Nine’s night, end of story, thanks to the boost from the second night of the first Ashes Test. Nine won both metro and regional markets quite easily. Nine lost the main channels, but another solid performance from the cricket on Gem saw it home. I can tell you the Day 2 of the test cricket was pretty dispiriting from around 1 am onwards. Very poor and very bad for sleeping. The three sessions (up to 2am) averaged, 876,000 national viewers for Session 1; 585,000 for session 2 and 207,000 for the third session. Gem’s Perth share of 17.2% was the highest of any channels in the market. Masterchef Australia topped both metro and nationally with 1.538 million viewers.

The AFL game on Seven between Port Adelaide and Collingwood averaged 798,000 on Seven and 7mate and a further 215,000 on Fox Footy for a total audience of 1.013 million viewers. That topped the Test cricket.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (30.1%)
  2. Seven(27.5%)
  3. Ten (21.8%)
  4. ABC (14.9%)
  5. SBS (5.8%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (19.7%)
  2. Ten (16.8%)
  3. Nine (15.1%)
  4. ABC1 (10.1%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.9%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. Gem (11.4%)
  2. 7TWO (4.4%)
  3. GO (3.6%)
  4. 7mate (3.4%)
  5. ABC2 (3.1%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Masterchef Australia (Ten) — 1.538 million
  2. Nine News — 1.505 million
  3. Seven News  – 1.204 million
  4. ABC News – 1.165 million
  5. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.133 million
  6. Nine News 6.30 — 1.016 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) – 1.006 million
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 952,000
  9. Million Dollar Minute (Seven) — 948,000
  10. Hot Seat (Nine) — 932,000

Top metro programs:

  1. Masterchef Australia (Ten) — 1.172 million
  2. Nine News — 1.046 million
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 1.016 million

Losers: TV viewers who didn’t like sport or cooking. Glitch on ABC — Close Encounters #541? It managed 780,000 national viewers.Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Nine News — 1.046 million
  2. Nine News 6.30 — 1.016 million
  3. Seven News  – 931,000
  4. Seven News/ Today Tonight – 862,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 842,000
  6. ABC News – 787,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 708,000
  8. Ten Eyewitness News — 582,000
  9. 7.30 (ABC) — 566,000
  10. Inside Story (Nine) — 564,000

Morning TV:

  1. Today (Nine) – 298,000
  2. Sunrise (Seven) – 271,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 175,000
  4. Mornings (Nine) — 152,000
  5. News Breakfast (ABC 1, 95,000, 51,000 on News 24) — 146,000
  6. Studio 1o (Ten) — 58,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: Port Adelaide v Collingwood (Fox Footy) – 215,000
  2. AFL: Thursday Night Footy on Fox (Fox Footy) – 84,000
  3. Matty Johns Big Weekend (Fox Sports 1) — 78,000
  4. The Simpsons (Fox8) – 61,000
  5. Austin & Ally (Disney Jr) – 58,000

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