Seven easily won Tuesday night, thanks to the AFL and MKR, but last night it was closer. Nine topped total viewers and Seven topped the main channels in the metros. The ABC beat Ten into third, with the finales of Hard Quiz (794,000 nationally) and Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell (768,000 nationally) standing out. Without Bachelor in Paradise, Ten had nothing of interest and its 7.9% metro main channel share confirmed that. Fortunately MasterChef starts Monday week. There’s more NRL tonight on Nine and NRL and AFL on Nine and Seven tomorrow night. The big watch tonight will be on the performance of the AFL and NRL Footy Shows.

MKR grabbed 1.69 million national viewers, The Voice, 1.21 million. Seven news topped the night with 1.90 million, boosted by the Collingwood-Essendon Anzac Day game in the AFL. The St George NRL game didn’t give Nine the same boost and there was 550,000 winning margin for Seven News nationally over Nine News (1.35 million).

In regional markets Seven News led the night with 586,000 people, followed by MKR with 551,000, Seven news/Today Tonight with 484,000, Home and Away with 433,000 and Nine News was 5th with 379,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (32.2%)
  2. Seven (33.1%)
  3. ABC (14.6%)
  4. Ten (12.7%)
  5. SBS (7.3%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (23.2%)
  2. Nine (22.9%)
  3. ABC (10.5%)
  4. Ten (7.9%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.1%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. GO (4.6%)
  2. 7TWO (3.8%)
  3. Gem (3.2%)
  4. 7mate, ONE (2.9%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.907 million
  2. MKR (Seven) — 1.699 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.640 million
  4. Nine/NBN News — 1.358 million
  5. Nine/NBN News 6.30pm — 1.306 million
  6. The Voice (Nine) — 1.218 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.176 million
  8. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.147 million
  9. 7pm ABC News — 1.014 million
  10. Seven’s AFL (Seven, 7mate) — 887,000

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.322 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.155 million
  3. MKR (Seven) — 1.148 million

Losers: Ten, and Sando on the ABC.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.322 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.155 million
  3. Nine News — 974,000
  4. Nine News (6.30pm) — 948,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) —824,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 727,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 498,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 469,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 426,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 329,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 464,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 376,000
  3. Today Extra (Nine) — 260,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 251,000
  5. News Breakfast (ABC, 183,000 + 75,000 on News 24) — 258,000
  6. The Morning Show (Seven) — 251,000
  7. Studio 10 (Ten) —119,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: Collingwood v Essendon (Fox Footy) — 321,000
  2. NRL: Melbourne v NZ Warriors (Fox League) — 280,000
  3. NRL: ST George v Easts (Fox League) — 254,000
  4. ANZAC Day On Fox  (Fox League) — 184,000
  5. Selling House Australia (LifeStyle) — 147,000