National
ABC News was up 3,000 on average from last week as the three commercial services lost viewers. Seven dropped by a massive 236,000 after the end of The Ashes series while Nine was down 11,000 and 10 by 16,000.
Compared to this week last year, 10’s audience dropped by 17% while Seven was down 7%. Most of those viewers seem to have migrated to Nine that had a huge 23% increase year-on-year while ABC News posted a 5% gain.
Nothing to do with the loss of The Project and it’s replacement on the news brand?
Or Neighbours missing from the afternoon schedule giving a potentially lower leadin isn’t going to help this year.
With the start of the Australian Open, Nine’s average national audience was down 116,000 from last week while Seven’s was up 107,000. ABC grew their audience by 35,000 and 10 by 32,000.
Compared to 2025, Nine and Seven were unchanged while ABC posted a 9% gain with 10 continuing to underperform. 10 saw a drop in mst markets while ABC posted big gains in 4 of the 5 markets.
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Correct me if I’m wrong but I think this might be the first time Nine’s news has beaten Seven’s in Sydney during the Australian Open since 2019 (the first year Nine televised the tournament).
Nine would be stoked with that news result, considering historically during the tennis for probably the last decade at least.
Not sure if that reflects more poorly on Seven News or outright positively for Nine News.
Also given The Chase’s new season launch.
National
Seven had a 130,000 national win in week 5 as all bulletins saw their average audience up from the previous week. That included Nine by 149,000, Seven by 42,000, ABC by 32,000 and 10 by 17,000.
While 10’s audience was down by 3%, the other bulletins were improved compared to week 5 of 2025.
BVOD continued to be a big contributor to increasing audiences.
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5 cities
Nine maintained its winning streak on the east coast while Seven dominated in Adelaide and Perth for the last week. Most bulletins in the metro areas were up from the previous week and those that fell did so only by small amounts.
Compared to week 5 of 2025, most bulletins rated higher though 10 in Sydney and Perth were notable exceptions. 10 Adelaide was the biggest improver of any bulletin.
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I think we’ll have to wait a bit here for the numbers.
Last night 9 Brisbane and Perth halved their bulletins. The codings may still represent a full hour in those markets.
May be adjusted. But what do I know, they never told us what timeband each program represents.
Both 30 minutes bulletins were as per the original posted schedule so no change.
I can’t see 10 returning Adelaides production back to Sydney.
Numbers are way up on average.
Do you think Seven would be happy or disappointed with their news performance particularly Sydney and Melbourne during the Australian Open vs historically?
National
All bulletins saw their average audience drop from the previous week. Seven was down 77,000, 10 dropped by 59,000, Nine by 38,000 and ABC by 11,000.
Compared to the equivalent week last year 10 was notable for a significant fall while ABC and Nine improved their audience numbers. All bulletins gained in the BVOD area.
5-city
Many metro bulletins were lower this week though ABC notably bucked the trend. Due to missing data last year, comparisons to then are not useful this week.
Week one of the unofficial ratings period was won by Nine nationally and in the metro markets with viewing habits possibly impacted by the Winter Olympics.
National
Nine News’ audience grew by an average of 52,000 from the previous week while 10 saw an uptick by 15,000. Both Seven (by 43,000) and ABC (29,000) lost audience.
That saw Nine 8% higher that this week last year. While ABC also improved and Seven was steady, 10 dropped by 6%.
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5-city
The usual pattern of Nine winning three markets and Seven ahead in two continued. Nine improved week-on-week in most markets with 10 also up but ABC dropped 30,000 and Seven 13,000.
Nine and ABC saw year-on-year growth in most markets while Seven and 10 lost audience - 10 Perth was notably lower.
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And of course that’s exactly what they did lol
Yep… I eat my words. Terrible decision.
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Seven News was up 4,000 from the previous week with all other bulletins averaging lower - Nine by 17,000, ABC by 9,000 and in a very poor result for 10, down 29,000.
Nine was up 7% on this week last year with ABC and Seven slightly improved while 10 dropped by a huge 15%.
5-city
Seven also had a small metro improvement in ratings, up by 4,000. Nine and ABC both shed 11,000 from the previous week with 10 dropping by 16,000.
Nine and ABC were up compared to last year while 10 dropped by 18% including a massive 47% drop in Perth. 10 Adelaide bucked the trend .
10 has really been struggling in Perth for so long. Have then even tried to promote or do anything to change direction?
National
Seven News had a better week up 21,000 on average while there were small 2,000-3,000 drops for the other bulletins.
10’s bulletin suffered another big drop compared to the previous year as other networks gain audience.
5-city
ABC had a 38,000 increase on the previous week and a 15% increase on the same week of 2025. Nine News continued to gain on Seven’s bulletin in all markets though Seven Perth continued to do well with the new presenting line-up. 10 had a small bump in Brisbane but otherwise had an other poor result.
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So I’m assuming because no one is watching 10 at all… it’s now affecting their 5pm news numbers.
From my understanding, numbers are down in all timeslots? Morning, afternoons, evenings, weekends and primetime.
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In a big week of news including coverage of the Iran War Seven had a +100,000 win, its biggest margin over Nine in five weeks. While ABC was up 62,000, Seven up 56,000 and 10 by 7,000, Nine’s average was down 12,000 compared to last week.
Despite the Iran conflict coverage this week, all commercial bulletins were down on last year. The reason can be seen in the five-city table where especially Brisbane numbers were down on last year that included coverage of Cyclone Alfred’s approach to SEQ.
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There bulletins were up from last week with Nine the exception. The comparison to last year reflects this week being the one-year anniversary of Cyclone Alfred.
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