The Winners: Seven’s night with a surprisingly easy win. Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation on Ten at 8.30 pm, 801,000. Those numbers were weak and it should have done better. Is the audience too familiar with it?

  1. The Block (Nine) (7pm) — 1.393 million
  2. Seven News (6pm) — 1.388 million
  3. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.241 million
  4. The Gruen Transfer (ABC) (9pm) — 1.114 million
  5. Nine News (6pm) — 1.075 million
  6. World’s Strictest Parents (Seven, 7.30 – 8.30 pm) — 1.045 million
  7. Criminal Minds: Suspect Behaviour (Seven) (8.30pm) — 1.015 million

The Losers: The Renovators on Ten at 7.30pm: 667,000. Top Design on Nine at 8pm, 635,000.

News & CA: Nine News and ACA won Sydney, again. Seven News and TT had big wins in the four other metro markets. 7.30 had another solid audience last night, as did Lateline Business. Ten’s The 7pm Project has developed a real list now that it wasn’t getting boosted by the early turn-on before 7.30pm for the nightly MasterChef.

  1. Seven News (6pm) — 1.388 million
  2. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.241 million
  3. Nine News (6pm) — 1.075 million
  4. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 999,000
  5. ABC News (7pm) — 976,000
  6. 7.30 (ABC) (7.30pm) — 750,000
  7. Ten News (5pm) — 636,000
  8. The 7pm Project (Ten) (7pm) — 610,000
  9. 6.30 with George Negus (Ten) (6.30pm) — 380,000
  10. Lateline (ABC) (10.30pm) — 254,000
  11. Late News/Sports Tonight (Ten) (11.40pm) — 223,000
  12. SBS News (6.30pm) — 187,000
  13. Lateline Business (ABC) (11.05pm) — 133,000
  14. SBS News (9.30pm) — 119,000

In the morning:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 380,000
  2. Today (Nine) (7am) — 360,000

The Stats:

  • FTA: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 30.9%, from Nine (3) on 26.2%, Ten (3) was on 19.1%, the ABC (4) was on 19.0% and SBS (2) ended with 4.9%. Seven leads the week with 28.4% from Nine on 26.9% and Ten on 23.6%.
  • Main Channel: Seven won the main channels with 21.5% from Nine on 19.5%, ABC 1 was third on 14.9%, Ten was on 12.9% and SBS ONE was on 3.9%. Seven leads the week with 21.3% from Nine on 20.1% and Ten on 17.7%.
  • Digital: 7TWO won with 4.9% from 7mate on 4.5%, Eleven was on 4.1%, GO was on 3.6%, Gem was on 3.1%, ABC 2 was on 2.3%, ONE was on 2.1%, SBS TWO was on 1.0% and News 24 and ABC 3 ended with 0.9% each. That’s a total FTA viewing share for the 10 channels of 27.4%. GO leads the week with 4.1% from 7TWO on 3.8% and Eleven on 3.7%.
  • Pay TV: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 25.4%, from Nine (3) on 21.5%, with Ten (3) on 15.7%, the ABC (4) was on 15.6%, Pay TV (200 plus channels) was on 15.0% and SBS (2) ended with 4.0%. The 15 FTA channels had a viewing share last night of 85%, with the 10 digitals on a very high 22.5% and the five main channels on 62.5%.
  • Regional: Prime/7Qld (3 channels) won with 31.2%, from WIN/NBN (3) on 29.8%, with the ABC (4) on 17.1%, SC Ten was on 16.5% and SBS ended on 5.3%. WIN/NBN won the main channels with 22.4%, from Prime/7Qld on 20.9%, ABC 1 on 11.9% and SC Ten on 9.7%. The digitals were won by 7TWO on 5.3%, with 7mate on 5.1% and Eleven on 4.3%. The 10 digital channels had a total FTA viewing share of a very high 31.5%. Prime/7Qld leads the week on 29.8% from WIN/NBN on 29.0%. With The Footy Shows on tonight and the NRL tomorrow night, WIN/NBN should win the week.

Major Markets: Seven won everywhere, overall and in the main channels. The ABC was third overall instead of Ten in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. Ten finished third overall in Brisbane and Adelaide. The ABC was third in the main channels everywhere bar Perth where it finished second to Seven. 7TWO won Sydney and Adelaide. 7Mate won Melbourne and Perth. Eleven won Brisbane. Nine still leads Seven and Ten in Sydney and Melbourne (where The Block is at its strongest). Seven leads Nine and Ten in Brisbane and Adelaide and Ten and Nine in Perth.

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

Glenn Dyer’s comments: Ten was again very weak. In fact, last night was a bit of a replay of Monday night. The ABC, with one solid hit in its line up in The Gruen Transfer, did over Ten for the second night in three, which tells us how weak Ten is now, and how exposed the network is financially for the rest of the year. The glow from the MasterChef final has well and truly gone.

The Block had the biggest national audience with 1.956 million viewers. It finished top in the regional markets with 563,000 viewers and had 1.393 million in the five metro markets.

Desperate Housewives ends in the US next year. So far as Seven is concerned here, it is almost dead. And we look like seeing a third series of Downton Abbey next year.

Tonight: Nine has The Block and another Hamish and Andy’s Gap Year. Seven has a strange line up; 7.30pm sees WWII Lost Films: The Air War and then a “reality series” in a pawn shop in Las Vegas called Pawn Stars.

Modern Family is on Ten at 7.30pm on Ten and The Renovators has been pushed back to 8pm. The ABC has another episode of Crownies. SBS has another episode of French Food Safari.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports