The Winners: No room in the million viewer club for any of Nine’s Two and a Half Men repeats from 7pm to 8.30pm. The Mentalist missed as well, also being a repeat. Home and Away‘s new lease on life continues at 7pm.

  1. The X Factor, winner announced (Seven) (9.30pm) — 1.632 million
  2. Seven News (6pm) — 1.414 million
  3. The X Factor (Seven) (7.30pm) — 1.363 million
  4. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.350 million
  5. Nine News (6pm) — 1.142 million
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.080 million
  7. Glee (Ten) (7.30pm) –1.065 million
  8. Home and Away (Seven) (7pm) — 1.054 million
  9. Undercover Boss Australia (Ten) (8.30pm) — 1.039 million
  10. ABC News (7pm) — 1.033 million

The Losers: Nine. Last week of ratings, not much interested it seems. But Seven and Ten had much stronger programming last night, and again tonight. The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination, 575,000 at 9.30pm for the ABC and should have remained lost. Good News Week on Ten at 9.40pm, 738,000. Not as much a loser more, hidden at the later time, Should be back at 8.30pm.

News & CA: Seven News and Today Tonight won all five metro markets and nationally.

  1. Seven News (6pm) — 1.414 million
  2. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.350 million
  3. Nine News (6pm) — 1.142 million
  4. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.080 million
  5. ABC News (7pm) — 1.033 million
  6. The 7pm Project (Ten) (7pm) — 837,000
  7. The 7.30 Report (ABC) (7.30pm) — 764,000
  8. Ten News (5pm) — 696,000
  9. Late News/Sports Tonight (Ten) (10.40pm) — 284,000
  10. Lateline (ABC) (10.25pm) — 264,000
  11. SBS News (6.30pm) — 179,000
  12. SBS News (9.30pm) — 126,000
  13. Lateline Business (ABC) (11pm) — 123,000

In the morning:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 401,000
  2. Today (Nine) (7am) — 305,000

The Stats:

  • FTA: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 34.6%, from Nine (3) on 25.0%, Ten (2), was on 20.0%, the ABC, 15.3% (4) and SBS (2), was on 5.2%. Seven leads the week with 33.9% from Nine on 25.8% and Ten with 20.4%.
  • Main Channel: Seven won with a share of 28.3%, from Nine on 20.0%, Ten on 19.4% ABC 1 on 12.6% and SBS ONE with 4.6%. Seven leads the week with 28.2%, with Nine and Ten tied on 19.8% each.
  • Digital: 7TWO won with a share of 3.6%, from GO with 2.8%, 7Mate on 2.7%, Gem with 2.2%, ABC 2 with 1.7%, SBS TWO and ABC 3 with 0.6% each, ONE on 0.5% and News 24 with 0.4%. The nine channels had a total FTA share of 15.1%. The digitals had FTA shares ranging from 11.5% in Sydney to 20.5% in Adelaide. GO leads the week with 4.0% from 7TWO on 2.9% and 7Mate on 2.8%.
  • Pay TV: Seven won with a share of 29.1% (3 channels) from Nine (3) with 21.0%, Ten (2), 16.8%, Pay TV (100 plus channels), 13.1%, the ABC (4), 12.9% and SBS (2), 4.4%. The 14 FTA channels had a total share of 86.9%, made up of 12.7% for the nine digitals and 74.2% for the five main channels. Foxtel’s shares ranged from the usual peak of 15.2% in Sydney, to a low of 9.3% in Adelaide and 13.2% in Melbourne.
  • Regional: Prime/7Qld won with a share of 36.6% from WIN/NBN with 26.5%, SC Ten was on 18.0%, the ABC, 13.8% and SBS, 5.1%. Prime/7Qld won the main channels from WIN/NBN. GO won the digitals with 4.3%, from 7TWO on 3.6% and 7Mate on 2.7%. The nine digital channels had an FTA share of 16.7% last night. Prime/7Qld lead the week on 35.5% from WIN/NBN on 27.3%.

Major Markets: Seven won overall and the main channels in all five metro markets. Overall, Nine was second and Ten third. In the main channels Nine was second in Sydney and Melbourne and fell to third in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, behind Ten. In the digitals, 7TWO won Sydney, Adelaide and Perth, Gem won Brisbane, 7Mate won Melbourne. Seven leads the week everywhere from Nine and Ten.

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

Glenn Dyer’s comments: The X Factor finally paid off for Seven. On the basis of the audience for the past three weeks, you’d think Seven might bring it back next year. But you’d have to slice a lot of the costly glitz and glamour and cut costs overall. Nine was just simply squeezed. Ten won 16 to 39s. Seven won the rest.

TONIGHT: Oh, dear. The final Iron Chef for Seven for the year and hopefully forever. Nine has a Top Gear repeat. Ten has the final Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation for the year, plus NCIS, plus The 7pm Project. Nine to be squeezed. The ABC and SBS don’t look at all interesting tonight.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports