A close night between Nine and Seven in the metros. Nine claimed the demos, Seven claimed total people and a very arrow win in the main channels. But the big story was another very solid night for House Rules — its best so far with 1.97 million viewers nationally. It was an OK night for The Voice with 1.55 million, while Masterchef Australia was squeezed out and failed to crack the million viewer mark nationally, ending up with 965,000. More than 4.3 million on average watched these three programs last night — again underlining why the commercial networks still believe in these programs.

House Rules was second in the metros with 1.18 million, which is OK these days, but it is getting real traction in the regions after a moderate start — it soared last night, reaching 785,000 viewers. In the morning chats, Insiders was again tops with 527,000 national viewers on the main channel and ABC News. Seven’s Weekend Sunrise also cracked the half a million mark with 407,000 while the ABC’s unassuming Landline managed a solid 410,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (30.1%)
  2. Nine (29.7%)
  3. Ten (18.4%)
  4. ABC (14.8%)
  5. SBS (7.0%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (22.4%)
  2. Nine (22.3%)
  3. Ten (12.86%)
  4. ABC (10.5%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.5%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. ONE (3.5%)
  2. 7mate (2.9%)
  3. 7TWO, 9Life (2.7%)
  4. GO (2.5%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.972 million
  2. House Rules (Seven) — 1.971 million
  3. Nine/NBN News — 1.623 million
  4. The Voice (Nine) — 1.556 million
  5. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 1.211 million
  6. Sunday Night (Seven) — 1.014 million
  7. 7pm ABC News — 1.001 million
  8. Masterchef Australia (Ten) — 965,000
  9. Grandchester (ABC) — 887,000
  10. Dr Who (ABC) — 639,000

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.282 million
  2. House Rules (Seven) — 1.186 million
  3. Nine News — 1.154 million
  4. The Voice (Nine) — 1.072 million

Losers: Masterchef was disappointing, Nine’s repeated of the movie Schapelle and viewers did want to know.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.282 million
  2. Nine News  — 1.154 million
  3. 60 Minutes (Nine) —841,000
  4. 7pm ABC News – 670,000
  5. Sunday Night (Seven)  — 645,000
  6. Ten News — 376,000
  7. SBS World News — 209,000

Morning (national) TV:

    1. Insiders (ABC, 386,000, 141,00 News 24) — 527,000
    2. Weekend Sunrise (Seven) — 507,000
    3. Landline (ABC) — 410,000
    4. Weekend Today (Nine) — 383,000
    5. Sports Sunday (Nine) — 226,000
    6. Offsiders (ABC) — 222,000

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox Footy (5.3%)  
  2. TVHITS, Fox League  (2.5%)
  3. Fox Sports 506, 503 (2.3%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: West Coast v GWS (Fox Footy) — 200,000
  2. NRL:  Canberra v Easts  (Fox League) — 198,000
  3. AFL: Collingwood v Brisbane  (Fox Footy) — 186,000
  4. F1: Monaco GP (Fox Sports) — 174,000
  5. AFL: Carlton v North Melbourne  (Fox Sports) — 162,000