The Glenn Dyer breakdown: A crushing win for Seven thanks to The X Factor and Winners & Losers. Ten was again pushed into fourth spot by the ABC on one of its weaker nights for the week.

Poh’s Kitchen Lends a Hand at 8pm on ABC 1 had 499,000 metro and 713,000 national viewers. A good program that deserved more viewers.

Tonight: The X Factor and Criminal Minds on Seven. Gruen Planet on ABC 1. The Farmer Wants a Wife on Nine. Puberty Blues on Ten. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon on SBS ONE at 11.05pm.

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

  1. The X Factor (Seven) — 2.437 million
  2. Seven News — 1.748 million
  3. Winners & Losers (Seven) — 1.662 million
  4. Nine News — 1.560 million
  5. ABC News — 1.506 million
  6. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.475 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.450 million
  8. Big Brother (Nine) — 1.353 million
  9. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.267 million
  10. 7.30 (ABC 1) — 1.037 million

The Metro Winners:

  1. The X Factor (Seven) (7.30pm) — 1.662 million
  2. Seven News (6pm) — 1.205 million
  3. Winners & Losers (Seven) (8.30pm) — 1.135 million
  4. ABC News (7pm) — 1.095 million
  5. Big Brother (Nine) (7pm) — 1.071 million
  6. Nine News (6pm) — 1.066 million
  7. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.060 million

The Losers: Anger Management on Nine at 8.30pm, 438,000 metro and 662,000 national viewers. That’s turkey with a capital T. Smash on Seven at 9.30pm, 363,000 metro and 495,000 national viewers. Another turkey. Ten’s I Will Survive at 7.30pm with 336,000 metro and 473,000 national viewers also joins the rafter.

Metro News & CA: Seven News won Adelaide, Perth and won Sydney by 37,000 (a big win given how well Nine News has been doing this year) yet lost Melbourne and Brisbane. Today Tonight won Sydney (by 48,000), Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. A Current Affair won Melbourne by 74,000, a solid margin.

  1. Seven News (6pm) — 1.205 million
  2. Winners & Losers (Seven) (8.30pm) — 1.135 million
  3. ABC News (7pm) — 1.095 million
  4. Big Brother (Nine) (7pm) — 1.071 million
  5. Nine News (6pm) — 1.066 million
  6. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.060 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 949,000
  8. Ten News (5pm) — 643,000
  9. The Project (Ten) (6.30pm) — 418,000
  10. The Project (Ten) (6pm) — 418,000
  11. Insight (SBS) (8.30pm) — 260,000
  12. Ten News (10.30pm) —  224,000
  13. Lateline (ABC) (10.30pm) — 174,000
  14. Dateline (SBS) (9.30pm) — 158,000
  15. SBS News (6.30pm) — 151,000
  16. The Business (ABC) (11.05pm) — 106,000
  17. SBS News (10.30pm) — 66,000
  18. The Drum (News 24) (10pm) — 43,000

In the morning: Today seems to be struggling to get traction well after the end of the London Olympics on Nine. Ten’s Breakfast picked up.

  1. Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 397,000
  2. Today (Nine) (7am) — 330,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) (9am) — 169,000
  4. Mornings (Nine) (9am) — 105,000
  5. News Breakfast (ABC 1) (7am) — 50,000 (+27,000)*
  6. Breakfast (Ten) (7am) — 38,000

*On News 24 simulcast

Metro FTA: Seven (3 channels) won easily with 35.2%, from Nine (3) on 23.0%, the ABC (4) was on 18.2%, Ten (3) was on 17.7% and SBS (2) ended on 5.9%. Seven leads the week with 32.5% from Nine on 26.4%, the ABC on 19.8% and Ten on 16.4%. Main Channels: Seven won with 27.3% from Nine on 16.9%, ABC 1 on 12.8%, Ten on 11.9% and SBS ONE, 4.9%. Seven leads the week with 24.4% from Nine on 20.2%, ABC 1 on 14.9% and Ten with 10.9%.

Metro Digital: 7TWO and 7mate tied for the night with 3.9%, from Gem with 3.7%, ABC 2 was on 3.6%, Eleven, 3.1%, ONE, 2.7%, GO, 2.4%, SBS TWO and ABC 3 on 1.9% each and News 24 on 0.8%. The 10 digital channels had an FTA viewing share last night of 25.9%. 7TWO leads the week on 4.1% from 7mate on 4.0% and GO and ABC 2 on 3.3% each.

Metro including Pay TV: Seven (3 channels) won with 28.8%, from Nine (3) on 18.8%, the ABC (4) was on 14.9%, Ten (3) was on 14.5% and SBS (2) ended on 4.8%. The 15 FTA channels had a viewing share last night of 84.2%, with the 10 digitals on a total of 21.3% and the five main channels on 62.9%. The 200 plus channels of Foxtel gave Pay TV a share of 15.8% last night.

The top five pay TV channels were:

  1. Fox 8 (3.2%)
  2. Fox Sports 2 (2.6%)
  3. TV1 (2.4%)
  4. Lifestyle (2.2%)
  5. Fox Classics (1.8%)

The five most-watched programs on pay TV were:

  1. The Simpsons (Fox 8) — 113,000
  2. Family Guy (Fox 8) — 90,000
  3. AFL: AFL 360 (Fox Footy) — 78,000
  4. US Open Tennis Men’s Final (Fox Sports 2) (9am) — 66,000
  5. America’s Next Top Model (Fox 8) — 63,000

Regional: Prime/ 7 Qld (3 channels) won with a share of 37.9%, from WIN/NBN (3) on 22.0%. The ABC was 3rd (4) with 17.5%, SC Ten (3) was next on 16.7%. and SBS (2) ended on 5.8%. Prime/7Qld won the main channels with 27.1%, from WIN/NBN on 15.4%, SC Ten on 11.1% and ABC 1  on 10.8%.. The digitals were won by 7TWO with 5.5%, 7mate on 5.3 and ABC 2 on 4.3% The 10 digital channels had an very high FTA viewing share of 31.3%. Prime/7Qld leads the week with 35.2% from WIN/NBN on 26.5%, the ABC on 19.1% and SC Ten on 14.5%.

  1. The X Factor — 776,000
  2. Seven News — 542,000
  3. Winners & Losers — 527,000
  4. Nine News — 493,000
  5. A Current Affair — 486,000

Major Metro Markets: Seven won overall and the main channels in all five metro markets. Nine was second everywhere bar Adelaide where ABC 1 was second in the main channels and Ten third (Nine was fourth). In Perth it was Ten second overall and third in the main channels and the ABC third overall and ABC 1 second in the main channels. Ten was third in the main channels in Sydney as well and ABC 1 was fourth. So a slightly better night for Ten. 7TWO won the digitals in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth and shared Melbourne with 7mate. ABC 2 won Sydney. Seven leads the week everywhere, with Nine second and the ABC 3rd.

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

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports