Glenn Dyer's TV ratings: MKR back to burn the competition

Seven’s night, easily. Seven won metro and regional markets by daylight and a country mile combined. It was no contest with My Kitchen Rules back in the Seven line-up. Revenge was weak, but managed to hold up its end after MKR. Thanks to the Cats-Hawks AFL game finishing bang on 6pm in eastern states, Seven News had a big night, with a 217,000 winning margin in Melbourne and solid margins in Perth and Adelaide. But Nine News beat Seven in Sydney by 104,000 and by 22,000 in Brisbane. The strong performance by Seven News mean Home and Away easily won the 7pm time slot. Nine ran dead as dead last night. No stewards to give the network a swab for last night’s weak effort.

The ABC did OK with its news and current affairs line-up — it easily beat Ten in metro markets and by a very solid margin in regional markets. ABC1’s Q&A was confused, with two UK guests expected to talk about Australian domestic politics. One, right-winger, Brendan O’Neill, showed he didn’t lack in opinions, despite being poorly informed about what happened in New South Wales. Yesterday afternoon’s Cats v Hawks game averaged a total of 1.245 million on Seven (924,000 on Seven and 7mate) and 321,000 on Fox Footy on pay TV.

On Sunday morning Financial Review Sunday (182,000 metro viewers) easily dusted The Bolt Report (78,000 at 10am and 75,000 metro viewers for the 4pm repeat) on Ten. The absence of Insiders at 9am on ABC1 (what a weak effort to be off for Easter Sunday after the shocks in NSW last week!) meant both programs, especially Bolt, had a free run at covering the week’s political events. Financial Review Sunday’s audience rose on previous weeks as a result. In contrast, Bolt’s figures sank to the worst for the program, certainly this year and possibly since it started.

Network channel share:

Seven (38.2%)
Nine (24.1%)
ABC (17.5%)
Ten (15.7%)
SBS (3.7%)

Network main channels:

Seven (29.3%)
Nine (17.0%)
ABC1 (13.3%)
Ten (9.6%)
SBS ONE (?%)

Top digital channels:

7TWO (5.2%)
GO (4.7%)
7mate (3.7%)
Eleven (3.1%)
ONE (3.0%)

Top 10 national programs:

My Kitchen Rules (Seven) – 2.799 million
Seven News — 1.954 million
Nine News — 1.796 million
Home and Away (Seven) — 1.627 million
Revenge (Seven) — 1.413 million
ABC1 News — 1.381 million
Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.266 million
7.30 (ABC1) — 1.156 million
A Current Affair (Nine) – 1.113 million
Australian Story (ABC1) — 1.085 million

Top metro programs:

My Kitchen Rules (Seven) – 1.877 million
Seven News — 1.487 million
Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.266 million
Nine News — 1.262 million
Nine News 6.30 — 1.073 million
Home and Away (Seven) — 1.039 million

Losers: Viewers of the Nine Network last night, and tonight. Weak, repeats and second-rate movies. Just rubbish, in fact.Metro news and current affairs:

Seven News — 1.487 million
Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.267 million
Nine News — 1.262 million
Nine News 6.30 — 1.073 million
ABC1 News — 960,000
A Current Affair (Nine) – 890,000
7.30 (ABC1) — 807,000
Australian Story (ABC1) — 750,000
The Project 7 pm (Ten) — 585,000
Media Watch (ABC1) — 554,000

Metro morning TV:

Sunrise (Seven) – 309,000
Today (Nine) – 240,000
The Morning Show (Seven) — 231,000
Mornings (Nine) — 170,000
News Breakfast (ABC 1, 53,000 + 45,000 on News 24) — 98,000
Studio 10 (Ten) — 51,000
Wake Up (Ten) — 29,000

Top five pay TV channels:

Fox Footy (5.9%)
Fox Sports 1 (5.6%)
Fox 8 (2.7%)
TVHITS!, LifeStyle (1.9%)
A&E (1.8%)

Top five pay TV programs:

AFL: Geelong v Hawthorn (Fox Footy) — 321,000
NRL: Parramatta v Wests Tigers (Fox Sports 1) – 304,000
NRL: Penrith v Gold Coast (Fox Sports 1) — 247,000
Game of Thrones (showcase) – 180,000
Game of Thrones (showcase) 133,000

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