Glenn Dyer's TV ratings: Nine fights back against My Kitchen Rules

A close night as Nine’s Love Child was adopted by Australian viewers last night, adding to another solid performance by The Block. Without My Kitchen Rules and another very strong outing last night, Seven would have been well and truly beaten as Revenge sank sharply after My Kitchen Rules. Seven News was weak in metro markets from 6-7 pm behind Nine News, and A Current Affair had more viewers at 7pm than Home and Away. On the numbers Seven was narrowly in front in metro markets from Nine (it was in fact a near dead heat). Seven was a slightly bigger winner in regional markets. Ten’s main channel was beaten in metro and regional markets by ABC 1 — the Australian viewing public isn’t really interested in the Games (there was still solid viewing on ONE).

Love Child had 1.963 million national/ 1.354 million metro/ 609,000 regional viewers. The Block had 1.730 million national/1.194 million metro/ 536,000 regional viewers. My Kitchen Rules jumped to 2.824 million metro/1.925 million metro/ 899,000 regional viewers. The jump in My Kitchen Rules viewers just kept Seven in front in metro markets. Without it, Nine probably would have scored a morale boosting win in All People. As it was Love Child repaid the heavy promotion (and the Packed To The Rafters boost from Jessica Marais). It was a very solid start, let’s see how it goes in the next couple of weeks as Nine’s Australian dramas have had an unfortunate habit of dying early. Let’s hope this is an exception.

Nine News had solid wins over Seven News in Sydney, Melbourne and a smaller victory in Brisbane. Seven’s 6 pm weakness in Sydney and Melbourne hasn’t gone away so far in 2014

Network channel share:

Seven (30.5%)
Nine (30.4%)
Ten (18.2%)
ABC (17.6%)
SBS (3.4%)

Network main channels:

Seven (24.9%)
Nine (24.7%)
ABC1 (13.1%)
Ten (9.0%)
SBS ONE (2.9%)

Top digital channels:

ONE (6.4%)
GO (3.2%)
7TWO, 7mate, Eleven (2.8%)
Gem (2.4%)
ABC2 (2.2%)

Top 10 national programs:

My Kitchen Rules (Seven) – 2.824 million
Love Child (Nine) — 1.963 million
The Block (Nine) — 1.730 million
Seven News — 1.730 million
Nine News — 1.660 million
Home and Away (Seven) — 1.513 million
A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.324 million
ABC News — 1.286 million
Revenge (Seven) — 1.272 million
Nine News 6.30 — 1.135 million
Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.116 million

Top metro programs:

My Kitchen Rules (Seven) – 1.925 million
Love Child (Nine) — 1.354 million
The Block (Nine) — 1.198 million
Nine News — 1.162 million
Nine News 6.30 — 1.134 million
A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.132 million
Seven News — 1.121 million
Seven News/ Today Tonight — 1.117 million

Losers: Ten. Not a good look last night, for all the dull glitter of the snow and ice stuff from Sochi.Metro news and current affairs:

Nine News — 1.162 million
Nine News 6.30 — 1.134 million
A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.132 million
Seven News — 1.121 million
Seven News/ Today Tonight — 1.117 million
ABC News — 875,000
Four Corners (ABC1) — 717,000
Australian Story (ABC1) – 629,000
Media Watch (ABC1) — 629,000
7.30 (ABC1) — 625,000
Ten Eyewitness News — 619,000

Metro morning TV:

Sunrise (Seven) – 341,000
Today (Nine) – 299,000
The Morning Show (Seven) — 159,000
News Breakfast (ABC 1, 59,000 + 46,000 on News 24) — 105,000
Mornings (Nine) — 104,000
Wake Up (Ten) — 45,000
Studio 10 (Ten) — 36,000

Top five pay TV channels:

Fox 8 (3.0%)
TV1 (2.3%)
LifeStyle (2.0%)
UKTV (1.8%)
Fox Classics (1.7%)

Top pay TV programs:

AFL: NAB Challenge (Fox Footy) — 111,000
The Walking Dead (FX) – 71,000
Coronation Street (UKTV) – 58,000
The Simpsons (Fox 8) – 56,000
Angry Birds Toons (Fox 8), Jessie (Disney) – 51,000

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