Seven won Sunday and Monday nights — easily in fact. House Rules last night had its best audience so far this season, 1.40 million, and widened the gap on Masterchef which scraped together 1.16 million. But House Rules again failed to top the million viewer mark in the metros with 861,000, depending on a strong showing in the regions. Masterchef with 885,000 viewers was more popular in the metros.

Both programs and the ABC did much better than Nine’s weak reboot of Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation which could only manage 807,000 nationally from 7.30 to 8.45 pm. The average audience for 7.30 (854,000) and Back Roads at 8pm (972,000) was 913,000 for the hour. And an hour later at 8.30pm, Have You Been Paying Attention on Ten again won the battle of the Melbourne comedians 1.02 million national viewers.

Being a holiday, ACA was weaker than usual on a Monday night with 1.08 million national viewers. A Thursday sized audience instead for a Monday night. Today and Sunrise were weaker at breakfast with their metro figures down noticeably — 249,000 for Sunrise and just 209,000 for Today. 

In regional markets a very solid night for Seven with the 6pm News on top with 667,000 viewers, House Rules with 548,000, Seven News/Today Tonight with 518,000, Home and Away with 411,000, and the 7pm ABC News with 365,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (29.7%)
  2. Nine (25.2%)
  3. Ten (21.2%)
  4. ABC (16.7%)
  5. SBS (7.1%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (19.5%)
  2. Nine (16.2%)
  3. Ten (16.0%)
  4. ABC (12.9%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.9%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. GO (4.2%)
  2. 7mate (4.0%)
  3. 7TWO (3.7%)
  4. ONE (3.2%)
  5. Gem (2.7%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.949 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.681 million
  3. House Rules (Seven) — 1.409 million
  4. Nine/NBN News — 1.352 million
  5. Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.304 million
  6. Masterchef Australia (Ten) — 1.165 million
  7. 7pm ABC News — 1.147 million
  8. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.112 million
  9. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.082 million
  10. Have You been Paying Attention  (Ten) — 1.024 million

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.282 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.163 million
  3. Nine News — 1.020 million

Losers: Melbourne, well beaten by the Wobbles. Canterbury, just beaten by St George.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.282 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.163 million
  3. Nine News — 1.020 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 962,000
  5. 7pm ABC News — 782,000
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) —754,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 625,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 578,000
  9. Four Corners (ABC) — 516,000
  10. Media Watch (Ten) — 515,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 434,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 307,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 266,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC,  ABC News  — 205,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 117,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 103,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: Melbourne v Collingwood (Fox Footy) — 263,000
  2. NRL: Canterbury v St George (Fox League) —221,000
  3. F1: Canadian GP (Fox Sports) — 102,000
  4. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 100,000
  5. NRL: 360 (Fox League) – 97,000