Nine’s Married At First Sight (1.306 million, and second nationally last night) is now deep in its usual clickbait phase to keep the punters engaged until the finals. Lower numbers but better viewing was 60 Minutes (767,000) and its exposure of Sydney businessman Bill Pappas, living in Greece and leaving behind an estimated debts to Westpac and others of up to half a billion bucks — and no explanation.
Saturday’s Mardi Gras parade broadcast on the ABC drew 406,000 nationally — not bad but the organisers scored two big misses: (1) no recognition right up front of Ukraine — after all, their struggle transcends gender/orientation (and Putin is notoriously anti-gay/queer), and (2) no recognition of the shock death of Shane Warne. Warnie was a national figure, and the Mardi Gras used to be cutting-edge in its commentary on current events.
Nine’s night, easily: news audiences in the morning and at night were down on last week, with the Ukraine war now a constant news story and the floods easing. Seven’s Dancing With The Stars: All Stars remained a constant with 884,000.
Leigh Sales’ interview with the late Shane Warne from a couple of years ago will be broadcast at 8pm tonight instead of Australian Story. The extensive TV, radio and print coverage of the cricket legend’s shock death was spot-on — a lot of good memories of a warts-and-all person.
Network channel share:
- Nine (32.5%)
- Seven (27.4%)
- Ten (18.2%)
- ABC (14.3%)
- SBS (677%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (26.4%)
- Seven (19.7%)
- Ten (11.8%)
- ABC (9.8%)
- SBS ONE (5.1%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 10 Bold (3.1%)
- 7mate (2.9)
- 7TWO (2.7%)
- ABC News (2.6%)
- 10 Peach (2.4%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.452 million
- Married At First Sight (Nine) — 1.306 million
- Nine News — 1.257 million
- 7pm ABC News — 935,000
- Dancing With The Stars: All Stars (Seven) — 884,000
- 60 Minutes (Nine) — 767,000
- Insiders (ABC, ABC News) — 681,000
- Australian Survivor (Ten) — 620,000
- Grand Designs New Zealand (ABC) — 584,000
- Nine News Late — 555,000
Top metro programs: None with a million or more viewers
Regional Top 5: Seven News, 471,000; MAFS, 338,000; Nine News, 327,000; 7pm ABC News, 301,000, Dancing With The Stars: All Stars, 288,000.
Losers: Sky News
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 981,000
- Nine News — 930,000
- 7pm ABC News — 634,000
- 60 Minutes (Nine) — 596,000
- Nine News Late — 407,000
- The Sunday Project 7pm (Ten) — 348,000
- Ten News First — 304,000
- The Sunday Project 6.30 (Ten) — 251,000
- SBS News — 180,000
Morning (National) TV:
- Insiders (ABC, ABC News) —681,000
- Weekend Sunrise (Seven) — 427,000
- Landline (ABC) — 361,000
- Offsiders (ABC) — 333,000
- Weekend Today (Nine) — 305,000
- Sports Sunday (Nine) — 230,000
Top 5 pay TV programs:
- Supercars Sydney Race 2 (Fox Sport 506) — 141,000
- Cricket: First Test, Pakistan vs Australia, Day 3 (Fox Cricket) — 127,000
- Cricket: ICC Women’s World Cup Mini (Fox Cricket) — 121,000
- Supercars, The Grid Sydney Race 2 (Fox Sport 506), Supercars Sydney Race 2 Podium (Fox Sport 506), Cricket: First Test, Pakistan vs Australia, Day 3 (Fox Cricket) — 107,000
