The Winners:

The ABC ran third thanks to Spicks and Specks, Gruen Nation and Yes We Canberra. Ten was a distant fourth.

  1. Seven News (6pm) — 1.526 million
  2. Gruen Nation (ABC) (9pm) — 1.503 million
  3. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.490 million
  4. World’s Strictest Parents (Seven) (7.30pm) — 1.382 million
  5. Spicks and Specks (ABC) (8.30pm) — 1.366 million
  6. The Farmer Wants a Wife (Nine) (8.30pm) — 1.343 million
  7. Two and a Half Men (Nine) (7.30pm) — 1.337 million
  8. Nine News (6pm) — 1.314 million
  9. Yes We Canberra (ABC) (9.45pm) — 1.297 million
  10. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.255 million
  11. Hot Property (Nine) (8pm) –1.199 million
  12. Two and a Half Men (Nine) (7pm) (repeat) — 1.182 million
  13. Home and Away (Seven) (7pm) — 1.092 million
  14. ABC News (7pm) — 1.051 million

The Losers: Seven and Ten were squeezed by the ABC from 8.30pm to past 10pm. Nine seems to have been less impacted.

News & CA: The 7pm Project kept its 900,000 plus audience for another night as it continues to eat some of Home and Away‘s core audience. Seven News won nationally and in all metro markets. Today Tonight lost Melbourne to ACA, but won elsewhere.

  1. Seven News (6pm) — 1.526 million
  2. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.490 million
  3. Nine News (6pm) — 1.314 million
  4. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.255 million
  5. ABC News (7pm) — 1.051 million
  6. The 7.30 Report (ABC) (7.30pm) — 912,000
  7. The 7pm Project (Ten) (7pm) — 904,000
  8. Ten News (5pm) — 827,000
  9. Lateline (ABC) (10.20pm) — 546,000
  10. Ten Late Night News/Sports Tonight (Ten) (10.30pm) — 335,000
  11. SBS News (6.30pm) — 192,000
  12. Lateline Business (ABC) (10.55pm) — 180,000
  13. SBS News (9.30pm) — 78,000

In the mornings:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 383,000
  2. Today (Nine) (7am) — 326,000

The Stats:

  • FTA: Nine won with a share of 29.1%, from Seven with 25.5%, the ABC on 22.9%, Ten back with 18.3% and SBS on 4.2%. Seven still leads the week in All People with 28.8% from Nine with 27.7%.
  • Main Channel: A win to Nine here with 26.4%, from Seven on 23.6%, ABC 1 was on 20.1%, Ten, 17.5% and SBS ONE, 3.9%. Seven leads the week with 25.7% from Nine with 24.2%.
  • Digital: GO won with a share of 2.7%, from 7TWO on 2.0%, ABC 2, 1.8%, ONE on 0.8%, ABC 3, 0.7% and News 24 and SBS 3 tied with 0.3% each. GO leads the week with 3.5%, from 7TWO on 3.0%. Adelaide again had the highest share for the seven digital channels of 11.2% in prime time last night.
  • Pay TV: Nine won with a share of 24.8%, from Seven on 21.7%, the ABC with 19.5%, Ten was on 15.6%, Pay TV and its 100 plus channels had a total share of 12.7% and SBS was on 3.6%. The 12 FTA channels had a total share of 87.3%, made up of 7.4% for the seven digital channels, the five main channels had a total share of 79.9%.
  • Regional: A win to WIN/NBN with 31.7%, from Prime/7Qld on 28.6%, the ABC was third with 18.2%, SC Ten was 4th with 16.6% and SBS was on 5.0%. WIN/NBN won the main channels from, Prime/7Qld. GO won the digitals with a 2.1% share from 7TWO with 2.0% and ABC 2 on 1.6%. News 24 had a share of 0.3%, the same as in the metros. WIN/NBN lead the week with 29.5% from Prime/7Qld on 28.9%.

Major Markets: It was Seven from Nine and the ABC in Sydney and Perth. In Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide it was Nine from Seven and the ABC. Ten was 4th everywhere.

In the main channels it was Seven, Nine and the ABC in Sydney, Adelaide and Perth. In Brisbane it was Nine from Seven and the ABC; in Melbourne it was Nine from Seven and Ten as the ABC programs didn’t draw as solid a group of viewers as they did in Sydney and Brisbane. The Farmer Wants a Wife was more popular. In the digitals it was 7TWO from GO and ABC 2 in Sydney and Brisbane. Elsewhere it was GO from either 7TWO or the ABC.

Seven leads Sydney, Adelaide and Perth from Nine and Ten. Nine leads Melbourne and Brisbane from Seven and Ten.

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

Glenn Dyer’s comments: Last week Gruen Nation averaged 1.6 million viewers, last night a fall to 1.503 million. And Yes We Canberra averaged 1.493 million last week, and last night 196,000 fewer viewers at 1.297 million.

The ABC’s prime time share for its main channel, ABC 1 averaged 23% last Wednesday, last night, 20.1%.

Spicks and Specks, at 8.30pm, averaged 1.499 million last week and 1.366 million last night, so perhaps it was the lower lead in. The turnoff from Gruen Nation to Yes We Canberra widened from 107,000 last week to just over 200,000, which is sizeable.

Historical note: The national audience for MasterChef has been adjusted to take accounts of seven day recordings. There were an extra 65,000 viewers who recorded the final last Sunday week and watched on replay after 2am Monday, July 26.

That took the total metro audience to 4.029 million and the regional  audience was up by 24,000 to 1.184 million. Combining the new metro and regional figures, the finale had a total national audience of 4.637 million and the winner had a total audience nationally of 5.213 million.

TONIGHT: The usual Thursday night black hole on Seven. Nine starts repeats of The Mentalist instead of Sea Patrol which is on shore leave. Getaway finally discovers the fact that a lot of people travel overseas to eat and drink well in some amazing places from 7.30pm. Ten has Rush. A good night for something else.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports