The Glenn Dyer breakdown: Seven won, Nine saw Underbelly: Badness lose more ground and Ten had another miserable night.
Ten’s metro prime time share was 15.6%, but the important main channel share was 10.2%. Don’t Tell the Bride steadied at just under 520,000 in metro markets and nationally. Not good.
Nine’s Underbelly: Badness continues to drift lower: 1.037 million in metro markets and 1.45 million nationally.
Seven’s Home and Away had more viewers than Big Brother, which is still sort of solid, but its audience continues to drip away and its having no impact on Home and Away.
Tonight: Foreign Correspondent on ABC 1, Go Back to Where You Came From returns on SBS ONE. Seven has The X Factor and Winners & Losers, plus the debut of the hyped Smash at 9.30pm. Nine has Big Brother and Anger Management. Ten has I Will Survive.
The top 10 national programs (metro & regional combined): A Current Affair was again pre-empted in some regional markets on a Monday night, so its figures were lower than they would normally be.
- The X Factor (Nine) — 2.002 million
- Seven News — 1.823 million
- Nine News — 1.798 million
- Home and Away (Seven) — 1.995 million
- ABC News — 1.526 million
- Big Brother (Nine) — 1.451 million
- Underbelly: Badness (Nine) — 1.443 million
- Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.409 million
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.270 million
- Australian Story (ABC 1) — 1.214 million
The Metro Winners:
- The X Factor (Seven) (7.30pm) — 1.385 million
- Seven News (6pm) — 1.253 million
- Nine News (6pm) — 1.193 million
- Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.186 million
- Big Brother (Nine) (8pm) — 1.102 million
- ABC News (7pm) — 1.099 million
- Home and Away (Seven) (7pm) — 1.097 million
- Big Brother (Nine) (7pm) — 1.096 million
- A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.063 million
- Underbelly: Badness (Nine) (8.30pm) — 1.037 million
The Losers: Ten, (sound of broken record), again, again… Underbelly: Badness — if it dips again like it did last night, its audience will fall well under a million viewers. Not a good look. Big Brother not solid on Monday nights, apart from the nominations. GCB on Seven at 8.30 pm, 766,000, down 100,000 from last week’s debut. Beaten by Four Corners on ABC 1. The Shire on Ten at 9.45pm, 204,000 — still 204,000 too many viewers.
Metro News & CA: Nine News won Sydney and Melbourne, Seven News won the rest. A Current Affair won Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, Today Tonight won the rest by big margins.
- Seven News (6pm) — 1.253 million
- Nine News (6pm) — 1.193 million
- Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.186 million
- Big Brother (Nine) (8pm) — 1.102 million
- ABC News (7pm) — 1.099 million
- Home and Away (Seven) (7pm) — 1.097 million
- Big Brother (Nine) (7pm) — 1.096 million
- A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.063 million
- Four Corners (ABC) (8.30pm) — 836,000
- Australian Story (ABC) (8pm) — 836,000
- 7.30 (ABC) (7.30pm) — 825,000
- Ten News (Ten) (5pm) — 742,000
- Media Watch (ABC) (9.30pm) — 704,000
- Q&A (ABC) (9.35pm) — 648,000 (+72,000)*
- The Project (Ten) (6.30pm) — 567,000
- The Project (Ten) (6pm) — 393,000
- Lateline (ABC) (10.35pm) — 276,000
- SBS News (6.30pm) — 153,000
- The Business (ABC) (11.10pm) — 149,000
- Ten News (Ten) (10.25pm) — 110,000
- SBS News (10.30pm) — 57,000
- The Drum (News 24) (6pm) — 37,000
*On News 24 simulcast
In the morning: A weak morning for Ten’s Breakfast, but then that’s not news is it?
- Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 366,000
- Today (Nine) (7am) — 312,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) (9am) — 177,000
- Mornings (Nine) (9am) — 111,000
- News Breakfast (ABC) (7am) — 53,000 (+20,000)*
- Breakfast (Ten) (7am) — 23,000
*On News 24 simulcast
Metro FTA: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 32.2%, from Nine (3) on 28.2%, the ABC (4) was on 19.8% Ten (3) was on 15.6%, and SBS (2) ended on 4.3%. Nine leads the week with 34.3% from Seven on 29.9%, the ABC with 18.2% and Ten on 13.1%. Main Channels: Seven won with 22.7% from Nine on 21.1%, ABC 1 was on 15.7%, Ten was on 10.2% and SBS ONE ended on 3.6%. Nine leads the week with 27.8% from Seven on 20.9%, ABC 1 is on 14.6% and Ten, 8.3%.
Metro Digital: 7TWO won with a share of 5.8%, from GO on 4.5%. 7mate was on 3.7%, Eleven was on 2.7%, One and Gem were on 2.6% each, ABC 2, 2.5%, News 24 ended on 0.9% and ABC 3 and SBS TWO were on 0.7% each. The 10 digital channels had an FTA share last night of 27.1%. 7mate leads the week with 4.5% from 7TWO on 4.2% and GO on 3.7%.
Metro including Pay TV: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 26.6%, from Nine (3) on 23.3%, the ABC (4) was on 16.4% Ten (3) was on 12.9%, and SBS (2) ended on 3.5%. The 15 FTA channels share last night was 84.7% with the 10 digital channels share totalling 22.4% and the five main channels, 62.3%. Pay TV’s 200 plus channels on Foxtel had a share of 15.3% last night which was boosted by the Monday night NRL game.
The top five pay TV channels were:
- Fox Sports 2 (3.3%)
- TV 1 & Fox 8 (2.7%)
- Fox Footy (1.9%)
- LifeStyle (1.8%)
- UKTV, Fox Classics & Discovery (1.4%)
The five most-watched programs on pay TV were:
- NRL: Melbourne v. Cronulla (FS2) –291,000
- AFL: On The Couch (FF) — 112,000
- NRL: NRL XTRA (FS2) — 111,000
- AFL: Open Mike (FF) — 103,000
- AFL: AFL 360 (FF) — 103,000
Regional: Prime/7Qld (3 channels) won with a share of 34.0%, from WIN/NBN (3) on 28.3%, The ABC (4) was on 19.4%, SC Ten (3) ended on 13.8% and SBS (2) was on 4.5%. Prime/7Qld won the main channels with 22.4% from WIN/NBN on 19.8%, ABC 1 was on 14.5% and SC Ten ended with 8.9%. The digitals were won by 7TWO with 8.0% from GO on 5.8% and 7mate with 3.6%. The 10 digital channels DTA viewing share last night totalled a high 30.7%. WIN/NBN lead the week with 33.1% from Prime/7Qld on 31.7%.
The five most-watched programs in regional markets were:
- The X Factor — 619,000
- Nine News — 604,000
- Seven News — 570,000
- Home and Away — 509,000
- ABC News — 426,000
Major Metro Markets: Seven won overall and the main channels in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Nine won Melbourne overall and in the main channels (with Big Brother and Underbelly: Badness very popular). The ABC and ABC 1 were third overall and in the main channels. 7TWO win the digitals in all five markets (sharing Brisbane with GO). Nine leads Seven and the ABC everywhere bar Perth where Seven has moved into the lead.
(All shares on the basis of combined overnight 6pm to midnight All People)
Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports
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