It was a public holiday in Victoria yesterday so viewing down south was light on in some time slots, such as breakfast. That saw Today’s metro audience plunge to 150,000 and the national to 260,000.
But oddly there was only a small impact on rival Sunrise — its audience in the metros dipped to 259,000 and the national was 433,000. There should be a sliver of worry at Nine that Sunrise’s audience held up and Today’s didn’t.
With 1.36 million viewers, Married at First Sight won the night for Nine, but the ABC was second from 7pm and first after MAFS ended. My Kitchen Rules could only manage 760,000 nationally. Just not good enough.
In regional markets it was Seven News with 543,000, Seven News 6.30 with 523,000, Home and Away with 358,000, the 7pm ABC News with 348,000.
Network channel share
- Nine (29.4%)
- Seven (24.8%)
- ABC (20.0%)
- Ten (19.5%)
- SBS (6.3%)
Network main channels
- Nine (22.5%)
- Seven (17.3%)
- ABC (15.7%)
- Ten (13.3%)
- SBS ONE (3.5%)
Top five digital channels
- 10 Bold (3.3%)
- 7mate (3.2%)
- 7TWO (3.0%)
- 10 Peach (2.8%)
- GO (2.6%)
Top 10 national programs
- Seven News – 1.566 million
- Seven News 6.30 – 1.511 million
- MAFS (Nine) – 1.369 million
- Nine/NBN News – 1.209 million
- Nine News 6.30 – 1.208 million
- ACA (Nine) – 1.109 million
- 7pm ABC News – 1.047 million
- 7.30 (ABC) – 1.044 million
- Australian Story (ABC) – 962,000
- Home and Away (Seven) – 961,000
Metro news and current affairs
- Seven News – 1.024 million
- Seven News 6.30 – 988,000
- Nine News – 925,000
- Nine News 6.30 – 915,000
- ACA (Nine) – 805,000
- 7.30 (ABC) – 710,000
- ABC News – 699,000
- Australian Story (ABC) – 662,000
- Four Corners (ABC) – 645,000
- Media Watch (ABC) - 644,000
Morning (national) TV
- Sunrise: National: 433,000, Metro: 259,000
- Today: National: 260,000, Metro: 155,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) - 265,000
- News Breakfast (ABC, ABC News) – 245,000
- Today Extra (Nine) – 170,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) – 93,000
Top five pay TV programs
- AFL: Marsh Seriers Geelong v Essendon (Fox Footy) – 81,000
- Outlander (Fox One) – 67,000
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) – 60,000
- Credlin (Sky News) – 47,000
- AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 46,000
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