Nine’s night — but forget that because it is clear the expensive revamp of The Footy Show is going to dust before the network bosses’ eyes. Melbourne has fallen out of love with Eddie, Sam and the others.  So down, down, down she goes — the Melbourne audience is now 43% lower than its opening figure on August 10. The program averaged 218,000 in Melbourne last night against 381,000 for the relaunch. Overall, the regional audience of 93,000 is unchanged from the August 10 figure, while the national audience last night of 343,000 was down 229,000 or 36.7%. That’s getting towards terminal.

The Australia – Japan World Cup qualifier was watched by 445,000 on Nine’s GO and 208,000 on Fox Sports for 653,000 in total. The NRL game on Nine last night was watched by 820,000.

In regional markets Seven News led with 591,000, Seven News/Today Tonight was second with 507,000, then Home and Away with 472,000. The 5.30pm part of The Chase was fourth with 382,000 and A Current Affair was fifth with 380,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (29.1%)
  2. Seven (26.9%)
  3. Ten (20.4%)
  4. ABC (14.8%)
  5. SBS (8.8%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (20.1%)
  2. Seven (16.3%)
  3. Ten (13.3%)
  4. ABC (9.4%)
  5. SBS ONE (6.2%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. GO (5.7%)
  2. 7TWO (4.6%)
  3. ONE (3.8%)
  4. ABC 2, 7mate (3.4%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.511 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.430 million
  3. Nine/NBN News (6.30pm) — 1.205 million
  4. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.150 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.149 million
  6. Nine/NBN News — 1.136 million
  7. 7pm ABC News — 1.072 million
  8. The Bachelor (Ten) — 940,000
  9. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) —935,000
  10. Thursday Night NRL (Nine, Gem) — 820,000

Top metro programs: No programs with a million or more viewers

Losers: Ten, ABC, AFL Footy Show on Nine.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News/Today Tonight — 922,000
  2. Seven News — 920,000
  3. Nine News (6.30pm) — 875,000
  4. Nine News — 828,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 769,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 726,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 537,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 506,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 407,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 351,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 496,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 401,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC,  160,000 + 82,000 on News 24) — 242,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 223,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 159,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 125,000

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox League (3.2%)
  2. TVHITS  (2.9%)
  3. Fox Sports 501 (2.4%)
  4. Fox8  (2.0%)
  5. LifeStyle  (1.7%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. NRL: North Qld v Brisbane (Fox League) — 218,000
  2. World Cup Qualifying:: Japan v Australia (Fox Sports 501) — 208,000
  3. NRL: Thursday Night League (Fox League) — 91,000
  4. The Late Show With Matty Johns (Fox League) — 78,000
  5. Aussie Gold Hunters (Discovery) — 69,000