The Winners: Seven’s night, wins everything. The Renovators, 838,000, on Ten at 8.30pm, which was OK given the opposition.

  1. Australia’s Got Talent (winner announced) (Seven) (9.15pm) — 2.855 million
  2. Australia’s Got Talent (performance) (Seven) (7.30pm) — 2.316 million
  3. MasterChef Australia (Ten) (7.30pm) — 1.560 million
  4. Seven News 6pm — 1.375 million
  5. The Block (Nine) (7pm) — 1.372 million
  6. Winners & Losers (Seven) (9.30pm) — 1.337 million
  7. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.273 million
  8. Home and Away (Seven) (7pm) — 1.148 million
  9. Nine News (6pm) — 1.130 million
  10. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.090 million

The Losers: On a night such as last night, impossible to say if there were losers. Australia’s Got Talent and MasterChef simply blew Nine and the ABC and SBS off the map, especially Nine, and it couldn’t do anything about it.

News & CA: Seven News and Today Tonight lost Sydney by solid margins to Nine News and ACA. Seven News and TT won the rest.

  1. Seven News 6pm — 1.375 million
  2. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.273 million
  3. Nine News (6pm) — 1.130 million
  4. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.090 million
  5. ABC News (7pm) — 850 million
  6. The 7pm Project (Ten, 7 – 7.30 pm) — 759,000
  7. Ten News (5pm) — 620,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) (7.30pm) — 480,000
  9. 6.30 with George Negus (Ten) (6.30pm) — 431,000
  10. Foreign Correspondent (ABC) (8pm) — 409,000
  11. Late News/Sports Tonight (Ten) (10.45pm) — 305,000
  12. SBS News (6.30pm) — 172,000
  13. Lateline (ABC) (10.35pm) — 140,000
  14. Insight (SBS) (7.30pm) — 137,000
  15. SBS News (9.30pm) — 105,000
  16. Lateline Business (ABC) (11.10pm) — 93,000

In the morning:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 400,000
  2. Today (Nine) (7am) — 351,000

The Stats:

  • FTA: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 40.6% from Ten (3) on 22.8%, Nine (3) on 20.1%, the ABC (4) was on 12.5% and SBS (2) ended on 4.0%. Seven leads the week with 33.1% from Ten on 24.6% and Nine on 24.2%.
  • Main Channel: Seven won with a share of 34.0% from Ten on 18.1%, Ten on 15.5%, ABC 1 was on 8.9% and SBS ONE ended with 3.0%, Seven leads the week with 26.2% from Ten on 19.0% and Nine with 18.9%.
  • Digital: 7TWO won with a share of 3.6% from 7mate on 3.0%, Eleven was on 2.8%, GO was on 2.5%, ABC 2 was on 2.2%, Gem was on 2.1%, ONE was on 1.9%, SBS TWO was on 1.0%, ABC 3 was on 0.7% and News 24 finished with 0.6%. That’s an FTA viewing share last night of 20.4%, 7TWO leads the week with 4.0% from Eleven on 3.0% and GO and 7mate on 2.9% each.
  • Pay TV: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 34.5% from Ten (3) on 19.4%, with Nine (3) on 17.1%, Pay TV (200 plus channels) was on 12.8%, the ABC (4) ended with 10.6% and SBS (2) was on 3.4%. The 15 FTA channels had an 87.2% share of TV viewing last night in prime time. The 10 digital channels had a total share of 17.3% and the five main channels were on 69.9%.
  • Regional: Prime/7Qld (3 channels) won with a share of 39.7%, from WIN/NBN (3) on 23.9%, with SC Ten (3) on third with 19.5%. The ABC (4) was on 10.6% and SBS (2) ended on 4.6%. The main channels were won easily by Prime/7Qld with 32.1% from WIN/NBN on 18.1% and SC Ten on 14.2%. The digitals were won by 7TWO with 4.7%, from GO on 3.2% and 7mate on 2.9%. The 10 digital channels had a total FTA viewing share last night of 23.3%. Prime/7Qld leads the week with 32.1% from WIN/NBN on 27.6%.

Major Markets: A clean sweep for Seven. It won everywhere, with Ten second and Nine a distant third as it was squeezed out. 7TWO won the digitals battle everywhere bar Brisbane, where Eleven won. Seven leads Ten and Nine in Sydney, Adelaide and Perth. In Brisbane and Melbourne, it’s Seven from Nine and Ten.

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

Glenn Dyer’s comments: Seven’s night everywhere. Look at the national figures though for the main programs. They tell the real story: TV was the big winner.

  • Australia’s Got Talent (winner announced) had a national audience of 3.816 million people with 1.006 million in regional markets and 2.855 million in the five metro markets
  • Australia’s Got Talent (performance) had a national audience 3.135 million with 819,000 viewers in regional areas and 2.316 million in the metro markets.
  • MasterChef had a national audience 2.032 million with 472,000 in regional areas and 1.560 million in the metro markets.
  • Winners & Losers had a national audience of 1.819 million viewers with 482,000 in regional areas and 1.337 million in the metro markets.
  • The Block had a national audience of 1.785 million people with 413,000 in the regions and 1.372 million in the metro markets.

From about 7.30-8pm, more than 6 million people were watching Seven, Nine and Ten around the country. That is quite an incredible figure when you think about it.

Today Tonight on Seven at 6.30pm distinguished itself with a blatant plug at the start of the program for Australia’s Got Talent. It should be classified as an ad by ACMA, it was that obvious. It wasn’t news, it wasn’t current affairs, it was an on-air promo for the network’s biggest program of the year.

Tonight: The Block on Nine, MasterChef on Ten. Not much on Seven except a fresh Criminal Minds at 8.30pm. Spicks and Specks on the ABC, The Gruen Transfer returns to the ABC at 9pm. Nine has Top Design at 8.30pm.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports