, the ABC, 16.3% and SBS, 4.7%. Seven leads the week with 29.8% with Nine on 27.2%.
  • Main Channel: A win to Seven here with 30.9%, from Nine on 22.8%, Ten on 20.0%, ABC 1, 13.3% and SBS ONE with 3.9%. Seven leads the week with 26.5% from Nine on 23.4%.
  • Digital: GO won with 2.4%, from, 7TWO on 2.0%, ABC 2 on 1.8%, ONE on 0.9%, SBS TWO with 0.8% and ABC 3 and News 24 with 0.6% each. GO leads the week on 3.8%, from 7TWO with 3.4%.
  • Pay TV: Seven won with 27.8%, from Nine on 21.3%, Ten with 17.6%, the ABC, 13.7%, Pay TV (and its 100 -plus channels) with 13.1% and SBS on 4.0%. The 12 FTA channels had a total share of 86.9, divided into 7.2% for the seven digital channels and 79.7% for the main channels.
  • Regional: A win here for Prime/7Qld with a share of 34.1%, from WIN/NBN on 25.9%, SC Ten on 20.8%. Prime/7Qld won with main channels from WIN/NBN. GO won the digitals with 2.4%, from 7TWO and ABC 2 each on 1.4%. ABC News 24 had a share of 0.5%. Prime/7Qld lead the week with 29.1% from WIN/NBN on 28.8%.
  • Major Markets: It was Seven, from Nine and Ten in every market in the overall and main channels. GO won the digitals in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. 7TWO won Sydney, ABC 2 won Brisbane. Seven leads from Nine in every market bar Melbourne where its Nine from Seven. Ten is third everywhere.

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

Glenn Dyer’s comments: Packed to the Rafters had its first 2 million plus audience of the year. Seven wins. News 24 had a FTA share of 0.6% and including Pay TV, 0.5% in prime time last night.

TONIGHT: From 8.30pm the ABC has Spicks and Specks, Gruen Nation and then The Chaser’s Yes We Canberra which leads into Lateline at 10.20pm. A good block of interesting TV. Ten has fresh Simpsons and Lie to Me. Nine’s RPA returning at 9.30pm. Seven has the fading City Homicide at 8.30pm.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports