The Winners: Seven’s night, easily, and the week, with four nights to go.

  1. Australia’s Got Talent (Seven) (7.30pm) — 1.783 million
  2. MasterChef Australia (Ten) (7.30pm) — 1.373 million
  3. Winners & Losers (Seven) (8.30pm) — 1.367 million
  4. Seven News (6pm) — 1.354 million
  5. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.250 million
  6. Home and Away (Seven) (7pm) — 1.137 million
  7. NCIS (Ten) (8.30pm) — 1.099 million
  8. Nine News (6pm) — 1.083 million
  9. ABC News (7pm) — 1.026 million
  10. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.016 million
  11. Bondi Vet (Ten) (8pm) — 1.012 million

The Losers: Nine. Two programs with a million or more viewers, the 6pm News and ACA at 6.30pm. Nothing after 7pm. Home and Away had more viewers at 7pm for Seven. Nine is running dead on Tuesdays because it hasn’t the firepower to risk a ratings battle with Seven or Ten.

News & CA: Seven News won everywhere bar Brisbane where Nine got up. Today Tonight won everywhere bar Brisbane where it and ACA drew the night with 238,000 viewers each.

  1. Seven News (6pm) — 1.354 million
  2. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.250 million
  3. Nine News (6pm) — 1.083 million
  4. ABC News (7pm) — 1.026 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.016 million
  6. The 7pm Project (Ten) (7pm) — 848,000
  7. Ten News (5pm) — 702,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) (7.30pm) — 589,000
  9. Foreign Correspondent (ABC) (8pm) — 523,000
  10. 6.30 with George Negus (Ten) (6.30pm) — 483,000
  11. 6.30 with George Negus (Ten) (10.30pm) — 272,000.
  12. Lateline (ABC) (10.30pm) — 222,000.
  13. SBS News (9.30pm) — 204,000.
  14. Insight (SBS) (7.30pm) — 190,000
  15. Late News/Sports Tonight (Ten) (11pm) — 186,000
  16. SBS News (6.30pm) — 169,000
  17. Lateline Business (ABC) (11.05pm) — 109,000

In the morning:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 355,000
  2. Today (Nine) (7am) — 316,000

The Stats:

  • FTA: Seven (3 channels) won with 33.8%, from Ten (3) on 23.6%, Nine (3) was third with 22.6%, the ABC (4) was on 14.4% and SBS (2) ended with 5.6%. Seven leads the week with 32.6% from Nine on 24.3% and Ten with 22.6%.
  • Main Channel: Seven won with a share of 26.6%, from Ten on 178.5%, Nine was on 15.9%, ABC 1, 10.9% and SBS ONE, 4.6%. Seven leads the week with 25.9% from Nine on 18.1% and Ten with 17.4%.
  • Digital: 7mate won narrowly with 4.1% from GO on 4.0%, with 7TWO on 3.2%, Eleven was on 2.9%, Gem was on 2.7%, ABC 2 and ONE were on 2.1% each, SBS TWO was on 0.9%, ABC 3 was on 0.8% and News 24 ended with 0.6%. That was a total FTA viewing share last night of 23.4%. 7TWO leads the week with 3.7% from GO on 3.4%, 7mate on 3.1% and Eleven on 3.0%.
  • Pay TV: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 28.4% from Ten (3) on 19.8%, Nine (3) was 19.0%, Pay TV (100 plus channels) was on 13.3%. The ABC (4) was on 12.1% and the ABC was on 4.7%. The 15 FTA channels had a prime time viewing share of 86.7%. The 10 digital channels had a share of 19.6% and the five main channels had 63.1%.
  • Regional: Prime/7Qld (3 channels) won with a share of 34.0% from WIN/NBN (3) on 25.3%, SC Ten (3) was on 21.1%, the ABC (4) was on 13.8% and SBS (2) ended with 5.8%. Prime/7Qld won the main channels from WIN/NBN and SC Ten. GO won the digitals with 4.1%, with 7mate on 3.9% and 7TWO on 3.7%. The 10 digital channels had an FTA viewing share last night of 24.0%. Prime/7Qld lead the week with 33.2% from WIN/NBN on 26.3%.

Major Markets: Another clean sweep for Seven in all five metro markets. Nine was again weak in Adelaide and Perth, where the Nine stations are owned by WIN. Nine was second overall in Melbourne and Brisbane because of solid performances by its digital channels in those markets. GO won Sydney and Brisbane. 7mate won Melbourne and Perth. 7TWO won Adelaide. Seven leads Nine and Ten in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. In Adelaide and Perth its Seven from Ten and Nine.

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

Glenn Dyer’s comments: Bad luck MasterChef. Seven has finally found a program to attack the Ten ratings giant and bleed it of its audience base. Australia’s Got Talent had 410,000 more viewers than MasterChef last night, the biggest flogging the Ten program has had since being on air. Australia’s Got Talent did very well in the 25 to 54s and in men in that age group. MasterChef l did well in men in 16 to 39 and 18 to 49. MasterChef l topped 16 to 39s and 18 to 49s overall because of the dominance of male viewers. Winners & Losers topped women in 16 to 39, 18 to 49 and 25 to 54.

With 788,000 people watching in regional areas (Number 1), Australia’s Got Talent had a national audience of 2.57 million people last night. MasterChef was watched by 467,000 people in the regions, for a national audience of 1.84 million, still considerable.

TONIGHT: Angry Boys at 9pm on the ABC, after Spicks & Specks. Australia’s Got Talent on Seven from 7.30pm, then Criminal Minds. RPA on Nine at 8.30pm. MasterChef, then Glee on Ten from 7.30pm. East west 101 on SBS from 8.30pm. Like last night, don’t say there’s nothing to watch on TV at the moment.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports