Last week Seven claimed a win in total people, while Nine won the main channels and the major demos thanks to The Block. And so it was last night — Seven won total people, Nine won the main channels and the best of the demos thanks to The Block, which saw its Sunday night average rise to 1.64 million last night from 1.57 million a week earlier for the first ep of the new series. 

Viewers turned off the second ep of Ten’s Russell Coight’s All Aussie Adventures — it averaged 987,000 viewers nationally last night, down 348,000 from the first ep of the new series last week of 1.33 million. It helped drag Ten down on the night and behind an average offering from the ABC. The ABC’s Insiders topped the morning with 519,000 national viewers, more than Ten News at 5pm. ABC’s Landline managed 433,000 and its reporting on the drought easily betters anything elsewhere in the media, especially the sensationalist stuff in the News Corp tabloids.

The top regional programs were Seven’s 6pm News (556,000), Little Big Shots (509,000), The Block (450,000), then Nine/NBN News (413,000), and the final ep of Jack Irish on the ABC (379,000).

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (33.1%)
  2. Nine (30.8%)
  3. ABC (17.5%)
  4. Ten (12.0%)
  5. SBS (6.5%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (23.3%)
  2. Seven (20.5%)
  3. ABC (13.6%)
  4. Ten (7.5%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.4%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate (6.5%)
  2. 7TWO (3.7%)
  3. GO (3.0%)
  4. Gem (2.8%)
  5. ABC Kids/Comedy (2.4%)

Losers: Ten.

Top Metro programs:

  1.  Seven News — 1.251 million
  2. The Block (Nine) — 1.192 million
  3. Nine News — 1.016 million
  4. Little Big Shots (Seven) — 878,000
  5. Jack Irish (final) (ABC) — 727,000
  6. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 733,000
  7. 7pm ABC News — 701,000
  8. Russell Coight (Ten) — 634,000
  9. Sunday Night (Seven) — 573,000
  10. Grand Designs (ABC) — 536,000

Top Metro News & Current Affairs Programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.251 million
  2. Nine News— 1.016 million
  3. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 733,000
  4. 7pm ABC News — 701,000
  5. Sunday Night (Seven) — 573,000
  6. The Sunday Project 7pm (Ten) — 382,000
  7. Ten Eyewitness News — 248,000
  8. The Sunday Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 217,000
  9. SBS World News — 162,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. NRL: Melbourne v Cronulla (Fox League) — 232,000
  2. AFL: Melbourne v Sydney (Fox Sports) — 196,000
  3. NRL: Canberra v Wests (Fox League) — 182,000
  4. AFL: North Melbourne v Footscray (Fox Footy) — 166,000
  5. AFL: Fremantle v Carlton  (Fox Footy) — 59,000