The Winners

  1. Seven News (6pm) — 1.583 million.
  2. MasterChef Australia (Ten, 7.30pm) — 1.469 million.
  3. Nine News (6pm) — 1.465 million.
  4. Dancing with the Stars (Seven, 6.30pm) — 1.449 million.
  5. 60 Minutes (Nine, 7.30pm) — 1.108 million.

Seven won All People clearly, Ten did well thanks to MasterChef, of course. Nine was squeezed somewhat. MasterChef was clearly superior to Dancing with the Stars last night.

The Losers

Nine, again. No firepower and not really trying against DWTS and MasterChef.

News & CA

  1. Seven News (6pm) — 1.583 million.
  2. Nine News (6pm) — 1.465 million.
  3. 60 Minutes (Nine, 7.30pm) — 1.108 million.
  4. ABC News (7pm) — 743,000.
  5. Ten News (5pm) — 429,000.
  6. Ten Evening News (6pm) — 409,000.
  7. Weekend Sunrise (Seven, 8am) — 336,000.
  8. Weekend Today (Nine, 8am) — 282,000.
  9. Insiders (ABC1, 24, 9 – 10 am) — 274,000 (207,000 on 1, 47,000 on 24).
  10. SBS News (6.30pm) — 188,000.
  11. Dateline (SBS, 8.30pm) — 149,000.
  12. Inside Business (ABC, 10am) — 139,000.
  13. The Bolt Report (Ten, 10am) — 126,000.
  14. Offsiders (ABC, 10.30pm) — 132,000.
  15. The Bolt Report Encore (Ten, 4.30pm, repeat) — 131,000.
  16. Meet The Press (Ten, 10.30am) — 88,000.

Nine News won Sydney and Melbourne, Seven News won Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.

Yesterday, Andrew Bolt got a dose of reality with his third program. He won’t be blogging these figures as quickly as he did last week when The Bolt Report had more viewers than Insiders. Yesterday Insiders did him like a dinner, increasing its audience to 207,000 on ABC 1 and 47,000 on News 24 in a simulcast for a total of 254,000.

Bolt’s audience fell by more than 20% to 136,000 (from 174,000). The audience in the afternoon rose to 131,000 from 129,000. Inside Business had more viewers at 10am on the ABC. Meet The Press‘s audience at 10.30am on Ten plunged to 88,000 from 118,000 because of the fall in Bolt’s audience. Overall the Bolt program was disappointing. He’s fighting a war for half an hour with the ABC, Fairfax papers and anyone who has an opinion contrary to his. That doesn’t work on TV because it gets boring.

The Stats

  • FTA: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 32.0%, from Nine (3) on 26.5%, Ten (3), was on 23.8%, the ABC (4) was on 13.6% and SBS (2) ended with 4.2%.
  • Main Channel: Seven won with a share of 25.7% from Nine on 18.7%, Ten on 16.9%, ABC1 was on 11.6% and SBS ONE was on 3.3%.
  • Digital: ONE with its Grand Prix broadcast one with 4.5%, from GO with 4.4%, from Gem on 3.4%, 7mate was on 3.2%, 7TWO was on 3.1%, Eleven was on 2.4%, ABC2 was on 1.0%, SBS TWO ended with 0.9% and ABC3 and News 24 had 0.5% and 0.4% respectively. That’s a total share of FTA viewing last night of 23.8%.
  • Pay TV: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 26.4%, from Nine (3) on 21.8%, Ten (3) was on 19.6%, Pay TV (100 plus channels) ended with 14.6%, the ABC (4) was on 11.2% and SBS (2) was on 3.4%.
  • Regional: n/a
  • Major Markets: Seven won overall and the main channels from Nine and Ten in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. In Adelaide and Perth Seven won from Ten and a weak Nine. GO won the main channels in Sydney, Gem won Perth, ONE won Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide and did well elsewhere with the Formula 1 race *(274,000 average, the highest of the night for digital TV).

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

Glenn Dyer’s comments: Seven’s week in All People, the main channels and in the digital channels. Seven won the demos as well. MasterChef and Offspring stood out for Ten.

Last night only two shows mattered, Dancing with the Stars and MasterChef. Everyone else was squeezed out. The Kennedys on the ABC saw 802,000 watch the first ep. Cloudstreet on Showtime on Pay TV averaged 11,000 viewers in the five metro markets.

Hilights for the week: The State of Origin on Nine on Wednesday night, The European Cup final from London early next Sunday morning, on SBS, Downton Abbey on Seven next Sunday at 8.30pm. That one is wonderful TV. Well worth watching no matter what network had it. Seven is the lucky one.

TONIGHT: MasterChef and Offspring. Those two hours are better options than the ABC’s current affairs drone that starts with the 7pm news and ends around 11.35. Nine has Come Fly With Me at 8pm. Seven has The Amazing Race at 8.30pm. Come Fly With Me was on GEM yesterday afternoon (it’s that movie with the great Frank Sinatra song).

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports