Seven's night yet MasterChef keeps bubbling away

Seven won the night, with Sunday Night, second in metro markets with 1.482 million viewers, topping the nation with 2.252 million.

The Glenn Dyer breakdown: Nine continued to run dead and, apart from MasterChef, Ten struggled. Seven won the night, with Sunday Night, second in metro markets with 1.482 million viewers, topping the nation with 2.252 million.

The Tour de France on SBS ONE averaged 289,000 metro viewers last night and 389,000 nationally. Around 1.1 million watched the Sydney versus West Coast AFL game on Seven and Pay TV: 532,000 watched on Seven’s main channels (211,000 in Melbourne and 184,000 in Perth) and just 102,000 watched on 7mate (48,000 in Sydney). 350,000 watched the game on Fox Footy on Pay TV.

Tonight: The hours of news and current affairs on ABC 1, MasterChef on Ten, plus the debut of The Shire (which will make Being Lara Bingle look good), Revenge on Seven, the Tour de France on SBS ONE and on Nine, more auditions in the US version of The Voice, just what the local audience doesn’t want to watch.

Last Week: Seven won easily. Ten did well in the demos thanks to MasterChef. 7TWO won the digitals. Seven won Friday and Saturday nights (but Pay TV won Saturday night when it was included in the figures). Prime/7Qld won the regionals. Nine running dead ahead of the Olympics helped everyone, as it will again this week.

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

Sunday Night (Seven) — 2.252 million
Seven News — 2.185 million
Nine News — 2.031 million
MasterChef (Ten) — 1.990 million
Downton Abbey (Seven) — 1.972 million
Billy Connolly’s Route 66 (Seven) — 1.917 million
60 Minutes (Nine) — 1.561 million
Reaching Out (Nine) — 1.395 million
ABC News — 1.113 million
The Mentalist (Nine) — 991,000

The Metro Winners:

Seven News (6pm) — 1.523 million
Sunday Night (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.482 million
MasterChef (Ten) (7pm) — 1.465 million
Nine News (6pm) — 1.393 million
Downton Abbey (Seven) (8.45pm) — 1.375 million
Billy Connolly’s Route 66 (Seven) (7.30pm) — 1.235 million
60 Minutes (Nine) (7.30pm) — 1.109 million
Reaching Out (Nine) (6.30m) — 1.006 million

The Losers: Nine, The Mentalist at 8.30pm, 689,000, crushed by Downton Abbey and the back of MasterChef and Billy Connolly’s Route 66. Last Man Standing on Ten at 6.30pm, 550,000. Ian Thorpe: The Swimmer on ABC 1 at 7.30pm, 677,000. I hope the ABC didn’t pay very much for this.

Metro News & CA: Seven News won Sydney, Nine won Melbourne, the two shared Brisbane, Seven won Adelaide and Perth.

Seven News (6pm) — 1.523 million
Sunday Night (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.482 million
Nine News (6pm) — 1.393 million
60 Minutes (Nine) (7.30pm) — 1.109 million
ABC News (7pm) — 774,000
Ten News (5pm) — 422,000
The Project (Ten) ( 6pm) — 350,000
SBS News (6.30pm) — 194,000
The Bolt Report (Ten) (4.30pm) — 138,000

In the morning: Inside Business continues its steady fall because viewers now realise it is off the pace. More than 70,000 viewers stopped watching the ABC when Insiders finished and Inside Business started at 10am, but then more than 40,000 of those returned for Offsiders at 10.30am. There’s a message there for the ABC. Offsiders had a strong morning yesterday, while The Bolt Report bounced a bit, as did Insiders at 9am.

Weekend Sunrise (Seven) (8am) — 331,000
Weekend Today (Nine) (8am) — 281,000
Landline (ABC) (Noon) — 214,000
Insiders (ABC) (9am) — 197,000 (+37,000)*
Offsiders (ABC) (10.30am) — 165,000
The Bolt Report (Ten) (10am) — 153,000
Inside Business (ABC) (10am) — 121,000
Meet The Press (Ten) (10am) — 91,000

*On News 24 simulcast

Metro FTA: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 34.1% from Nine (3) on 26.2%, Ten (3) was on 20.9%, the ABC (2) was on 12.3% and SBS (2) ended on 6.5%. Main Channels: A win to Seven with a share of 26.4% from Nine on 19.5%, Ten with 15.8%, ABC 1 was on 9.2% and SBS TWO ended with 5.9%.

Metro Digital: 7mate and Go tied with 4.8% each, with Eleven on 3.2%, 7TWO on 2.9%, Gem and ONE on 2.0% each, ABC 2 on 1.8%, ABC 3, 0.7%, News 24 and SBS TWO ended with 0.6% each. The 10 digital channels had an FTA share of 23.4%.

Metro including Pay TV: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 28.0% from Nine (3) on 21.5%, Ten (3) was on 17.2%, Pay TV (200 plus channels) was on 15.3%, the ABC (2) was on 10.3% and SBS (2) ended on 5.3%. The 15 FTA channels had a viewing share last night of 84.7%, with the give main channels share, 65.5% and the 10 digital share totaling 19.2%.

The top five pay TV channels were:

Fox Footy (6.1%)
Fox 8 (2.5%)
TV 1 (2.5%)
Fox Sports 2 (2.2%)
Fox Sports 1 (2.0%)

The five most-watched programs on pay TV were:

AFL: West Coast v Sydney (Fox Footy) — 350,000
NRL: Canberra v Gold Coast (Fox Sports 2) — 180,000
AFL: After The Bounce (Fox Footy) — 150,000
AFL: GWS v Adelaide (Fox Footy) — 143,000
Modern Family (Fox 8) — 125,000

Regional: Prime/7Qld (3 channels) won with a share of 36.0%, from WIN/NBN (3) on 26.8%, SC Ten (3) was on 19.1%, the ABC (4) was on 11.7% and SBS (2) ended on 6.3%. Prime/7Qld won the main channels with 27.7% from Win/NBN on 17.5 %. GO won the digitals with 6.2% from 7mate on 4.7% and Eleven on 4.0%. The 10 digital channels had an FTA share last night of 26.5%.

The five most-watched programs in regional markets were:

Sunday Night — 769,000
Billy Connolly’s Route 66 — 683,000
Seven News — 662,000
Nine News — 637,000
Downton Abbey — 595,000

Major Metro Markets: A clean sweep to Seven. It was a narrow margin in Sydney, but much bigger gaps in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Ten was second overall and in the main channels in Adelaide. Ten was also second in the main channels in Perth. GO won the digitals in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. 7mate won Melbourne.

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

*Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports