The Winners: Seven’s night, easily.

Meanwhile, Ten’s Junior MasterChef, 723,000 viewers, was squashed again by a stronger program on Seven.

  1. The X Factor (winner announced) (Seven) (~9.20pm) — 1.998 million
  2. The X Factor (Seven) (7.30pm) — 1.721 million
  3. Seven News (6pm) — 1.157 million
  4. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.067 million
  5. Home and Away (Seven) (7pm) — 1.039 million
  6. Nine News (6pm) — 1.031 million

The Losers: Mike & Molly on Nine at 9pm, 570,000.

Also on Nine, Two and a Half Men at 8.30pm. It was a fresh episode yet only 801,000 people were interested. In fact, viewers were more interested in the two The Big Bang Theory repeats from 7.30pm.

News & CA: Nine News and A Current Affair won Sydney. Seven News and Today Tonight won the rest.

Foreign Correspondent finished with a bits and pieces look at the best programs. It was a reminder that it is the best current affairs program on TV.

  1. Seven News (6pm) — 1.157 million
  2. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.067 million
  3. Nine News (6pm) — 1.031 million
  4. ABC News (7pm) — 933,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 929,000
  6. 7.30 (ABC) (7.30pm) — 597,000
  7. The Project (Ten) (6.30pm) — 583,000
  8. Ten News (5pm) — 548,000
  9. Foreign Correspondent (ABC) (8pm) — 532,000
  10. SBS News (6.30pm) — 170,000
  11. SBS News (9.30pm) — 167,000
  12. Lateline (ABC) (10.30pm) — 148,000
  13. Lateline Business (ABC) (11.05pm) — 83,000

In the morning:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 370,000
  2. Today (Nine) (7am) — 320,000

The Stats:

  • FTA: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 37.0%, from Nine (3) on 21.2%, Ten (3) on 21.1%, the ABC (4) on 14.9% and SBS (2) on 5.9%. Seven leads the week with 33.0% from Nine on 27.0% and Ten on 19.6%.
  • Main Channel: Seven won with a share of 30.1% from Nine on 16.4%, Ten was on 15.9%, ABC 1 was on 10.8% and SBS ONE ended on 4.7%. Seven leads the week with 25.5% from Nine on 20.7% and Ten with 14.1%.
  • Digital: 7TWO won with 4.0% from Eleven on 3.7%, 7mate on 2.9%, Gem with 2.5%, ABC 2 was on 2.4%, GO was on 2.3%, ONE was on 1.4%, SBS TWO was on 1.2%, ABC 3 ended with 1.0% and News 24 ended with 0.7%. The 10 digital channels had an FTA viewing share of 22.1%. 7TWO leads the week with 4.3% from GO and Eleven on 3.5% each.

Pay TV: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 31.2%, from Nine (3) on 17.8%, Ten (3) also on 17.8%, Pay TV (200 plus channels) was on 13.3%, the ABC (4) on 142.6% and SBS (2) on 4.9%. The 15 FTA channels had an 86.7% viewing share last night with the 10 digitals on 18.7% and the five main channels on 68.0%.

The top five Pay TV channels were:

  1. Fox 8 (2.61%)
  2. Lifestyle (2.48%)
  3. TV 1 (2.08%)
  4. 111 Hits (1.58%)
  5. UKTV (1.50%)

The top five Pay TV programs were:

  1. Coronation Street (UKTV) — 76,000
  2. Family Guy (Fox 8) — 66,000
  3. Eastenders (UKTV) — 63,000
  4. Futurama (Fox 8) — 63,000
  5. Sarah Beeny’s Village SOS (Lifestyle) — 57,000

Regional: Prime/7Qld (3 channels) won with a share of 41.1%, from WIN/NBN (3) on 22.1%, SC Ten (3) was on 18.4%, The ABC (4) was on 13.0 % and SBS (2) ended with 5.3%. The main channels were won by Prime/7Qld with 31.7% from WIN/NBN on 17.2%. 7TWO won the digitals with 5.7%, with 7mate on 3.7% and Eleven on 3.3%. The 10 digital channels had a FTA share last night of 24.3%. Prime/7Qld leads the week on 37.2%, from WIN/NBN on 26.8%.

The top five programs in regional markets were:

  1. The X Factor (winner announced) — 894,000
  2. The X Factor — 828,000
  3. Seven News — 568,000
  4. Happy Endings — 521,000
  5. Home and Away — 505,000

Major Markets: Seven won all five metro markets overall and the main channels. Nine was second and Ten third in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. But in Brisbane and Adelaide, Ten was second and pushed Nine into third. 7TWO won the digitals in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Eleven won Brisbane, 7mate won Perth. Seven leads the week everywhere and will win easily, wrapping up a win in all 44 weeks of official ratings.

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

Glenn Dyer’s comments: A clean sweep for Seven. The X Factor final was actually of interest (to oldies like me). The Justin Bieber clone was the winner, as it has looked for a while. That shouldn’t be surprising seeing the core audience for this program was young female viewers from around 13 to 21.

The top five national programs were:

  1. The X Factor (winner announced) — 2.891 million
  2. The X Factor — 2.550 million
  3. Seven News — 1.725 million
  4. Home and Away — 1.543 million
  5. Happy Endings — 1.509 million.

Once recordings are factored in, The X Factor will top the 3 million mark, which is pretty good going for a program that Ten botched back in 2005 and Seven mishandled last year, especially with the divisive presence of Kyle Sandilands.

Tonight: The last Spicks and Specks (an hour program) tonight on the ABC from 8.30pm. The Hamster Wheel at 9.30pm will also be worth a look seeing it has evolved into Media Watch with an edge. Seven has the last episode of The One: Australia’s Most Gifted Psychic at 7.30pm. Good riddance. Nine has the final Frozen Planet at 8.30pm. Ten has the Junior MasterChef final at 7.30pm.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports