In AFL, the Grand Final rematch saws a high scoring game with Brisbane defeating Geelong as seen on Seven’s main channel in four markets. The rating of 747k was up 50k on last week’s game.
It was near saturation of sport on Nine where the NRL Women’s Premiership kicked off with a big win to the Knights over the Sharks drawing 279k almost 300k less than last week’s men’s game. That was also down on last year’s opener that had 284k. In non NRL states there was main channel Wimbledon coverage including Australian Alex de Minaur’s straight sets win that had 341k while the lte segment had 244k.
Over on 10, the penultimate episode of the season of Taskmaster was down slightly to 357k while on the ABC, the Grand Designs Season 24 Premiere had 464k.
SBS’s FIFA World Cup broadcasts continued. The early game was from 1:30 AM with England winning over DR Congo to average 303k. At 5:30 AM Belgium came from behind to eliminate Senegal 3-2 to 554k. Then from 9:30 AM Co-hosts USA had a win 2-0 against Bosnia-Herzegovina with 727k watching for the best result of the day. A repeat of France V Sweden did well to get 194k.
Seven News at 6pm did well to be the number one show of the day with 1.4m while Nine’s bulletin had 1.258m. At 7pm A Current Affair with 914k ranked third for the day and was ahead of ABC news on 850k and Home and away with 822k. Earlier it was another win for Tipping Point with 874k well ahead of The Chase with 712k.
At breakfast Sunrise had another big win averaging 428k. Today continued to underperform with 243k its third lowest rating of the year but still ahead of News Breakfast that had 205k.
9NEWS, ACA AND TIPPING POINT DOMINATE WITH TOTAL PEOPLE
9News was the No.1 program across the 5 City Metro, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane with Total People. The combined national bulletins registered a National Total TV Reach of 2.001 million and a Total TV National Audience of 1.258 million. On 9Now, it secured a BVOD Audience of 206,000 – up 56.1% year-on-year.
A Current Affair won the 7.00pm timeslot with Total People across Australia and in Sydney and Brisbane. It claimed a National Total TV Reach of 1.427 million and a Total TV National Audience of 914,000. It recorded a BVOD audience of 142,000 – up 47.9% year-on-year.
Tipping Point Australia was the No.1 afternoon game show with Total People across Australia and in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. It secured a National Total TV Reach of 1.612 million, a Total TV National Audience of 874,000 and a BVOD audience of 138,000 - up a massive 74.7% this time last year.
NRLW was the No.2 program with Total People and Shoppers 18+ in Sydney. It achieved a Total TV Reach 1.279 million, a Total TV Audience of 279,000. On 9Now it recorded a BVOD audience of 51,000 - up 10.9% year-on-year.
Wimbledon D4Night achieved a National Total TV Reach of 953,000 and a Total TV National Audience of 341,000. On 9Now it recorded a BVOD audience of 49,000.
Today secured a National Total TV Reach of 702,000 and a Total TV National audience of 243,000. It also recorded a BVOD audience of 54,000 – up 14.9% year-on-year.
The Grand Final rematch rated well. Brisbane kicked the first eight goals before Geelong fought back to within one point in the third term, making it an exciting match.
AFL soars 35%, #1 program. 7NEWS wins. Seven #1 in all demos
Seven #1 nationally in total TV
Seven wins in every demo
National total TV audience share, 6.00pm to midnight: 47.8%
National total TV audience share, 6.00pm to midnight: 46.8%
7plus: #1 in BVOD, jumps 62% year-on-year
AFL Thursday Night Football: #1 program, reaches 2.29 million, up 35% year-on-year
7NEWS: #1 news program, reaches 2.16 million, up 6% year-on-year
The Chase Australia: reaches 1.37 million, up 12% year-on-year
Home and Away: #1 drama, reaches 1.14 million, up 17% year-on-year
Sunrise: #1 at breakfast, 76% more viewers than Today
2 July 2026:
Seven Network reaches 6.07 million Australians nationally. Total TV reach up 8% year-on-year.
6.00pm to midnight:
Seven Network: #1 nationally in total TV in all people with a 47.8% share.
Seven Network: #1 nationally in total TV in 25 to 54s with a 44.9% share.
Seven Network: #1 nationally in total TV in 16 to 39s with a 43.3% share.
Seven Network: #1 nationally in total TV in grocery shoppers with a 47.6% share.
6.00am to midnight:
Seven Network: #1 nationally in total TV in all people with a 46.8% share.
Seven Network: #1 nationally in total TV in 25 to 54s with a 45.4% share.
Seven Network: #1 nationally in total TV in 16 to 39s with a 42.5% share.
Seven Network: #1 nationally in total TV in grocery shoppers with a 46.8% share.
7plus: #1 in BVOD with a 47.9% commercial share. Reach up 62% year-on-year.
Seven’s AFL: Thursday Night Football: #1 program in all people and grocery shoppers, #1 sport. National reach 2.29 million, national audience 747,000.
Up 35% year-on-year in total TV, up 186% on 7plus.
Up 5% week-on-week in total TV, up 10% on 7plus.
7NEWS Thursday: #1 program in total TV. National reach 2.16 million, national audience 1.41 million.
Up 6% year-on-year in total TV, up 71% on 7plus.
The Chase Australia Thursday: National reach 1.37 million, national audience 712,000.
Up 12% year-on-year in total TV, up 72% on 7plus.
Home and Away Thursday: #1 drama. National reach 1.14 million, national audience 822,000.
Up 17% year-on-year in total TV, up 97% on 7plus.
Sunrise Thursday: #1 breakfast program. National reach 962,000, national audience 428,000.
Outside the real top 30 included some very low numbers for SBS main channel programs at 7.30 and 8.30pm - both outrated by Cup Fever on Viceland - perhaps that would have been better on the main channel. Searching for France was a season premiere but Fortress Britain a repeat - seems a poor choice for 7.30.
You’re absolutely right @TV.Cynic I couldn’t believe SBS would be so stupid as to run that show on Viceland. It would have done far better on the main channel and be a better fit given soccermania right now.
Nine won Sydney with 33% Seven and ABC tied for second with 20.4%
Seven won Melbourne with 39% a lead of 17 over Nine
Seven won Brisbane 30.2 to 29.8 for Nine where the AFL outrated the NRLW
Seven won Adelaide 36.6 to 23.8 for Nine
Seven won Perth with 39 to 21.2 for Nine.
Sydney
Rank
Program
Ntwk
Average Total TV
1
9NEWS
NINE
264,000
2
SEVEN NEWS
SEVEN
219,000
3
A CURRENT AFFAIR
NINE
207,000
4
2026 FIFA WORLD CUP: USA V BIH LIVE
SBS
185,000
5
2026 FIFA WORLD CUP: BEL V SEN LIVE
SBS
178,000
6
ABC NEWS-EV
ABC
172,000
7
TIPPING POINT AUSTRALIA
NINE
169,000
8
7.30-EV
ABC
159,000
9
HOME AND AWAY
SEVEN
145,000
10
2026 FIFA WORLD CUP: BEL V SEN POST-MATCH
SBS
137,000
11
2026 FIFA WORLD CUP: ENG V COD LIVE
SBS
105,000
12
2026 FIFA WORLD CUP: USA V BIH POST-MATCH
SBS
104,000
13
GRAND DESIGNS-EV
ABC
104,000
14
THURSDAY NIGHT NRLW
NINE
102,000
15
THE CHASE AUSTRALIA
SEVEN
102,000
16
2026 WIMBLEDON D4 -NIGHT
NINE
84,000
17
TASKMASTER AUSTRALIA
TEN
78,000
32
SEVEN’S AFL: THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL
SEVEN
43,000
35
NCIS
TEN
37,000
Melbourne
Rank
Program
Ntwk
Average Total TV
1
9NEWS
NINE
283,000
2
SEVEN’S AFL: THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL
SEVEN
246,000
3
SEVEN NEWS
SEVEN
241,000
4
2026 FIFA WORLD CUP: USA V BIH LIVE
SBS
168,000
5
A CURRENT AFFAIR
NINE
166,000
6
ABC NEWS-EV
ABC
165,000
7
TIPPING POINT AUSTRALIA
NINE
161,000
8
7.30-EV
ABC
130,000
9
SEVEN’S AFL: THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - PRE GAME
SEVEN
124,000
10
HOME AND AWAY
SEVEN
121,000
11
THE CHASE AUSTRALIA
SEVEN
117,000
12
2026 FIFA WORLD CUP: BEL V SEN LIVE
SBS
116,000
13
2026 FIFA WORLD CUP: BEL V SEN POST-MATCH
SBS
107,000
14
GRAND DESIGNS-EV
ABC
90,000
15
TASKMASTER AUSTRALIA
TEN
84,000
16
2026 FIFA WORLD CUP: USA V BIH POST-MATCH
SBS
83,000
17
2026 WIMBLEDON D4 -NIGHT
NINE
80,000
18
2026 FIFA WORLD CUP: ENG V COD LIVE
SBS
76,000
23
2026 WIMBLEDON D4 -LATE
NINE
65,000
24
SEVEN’S AFL: THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - POST MAT…
Not hard when The Chase has slumped even further. Is this the impact of 9’s Gold Coast news in the TP numbers? Without the NRL 7 really needs to do something to arrest further decline in Brisbane/SEQ. It’s clear that news is the one sure thing, bar major sport, that rates on FTA. 7 Qld needs to really consider bringing back the GC bulletin.
I believe Seven has been repeating atleast 3 or 4 episodes per week recently, which obviously not helping the slide…but really indicates that Seven is likely to replace it with a different format. They are stretching the filmed episodes to last 2026+
I wouldnt go ditching it just yet. Its come reasonably close a few times lately. And its still miles ahead of 10 and a lot of Primetime shows. They just need to keep promoting it well and do a few weeks of new episodes across the entire week, so it can come very close to repeats of TP on Thurs/Fridays.
Just seeing if they can make a dollar stretch further like all networks are now. The repeats of episodes is nothing new. It happens across all game shows, across all networks and in all parts of the world.