The Winners: With more than 1.1 million viewers watching from 6pm to after 10pm, it was Seven’s night.

  1. Australia’s Got Talent (Seven, 7.30 — 9.15pm) — 1.859 million
  2. Dinner Date Australia (sneak peak) (Seven) (9.15pm) — 1.669 million
  3. MasterChef Australia (Ten) (7.30pm) — 1.468 million
  4. Seven News (6pm) — 1.369 million
  5. The Block (Nine) (7pm) — 1.344 million
  6. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.279 million
  7. Winners & Losers (Seven) (9.20pm) — 1.238 million
  8. Nine News (6pm) — 1.197 million
  9. Bondi Vet (Ten) (8pm) — 1.173 million
  10. Home and Away (Seven) (7pm) — 1.108 million
  11. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.050 million

The Losers: Nine. Its performance recalled the dark days of earlier this year. If The Block hadn’t done so well, Nine could have been beaten by the ABC. Top Gear, Nine, 8.30pm, 735,000. Not good up against Australia’s Got Talent and Winners & Losers on Seven and Ten’s repeat of NCIS.

News & CA: Nine News won Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Seven News won Adelaide and Perth. TT won everywhere bar Melbourne, which ACA won. Ten’s Late News/Sports Tonight benefited from the earlier start at 10.30pm, now that the 6.30 with George Negus repeat had gone.

  1. Seven News (6pm) — 1.369 million
  2. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.279 million
  3. Nine News (6pm) — 1.197 million
  4. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.050 million
  5. ABC News 7pm — 932,000
  6. The 7pm Project (Ten, 7-7.30pm) — 782,000
  7. Ten News 5-6.30pm) — 629,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC 1, 7.30-8pm) — 587,000
  9. 6.30 with George Negus (Ten, 6.30-7pm) — 509,000
  10. Late News/Sports Tonight (Ten, 10.30-11pm) — 478,000
  11. Foreign Correspondent (ABC 1, 8 – 8.30pm) — 472,000
  12. SBS News 6.30-7.30 pm) — 178,000
  13. Lateline (ABC 1, 10.35-11.10pm) — 151,000
  14. SBS News 1, 9.30-10pm) — 117,000
  15. Lateline Business (ABC 1, 11.10-11.40pm, replay) — 71,000

In the morning:

  1. Sunrise (Seven, 7-9am) — 354,000
  2. Today (Nine, 7-9am) — 321,000

The Stats:

  • FTA: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 36.0% from ten (3) on 23.5%, Nine (3) was on 21.4%, the ABC (4) ended with 13.5% and SBS (2) was on 5.6%. Seven now leads the week with 31.5% from Nine on 25.1% and Ten with 24.0%.
  • Main Channel: Seven won with 29.3% from Ten on 18.7%, Nine was on 16.8%, ABC 1 was on 10.0%, and SBS ONE ended with 5.1%. Seven leads the week with 25.1% from Nine on 19.7% and Ten on 18.9%.
  • Digital: 7TWO and 7mate won with 3.4% each, from Eleven on 3.2%, Germ was on 2.8%, ABC 2 was on 2.0%, GO was on 1.8%, ONE was on 1.6%, News 24 was on 0.8%, ABC 3, 0.7% and SBS TWO was on 0.5%. That’s an FTA viewing share of 19.2%. Eleven leads the week with 3.4% from 7mate on 3.3% and 7TWO on 3.2%.
  • Pay TV: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 30.2%, from Ten 93) on 19.7%, with Nine (3) on 18.0%, Pay TV (100-plus channels) was on 13.5%, the ABC (4) was on 11.3% and SBS (4) was on 4.7%. The 15 FTA channels had an 86.5% share of TV viewing last night. The 10 digitals were on 16.9% and the five main channels were on 69.6%.
  • Regional: Prime/7Qld (3 channels) won with a share of 37.2% from WIN/NBN (3) on 22.7%, with SC Ten (3) on 21.1%, the ABC (4) was on 13.3%, and SBS (2) was on 5.7%. The main channels were won by prime/7Qld on 29.5%, with daylight second and third. WIN/NBN was back on 17.7% and SC Ten was on 16.0% (MasterChef just doesn’t cut it in regional markets). 7TWO won the digitals with 4.2% from 7mate on 3.5% and Eleven on 3.3%. The Ten digital channels had an FTA share last night of 22.4%. Prime/7Qld leads the week on 33.2%, from WIN/NBN on 26.1%.

Major Markets: Seven won overall and the main channels everywhere. Ten was second and Nine third in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. Nine was second in Brisbane. 7TWO won Sydney, Adelaide and Perth. 7mate won Melbourne and Brisbane. Seven leads Nine and Ten in Sydney and Brisbane. Seven leads the week in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, with Ten second and Nine a weak third.

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

Glenn Dyer’s comments: Seven’s night, Seven’s week. In fact it was a surprisingly big win, with Australia’s Got Talent doing very well, as did Winners & Losers.

  • Australia’s Got Talent had a national audience of 2.654 million people, made up of 795,000 in regional areas and 1.859 million in the metro markets.
  • MasterChef had a national audience of 1.934 million, made up of 466,000 in regional areas and 1.468 million in the metros.
  • Winner & Losers had a national audience of 1.898 million, with 560,000 regional viewers and 1.238 million metro watchers.
  • The Block had a national audience of 1.815 million people, made up of 471,000 in regional areas and the 1.344 million in the five metro markets.

TONIGHT: Spicks and Specks and Angry Boys on the ABC, The Block on Nine. MasterChef on Ten. Seven, not much at all. SBS has the Tour de France: this stage is the Italian job.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports