Nine wins while Ten dances badly

Everybody Dance Now, Ten's latest flop, had just 324,000 metro viewers (and a mere 428,000 national viewers).

The Glenn Dyer breakdown: Nine won, again, despite the loss of 300,000 to 400,000 viewers for Big Brother. But the real story was Everybody Dance Now, Ten’s latest flop: 324,000 metro viewers (and just 428,000 national viewers). That’s 20,000 metro viewers more than on Monday night and around 6000 less national viewers. But that metro rise was immaterial. The program has been confirmed as a disaster. As a result, Ten was beaten by the ABC and ABC 1 for a third night in a row.

Anger Management averaged 1.12 million metro viewers (1.551 million nationally) for the first episode and 1.106 million (1.479 million nationally) for the second. A sort of happy second coming for Charlie Sheen, but let’s wait till next week.

Tonight: The final Gruen Sweat on ABC 1. Ten has Puberty Blues, after The Shire. Ten isn’t helping Puberty Blues by using The Shire as a lead-in. That’s a very odd programming decision. Ten also starts Class Of at 9.30pm. It’s a local production of an international format at a curious time. Nine has Big Brother. Nine also starts another series of The Farmer Wants a Wife. Seven has the finale of The Amazing Race Australia and then Criminal Minds.

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

Seven News — 1.921 million
Big Brother (Nine) — 1.845 million
Nine News — 1.791 million
A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.651 million
Anger Management (Nine) –1.551 million
Home and Away (Seven) — 1.501 million
Anger Management (Nine) — 1.479 million
Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.455 million
Winners & Losers (Seven) — 1.382 million
ABC News — 1.360 million

The Metro Winners:

Seven News (6pm) — 1.333 million
Big Brother (Nine) (7pm) — 1.327 million
Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.184 million
Nine News (6pm) — 1.184 million
Anger Management (Nine) (8.30pm) — 11.12 million
Anger Management (Nine) (9pm) — 1.106 million
The Big Bang Theory (Nine) (8pm) — 1.074 million
A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.043 million
Home and Away (Seven) (7pm) — 1.020 million

The Losers: Ten, again.

Metro News & CA: Nine News won Sydney, Seven News won the rest. Today Tonight won all five metro markets over A Current Affair.

Seven News (6pm) — 1.333 million
Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.184 million
Nine News (6pm) — 1.184 million
A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.043 million
ABC News (7pm) — 979,000
Ten News (5pm) — 687,000
7.30 (ABC) (7.30pm) — 679,00
Foreign Correspondent (ABC) (8pm) — 671,000
The Project (Ten) (6.30pm) — 596,000
The Project (Ten) (6pm) — 432,000
Insight (SBS News (8.30pm) — 282,000
Lateline (ABC) (10.30pm) — 175,000
SBS News (6.30pm) — 160,000.
Ten News (Ten) (10.30pm) — 153,000
Dateline (ABC) (9.30pm) — 120,000
The Business (ABC) (11.05pm) — 98,000
SBS News (10.30pm) — 54,000
The Drum (News 24) (6.10pm) — 51,000

In the morning: Today returned from the Games-enforced holiday and almost tied with Sunrise:

Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 341,000
Today (Nine) (7am) — 340,000
The Morning Show (Seven) (9am) — 169,000
Mornings (Nine) (9am) — 121,000
News Breakfast (ABC) (6am) — 53,000 + 27,000 on News 24
Breakfast (Ten) (7am) — 30,000

*On News 24 simulcast

Metro FTA: Nine (3 channels) won with a share of 31.6%, from Seven (3) on 29.0%, the ABC (4) was third with 17.2%, from Ten (3) on 16.4% and SBS (2) ended on 5.7%. Nine leads the week with 35.1% from Seven on 27.4%, the ABC with 17.4% and Ten on 15.5%. Main Channels: Nine won with 25.1% from Seven on 21.1%, ABC 1 was third with 12.7%, Ten was 4th with 11.0% and SBS ONE was on 4.2%. Nine leads the week with 29.8% from Seven on 19.4% and ABC 1 on 13.7%, with Ten back on 10.7%.

Metro Digital: 7TWO won with a share of 4.1%, from 7mate on 3.9%, Gem was on 3.4%, GO was on 3.2%, Eleven was on 3.0%, ABC 2 was on 2.9%, ONE was on 2.4%, SBS TWO ended on 1.4%, and News 24 and ABC 3 were on 0.8% each. The 10 digital channels had an FTA share last night of 25.9%. 7TWO leads the week with 4.3% from 7mate on 3.6% and GO on 3.5%.

Metro including Pay TV: Nine (3 channels) won with a share of 26.4%, from Seven (3) on 24.2%, the ABC (4) was third with 14.4%, from Ten (3) on 13.7% and SBS (2) ended on 4.7%. The 15 FTA channels had a viewing share last night of 85.5%. The 10 digital channels share was 21.8% and the five main channels share was 63.7%. The 200 plus Pay TV channels on Foxtel had a share last night of 14.5%.

The top five pay TV channels were:

Fox 8 (2.6%)
TV 1 (2.2%)
Fox Classics (1.8%)
LifeStyle (1.6%)
Cartoon Network, Sky News, W, A&E (1.4%)

The five most-watched programs on pay TV were:

AFL: AFL 360 (Fox Footy) — 75,000
The Simpsons (Fox 8) — 71,000
Futurama (Fox 8) — 65,000
Family Guy (Fox 8) — 60,000
Geordie Shore (MTV) — 57,000

Regional: WIN/NBN (3 channels) won with a share of 31.6% from Prime/7Qld (3) on 30.6%, The ABC (4) was on 16.9%, SC Ten (3) was on 15.5%, and SBS (2) was on 5.5%. WIN/NBN won the main channels with 23.8% from Prime/7Qld on 20.5%, ABC 1 was on 11.6% and SC Ten was on 9.3%. 7TWO won the digitals with 5.8%, from 7 mate on 4.3% and Gem on 4.0%. The 10 digital channels had an FTA viewing share last night of a high 30.6%. WIN/NBN leads the week with 33.2%, with Prime/7Qld on 30.3%, The ABC on 17.0% and SC Ten on 14.7%.

The five most-watched programs in regional markets were:

A Current Affair — 610,000
Nine News — 607,000
Seven News — 587,000
Big Brother — 518,000
Home and Away — 481,000

Major Metro Markets: Another weak night from Ten. Nine won overall and the main channels in Sydney and Melbourne. Seven eon overall in Brisbane, Nine won the main channels, as both did in Perth. In Adelaide Seven won overall and then main channels. The ABC and ABC 1 were third overall and in the main channels in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. ABC 1 was third in the main channels in Brisbane. In the digitals, 7TWO won Sydney and Brisbane and shared Melbourne with Gem and 7mate. 7mate won Adelaide and Perth. Nine leads Seven and the ABC in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. In Adelaide its Nine from Seven and Ten. In Perth its Seven from Nine and the ABC 1.

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

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports