The Winners: And there was last night, summed up. Just one program after 7pm program with a million or more viewers and that was not the best of programs. Rake on the ABC improved to 741,000 at 8.30pm.

  1. Seven News (6pm) — 1.194 million
  2. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.089 million
  3. Nine News (6pm) — 1.085 million
  4. Beauty and The Geek (Seven) (8.30pm) — 1.067 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.002 million

The Losers: Two and a Half Men on Nine at 7pm, a repeat (for the unknown time), 789,000. The Amazing Race on Seven at 7.30pm, 677,000. Beaten by Getaway, The 7.30 Report and Bondi Vet/Keeping Up with the Jones on Ten. Neighbours on Ten, 467,000 at 6.30 pm. There’s even more reason to pull it and try something, anything else in its place.

News & CA: A very weak night in Sydney for Seven News and Today Tonight with audiences well under 300,000. Nine News won by around 90,000 viewers, which is a lot. ACA won Melbourne as well. Seven News and TT won the rest.

  1. Seven News (6pm) — 1.194 million
  2. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.089 million
  3. Nine News (6pm) — 1.085 million
  4. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.002 million
  5. ABC News (7pm) — 915,000
  6. The 7.30 Report (ABC) (7.30pm) — 773,000
  7. Ten News (Ten) (5pm) — 720,000
  8. The 7PM Project (Ten) (7pm) — 622,000
  9. Late News/Sports Tonight (Ten, 10.30 – 11.15 pm) — 261,000
  10. Lateline (ABC) (10.30pm) — 219,000
  11. SBS News (6.30pm) — 157,000
  12. SBS News (9.30pm) — 147,000
  13. Lateline Business (ABC) (11.05pm) — 113,000

In the morning:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 394,000
  2. Today (Nine) (7am) — 310,000

The Stats:

  • FTA: Nine won with a share of 31.5% (three channels), from Seven (3) with 28.7%, Ten (2) was on 18.7%, the ABC (4), 16.7% and SBS (2), 4.4%. Seven leads the week with 30.5%, from Nine on 27.1% and Ten on 22.1%.
  • Main Channel: Seven won with 23.1%, from Nine on 22.7%, Ten on 17.6%, ABC 1, 13.7% and SBS ONE, 3.7%. Seven leads the week with 25.0%, from Nine on 21.1% and Ten with 21.0%.
  • Digital: The nine digital channels had a total FTA share of 19.0% last night in prime time. GO won with a share of 6.0%, from 7TWO with 2.9% and Gem and 7Mate on 2.7% each. ABC 2 was on 1.7%, ONE, 1.1%, News 24 and SBS TWO, 0.7% each and ABC 3, 0.5%. The digital shares ranged from 15.3% in Sydney, to 22.7% in Perth and more than 21% in both Brisbane and Adelaide. GO leads the week with 3.8% from 7TWO on 2.8% and 7Mate on 2.7%.
  • Pay TV: Nine won (three channels) with a share of 25.1%, from Seven on 23.0% (3), Pay TV (100 plus channels), on 17.3%, Ten (2), with 15.0%, the ABC (4), 13.3% and SBS, 3.5% (2). That left the 14 FTA channels with 82.7% of the prime time audience last night, made up of 15.3% for the digital channels and 67.4% for the five main channels. Pay TV’s share ranged from a high 19.% in Sydney and 18,7% in Melbourne and a low of 12.9% in Adelaide.
  • Regional: WIN/NBN won with a share of 32.7%, from prime/7Qld on 27.4%, SC Ten on 20.6%, the ABC, 15.3% and SBS 4.0%. WIN/NBN won the main channels from Prime/7Qld and SC Ten. GO won the digitals with 5.3%, from 7TWO on 3.6% and Gem on 2.9%. Prime/7Qld leads the week on 31.2% from WIN/NBN on 28.9%. The nine digital channels had an FTA share of 19.4% last night.

Major Markets: Pay TV and the digital channels were strong last night because of the weak night on the main channels. Together they had around a third of the audience last night. In Sydney Nine won both overall and the main channels with Seven second and the ABC third and Ten 4th. Nine won overall and the main channels from Seven and Ten in Melbourne, Brisbane and in Adelaide. Seven won Perth overall and in the main channels. GO won every market in the digitals, with either 7TWO, 7Mate or Gem in the minor placings. Seven leads the week in every market from Nine and Ten.

(All shares on the basis of combined overnight 6pm to midnight All People)

Glenn Dyer’s comments: Nothing more to be said that what was said above.

TONIGHT: Better Homes and Gardens on Seven. Perhaps Luther and Identity on the ABC. Go out, again.

Saturday: New Tricks and Spooks on the ABC. Hey Hey it’s Saturday on Nine, if you are desperate. Go out, again.

Sunday: The last Sunday of official ratings. So, Nine has a stunt tip and run cricket game on in the evening — the All Stars Twenty/20. Seven has Sunday Night and The X Factor and a Bones repeat. Ten has Modern Family and Hamish & Andy’s Reministmas Special. Plus Offspring.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports