Another win for Nine as viewers deserted Seven’s Little Big Shots. The first episode had 2.61 million viewers (1.67 million in the metros) and last night managed 2.07 million — a loss of more than half a million. The Block managed 1.71 million nationally — and with sold efforts from the 6 to 7pm news and 60 Minutes (though beaten nationally by Seven’s Sunday Night), Nine won the important main channels while Seven narrowly won total people in the metros. The ABC beat Ten into fourth spot in both total people and the main channels. Australian Survivor was 10th nationally — beaten by The Block, Little big Shots for part of the time and Grand Designs.

In the regions it was Little Big Shots on top with 769,000 (down from more than 900,000 a week ago), from Seven News with 529,000, then The Block with 521,000, Sunday Night was 4th with 484,000 and Nine/NBN News 6.30 was fifth with 472,000. In the mornings, Andrew Probyn negotiated Insiders, still was the most watched morning program nationally with over 510,000 viewers. Barrie Cassidy is back next week. 

So the Logies are on the market? Well, all it is really is a change of casinos — from Melbourne and Packer’s Palace to perhaps Sydney (The Star) or the Gold Coast or Brisbane (Star’s owners again, Echo). Who cares? Melbourne was always desperate for it because in TV it was a branch office town and all the networks and major production companies were based in Sydney. And for the network bosses it was always an excuse for a very long, sleep-deprived weekend, fueled by booze (and other substances) that started with a midday flight to Melbourne on Friday and a late Monday return. And this morning on Today Karl Stefanovic told us he is upset they are leaving Melbourne — scene of one of his greatest TV moments in 2009.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (32.1%)
  2. Nine (31.7%)
  3. ABC (16.9%)
  4. Ten (13.7%)
  5. SBS (5.5%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (24.8%)
  2. Seven (21.9%)
  3. ABC (12.8%)
  4. Ten (10.2%)
  5. SBS ONE (3.8%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate (4.6%)
  2. 7TWO, 7flix, (2.8%)
  3. ABC 2, GO, 9Life (2.4%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Little Big Shorts (Seven) — 2.074 million
  2. The Block (Nine) — 1.719 million
  3. Nine News — 1.673 million
  4. Seven News  — 1.523 million
  5. Sunday Night (Seven) — 1.231 million
  6. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 1.123 million
  7. Inspector George Gently (ABC) — 1.032 million
  8. 7pm ABC News — 976,000
  9. Grand Designs (ABC) — 815,000
  10. Australian Survivor (Ten) — 726,000

Top metro programs:

  1. Little Big Shots (Seven) — 1.305 million
  2. The Block (Nine) — 1.197 million
  3. Nine News — 1.190 million

Losers: Ten

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Nine News — 1.190 million
  2. Seven News — 974,000
  3. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 773,000
  4. Sunday Night (Seven) — 747,000
  5. 7pm ABC News —622,000
  6. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 310,000
  7. Ten Eyewitness News — 274,000
  8. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 254,000
  9. SBS World News — 135,000

Morning (NationaL)  TV:

  1. Insiders (ABC,  378,000 + 134,000 on ABC News ) — 512,000
  2. Weekend Sunrise (Seven) — 465,000
  3. Weekend Today (Nine) — 412,000
  4. Landline (ABC) — 376,000
  5. Sports Sunday (Nine) — 283,000
  6. Offsiders (ABC) — 235,000

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox League  (6.2%)
  2. TVHITS  (2.6%)
  3. Fox Sports 506 (2.5%)
  4. Foxtel Movies Premiere (2.2%)
  5. Fox8, ESPN (1.7%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. NRL: St George v Canterbury (Fox League) — 265,000
  2. NRL: Wests v Auckland (Fox League) — 190,000
  3. NRL: Newcastle v Cronulla (Fox League) — 188,000
  4. F1: Italian GP (Fox Sorts 506) — 153,000
  5. NRL: Sunday Ticket (Fox League) — 136, 000