Monday 23 February 2026

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Nine News with a national and metro win. Seven’s top rated bulletin in Melbourne finishes third in that market.

Today Brisbane has the biggest audience in the country with a 3,000 gap between the commercials.

5 City Syd Mel Bri Ade Per
Seven News 858,000 194,000 239,000 168,000 109,000 148,000
Nine News 992,000 249,000 306,000 248,000 87,000 102,000
10 News 197,000 55,000 60,000 35,000 23,000 25,000
ABC News 688,000 157,000 260,000 125,000 61,000 86,000
5 City Syd Mel Bri Ade Per
Chase Aus 355,000 79,000 110,000 55,000 46,000 65,000
Tipping Aus 547,000 143,000 147,000 136,000 50,000 70,000
5 City Syd Mel Bri Ade Per
Sunrise 224,000 55,000 53,000 45,000 24,000 48,000
Today 221,000 65,000 54,000 70,000 14,000 18,000
News Breakf 119,000 29,000 45,000 19,000 12,000 15,000
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They just keep falling in ratings lately

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NRL will have another record breaking season ratings for Nine anyways…

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While 10’s schedule looks to be on life support, there’s a slightly different picture when you look at the key demos for today as an example.

Survivor is always known as a demo beast and last night it beat Idol nationally and quite easily in the metro markets in the key demos.

It’s interesting to look at the broadcast demos from last night (for the metros that I have). 10 comes out ahead of Seven in 25-54 and 16-39. Which is almost miraculous when you consider the whole prime time schedule in total people term. Seven News - 1 million ahead of News+ and DOND; H and A 600k ahead of Millionaire; Idol 300k ahead of Survivor. Plus the multi channels- Seven with one extra potentially targeting younger audiences. Yet somehow in 16-54 10 had more watching broadcast TV.

Of coure Nine is on another planet with almost 1/2 the demo audience.

25-54 Broadcast TV
ABC 16.8%
NINE 44.2%
SBS 5.1%
SEVEN 16.9%
TEN 17.1%
16-39 Broadcast TV
ABC 18.2%
NINE 49.3%
SBS 3.9%
SEVEN 13.9%
TEN 14.7%
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So to borrow that term, 10 is winning the “audience that matter”.

Which one is it then? 7mate targets men 16-54, 7two targets all, 7flix & 7Bravo target women 16-54.

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7 Perth numbers looks like they have taken to Tim & Ange.

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I had a feeling this season was going to be a bit of a bomb. The obvious thing was the dumping of Jonathan but I also think that the promo campaign for this season was poor. The ‘Redemption’ theme is just not that captivating. People are also sick of the same contestants constantly returning, especially when we just had a returnee season (Aus vs World). Also factor in that Aus vs The World only just finished up a few months ago, you definitely risk oversaturating a format having it on twice in a year. These 24 cast seasons just feel so long.

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10 will not broaden their audience until they get a major sport. They need to get the NRL. They’ll need to offer $500m-$1b more than any one else bidding to be even considered.

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Poor 10. Survivor’s premiere didn’t do that well (in total numbers). And their early schedule didn’t do that well either - even with the well publicised Hot Seat big win.

But they do have some “good hope” later in the night, winning the Late News battle over ABC (and SBS), and has done so for the last few weeks. However… Nine’s Late News returns tonight after a break from the Australian Open (tennis) and the Winter Olympics. So will see how that battles out…

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Obviously one night isn’t a trend. If Australian Survivor’s numbers don’t improve though, I’m not sure why there would be sympathy for 10 when they decided to not only unceremoniously get rid of a well-liked and popular presenter but fail to mount the argument as to why the change was required.

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Total TV Consolidated 7 Days

Total TV Consolidated 7 Top 30 Programs Total People

Rank Description Network Reach Average BVOD
1 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -MON Nine 3,746,000 2,560,000 1,218,000
2 9NEWS Nine 2,269,000 1,401,000 196,000
3 SEVEN NEWS Seven 2,160,000 1,379,000 163,000
4 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine 1,983,000 1,220,000 203,000
5 WINTER OLYMPICS 2026 D16 -CLOSING CEREMONY -RPT Nine 1,789,000 321,000 56,000
6 AUSTRALIAN IDOL-MON Seven 1,710,000 996,000 290,000
7 HOME AND AWAY Seven 1,506,000 1,099,000 339,000
8 TIPPING POINT AUSTRALIA Nine 1,498,000 789,000 105,000
9 7.30-EV ABC 1,420,000 925,000 69,000
10 ABC NEWS-EV ABC 1,340,000 1,000,000 65,000
11 AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR – LAUNCH 10 1,280,000 732,000 283,000
12 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Seven 1,260,000 627,000 75,000
13 FOUR CORNERS-EV ABC 1,154,000 704,000 123,000
14 9-1-1 Seven 1,034,000 473,000 114,000
15 AUSTRALIAN STORY RPT ABC 1,006,000 674,000 32,000
16 SUNRISE Seven 960,000 412,000 55,000
17 TODAY Nine 923,000 331,000 58,000
18 MEDIA WATCH-EV ABC 828,000 707,000 57,000
19 PLANET AMERICA-LE ABC 786,000 558,000 78,000
20 9NEWS AFTERNOON Nine 756,000 384,000 46,000
21 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -SUN -ENCORE Nine 687,000 236,000 27,000
22 HARD QUIZ S3 RPT ABC 681,000 343,000 19,000
23 SEVEN NEWS AT 4 Seven 626,000 333,000 39,000
24 THE MORNING SHOW Seven 624,000 257,000 35,000
25 NEWS BREAKFAST-AM ABC 609,000 215,000 22,000
26 TODAY EXTRA Nine 601,000 201,000 35,000
27 MILLIONAIRE HOT SEAT 10 600,000 344,000 30,000
28 ABC NEWS MORNINGS-AM ABC 581,000 120,000 13,000
29 10 NEWS 10 549,000 273,000 23,000
30 WINTER OLYMPICS 2026 D16 -MILANO CORTINA ENCORE Nine 546,000 164,000 30,000

Total TV Consolidated 7 Top 30 Programs 25-54

Rank Description Network Reach Average BVOD
1 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -MON Nine 1,771,000 1,305,000 733,000
2 9NEWS Nine 738,000 410,000 98,000
3 WINTER OLYMPICS 2026 D16 -CLOSING CEREMONY -RPT Nine 735,000 118,000 31,000
4 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine 671,000 371,000 109,000
5 AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR – LAUNCH 10 635,000 394,000 166,000
6 SEVEN NEWS Seven 570,000 327,000 78,000
7 AUSTRALIAN IDOL-MON Seven 563,000 328,000 144,000
8 HOME AND AWAY Seven 541,000 401,000 178,000
9 TIPPING POINT AUSTRALIA Nine 394,000 202,000 49,000
10 9-1-1 Seven 330,000 168,000 60,000
11 TODAY Nine 309,000 118,000 32,000
12 SUNRISE Seven 283,000 118,000 29,000
13 FOUR CORNERS-EV ABC 279,000 192,000 54,000
14 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -SUN -ENCORE Nine 272,000 95,000 15,000
15 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Seven 270,000 122,000 35,000
16 7.30-EV ABC 266,000 171,000 27,000
17 MILLIONAIRE HOT SEAT 10 236,000 131,000 16,000
18 ABC NEWS-EV ABC 226,000 155,000 24,000
19 MATLOCK 10 216,000 74,000 12,000
20 PLANET AMERICA-LE ABC 212,000 148,000 30,000
21 MEDIA WATCH-EV ABC 207,000 175,000 23,000
22 TODAY EXTRA Nine 205,000 82,000 19,000
23 SUNRISE -EARLY Seven 185,000 90,000 18,000
24 NEWS BREAKFAST-AM ABC 170,000 58,000 10,000
25 9NEWS AFTERNOON Nine 168,000 91,000 22,000
26 AUSTRALIAN STORY RPT ABC 167,000 108,000 12,000
27 WINTER OLYMPICS 2026 D16 -MILANO CORTINA ENCORE Nine 166,000 57,000 16,000
28 THE MORNING SHOW Seven 154,000 69,000 18,000
29 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET -EV Nine 152,000 25,000 2,000
30 TODAY -EARLY Nine 151,000 65,000 21,000

Total TV Consolidated 7 Top 30 Programs 16-39

Rank Description Network Reach Average BVOD
1 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -MON Nine 1,022,000 765,000 498,000
2 WINTER OLYMPICS 2026 D16 -CLOSING CEREMONY -RPT Nine 352,000 52,000 18,000
3 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine 315,000 161,000 61,000
4 9NEWS Nine 302,000 158,000 49,000
5 AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR – LAUNCH 10 291,000 192,000 93,000
6 HOME AND AWAY Seven 260,000 182,000 101,000
7 SEVEN NEWS Seven 239,000 131,000 38,000
8 AUSTRALIAN IDOL-MON Seven 223,000 133,000 69,000
9 TIPPING POINT AUSTRALIA Nine 172,000 78,000 25,000
10 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -SUN -ENCORE Nine 145,000 51,000 8,000
11 TODAY Nine 115,000 43,000 14,000
12 FOUR CORNERS-EV ABC 113,000 82,000 27,000
13 9-1-1 Seven 112,000 59,000 30,000
14 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Seven 111,000 44,000 17,000
15 ABC NEWS-EV ABC 110,000 70,000 11,000
16 7.30-EV ABC 109,000 79,000 13,000
17 MILLIONAIRE HOT SEAT 10 103,000 55,000 8,000
18 SUNRISE Seven 91,000 38,000 13,000
19 WINTER OLYMPICS 2026 D16 -MILANO CORTINA ENCORE Nine 80,000 28,000 9,000
20 TODAY EXTRA Nine 80,000 31,000 9,000
21 PLANET AMERICA-LE ABC 76,000 45,000 13,000
22 MATLOCK 10 75,000 24,000 6,000
23 MEDIA WATCH-EV ABC 70,000 58,000 11,000
24 NEWS BREAKFAST-AM ABC 63,000 21,000 4,000
25 9NEWS AFTERNOON Nine 62,000 30,000 11,000
26 ABC NEWS MORNINGS-AM ABC 62,000 16,000 3,000
27 AUSTRALIAN STORY RPT ABC 61,000 33,000 6,000
28 THE MORNING SHOW Seven 56,000 21,000 9,000
29 TODAY -EARLY Nine 54,000 23,000 9,000
30 WINTER OLYMPICS 2026 D16 -CLOSING CEREMONY Nine 50,000 11,000 2,000

Total TV Consolidated 7 Top 30 Programs Grocery Shoppers

Rank Description Network Reach Average BVOD
1 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -MON Nine 2,978,000 2,076,000 979,000
2 9NEWS Nine 1,804,000 1,127,000 160,000
3 SEVEN NEWS Seven 1,758,000 1,130,000 133,000
4 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine 1,586,000 1,000,000 166,000
5 WINTER OLYMPICS 2026 D16 -CLOSING CEREMONY -RPT Nine 1,462,000 265,000 45,000
6 AUSTRALIAN IDOL-MON Seven 1,379,000 815,000 238,000
7 HOME AND AWAY Seven 1,224,000 900,000 276,000
8 TIPPING POINT AUSTRALIA Nine 1,204,000 652,000 87,000
9 7.30-EV ABC 1,191,000 781,000 61,000
10 ABC NEWS-EV ABC 1,118,000 840,000 57,000
11 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Seven 1,032,000 518,000 62,000
12 AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR – LAUNCH 10 1,008,000 581,000 232,000
13 FOUR CORNERS-EV ABC 980,000 604,000 108,000
14 AUSTRALIAN STORY RPT ABC 852,000 571,000 28,000
15 9-1-1 Seven 848,000 395,000 94,000
16 SUNRISE Seven 790,000 345,000 46,000
17 TODAY Nine 733,000 273,000 48,000
18 MEDIA WATCH-EV ABC 700,000 604,000 51,000
19 PLANET AMERICA-LE ABC 668,000 478,000 69,000
20 9NEWS AFTERNOON Nine 628,000 323,000 38,000
21 HARD QUIZ S3 RPT ABC 576,000 291,000 17,000
22 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -SUN -ENCORE Nine 561,000 196,000 22,000
23 SEVEN NEWS AT 4 Seven 519,000 276,000 32,000
24 NEWS BREAKFAST-AM ABC 518,000 182,000 20,000
25 THE MORNING SHOW Seven 508,000 213,000 29,000
26 ABC NEWS MORNINGS-AM ABC 495,000 103,000 12,000
27 TODAY EXTRA Nine 492,000 168,000 29,000
28 MILLIONAIRE HOT SEAT 10 477,000 274,000 25,000
29 10 NEWS 10 458,000 228,000 19,000
30 WINTER OLYMPICS 2026 D16 -MILANO CORTINA ENCORE Nine 453,000 138,000 25,000

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MAFS picked up almost 700k in consolidated; Idol 234k, Survivor just 91k - not much need to watch the original when there were plenty of encores available. .

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