The Voice and Logies duet produces a sound win for Nine

The week to Nine after The Voice and the Logies red carpet arrivals amassed viewers last night.

The Glenn Dyer breakdown: The week to Nine after The Voice and the Logies red carpet arrivals amassed viewers last night with an assist from the 8.30pm broadcast of the awards.

The Voice averaged more than 2.1 million in metro markets and over three million nationally, after over 800,000 regional viewers were added in.

So for the first time this year, Nine took a trick from Seven.

Tonight, The Voice goes up against Australia’s Got Talent, with Nine adding The Block to the mix to try and ensure another big win.

Seven’s venerable Dancing With The Stars managed to crack the million viewer mark, but it was crushed by The Voice and the Logies telecast. Poor old Ten was left right out, as expected.

The question is whether this is the start of a revival for Nine?

Viewing on digital channels and Pay TV was cut by the programming on the main channels of Nine and to a lesser extent, Seven last night. The FTA channels had one of their highest viewing shares of the year, attracting more than 72% of all viewers (FTA and Pay). Pay TV’s share of 13.4% was low by its normal Sunday nights.

Last week: Seven won overall, the main and digital channels. Nine won Sydney, Seven won the four other metro markets. It was a quiet, holiday week last week for FTA networks. Not one program topped the 2 million viewer mark nationally.

For Pay TV, the NRL attracted the highest audience on Fox Sports 2 with Many v Penrith watched by 336,000 people, followed by Geelong and Hawthorn on Fox Footy with 335,000 and Carlton v Collingwood with 329,000 people watching.

Tonight: The ABC’s four hours and more of news and current affairs from 7pm. Nine continues The Voice at 8pm for 90 minutes, after the debut of the first episode of the new series of The Block at 7pm. Seven starts Australia’s Got Talent for 90 minutes from 7pm and follows that with Revenge, back after a break last Monday night. Ten has The Biggest Loser and US flops, NCIS Los Angeles and Hawaii Five O.

The top 10 national programs (metro & regional combined)

The Voice (Nine) — 3.037 million
54th Annual TV Week Logie Awards (arrivals) (Nine) — 2.445 million
Nine News — 2.052 million
Seven News — 1.921 million
54th Annual TV Week Logie Awards (Nine) — 1.855 million
Dancing With The Stars (Seven) — 1.603 million
ABC News — 1.147 million
The Biggest Loser (Ten) — 1.029 million
The Time Traveller’s Guide (ABC) — 1.029 million
Modern Family (Ten) — 996,000

The Metro Winners:

The Voice (Nine) (6.30pm) — 2.177 million
54th Annual TV Week Logie Awards (arrivals) (Nine) (8.30pm) — 1.805 million
Nine News (6pm) — 1.430 million
54th Annual TV Week Logie Awards (Nine (8pm) — 1.379 million
Seven News (6pm) — 1.336 million
Dancing with the Stars (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.037 million

The Losers: Ten was always going to be a loser, as so it was. The ABC got squeezed as well. Seven’s hyped Inside The Titanic special sank at 9pm with only 545,000 viewers. Avatar, Ten’s movie could only manage 553,000 from 8.30pm.

Metro News & CA:

Nine News (6pm) — 1.430 million
Seven News (6pm) — 1.336 million
ABC News (7pm) — 813,000
Ten News (5pm) — 408,000
The Project (Ten) (6pm) — 332,000
SBS News (6.30pm) — 210,000
The Bolt Report (Ten) (4.30pm) — 71,000

In the morning:

Weekend Sunrise (Seven) (8pm) — 346,000
Weekend Today (Nine) (8 am) — 285,000
Landline (ABC) (Noon) — 217,000
Insiders (ABC) (9am) — 169,000 (+40,000)*
The Bolt Report (Ten) (10am) — 127,000
Offsiders (ABC) (10.30am) — 119,000
Inside Business (ABC) (10pm) — 108,000
Meet The Press (Ten) (10.30am) — 73,000

*On News 24 simulcast

Metro FTA: Nine (3 channels) won with a share of 42.0% from Seven (3) on 23.2%, Ten (3) on 18.1%, the ABC (4) was on 12.2% and SBS (2) ended on 4.4%. Main Channels: Nine easily with a share of 37.2% from Seven on 18.4%, Ten on 13.4%, ABC 1 on 10.1% and SBS ONE with 4.0%.

Metro Digital: 7mate won a low night of viewing with a share of 2.9% from ONE with 2.6%, GO on 2.5%, Gem on 1.9%, Eleven on 2.1%, 7TWO on 2.0%, ABC 2 on 0.9%, ABC 3 on 0.7%, News 24, 0.6% and SBS TWO with 0.4%. The 10 digital channels had an FTA share last night of a low 17.0%.

Pay TV: Nine (3 channels) won with a share of 35.2% from Seven (3) on 19.5%, Ten (3) on 15.2%, Pay TV (200 plus channels) ended on a low 13.4%, the ABC (4) was on 10.2% and SBS (2) ended on 3.7%. The 15 FTA channels had a total viewing share last night of a high 86.6%. The 10 digital channels share was a low 14.3%, the five main channels, a very high 72.3%.

The top five pay TV channels were:

Fox Footy (4.7%)
Fox Sports 2 (3.8%)
Fox 8 (2.8%)
TV 1 (2.3%)
Fox Sports 1 (1.9%)

The five most-watched programs on pay TV were:

NRL: Cronulla v Parramatta (Fox Sports 2) — 256,800
AFL: North Melbourne v Geelong (Fox Footy) — 226, 900
NRL: Auckland v South Sydney (Fox Sports 2) — 179,300
AFL: GWS v West Coast (Fox Footy) — 153,000
AFL” Hawthorn v Adelaide (Fox Footy) — 124,300

Regional: A big win for Nine with WIN/NBN (3) picking up a 39.1% share from Prime/7Qld (3) on 25.2%, SC Ten (3) on 20.0%, the ABC (4) on 11.4% and SBS (2) on 4.2%. WIN/NBN won the main channels with 32.0% from Prime/7Qld on 19.7%. Gem won the digitals with 3.8% from GO on 3.3% and 7TWO on 3.0%. The 10 digital channels had an FTA share last night of 20.6%.

The five most-watched programs in regional markets were:

The Voice — 861,000
54th Annual TV Week Logie Awards (arrivals) — 639,000
Nine News — 622,000
Seven News — 586,000
Dancing With The Stars — 526,000

Major Metro Markets: A clean sweep for Nine overall the main channels in each of the five metro markets. Seven and Ten were second and third. The digitals saw 7TWO win Sydney, Gem Perth and 7mate win Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.

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

*Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports