Seven’s night in total people, the main channels and the key demos. Ten’s MasterChef did well with 1.14 million nationally and the most watched non-news program. For yet another week, Seven’s modest The Front Bar with 228,000 viewers in Melbourne flogged the expensive Nine’s Eddie McGuire AFL Footy Show with 167,000. That saw The Front Bar finish as the 6th most watched program in Melbourne last night, while the Footy Show was 13th. 

In the metros the ABC’s 7.30 had one of its worst nights four years — 442,000, putting it behind The 7pm Project with 501,000 and Ten News with 445,000 (for the first time in yonks, if not all time). The 7pm Project had 730,000 viewers nationally, 7.30 had 681,000 and Ten News had 631,000. 7.30 could try to blame a weak lead-in from the 7pm ABC News, but with 657,000 in the metros and 999,000 nationally last night, that excuse didn’t wash. A drop of nearly 22% nationally is the result of bored viewers looking elsewhere.

In regional areas another winning night for Seven with the 6pm News on top with 591,000, then Seven News/Today Tonight with 490,000, The 5.30pm part of The Chase Australia with 391,000, Home and Away was with 380,000 and the 7pm ABC News was with 342,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (31.3%)
  2. Nine (25.3%)
  3. Ten (20.2%)
  4. ABC (15.6%)
  5. SBS (7.7%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (18.9%)
  2. Nine (17.2%)
  3. Ten (15.6%)
  4. ABC (10.3%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.4%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate (4.9%)
  2. 7TWO (4.3%)
  3. GO (3.8%)
  4. 7flix (3.1%)
  5. ABC Kids/Comedy (3.0%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.569 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.473 million
  3. Nine/NBN News — 1.264 million
  4. Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.247 million
  5. Masterchef Australia (Ten) — 1.148 million
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.119 million
  7. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.031 million
  8. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.012 million
  9. 7pm ABC News — 999,000
  10. RBT (Nine) — 821,000

Top metro programs: None with a million or more viewers.

Losers: A bit of a hangover on Nine after the Origin high the night before.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 978,000
  2. Nine News — 960,000
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 933,000
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 924,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 780,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 657,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 501,000
  8. Ten Eyewitness News — 445,000
  9. 7.30 (ABC) — 442,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 311,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 425,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 372,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC,  ABC News 24) — 239,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 196,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 180,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 80,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. NRL: The Late Show with Matty Johns (Fox League) — 76,000
  2. NRL: 360 (Fox League) – 73,000
  3. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 72,000
  4. Aussie Gold Hunters (Discovery) — 61,000
  5. Selling Houses Australia (LifeStyle) — 49,000