The Winners: Seven’s night, easily.

MasterChef and Bondi Vet had their highest Tuesday audiences of the season.

The Block shed 228,000 viewers, or 17% of its metro audience last night — it is on unsteady ground. Home and Away beat it last night after running second on Monday night. The Block again made a mess of Ten’s The 7pm Project‘s audience and it’s clear that’s where some of the audience has come from, not Seven or the ABC. To be a big success, it has to win the 7pm timeslot, not just do well.

  1. Australia’s Got Talent (Seven) (7.30pm) — 1.756 million
  2. MasterChef Australia (Ten) (7.30 pm) — 1.597 million
  3. Seven News (6pm) — 1.373 million
  4. Winners & Losers (Seven) (9pm) — 1.348 million
  5. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.274 million
  6. Nine News (6pm) — 1.213 million
  7. Bondi Vet (Ten) (8pm) — 1.209 million
  8. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.157 million
  9. Home and Away (Seven) (7pm) — 1.154 million
  10. The Block (Nine) (7pm) — 1.114 million

The Losers: Nine, apart from The Block, suffered its 2011 standard weak Tuesday night.

News & CA: Seven News lost Melbourne, won the rest. TT lost Melbourne and Brisbane, won the rest.

Sunrise found more viewers, or viewers found Sunrise, again and it beat Today comfortably, which lost ground. Strange days indeed in morning TV. For those interested, the three hours of ABC News from 6am averaged 29,000 viewers and the hour of news on Ten, 30,000.

  1. Seven News (6pm) — 1.373 million
  2. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.274 million
  3. Nine News (6pm) — 1.213 million
  4. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.157 million
  5. ABC News (7pm) — 927,000
  6. The 7pm Project (Ten) (7pm) — 783,000
  7. Ten News (Ten) (5pm) — 697,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) (7.30pm) — 607,000
  9. Foreign Correspondent (ABC) (8pm) — 515,000
  10. 6.30 with George Negus (Ten) (6.30pm) 507,000
  11. SBS News (9.30pm) — 285,000
  12. 6.30 with George Negus (Ten) (10.30pm) — 254,000
  13. Late News/Sports Tonight (Ten) (11pm) — 201,000
  14. SBS News (6.30pm) — 171,000
  15. Lateline (ABC) (10.25pm) — 138,000
  16. Lateline Business (ABC) (11pm) — 62,000

In the morning:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 409,000
  2. Today (Nine) (7am) — 345,000

The Stats:

  • FTA: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 36.1%, from Ten (3) on 23.2%, Nine (3) was on 22.8%, the ABC (4) ended with 11.7% and SBS (2) ended with 6.2%.
  • Main Channel: Seven won with a share of 28.8%, from Ten on 18.0%, Nine, 16.9%, ABC 1, 8.3% and SBS ONE, 5.5%. Seven leads the week on 25.4% from Nine on 19.4% and Ten with 18.0%.
  • Digital: 7mate won with 3.9% from GO on 3.5%, 7TWO on 3.3%, Eleven on 2.9%, Gem on 2.4%, ONE with 2.3%, ABC 2 on 2.1%, SBS TWO and ABC 3 on 0.7% each and News 24 with 0.6%. That’s an FTA viewing share of 21.8% last night. 7mate leads the week with 4.3% from GO on 3.7% and 7TWO on 3.5%
  • Pay TV: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 30.2% from Ten (3) on 19.4%, Nine (3) was on 19.0%, Pay TV (100 plus channels) was on 13.9%, the ABC (4) was on 9.8% and SBS (2) ended with 5.2%. That’s a TV viewing share last for the FTA channels of 86.1%, made up of 19.7% for the 10 digitals channels and 67.4% for the five main channels.
  • Regional: Prime/7Qld (3 channels) won with a share of 36.5%, from WIN/NBN (3) on 25.2%, SC Ten (3) was on 21.1%, the ABC (4) ended with 11.7% and SBS (2) was on 5.5%. Prime/7Qld won the main channels with 28.8% from WIN/NBN on 18.6%. The digitals were won by 7TWO on 4.2%, with GO on 3.9% and 7mate on 3.5%. That’s a total of 24.8% in FTA prime time viewing for the 10 digital channels. Prime/7Qld lead the week with 33.6% from WIN/NBN on 27.4%.

Major Markets: Seven won everywhere, another very strong Tuesday night. Nine was second and Ten third in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane (although Ten was second in the main channels in Sydney). In Adelaide and Perth, Ten was second and Nine weak and in third (especially in Perth). 7mate won Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. GO won Sydney. Seven leads the week from Nine and Ten in Sydney Melbourne and Brisbane. in Adelaide and Perth, Seven leads Ten and Nine.

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

Glenn Dyer’s comments: Nine’s moment of glory on Monday night didn’t last long, down to third last night with weak efforts in Perth and Adelaide holding it back. Seven won easily because it had programs viewers want. Ten looked even more like a one trick pony last night.

  • With 760,000 viewers in regional Australia and the metro audience of 1.756 million, Australia’s Got Talent had a national audience of 2.516 million.
  • With 517,000 watching in the regions and 1.597 million in metro markets, MasterChef had a national audience of 2.114 million.
  • With a regional audience of 560,000 and 1.348 million in metro areas, Winners & Losers had a national audience of 1.908 million.
  • The Block had 371,000 in regional areas and 1.114 million in the metro markets for a national audience of 1.485 million, down from the 1.776 million or Monday night, a loss of 291,000 viewers, or around 16%.

TONIGHT: The big test for Nine. Will The Block revive or will it do nothing? Ten has MasterChef at 7.30pm, and then Offspring (hey, it’s not Monday night!). The ABC has Spicks and Specks at 8.30pm, then Angry Boys at 9pm (that’s a maybe watch, will it lose any more viewers tonight?). Seven has two episodes of Criminal Minds, one fresh and one a repeat. SBS has episode two of Go Back To Where You Came From.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports