Sunday Night's record performance gets Seven the win

Seven won the night quite comfortably in the end with Sunday Night dominating with a record setting performance.

The Glenn Dyer breakdown: Seven won the night quite comfortably in the end with Sunday Night dominating with a record setting performance. The metro audience of 1.668 million was its highest ever as was the regional audience of a huge 833,000 people. The national figure of just over 2.5 million was also a record.

60 Minutes wasn’t too shabby either with 1,4 million metro and 2.077 million national viewers. But Sunday Night was simply too strong and last night’s figures surpassed previous best for its launch in February of 2009 of 2.47 million (1.63 million metro and 810,000 regional viewers).

Seven was also helped by the successful return of Airways at 8 pm with more than 1.23 million metro and nearly 1.8 million national viewers.

The night wasn’t as clear cut as the bald figures suggest: Nine won Sydney and Brisbane (the NRL markets thanks to the strong audiences for the news and early evening because of the last elimination final, Cronulla v Canberra, which ended at 6pm). Seven won Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth because of the last AFL elimination final finished at 6pm eastern time (and involved West Coast).

Tonight: The four and a half hours or more of news and current affairs on the ABC will trump, once again, what is on Ten with Can of Worms the only standout. Nine has Big Brother and the boring and fading Underbelly: Badness. Seven has The X Factor.

Last Week: Seven from Nine and the ABC, with Ten fourth, again. The AFL finals lifted Seven’s share, more than offsetting the boost for Nine on Friday and Saturday nights from the start of the NRL finals. Seven also won 18 to 49s and 25 to 54s. Nine won 16 to 39s with Big Brother. Prime/7Qld won the regional markets from WIN/NBN. The three NRL finals helped lift WIN/NBN but not enough to get past Prime/7Qld.

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

Sunday Night (Seven) — 2.501 million
Nine News — 2.185 million
Seven News — 2.146 million
60 Minutes (Nine) — 2.077 million
Border Security (Seven) — 1.859 million
Airways (Seven) — 1.798 million
House Husbands (Nine) — 1.744 million
Mrs Brown’s Boys (Seven) — 1.594 million
Kevin’s Grand Designs (ABC 1) — 1.462 million
Big Brother (Nine) — 1.440 million

The Metro Winners:

Sunday Night (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.688 million
Nine News (6pm) — 1.493 million
Seven News (6pm) — 1.488 million
60 Minutes (Nine) (7.30pm) — 1.402 million
Border Security (Seven) (7.30pm) — 1.320 million
Airways (Seven) (8pm) — 1.265 million
House Husbands (Nine) (8.30pm) — 1.206 million
Big Brother (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.055 million
Mrs Brown’s Boys (Seven) (8.30pm) — 1.040 million

The Losers: Kath & Kim: The Souvenir Editions at 9.10pm Seven, 573,000 (832,000 national). Ten’s schedule … another week of running fourth coming up.

Metro News & CA: Nine won Sydney and Brisbane, Seven won the AFL markets. No surprise there. Nine won Sydney by over 270,000, Seven won Perth by 155,000. The Bolt Report repeat at 4.30pm on Ten had close its lowest ever figure since starting last year.

Sunday Night (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.688 million
Nine News (6pm) — 1.493 million
Seven News (6pm) — 1.488 million
60 Minutes (Nine) (7.30pm) — 1.402 million
ABC News (7pm) — 878,000
Ten News (5pm) — 401,000
The Project (Ten) (6am) — 302,000
SBS News (6.30pm) — 193,000
The Bolt Report (Ten) (4.30pm) — 83,000

In the morning: Insiders was low yesterday morning.

Weekend Sunrise (Seven) (8am) — 334,000
Weekend Today (Nine) (8am) — 288,000
Landline (ABC) (Noon) — 160,000
Insiders (ABC) (9am) — 149,000 (+60,000)*
Offsiders (ABC) (10.30am) — 144,000
Inside Business (ABC) (11am) — 141,000
The Bolt Report (Ten) (10am) — 133,000
Meet The Press (Ten) (10.30am) — 89,000

*On News 24 simulcast

Metro FTA: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 32.1% from Nine (3) on 28.4%, the ABC (4) was on 19.4%, Ten (3), 15.8% and SBS (2) was on 4.3%. Main Channels: Seven won with a share of 24.3% from Nine on 22.9%, ABC 1 was on 14.5%, Ten was on 10.5% and SBS ONE ended on 3.8%.

Metro Digital: 7mate won with 5.2%, from GO and ABC 2 on 3.6% each, ONE was on 2.9%, 7TWO, 2.6%, Eleven, 2.4%, Gem, 1.9%, News 24, 0.7%, ABC 3, 0.6% and SBS TWO, 0.5%. The 10 digital channels had an FTA share last night of 24.0%.

Metro including Pay TV: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 27.0% from Nine (3) on 23.9%, the ABC (4) was on 16.3%, Ten (3), 13.3% and SBS (2) was on 3.6%. The 15 FTA channels had a total viewing share last night of 86.4%, with the 10 digitals on 20.1% and the five main channels on 66.3%. With no NRL games, Pay TV’s share eased to 13.6% for the 200 plus channels on Foxtel. The final AFL elimination final dominated the most watched figures.

The top five pay TV channels were:

Fox Footy (5.1%)
Fox 8, TV 1 (2.3%)
Movie One (1.7%)
Nickelodeon & A&E (1.6%)
Fox Classics (1.5%)

The five most-watched programs on pay TV were:

AFL: West Coast v North Melbourne (FF) — 334,000
AFL: West Coast v North Melbourne: Preview (FF) — 162,000
AFL: West Coast v North Melbourne Review (FF) — 117,000
AFL: After The Bounce (FF) — 90,000
Green Lantern (Movie One) — 76,000

Regional:

The five most-watched programs in regional markets were:

Sunday Night — 833,000
Nine News — 692,000
60 Minutes — 675,000
Seven News — 648,000
Border Security — 538,000

Major Metro Markets: The went the way of the football codes, but apart from Perth where Ten managed a lone third overall, the ABC and ABC 1 finished third overall and in the main channels. Nine won Sydney and Brisbane overall and in the main channels. Seven won Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth overall and in the main channels. ABC 2 won the digitals in Sydney, 7mate won Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.

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

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports