It was easily Seven’s night in metro and regional markets as Nine and Ten’s offerings couldn’t cope with House Rules and a solid night for the 5.30pm part of The Chase Australia (which in turn boosted Seven’s 6 to 7 pm news). Nine’s Hamish and Andy did OK — the highest rating entertainment program last night, as Nine pointed out, but fewer viewers found it entertaining than previous weeks — it had 1.432 million viewers last night nationally against 1.519 million a week ago and more than 1.8 million for the debut. Masterchef Australia was again squeezed and ended on 1.15 million which isn’t a bad outcome, just not its potential.

Wanted did well for Seven – 1.26 million nationally with strong support from regional viewers (like House Rules, which had 1.68 million viewers nationally, but which was pipped in the metros by True Stories — 1.02 million to 1.01 million). Here Comes The Habibs followed True Stories at 8pm and its national audience sank to just 914,000 — that’s more than half a million down and 770,000 under House Rules.

Regional viewing was again dominated by Seven News with 766,000 viewers, House Rules with 669,000, Seven News/Today Tonight was third with 609,000, then Home and Away on 567,000 and The 5.30pm part of The Chase Australia with 506,000. And in breakfast Sunrise with 507,000 won nationally with Today on 430,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (30.6%)
  2. Nine (25.4%)
  3. Ten (20.6%)
  4. ABC (17.3%)
  5. SBS (6.1%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (21.7%)
  2. Nine (17.8%)
  3. Ten (14.9%)
  4. ABC (12.8%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.3%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (3.8%)
  2. 7mate (3.2%)
  3. Gem (3.1%)
  4. Eleven (3.0%)
  5. GO (2.6%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.982 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.748 million
  3. House Rules (Seven) — 1.688 million
  4. True Stories (Nine) — 1.482 million
  5. Nine/NBN News (6.30pm) — 1.422 million
  6. Nine/NBN News — 1.370 million
  7. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.350 million
  8. Current Affair (Nine) — 1.335 million
  9. Wanted (Seven) — 1.260 million
  10.  The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.231 million

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.215 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.112 million
  3. Nine News — 1.056 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.050 million
  5. True Stories (Nine) — 1.029 million
  6. House Rules (Seven) — 1.019 million

Losers: Masterchef  Australia was squeezed again.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.215 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.112 million
  3. Nine News — 1.056 million
  4. Nine News (6.30pm) — 1.050 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 960,000
  6. 7pm ABC News — 826,000
  7. Australian Story (ABC) — 664,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 605,000
  9. Four Corners (ABC — 548,000
  10. Ten Eyewitness News — 535,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 507,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 430,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC,  170,000 + 92,000 on News 24) — 262,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 245,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 194,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 142,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 89,000
  2. Monday Night With Matty Jones (Fox League) — 74,000
  3. Gold: US Open final Round (Fox Sports) — 63,000
  4. AFL: On The Couch (Fox Footy) — 62,000
  5. Simmer and Shine (Nick Jr) — 62,000