In “everything is connected” news, in her Australian Open quarter-final, airing tonight on Nine, Ash Barty is playing Jessica Pegula, whose billionaire dad owns the Buffalo Bills, the gridiron team that lost its National Football League final to the Kansas City Chief in the dying moments of the game on Sunday night — a game that averaged 556,000 viewers on Foxtel but didn’t crack the top 100 on free-to-air TV.
In other Open news, Rafa Nadal plays Denis Shapovalov, and doubles twins Kyrgios and Kokkinakis play their quarter final in the men’s doubles. The first session of the tennis averaged 914,000, the second 756,000. Tonight looks like Nine’s night due to the tennis.
Elsewhere on the dial, viewers of Ten’s I’m A Celebrity didn’t wait around for the elimination last night — 838,000 watched the lead up, 104,000 less watched the elimination. Boredom setting in?
Regional Top 5: Seven News, 505,000; Seven News 6.30, 487,000; Nine News/7pm ABC News, 309,000; Nine News 6.30, 297,000.
Network channel share:
- Nine (34.9%)
- Seven (22.5%)
- Ten (21.5%)
- ABC (13.4%)
- SBS (7.6%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (23.2%)
- Ten (15.2%)
- Seven (14.9%)
- ABC (9.4%)
- SBS ONE (4.3%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7mate (3.6%)
- GO (3.5%)
- 10 Bold, 10 Peach (2.9%)
- 7TWO (2.8%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.483 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.444 million
- Nine News — 1.248 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 1.217 million
- 2022 Australian Open Tennis, Day 8, Night (Nine) — 914,000
- 7pm ABC News — 907,000
- I’m A Celebrity… (Ten) — 838,000
- Border Security (repeat) (Seven) — 803,000
- 2022 Australian Open Tennis, Day 8, Night 2 (Nine) — 756,000
- I’m A Celebrity… — elimination (Ten) — 734,000
Top metro programs: none with a million or more viewers.
Losers: it’s summer, Nine has the tennis for the next fortnight, so no TV losers.
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News —982,000
- Seven News 6.30 — 957,000
- Nine News — 939,000
- Nine News 6.30 — 599,000
- 7pm ABC News — 693,000
- 7.30 Summer (ABC) — 486,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 390,000
- 10 News First — 339,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 238,000
- SBS World News — 143,000
Morning (national) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 416,000/247,000
- Today (Nine) — 313,000/214,000
- ABC News Breakfast (ABC) — 281,000/231,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) —231,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — pre-empted
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 41,000
Top five pay TV programs:
- NFL: Bills vs Chiefs (ESPN) — 56,000
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 47,000
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 43,000
- Chris Smith Tonight (Sky News) — 37,000
- Call The Midwife (BBC First) — 33,000
