A big win in Melbourne gives the night to Nine

Big audiences in Melbourne saw Nine score a big win in the market which was enough to push it past Seven nationally.

The Glenn Dyer breakdown: A narrow win to Nine overall, but a bigger win to Nine on the main channels. The Celebrity Apprentice, 917,000 for the Boardroom but just 783,000 for The Challenge from 8pm to 9.30pm. It won the slot, but failed to set the world on fire. The Block just over 1.1 million, did a bit better.

Big audiences in Melbourne for The Block (421,000, the biggest in the country last night), and the AFL Footy Show (346,000) saw Nine score a big win in the market which was enough to push it past Seven nationally.

23,000 people watched Rupert Murdoch at the Leveson inquiry in London on News 24 from 7pm to around 10.10pm.

Tonight: AFL on Seven (main channel in the south, and 7mate in the north) and on Pay TV. NRL on Nine (main and Gem channels). Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries on ABC 1. Better Homes and Gardens on Seven main in the north. Young Talent Time on Ten at 7pm.

Saturday: AFL on Seven (main and 7mate) afternoon and night, and it’s on Pay TV as well. The ABC has a fresh New Tricks at 7.30pm and a fresh Whitechapel. In northern markets, Seven’s main channel is full of boring movies. Nine is also full of boring movies, after Australia’s Funniest Home Videos and a repeat of The Voice. Ten has Good News Week – The Final Farewell Tour at 6.30pm (meaning it’s dead).

Sunday: Morning chats. AFL on Seven (main and 7mate) and Pay TV. NRL on Nine (main and Gem channels) and Pay TV. In the evening, there’s no The Voice with Nine running The Block, 60 Minutes and then The Mentalist. That’s not a line up to strike fear into the hearts at Seven or Ten. Seven has Dancing With The Stars, fresh Bones and Castle and will reckon it has a chance of winning. Ten has The Biggest Loser, Modern Family, New Girl and Touch: all fresh episodes. Nine should have run The Voice tonight and generated a big start to the week. ABC 1 has the final Waking the Dead at 8.30pm.

The top 10 national programs (metro & regional combined):

Seven News — 1.790 million
Nine News — 1.696 million
The Block (Nine) — 1.606 million
A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.588 million
Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.377 million
Home and Away (Seven) — 1.299 million
ABC News — 1.277 million
The Celebrity Apprentice (Boardroom) (Nine) — 1.253 million
The Celebrity Apprentice (Challenge) (Nine) — 1.080 million
Grey’s Anatomy (Seven) — 1.014 million

The Metro Winners:

Seven News (6pm) — 1.207 million
Nine News (6pm) — 1.162 million
The Block (Nine) (7pm) — 1.109 million
Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.103 million
A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.005 million

The Losers: Glee on Ten at 7.3 pm, 614,000. Grey’s Anatomy on Seven at 8.30pm, 644,000. The Biggest Loser on Ten at 7pm, 665,000.

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

Seven News (6pm) — 1.207 million
Nine News (6pm) — 1.162 million
Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.103 million
A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.005 million
ABC News (7pm) — 906,000
Ten News (5pm) — 719,000
7.30 (ABC) (7.30pm) — 644,000
I Can Change Your Mind About Climate (ABC) (8.30pm) — 620,000
Q&A: The Climate Debate (ABC) (9.30pm) — 609,000
The Project (Ten) (6.30pm) — 593,000
The Project (ABC) (6pm) — 454,000
Lateline (ABC) (10.30pm) — 245,000
SBS News (6.30pm) — 187,000
The Business (ABC) (11.05pm) — 133,000
SBS News (10.30pm) — 54,000
The Drum (News 24) (6pm) — 42,000

In the morning:

Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 361,000
Today (Nine) (7am) — 338,000
The Morning Show (Seven) (9am) — 177,000
Mornings (Nine) (9am) — 106,000
The Circle (Ten) (9am) — 51,000
News Breakfast (ABC) (6am) — 35,000 (+20,000)*
Breakfast (Ten) (7am) — 28,000

*On News 24 simulcast

Metro FTA: Nine (3 channels) won with a share of 29.6%, from Seven (3) on 29.2%, with Ten (3) on 18.7%, the ABC (4) was on 17.0% and SBS (2) ended on 5.5%. Nine leads the week with 35.1% from Nine on 27.6%, with Ten on 17.6%. Main Channels: Nine won with 23.0% from Seven on 20.0%, Ten was on 13.1%, ABC 1, 12.8% and SBS ONE ended on 5.0%. Nine leads the week with 29.2%, from Seven on 21.2% and Ten’s 12.9%.

Metro Digital: 7TWO won with a share of 5.4% from GO on 4.2%, 7mate was on 3.8%, Eleven was on 3.6%, ABC 2 was on 2.9%, Gem was on 2.4%, ONE was on 2.1%, News 24 was on 0.7%, ABC 3 was on 0.6% and SBS TWO ended on 0.5%. The 10 digital channels had a total FTA share last night of 26.2%. GO leads the week with 3.5% from 7TWO on 3.4% and 7mate on 3.0%.

Metro including Pay TV: Nine (3 channels) won with a share of 24.4%, from Seven (3) on 24.1%, with Ten (3) on 15.5%, Pay TV (200 plus channels) was on 15.1%, the ABC (4) was on 14.0% and SBS (2) ended on 4.6%. The 15 FTA channels had an 84.9% viewing share last night. The 10 digital channels were on 21.6%, the five main channels, 63.5%.

The top five pay TV channels were:

Fox 8 (3.0%)
Lifestyle (2.6%)
TV 1 (2.0%)
Fox Sports 1 (1.3%)
Fox Classic (1.8%)

The five most-watched programs on pay TV were:

Grand Designs Australia (Lifestyle) — 140,000
AFL: AFL League Teams (Fox Footy) — 85,000
The Simpsons (Fox 8) — 84,000
American Idol (Fox 8) — 80,000
AFL: AFL 360 (Fox Footy) — 78,000

Regional: Prime/7Qld (3 channels) won overall with a share of 33.9% from WIN/NBN (3) on 28.5%, SC Ten (3) was on 17.1%, the ABC (4) was on 16.2% and SBS (2) was on 4.4%. But WIN/NBN won the main channels with 22.1% from Prime/7Qld on 20.7%. The digital channels were won by 7TWO with 7.0%, from 7mate on 6.2% and GO on 4.3%. The 10 digital channels had a high total share of 30.1% in prime time last night. WIN/NBN leads the week with 34.5% from Prime/7Qld on 30.2%.

The five most-watched programs in regional markets were:

Seven News — 583,000
A Current Affair — 581,000
Nine News — 544,000
The Block — 496,000
Home and Away — 414,000

Major Metro Markets: Nine won (overall and the main channels) Sydney, and had a big win in Melbourne, but Seven won (overall and the main channels) in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. 7TWO won the digitals in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. 7mate won Brisbane and Perth. Nine leads in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Seven now leads in Adelaide and Perth.

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

*Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports