Glenn Dyer’s TV ratings: a big night for everyone but Ten

The Voice returned to Nine last night and trounced Seven’s House Rules and anything Ten offered up, as well as SBS and the ABC. House Rules is clearly a blocker for Seven. Seven is using it to try and blunt The Voice‘s appeal to a slightly older demo (anyone over the age of 17 perhaps?). Seven’s Sunday Night was whacked in the crush of The Voice, even though it started at 7.45pm — earlier than The Voice —  but it still did well nationally with more than 1.6 million viewers. 60 Minutes started at 8pm and had over 2 million. The Seven telemovie, The Killing Field was a solid offering and the 1.849 million national viewers (and 1.166 million metro/ 684,000 regional viewers) explains why Seven has taken this one off to a full series. The program clearly won from 9pm onwards and helped Seven keep close to Nine.

In the morning The Bolt Report again flopped, gathering just 95,000 metro viewers at 10am and 110,000 for the 4pm repeat. Insiders with 288,000 on News 24 and ABC1 was easily the best morning chat show. In fact Insiders had more viewers watching on News24 than watched the Bolt Report at 10am. Nationally, Bolt had 170,000 for the 4pm repeat and 145,000 for the 10am live broadcast. Insiders had 440,000 national viewers on ABC1 and News24.

The A League soccer final veraged 612,000 national viewers for the actual game — 292,000 on Fox Sports 1 and on 320,000 SBS TWO which had the broadcast on delay (the fact that the delayed broadcast had more viewers than the Live on pay TV was interesting). The post match had a bigger national audience — 815,000 — on Fox Sports 2 and SBS TWO. But the most impressive feature was that the final’s audience on Fox Sports 2 easily out rated three AFL games on Fox Footy and Fox Sports 1 yesterday.

Network channel share:

1. Nine (33.6%)
2. Seven (31.4%)
3. ABC (15.8%)
4. Ten (12.7%)
5. SBS (6.3%)

Network main channels:

1. Nine (28.2%)
2. Seven (24.4%)
3. ABC1 (12.2%)
4. Ten  (7.9%)
5. SBS ONE (3.3%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

1. 7mate  (3.9%)
2. GO (3.8%)
3. SBS2 (3.3%)
4. 7TWO (3.1%)
5. Eleven (2.8%)

Top 10 national programs:

1. The Voice (Nine) – 2.921 million
2. Seven News — 2.137 million
3. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 2.045 million
4. The Killing Field (Seven) — 1.849 million
5. Nine News — 1.767 million
6. House Rules (Seven) — 1.720 million
7. Sunday Night (Seven) — 1.654 million
8. ABC News — 1.339 million
9. Inspector Gently (ABC1) — 1.043 million
10. Restoration Home (ABC1) — 945,000

Top metro programs:

1. The Voice (Nine) – 2.155 million
2. Seven News — 1.452 million
3. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 1.403 million
4. Nine News — 1.169 million
5. The Killing Field (Seven) — 1.166 million
6. House Rules (Seven) — 1.093 million

Losers: Ten, simply squeezed (again).Metro news and current affairs:

1. Seven News — 1.452 million
2. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 1.403 million
3. Nine News — 1.169 million
4. Sunday Night (Seven) — 995,000
5. ABC News — 873,000
6. Ten Eyewitness News — 414,000
7. SBS World News — 169,00

Morning TV:

1. Weekend Sunrise (Seven) – 348,000
2. Weekend Today (Nine) – 297,000
3. Insiders (ABC1, 191,000 + 97,000 on News Breakfast)  — 288,000
4. Financial Review Sunday (Nine) — 157,000
5. Offsiders (ABC1) —  153,000
6. The Bolt Report repeat (Ten) — 110,000
7. The Bolt Report (Ten) — 95,000

Top five pay TV channels:

1. Fox 8  (3.0%)
2. TV1  (2.3%)
3. LifeStyle  (2.0%)
4. UKTV (1.8%)
5. Fox Classics (1.7%)

Top five pay TV programs:

1. Soccer A League Grand Final Post Match (Fox Sports 2) – 370,000
2. Soccer A League Grand Final  (Fox Sports 2) – 292,000
3. AFL: Geelong v Richmond  (Fox Sports 3) – 82,000
4. AFL:West Coast v Fremantle (Fox Footy) – 173,000
5. AFL: North Melbourne v Gold Coast (Fox Footy) – 170,000

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