Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas celebrates his win over Australian Rinky Hijikata
Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas celebrates his win over Australian Rinky Hijikata (Image: AAP/Mike Frey-USA Today Sports /Sipa USA)

The tennis did the job for Nine last night: 555,000 in the first night session on the main channel and then another 448,000. There was an extra 130,000 watching other matches on 9Gem. That’s an average across the two main channel segments and then the 6-11pm on Gem of about 613,000.

That all topped Seven’s BBL game 416,000 (and 157,000 on Foxtel).

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (31.8%)
  2. Seven (28.5%)
  3. Ten (15.2%)
  4. ABC (14.8%)
  5. SBS (9.7%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (21.2%)
  2. Seven (17.6%)
  3. ABC (10.1%)
  4. Ten (8.6%)
  5. SBS (4.2%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate (4.1%)
  2. 7TWO; GO (4.0%)
  3. 10 Peach (3.1%)
  4. 10 Bold (2.8%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.326 million
  2. Seven News 6.30pm — 1.267 million
  3. Nine News — 911,000
  4. Nine News 6.30pm — 898,000
  5. 7pm ABC News — 795,000
  6. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (R, Seven) — 725,000
  7. Home and Away (Seven) — 697,00
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 574,000
  9. Australian Open Tennis, day three, night (Nine) — 555,000
  10. Australian Open Tennis, day three, night, session two (Nine) — 448,000

Top metro programs: none with a million or more viewers.

Regional top 5: Seven News, 459,000; Seven News 6.30pm, 434,000; Home and Away, 267,000; 7pm ABC News, 259,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 258,000.

Losers: tennis OK — the rest a snore.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 867,000
  2. Seven News 6.30pm — 863,000
  3. Nine News — 670,000
  4. Nine News 6.30pm — 657,000
  5. 7pm ABC News — 536,000
  6. 7.30 (ABC) — 396,000
  7. Ten News First — 249,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 240,00
  9. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 174,000
  10. SBS World News — 133,000

Morning (national) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 339,000/188,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 261,000/160,000
  3. ABC News Breakfast — n/a
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 207,000
  5. ABC News Mornings — n/a
  6. Today Extra (Nine) — n/a
  7. Studio 10 (Ten) — n/a

Top 5 pay TV programs:

  1. Cricket: BBL (Fox Cricket) — 167,000
  2. Cricket: BBL (Fox Cricket) — 146,000
  3. Cricket: BBL Big Break (Fox Cricket) — 144,000
  4. Cricket: B4 The Bash (Fox Cricket) — 76,000
  5. Cricket: BBL Post Game (Fox Cricket) — 57,000