Last week, the broadcast of the second State of Origin failed to win the week for Nine. Seven won (narrowly) because of the success of House Rules from Sunday through Wednesday and then the AFL on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Nine won last night with The Logies despite having the lowest audience for years (1.157 million). Seven’s ratings wrap Monday summed up last night when it described House Rules (1.46 million nationally) as the best performed “entertainment”program. It was compared to MasterChef (948,000 nationally) which seems to be a bit full of itself these days.

The Logies had 851,000 in the metros and 303,000 in the regions. That was down from 2016 (1.11 million in the metros and 343,000 in the regions) and 2017 (972,000 in the metros and 329,000 in the regions). At this rate the national audience will dip under a million next year.

In regional markets Seven News was on top with 623,000, with House Rules second at 548,000, Nine News with 449,000, Sunday Night with 380,000 and Mystery Road with 336,000 for the final ep.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (34.3%)
  2. Seven (27.8%)
  3. Ten (15.8%)
  4. ABC (13.4%)
  5. SBS (6.7%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (26.6%)
  2. Seven (19.7%)
  3. Ten (11.6%)
  4. ABC (9.7%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.0%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate (5.0%)
  2. 7TWO, GO (3.3%)
  3. Gem (2.8%)
  4. ONE (2.3%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.822 million
  2. Nine/NBN News — 1.503 million
  3. House Rules (Seven) — 1.463 million
  4. 60th Logies (Nine) — 1.157 million
  5. 60th Logies – Arrivals (Nine) — 1.156 million
  6. 7pm ABC News — 988,000
  7. MasterChef (Ten) — 948,000
  8. Sunday Night (Seven) — 947,000
  9. Mystery Road (ABC) — 908,000
  10. Grand Designs NZ (ABC) — 829,000

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.119 million
  2. Nine News — 1.054 million

Losers: People who watched the Logies for more than a minute… we know who you are….

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.119 million
  2. Nine News — 1.054 million
  3. 7pm ABC News —656,000
  4. Sunday Night (Seven) — 567,000
  5. The Sunday Project 7pm (Ten) — 392,000
  6. Ten Eyewitness News — 269,000
  7. The Sunday Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 255,000
  8. SBS World News — 158,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Insiders (ABC, ABC News ) — 493,000
  2. Weekend Sunrise (Seven) — 413,000
  3. LandLine (ABC) — 411,000
  4. Weekend Today (Nine) — 327,000
  5. Sports Sunday (Nine) — 257,000
  6. Offsiders (ABC) — 245,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. NRL: Souths v Nth Qld (Fox League) — 242,000
  2. NRL: Wests v Gold Coast (Fox League) — 197,000
  3. AFL: Essendon v North Melbourne (Fox Footy) — 173,000
  4. AFL: Melbourne v St Kilda (Fox Footy) — 160,000
  5. AFL: Fremantle v Brisbane (Fox Footy) — 125,000