Seven’s night in metro and regional markets as another reveal episode of House Rules easily accounted for a still solid, but fading episode of The Voice on Nine. House Rules had 2.499 million national/ 1.573 million metro/ 926,000 regional viewers, while The Voice had 1.921 million national/ 1.373 million metro/ 548,000 regional viewers. Once again The Voice’s support base was confined to especially Sydney and Melbourne. In regional markets Seven again won handsomely with its programs clearly more attractive to viewers. But the Ten network saw its audience collapse. Its main channel could only manage a share of 6.9%, close to those all time lows of a couple of months ago. That’s sharply down on the metro main channel share of 10.4%. Ten is fooling itself if it thinks MasterChef and Offspring’s boost to its ratings means its dark days are over. They are still there (as Friday and Saturday nights confirm and last night in regional markets underlined). The ABC’s ratings are noticeably down as well.

At 6pm Nine’s News had solid wins over Seven in Sydney by 98,000 and Melbourne by 78,000. Seven won Brisbane by 12,000 and also won Adelaide and Perth (as always). In the morning Sunrise easily beat Today whose sub-300,000 (metro) audience ambitions were again confirmed in another weak display. Sunrise had 334,000 metro viewers; Today, 287,000.

Nine’s House Husbands did OK with 1.316 million national/ 936,000 metro/ 380,000 regional viewers. But it has yet to crack the million viewer mark in metro markets this year. Home and Away on Seven at 7pm (1.540 million national/ 963,000 metro/ 577,000 regional viewers) remains the most watched drama on TV this year.  Ten’s MasterChef was squeezed and struggled to crack the million viewer mark nationally — it had 1.049 million national/ 776,000 metro/ 273,000 regional viewers. It did better on a Sunday night when it had 1.333 million national viewers, which is odd because Sunday is a tougher night.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (33.0%)
  2. Nine (29.5%)
  3. ABC (17.7%)
  4. Ten (15.2%)
  5. SBS (4.7%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (24.0%)
  2. Nine (23.2%)
  3. ABC1 (12.3%)
  4. Ten (10.4%)
  5. SBS ONE (3.5%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (5.2%)
  2. 7mate (3.7%)
  3. GO (3.6%)
  4. ABC2 (3.1%)
  5. Gem (2.7%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. House Rules (Seven) – 2.499 million
  2. The Voice (Nine) — 1.921 million
  3. Nine News — 1.772 million
  4. Seven News — 1.619 million – 2.171 million
  5. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.540 million
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.321 million
  7. House Husbands (Nine) — 1.316 million
  8. What Happens in Bali (Seven) — 1.271 million
  9. ABC News — 1.217 million
  10. Nine News 6.30 — 1.143 million

Top metro programs:

  1. House Rules (Seven) – 1.573 million
  2. The Voice (Nine) — 1.373 million
  3. Seven News — 1.261 million
  4. Nine News — 1.204 million
  5. Nine News 6.30 — 1.143 million
  6. Seven News/ Today Tonight — 1.128 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.071 million

Losers: Ten was squeezed, but so was The Voice.Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.261 million
  2. Nine News — 1.204 million
  3. Nine News — 1.204 million
  4. Seven News/ Today Tonight — 1.128 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 1.071 million
  6. ABC News — 857,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC1) — 712,000
  8. Ten Eyewitness News  – 679,000
  9. The Project 7pm (Ten) 663,000
  10. Australian Story (ABC1) — 644,000

Morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 334,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 287,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 213,000
  4. Mornings (Nine) — 128,000
  5. News Breakfast (ABC 1  77,000 + 35,000 on News 24) — 112,000
  6. Studio 1o (Ten) — 51,000

Top pay TV channels:

  1. Fox Sports 1 (2.6%)
  2. Fox 8 , TVHITS! (2.1%)
  3. Showcase (1.9%)
  4. LifeStyle  (1.8%)
  5. A&E (1.7%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. NRL: Gold Coast v Melbourne (Fox Sports 1) – 185,000
  2. Game of Thrones (Showcase) – 181,000
  3. Monday Night With Matty Johns (Fox Sports 1) – 115,000
  4. Game of Thrones (showcase) – 110,000
  5. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 78,000

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