It was Nine’s night easily thanks to Married At First Sight — 1.334 million nationally after a very strong performance by Nine’s 6 to 7pm hour of news (1.336 million), which again easily won the east coast metros of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Nine news and A Current Affair (1.15 million) in fact hung on to the gains from the previous Monday when viewer interest was high given Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the floods in Sydney and northern NSW.
In contrast, Seven News, the 7pm ABC news and 7.30 lost the extra viewers from a week earlier, while the hundreds of thousands of extra viewers for breakfast and mornings news programs a week earlier also vanished — even though the floods and Ukraine remain big stories. SAS Australia on Seven, 544,000, and The Amazing Race, 287,000, are both still missing in action, as was Seven last night.
The repeat of Leigh Sales’ interview with Shane Warne at 8pm grabbed 814,000 after 7.30 averaged 890,000.
Network channel share:
- Nine (31.9%)
- Seven (24.2%)
- Ten (18.7%)
- ABC (17.4%)
- SBS (7.8%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (24.9%)
- Seven (16.2%)
- Ten (12.6%)
- ABC (12.5%)
- SBS ONE (4.4%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7TWO (4.2%)
- 10 Bold (3.0%)
- ABC News, 7mate, 10 Peach (2.6%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.554 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.5148 million
- Nine News — 1.348 million
- Married at First Sight (Nine) — 1.334 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 1.332 million
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.149 million
- 7pm ABC News — 1.051 million
- 7.30 (ABC) — 890,000
- Home and Away (Seven) — 841,000
- The Shane Warne interview, repeat (ABC) — 814,000
Top metro programs: Seven News, 1.008 million; Nine News, 1.006 million.
Regional Top 5: Seven News, 546,000; Seven News 6.30, 531,000; 7pm ABC News, 362,000; MAFS, 356,000; Nine News, 341,000.
Losers: SAS Australia, Amazing Race again and again (both Seven).
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 1.008 million
- Nine News — 1.006 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 991,000
- Seven News 6.30 — 984,000
- ACA (Nine) — 826,000
- 7pm ABC News — 689,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 595,000
- The Shane Warne interview (ABC) — 549,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 412,000
- Media Watch (ABC) — 392,000
Morning (national) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 404,000/245,000
- Today (Nine) — 330,000/216,000
- ABC morning news — 327,000
- News Breakfast (ABC) — 317,000/214,000
- Mornings (Seven) — 239,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 194,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 39,000
Top 5 pay TV programs:
- Cricket: ICC Women’s World Cup Mini (Fox Cricket) — 124,000
- Cricket: First Test, Pakistan v Aust Day 4 (Fox Cricket) — 92,000
- Cricket: First Test, Pakistan v Aust Day 4 (Fox Cricket) — 91,000
- The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 56,000
- AFL: Pre-Season (Fox Footy) — 53,000
