Being Lara Bingle's demo jumps off

Reflecting their fickleness the target audience of young female viewers went off Being Laura Bingle.

The Glenn Dyer breakdown: Seven won the night, but it wasn’t very convincing. But a win is a win after the mauling of the past few weeks from The Voice on Nine.

Nine’s The Block averaged 1.408 million metro viewers and was number one in those markets. But not so nationally, the 2.008 million was only good enough for second behind Seven’s Packed to the Rafters.

Packed to the Rafters got strong regional support to be the most watched program nationally last night with 2.105 million (its best in 2012) for the final episode, with 1.371 million metro viewers and 734,000 regional viewers. Proportionately, that’s better support than from metro viewers.

Reflecting their fickleness the target audience of young female viewers went off Being Laura Bingle and its audience slumped to 782,000 metro viewers, from the debut figure of 925,000. Ten’s Bikie Wars finished with 1.026 million metro viewers (1.487 million nationally) for the final episode last night. Those figures weren’t much different for the second last episode. In effect the program finished with a whimper rather than a bang.

For me the highlight last night was the first episode of six on ABC 1 at 8pm called Race to London. Only 544,000 watched, but it was worth more.

Tonight: Randling on ABC 1, after Myf Warhurst’s Nice at 8pm. Seven has Australia’s Got Talent from 7.30pm. Ten has MasterChef, Offspring and House returns. Nine has The Block and RPA.

The top 10 national programs (metro & regional combined):

Packed to the Rafters (Seven) — 2.105 million
The Block (Nine) — 2.008 million
Seven News — 1.992 million
Nine News — 1.823 million
A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.699 million
The Big Bang Theory (Nine) — 1.591 million
Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms (Ten) — 1.487 million
Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.455 million
Home and Away (Seven) — 1.420 million
MasterChef (Ten) — 1.401 million

The Metro Winners:

The Block (Nine) (7pm) — 1.408 million
Packed to the Rafters (Seven) (8.30pm) — 1.371 million
Seven News (6pm) — 1.329 million
Nine News (6pm) — 1.254 million
Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.184 million
The Big Bang Theory (Nine) (8.30pm) — 1.165 million
A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.129 million
MasterChef (Ten) (7pm) — 1.036 million
Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms (Ten) (8.30pm) — 1.026 million

The Losers: Once Upon A Time on Seven at 7.30 pm, 869,000.

Metro News & CA: Nine News and A Current Affair again won Sydney and Melbourne. Seven News and Today Tonight won the rest.

Seven News (6pm) — 1.329 million
Nine News (6pm) — 1.254 million
Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.184 million
A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.129 million
ABC News (7pm) — 827,000
Ten News (5pm) — 716,000
7.30 (ABC) (7.30pm) — 664,000
The Project (Ten) (6.30pm) — 590,000
Foreign Correspondent (ABC) (8.30pm) — 587,000
The Project (Ten) (6pm) — 431,000
Ten News (10.30pm) — 271,000
Lateline (ABC) (10.30pm) — 234,000
SBS News (6.30pm) — 207,000
The Business (ABC) (11.05pm) — 156,000
SBS News (10.30pm) — 74,000
The Drum (News 24) (6pm) — 49,000

In the morning: Nine’s Mornings had another solid outing yesterday.

Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 372,000
Today (Nine) (7am) — 330,000
The Morning Show (Seven) (9am) — 177,000
Mornings (Nine) (9am) — 150,000
The Circle (Ten) (9am) — 51,000
News Breakfast (ABC) (6am) — 49,000 (+18,000)*
Breakfast (Ten) (7am) — 24,000

*On News 24 simulcast

Metro FTA: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 28.7% from Nine (3) on 26.5%, Ten (3) was on 23.0%, the ABC (4) ended on 16.0% and SBS (2) was on 5.7%. Nine leads the week with 34.7% from Seven on 27.5% and Ten with 17.8%. Main Channels: Seven won with a share of 22.4% from Nine on 21.2%, Ten was on 17.9%, ABC 1, 11.6% and SBS ONE on 4.8%. Nine leads the week with 29.3% from Seven on 21.3% and Ten on 13.1%.

Metro Digital: 7mate won with 3.3% from Eleven on 3.1%, Gem and 7TWO were on 3.0% each, ABC 2 was on 2.6%, GO was on 2.4%, ONE was on 2.1%, ABC 3 was on 1.0%, SBS TWO and News 24 finished with 0.9% each. The 10 digital channels had an FTA share of 22.3%. 7mate leads the week with 3.2% from 7TWO on GO on 3.0%.

Metro including Pay TV: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 23.9% from Nine (3) on 22.1%, Ten (3) was on 19.2%, Pay TV (200 plus channels) was on 14.5%, the ABC (4) ended on 13.3% and SBS (2) was on 4.7%. The 15 FTA channels had a total viewing share last night of 85.5%. The five main channels share was 65.9%, the 10 digital channels share was 19.6%. Paul Murray Live on Sky News at 9pm was hosted by stand in Janine Perrett and averaged 56,300 viewers (Number 8 in Pay TV), thanks to the first 20 minutes or so coverage of the Victorian earthquake, which showed the strength of Sky which had a 1.41% share, just out of the Top 5.

The top five pay TV channels were:

Fox 8 (2.5%)
Lifestyle (2.14%)
TV1 (2.04%)
A&E (1.59%)
Fox Classics (1.53%)

The five most-watched programs on pay TV were:

Family Guy (Fox 8) — 106,000
The Simpsons (Fox 8) — 80,000
AFL: AFL 360 (Fox Footy) — 74,000
Pawn Stars (A&E) — 66,000
Jubilee Tribute To The Queen (UKTV) — 65,000

Regional: Prime/7Qld (3 channels) won with a share of 31.7% from WIN/NBN (3) on 27.0%, SC Ten (3) was on 21.6%, the ABC (4) ended on 16.3% and SBS (2) was on 4.6%. Prime/7Qld won the main channels with 24.5% from WIN/NBN on 20.1%. Gem won the digitals with 3.7% from 7mate on 3.6% and 7TWO on 3.5%. The 10 digital channels had a total FTA share last night of 25.0%. WIN/NBN lead the week with 33.3% from prime/7Qld on 31.0%.

The five most-watched programs in regional markets were:

Packed to the Rafters — 734,000
Seven News — 663,000
The Block — 599,000
A Current Affair — 570,000
Nine News — 570,000

Major Metro Markets: Another mixed night with Seven winning overall and the main channels in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. in Melbourne Seven won overall, but Nine won the main channels. In Sydney, Nine won overall and the main channels. In Adelaide, Ten was second overall and in the main channels with Nine third. In Perth Nine and Ten tied for second overall, but finished second and third respectively in the main channels. In the digitals 7TWO won Sydney and Brisbane, while 7mate won Perth and Adelaide and shared Melbourne with Eleven. Nine still leads the week in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide. Seven leads in Perth.

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

*Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports