It was Seven’s night with the clean-up of the finals of the BBL (763,000 viewers). The rain-interrupted match in Canberra was enough to give Seven the lead in total people and in the main channels. Nine and Ten didn’t really put up a fight.
The ABC, however, started a new look Thursday line-up with Q+A moving to 8.30pm instead of 9.35pm on Mondays. They moved the popular Back Roads to 8pm from Mondays at the same time, but that didn’t help with viewer turn-off. Back Roads averaged a solid 755,000 national viewers and tied for ninth spot nationally. Q+A averaged 435,000 and 22nd nationally. That’s a nasty drop of 320,000: a thumbs down from the ABC’s core audience.
In the breakfast slot, it was another weak morning for Nine’s Today (279,000 nationally, and 189,000 in the metros). That ranked a distant third behind Seven’s Sunrise and the ABC’s News Breakfast. It isn’t as weak as a year ago, but still not great.
Network channel share
- Seven (31.7%)
- Nine (21.9%)
- ABC (17.7%)
- Ten (17.6%)
- SBS (11.1%)
Network main channels
- Seven (21.0%)
- Nine (15.3%)
- ABC (12.1%)
- Ten (10.2%)
- SBS ONE (6.1%)
Top five digital channels
- 7mate (5.1%)
- 7TWO (4.0%)
- 10 Bold (3.7%)
- 10 Peach (3.0%)
- SBS Viceland (2.9%)
Top 10 national programs
- Seven News — 1.419 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.377 million
- Nine News 6.30— 1.089 million
- Nine News — 1.062 million
- 7pm ABC News — 961,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 851,000
- BBL Challenge, Session 1 (Seven) — 814,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 769,000
- Back Roads (ABC) — 755,000
Metro news and current affairs
- Seven News — 917,000
- Seven News 6.30 —870,000
- Nine News — 853,000
- Nine News 6.30 — 813,000
- 7pm ABC News —654,000
- ACA (Nine) — 592,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 485,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 371,000
- Ten News First —322,000
- The Project 6.30 (Ten) — 231,000
Morning (national) TV
- Sunrise (Seven) — 474,000/292,000
- News Breakfast (ABC) — 317,000/214,000
- Today (Nine) — 279,000/187,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 236,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 154,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 50,000
Top five pay TV programs
- Cricket: BBL Challenge (Fox Cricket) — 279,000
- Cricket: BBL Between the Innings (Fox Cricket) — 227,000
- Cricket: BBL Challenge (Fox Cricket) — 224,000
- Cricket: BBL Post Game (Fox Cricket) — 101,000
- Cricket: B4 The Bash (Fox Cricket) — 94,000
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