Seven’s night in a lacklustre exhibition of TV. Seven won metro markets and the main channels, but Nine won the regionals overall.

House Rules (2.249 million national/ 1.402 million metro/ 867,000 regional viewers) dominated, But Nine’s fresh (1.999 million national viewers) and repeat episodes (1.751 million national viewers) of The Big Bang Theory helping it keep in touch. Ten was a solid third and the ABC a weak fourth (back to pre-2012 levels). The Beatles visit 50 year doco had 829,000 national/ 607,000 metro/ 232,000 regional viewers. Not nearly as many as the Abba visit doco from last year (which had 942,000 metro and 1.4 million national viewers)

Nine News again asserted its 6pm dominance on the east coast with wins in Sydney by 79,000 viewers, with 91,000 in Melbourne and 30,000 in Brisbane.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (30.3%)
  2. Nine (28.4%)
  3. Ten (19.8%)
  4. ABC (15.9%)
  5. SBS (5.5%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (22.9%)
  2. Nine (20.9%)
  3. Ten (15.3%)
  4. ABC1 (10.9%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.6%)

Top digital channels: 

  1. GO, 7TWO (3.9%)
  2. Gem, 7mate (3.6%)
  3. ABC 2 (3.2%)
  4. Eleven (2.3%)
  5. ONE (2.2%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. House Rules (Seven) – 2.249 million
  2. The Big Bang Theory (Nine) — 1.999 million
  3. Nine News – 1.779 million
  4. The Big Bang Theory repeat (Nine) — 1.751 million
  5. Seven News — 1.619 million
  6. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.589 million
  7. What Really Happens in Bali (Seven) — 1.342 million
  8. NCIS (Ten) — 1.198 million
  9. ABC News — 1.190 million

Top metro programs:

  1. House Rules (Seven) – 1.402 million
  2. The Big Bang Theory (Nine) — 1.301 million
  3. Nine News — 1.219 million
  4. Seven News — 1.208 million
  5. Nine News 6.30 — 1.157 million
  6. The Big Bang Theory repeat (Nine) — 1.150 million
  7. Seven News/ Today Tonight — 1.133 million
  8. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.115 million

Losers: Nine’s When Love Comes To Town. (933,000 national/ 624,000 metro/ 309,000 regional viewers for the first episode. The second episode was lower with 525,000 metro viewers only. It wasn’t aired in regional markets. That doubling up of episodes is another sign the series is gone. Networks only run back-to-back episodes of programs that are poorly rating local productions or cheap offshore ones to get rid of them as quickly as possible.Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Nine News — 1.219 million
  2. Seven News — 1.208 million
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 1.157 million
  4. Seven News/ Today Tonight — 1.133 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.115 million
  6. ABC News — 807,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC1) — 689,000
  8. Ten Eyewitness News – 673,000
  9. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 597,000
  10. Foreign Correspondent (ABC1) — 534,000

Morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 340,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 318,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 159,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC1  80,000 + 39,000 on News 24) — 119,000
  5. Mornings (Nine) — 109,000
  6. Studio 1o (Ten) — 63,000

Top pay TV channels:

  1. Fox 8  (2.9%)
  2. TVHITS!  (2.4%)
  3. LifeStyle  (2.3%)
  4. Sky News, Disney Jr  (1.6%)
  5. Fox Classics, A&E  (1.5%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 79,000
  2. Family Guy (Fox 8) – 71,000
  3. Wentworth (SoHo) — 66,000
  4. Futurama (Fox 8) – 62,000
  5. NCIS (TVHITS!) — 60,000

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