Nine’s night in the metros because of wins in Sydney and Melbourne and a shared victory in Brisbane. Seven shared Brisbane and won Adelaide and Perth. In the regionals, Seven was an easy winner. Ten was fourth in both metros and regionals behind the ABC with its usually strong line up of news and current affairs programs, especially Australian Story with nearly 1.3 million national viewers and a good story on Geraldine Cox and her Cambodian refuge, and Media Watch (with 983,000 national viewers). The Hotplate on Nine just doesn’t cut it in regional markets. It had 1.205 million national viewers — 902,000 in the metros and 303,000 in the regions. But that was better than the way regional viewers treated Ten’s kiddie class Spelling Bee — it could only manage 222,000 regional viewers out of 884,000 nationally.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (27.6%)
  2. Seven (27.3%)
  3. ABC (21.7%)
  4. Ten (17.6%)
  5. SBS (5.8%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (21.3%)
  2. Seven (17.4%)
  3. ABC (16.5%)
  4. Ten (12.6%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.8%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (6.0%)
  2. 7mate (3.9%)
  3. GO (3.8%)
  4. ABC 2 (3.7%)
  5. ONE (2.7%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Nine News — 1.638 million
  2. Seven News — 1.392 million
  3. Highway Patrol (Seven) — 1.390 million
  4. ABC News  (Seven) – 1.330 million
  5. Australian Story (ABC) — 1.297 million
  6. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.297 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.296 million
  8. The Hotplate (Nine) — 1.205 million
  9. Nine News 6.30 — 1.204 million
  10. Motorway Patrol (Seven) — 1.184 million

Top metro programs:

  1. Nine News 6.30 — 1.204 million
  2. Nine News — 1.182 million
  3. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.129 million
  4. Seven News — 1.078 million
  5. Seven News/ Today Tonight — 1.073 million

Losers: Viewers generally, apart from those who watched the ABC. Nine, Ten and Seven were wastelands, as the most watched program lists confirm — the top six in the metros were news and current affairs shows and over by 7.30 pm.Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Nine News 6.30 — 1.204 million
  2. Nine News — 1.182 million
  3. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.129 million
  4. Seven News — 1.078 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 1.031 million
  6. ABC News – 912,000
  7. Australian Story (ABC) — 866,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 811,000
  9. Media Watch (ABC) — 688,000
  10. FourCorners (ABC) — 678,000

Morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 319,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 293,000
  3. Mornings (Nine) — 148,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC 1,  95,000 + 49,000 on News 24) — 144,000
  5. The Morning Show (Seven) — 143,000
  6. Studio 1o (Ten) — 60,000

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox 8  (3.0%)
  2. TV1  (2.3%)
  3. LifeStyle  (2.0%)
  4. UKTV (1.8%)
  5. Fox Classics (1.7%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. NRL: Cronulla v Melbourne (Fox Sports 1) – 247,000
  2. Golf: This Is The president’s Cup (Fox Sports 3)  (Fox) – 179,000
  3. Monday Night With Matty Johns (Fox Sports 1) – 134,000
  4. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) –132,000
  5. AFL: On The Couch (Fox Footy) – 100,000

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