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Monday night and Nine won easily in the metros — despite its reject Farmer Wants a Wife doing well for Seven second time out this series, and Seven’s 6pm to 7pm news having another big win.

Farmer averaged 1.12 million, down from the opening night’s 1.28 million but still the most watched non-news and current affairs program on the night.

Seven easily won the regionals with big audiences for the news, Home and Away and Farmer Wants A Wife.
MasterChef averaged 812,000, Australian Ninja Warrior averaged 970,000 and Have You Been Paying Attention? managed 899,000. 

Only 581,000 watched Four Corners latest exposé on Melbourne’s Crown casino which was a disappointment. It didn’t cover the royal commission revelations about money laundering via credit cards and the tax rorts that seem to have slashed tax payments to the Victorian government by hundreds of millions of dollars. They are too fresh — but some reference to those claims, if only to back the claim about Crown being a law unto itself, would have bolstered the story.

Tonight, the Tour de France is back — a stage for the sprinters before the Queen tomorrow night. Twice.

Breakfast: Seven’s Sunrise, 453,000 nationally and 259,000 metro; Nine’s Today, 338,000 and 226,000; the ABC’s News Breakfast, 290,000 and 188,000.

Regional top five: Seven News 715,000; Seven News 6.30, 686,000; Home and Away, 434,000; Farmer Wants a Wife, 424,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 421,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (31.2%)
  2. Seven (25.9%)
  3. Ten (20.9%)
  4. ABC (15.4%)
  5. SBS (6.6%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (21.2%)
  2. Seven (19.1%)
  3. Ten (13.4%)
  4. ABC (11.3%)
  5. SBS ONE (3.9%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. Gem (4.9%)
  2. 10 Bold (4.2%)
  3. 7TWO (3.0%)
  4. 7mate , 10 Peach (2.6%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.900 million
  2. Seven News 6.30pm — 1.823 million
  3. Nine News — 1.429 million
  4. Nine News 6.30pm — 1.367 million
  5. 7pm ABC News — 1.147 million
  6. Farmer Wants a Wife (Seven) — 1.121 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.120 million
  8. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.079 million
  9. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.034 million
  10. 7.30 (ABC) — 1.012 million

Top metro programs: 

  1. Seven News — 1.185 million
  2. Seven News 6.30pm — 1.137 million
  3. Nine News — 1.108 million
  4. Nine News 6.30pm — 1.056 million

Losers:  None really. No Tour de France…

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.185 million
  2. Seven News 6.30pm — 1.137 million
  3. Nine News — 1.108 million
  4. Nine News 6.30pm — 1.056 million
  5. ACA (Nine) — 805,000
  6. 7pm ABC News — 767,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 721,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 482,000
  9. Media Watch (ABC) — 440,000
  10. Ten News First  — 442,000

Morning (national) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 453,000/259,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 338,000/226,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 306,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC) — 290,000/188,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 227,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 51,000

Top 5 pay TV programs:

  1. Credlin (Sky News), Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 78,000
  2. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 73,000
  3. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) — 67,000
  4. Alan Jones (Sky News) — 61,000