Nine’s night easily, with Seven a distant second, the ABC third and Ten trailing in the dust.

The Block had 1.71 million nationally, number one in the metros and regions. 60 Minutes helped with 1.13 million and Nine News chipped in with 1.53 million. End of story and end of night. On Fox League on Saturday, 400,000 people watched the Gold Coast Titans play the North Queensland Cowboys. The Cowboys won, giving the legendary Jonathon Thurston a victory in his last NRL game and probably the highest ever TV audience for an NRL game on pay TV. Nine broadcast the Parramatta-Easts game which managed 493,000 national audience. The Fox League audience for Thurston’s last game was proportionally much larger than Nine. You would have thought Nine would have picked that game to broadcast because it has made so much money from Thurston over the years in NRL and State of Origin contests.

In regional areas The Block won with 483,000, from Seven’s 6pm News with 473,000, then Nine’s 6pm News, then Little Big Shots in fourth with 410,000 and 60 Minutes was fifth with 354,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (36.5%)
  2. Seven (28.6%)
  3. ABC (15.0%)
  4. Ten (12.4%)
  5. SBS (7.4%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (27.2%)
  2. Seven (17.8%)
  3. ABC (10.4%)
  4. Ten (8.1%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.6%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate (4.5%)
  2. 7TWO (4.3%)
  3. GO (3.6%)
  4. Gem (3.4%)
  5. ONE (2.7%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. The Block (Nine) — 1.717 million
  2.  Nine/NBN News — 1.455 million
  3.  Seven News — 1.414 million
  4. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 1.137 million
  5. Little Big Shots (Seven) — 1.129 million
  6. 7pm ABC News — 980,000
  7. Sunday Night (Seven) — 842,000
  8. Russell Coight’s All Aussie Adventures (Ten) — 790,000
  9. Rake (ABC) — 739,000
  10. Sunday Afternoon NRL (Nine) — 584,000.

Top metro programs:

  1. The Block (Nine) — 1.234 million
  2. Nine News — 1.067 million

Losers: Ten.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Nine News— 1.067 million
  2. Seven News —941,000 
  3. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 783,000
  4. 7pm ABC News – 661,000
  5. Sunday Night (Seven) — 539,000
  6. The Sunday Project 7pm (Ten) — 307,000
  7. Ten Eyewitness News — 248,000
  8. The Sunday Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 207,000
  9. SBS World News — 127,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Insiders (ABC, ABC News) — 623,000
  2. Weekend Sunrise (Seven) — 416,000
  3. Landline (ABC) — 400,000
  4. Weekend Today (Nine) — 332,000
  5. Sports Sunday (Seven) — 252,000
  6. Offsiders (ABC) — 244,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. NRL: Brisbane v Manly (Fox League) — 290,000
  2. NRL:Canterbury v Cronulla (Fox League) — 181,000
  3. NRL: Sunday Night With Matty Johns (Fox League) — 145,000
  4. F1: Italian GP (Fox Sports 506) —115,000
  5. A Place To Call Home (showcase) — 104,000