As the sun rises, Croatia’s World Cup lights go out

Tuesday’s TV highlight came early today when Argentina kayoed Croatia 3-0 to set up a meeting next Monday morning (Australian time) with the winner of France v Morocco at 6am Thursday.

Last night’s Big Bash League was a repeat of last season’s Big Bash League and the season before, and the season before … a lot of tipping and running and yelling by commentators with booming voices saying obvious things. The world short course swimming was much more exciting — almost metronomic.

Seven and Nine tied the night in total people, the BBL was more popular (484,000) on Seven than the swimming (231,000), and Seven won the main channels. The BBL game averaged 147,000 on Foxtel’s cricket channel. The various non-main channels had a collective share of 38.9%.

Network channel share:

Seven, Nine (27.6%)
ABC (18.6%)
Ten (16.0%)
SBS(10.8%)

Network main channels:

Seven (19.6%)
Nine (17.2%)
ABC (11.4%)
Ten (9.4%)
SBS ONE (4.6%)

Top 5 digital channels:

Gem (4.8%)
ABC Kids/TV Plus (3.5%)
10 Bold (3.2%)
7mate (3.1%)
7TWO (3.0%)

Top 10 national programs:

Seven News — 1.253 million
Seven News 6.30 — 1.193 million
Nine News 6.30 — 938,000
Nine News — 931,000
A Current Affair (Nine) — 865,000
7pm ABC News — 819,000
7.30 (ABC) — 693,000
The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 671,000
Big Bash League (Seven) — 484,000
Hot Seat (Nine) — 460,000

Top metro programs: none with a million or more viewers.

Regional top 5: Seven News, 447,000; Seven News 6.30, 442,000; ACA, 274,000; 7pm ABC News 262,000; Nine News 6.30, The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 254,000.

Losers: the whole night — a summer affliction.

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