(Image: Nine)

Last night was Nine’s easily as The Block relocated to Thursday night after being pushed out of Sunday for the NRL grand final — 1.182 million nationally was a solid figure for a Thursday night.

Q+A — 461,000 nationally at 8.30pm after Foreign Correspondent’s 631,000 at 8pm. The loss of 200,000 viewers (almost a third) was a pretty good judgment on the quality of last night’s discussion. 7.30 ended one of its strongest reporting weeks for a while; its two-part exposure of abuse of young swimmers by a leading coach in the ’80s and ’90s also exposed the lack of any meaningful reporting by print sports writers at the time — or since.

Breakfast: Sunrise, 404,000/231,000; Today, 337,000/233,000; News Breakfast, 314,000/209,000.

Regional Top 5: Seven News, 569,000; Seven News 6.30, 558,000; Home and Away, 369,000, Nine News, 367,000; 7pm ABC News, 361,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (33.3%)
  2. Seven (21.9%)
  3. Ten (20.5%)
  4. ABC (15.7%)
  5. SBS (8.7%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (24.4%)
  2. Seven (14.1%)
  3. Ten (13.7%)
  4. ABC (11.4%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.0%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.0%)
  2. 10 Bold (3.4%)
  3. Gem (3.0%)
  4. 10 Peach (2.9%)
  5. 7mate (2.4%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.565 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.506 million
  3. Nine News  — 1.346 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.304 million
  5. The Block (Nine) — 1.182 million
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.062 million
  7. 7pm ABC News — 1.042 million
  8. Home And Away (Seven) — 956,000
  9. Gogglebox Australia (Ten) — 878,000
  10. 7.30 (ABC) — 846,000

Top metro programs: 
1. Nine News  — 1.019 million
2. Seven News — 1.001 million

Losers:  So many…

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Nine News — 1.019 million
  2. Seven News  — 1.001 million
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 966,000
  4. Seven News 6.30 — 959,000
  5. ACA (Nine) — 704,000
  6. 7pm ABC News — 686,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 533,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 415,000
  9. Foreign Correspondent (ABC) — 414,000
  10. Ten News First — 317,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 404,000/231,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 337,000/233,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC) — 314,000/209,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 248,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 179,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) —  45,000

Top 5 Pay TV programs:

  1. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 75,000
  2. Alan Jones (Sky News) — 73,000
  3. Paul Murray, Credlin  (Sky News) — 65,000
  4. Outback Opal Hunters (Discovery) — 60,000