The Glenn Dyer breakdown: Seven’s night, thanks to another blockbuster from Sunday Night, helped by good contributions from Seven News, Border Security, Airways and even Mrs Brown’s Boys.

Sunday Night had more than 1.6 million metro and 2.458 million national viewers. Nine’s House Husbands at 8.30pm had more than 1.2 million metro viewers and 1.7 million national viewers.

Nine’s Big Brother had another live eviction and struggled. But it struggled to get over a million viewers and missed out on the national top 10. It finished 11th with 1.330 million. But BB did well in the demos.

Ten was again weak behind the ABC. Great Southern Land, which started on ABC 1 last night at 7.30  had nearly 950,000 metro and over 1.4 million national viewers.

Seven had a surprisingly large win in regional markets by almost 12 points, three times the margin in the metro markets.

Tonight: The ABC’s hours of news and current affairs. Seven has the Brownlow Medal in AFL states on its main channels and on 7mate elsewhere. In the NRL states Seven has a bit of Border Security, RSPCA Animal Rescue and not much else. The Brownlow is also on Foxtel. Nine has Underbelly after Big Brother. Ten has Can of Worms, at a stretch.

Last week: Seven won the metro and regional markets. Nine was second, the ABC third and Ten was again a weak fourth. Nine won Sydney, but Seven won Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Prime/7Qld won the regionals as well.

Finals update: Friday night saw the AFL on Seven win with the Swans beating Collingwood in Sydney. The free-to-air game on Seven’s main and digital channels had 1.721 million viewers in metro and regional markets, according to ratings data from Oztam. Add in the audience on pay TV of 480,000 and the audience was 2.2 million.

The NRL final between Melbourne and Manly in Melbourne averaged a solid 1.570 million on Nine’s main and digital channels in metro and regional markets.

Saturday night’s second NRL final between Canterbury and Souths saw 1.786 million people watch on Nine (main channels and Gem digital). That was well ahead of the 1.569 million who watched the AFL final when Hawthorn beat Adelaide in the closest of all the finals this year so far. The 397,000 people who watched on Foxtel boosted the total audience to 1.966 million people.

The boost from the pay TV audiences again underlines what the Australian Rugby League Commission missed in the recent contract talks with Nine and Foxtel/Fox Sports (which wanted co-broadcasting).

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

  1. Sunday Night (Seven) —
  2. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 1.943 million.
  3. Seven News — 1.931 million.
  4. Border Security (Seven) — 1.807 million.
  5. House Husbands (Seven) — 1.703 million.
  6. Air Ways (Seven) — 1.690 million.
  7. Mrs Brown’s Boys (Seven) — 1.547 million.
  8. Nine News — 1.498 million.
  9. Great Southern Land (ABC 1) — 1.450 million.
  10. Call The Midwife (ABC 1) — 1.388 million.

The metro winners:

  1.  Sunday Night (Seven, 6.30pm) — 1.630 million.
  2.  Seven 6pm News — 1.393 million.
  3.  60 Minutes (Nine) — 1.390 million.
  4. Border Security (Seven, 7.30pm) — 1.241 million.
  5. House Husbands (Nine, 8.30pm) — 1.226 million.
  6. Air Ways (Seven, 8pm) — 1.167 million.
  7. Nine 6pm News — 1.081 million.
  8. Mrs Brown’s Boys (Seven, 8.30pm) — 1.042 million.
  9. Big Brother — Live Eviction (Nine, 6.30pm) — 1.013 million.

The losers: Ten. Just weak, despite the boost in the west from the F1 race for ONE and the overall finish.Metro news & current affairs: Seven beat Nine in Sydney, lost Melbourne, won the rest.

  1. Sunday Night (Seven, 6.30pm) — 1.630 million.
  2. Seven 6pm News — 1.393 million.
  3. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 1.390 million.
  4. Nine 6pm News — 1.081 million.
  5. 7pm ABC 1 News — 917,000.
  6. Ten News At Five (Ten, 5pm) — 495,000.
  7. The Project (Ten, 6pm) — 333,000.
  8. World News Australia (SBS ONE, 6.30pm) — 245,000.

In the morning: Unlike Sunrise last week, Weekend Sunrise was a bigger winner over Weekend Today yesterday. Inside Business saw another fade in audience numbers, hurting Offsiders.

  1. Weekend Sunrise (Seven, 8am) — 360,000.
  2. Weekend Today (Nine, 8am) — 242,000.
  3. Landline (ABC 1, noon) — 204,000.
  4. Insiders (ABC 1, 9am) — 173,000 + 47,000 on News 24*.
  5. The Bolt Report (Ten, 10am) — 166,000.
  6. The Bolt Report repeat (Ten, 4.30pm) — 160,000.
  7. Meet The Press (Ten, 10.30am) — 130,000.
  8. Inside Business (ABC 1, 10am) — 108,000.
  9. Offsiders (ABC 1, 10.30am) — 96,000.

*On News 24 simulcast

Metro FTA: Seven (three channels) won with a share of 31.5%, from Nine (three) on 27.7%, the ABC (four) was on 18.4%, Ten (three) was on 17.3% and SBS (two) ended with 5.1%.

Main channels: Seven won with a share of 24.6%, from Nine on 22.9%, ABC 1 was on 15.5%, Ten was on 11.4% and SBS ONE ended on 4.7%.

Metro digital: 7mate won with a share of 4.0%, from ONE on 3.7%, GO on 3.1%, 7TWO on 3.0%, Eleven on 2.1%, Gem on 1.8%, ABC 2 was on 1.5%, News 24 was on 0.8%, ABC 3 was on 0.7% and SBS TWO ended on 0.3%. The 10 digital channels had a low FTA share last night of 20.9%.

Metro including pay TV: Seven (three channels) won with a share of  26.4%, from Nine (three) on 23.2%, the ABC (four) was on 15.4%, Ten (three) was on 14.5% and SBS (two) ended with 4.2%. The 15 FTA channels had a total share last night of 85.8%. The 10 digital channels had a share of 17.7% and the five main channels share was 68.1%. Pay TV had a total share for the 200-plus channels on Foxtel of 14.2%.

The top five pay TV channels were:

  1. TV1 — 2.6%
  2. Fox 8, Fox Sports 2  — 2.5%.
  3. Fox Sports 1 — 2.4%
  4. Cartoon Network, A&E — 1.8%.
  5. LifeStyle — 1.7%.

The five most-watched programs on pay TV were:

  1. EPL: Liverpool v Man United (FS1) — 117,000.
  2. Modern Family (F8) — 85,000.
  3. Modern Family (F8) — 75,000.
  4. AFL: After The Bounce (FF) — 71,000.
  5. So You Want To Be A Pirate (Cartoon Network) — 71,000.

Regional: Prime/7Qld (three channels) won with a share of 36.1%, from WIN/NBN (three) on 24.4%, the ABC (four) was on 19.5%, SC Ten (three) was on 15.4% and SBS (two) ended with 4.6%. Prime/7Qld won the main channels with 27.7%, from WIN/NBN on 20.1%, ABC 1 on 15.7% and SC Ten on 10.2%. The digitals were won by 7mate with 4.4%, from 7TWO on 4.0% and ONE on 3.0%. The 10 digital channels had an FTA share last night of 26.1%.

The five most-watched programs in regional markets were:

  1. Sunday Night — 829,000.
  2. Border Security — 567,000.
  3. 60 Minutes — 553,000.
  4. Seven News — 539,000.
  5. Air Ways — 524,000.

Major metro markets: Ten had a slightly better night, but that was down to the F1 race on ONE in some markets. Seven Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth (overall and the main channels). Ten was third overall in all three markets, but ABC 1 was third in the main channels. In Sydney Nine won overall and the main channels from Seven and the ABC/ABC 1. In Melbourne, Seven won overall and Nine won the main channels. The ABC and ABC 1 were third. In the digitals, GO won Sydney, 7mate won Melbourne and Brisbane. ONE won Adelaide and Perth with the F 1 coverage.

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

Source: Oztam. TV Networks data