The last wedding of the season played out on Married At First Sight. The show again topped the rankings and dominated the night. The average audience of 1.86k that tuned in compared to Monday’s episode that had 1.866m and last Tuesday’s episode that had 1.82m while the equivalent episode of 2025 rated 1.747m.
Australian Idol’s second top 30 episode was its first on a Tuesday this season. The show had 750k and ranked seventh for the night. The result compared to Monday’s rating of 762k.
The second episode of Australian Survivor had 412k compared to the opening episode’s 464k and the second episode of last February’s season that had 512k.
For ABC, a new season of Foreign Correspondent premiered at 8pm to 522k after last year’s first episode had 492k.
From the huge MASF lead-in, only 467k stayed on to watch the first episode of The Hunting Wives on Nine. The lessening of competition from the Winter Olympics of the previous two weeks saw Doc on Seven with 318k after dropping to 288k last week.
Another premiere on ABC was the first episode of Todd Sampson’s Why? at 8.30pm that managed 358k.
SBS’s new series Australia’s Greatest Conman? had 216k.
Seven’s afternoon coverage of One Day International Women’s Cricket on 7Mate made the top 30 with 90k.
The 6pm news contest continued to be close with Seven News ahead by 80k. That followed another win by Tipping Point at 5pm where the margin was 110k.
Nine won at 7pm with A Current Affair staying over one million to be well ahead of Home and away with 975k and k ABC News with 945k. Millionaire Hot Seat was again in the top 30 with 302k.
Breakfast TV saw Sunrise with 427k, ahead of Today on 327k and News Breakfast with 247k.
Survivor continued to prove the season premiere set the ceiling.
The cricket did well for its 7mate accessibility.
And would love to see Seven’s late night offering for any changes based on last night’s watermark fiasco. Last week ACR averaged 155k then SDM got 71k.
7NEWS Tuesday: #1 news program. National reach 2.1 million, national audience 1.37 million. Up 3% on previous week.
Home and Away Tuesday: #1 drama. National reach 1.72 million, national audience 975,000. Up 8% on previous week. Third highest rated episode this year.
Australian Idol: National reach 1.65 million, national audience 750,000.
The Chase Australia Tuesday: National reach 1.25 million, national audience 597,000. Up on previous week.
Sunrise Tuesday: #1 breakfast program. National reach 976,000, national audience 427,000. 31% more viewers than Today.
NATIONAL TOTAL TV COMMERCIAL SHARES (%): 6.00am to midnight
Network
All people
25 to 54s
Grocery shoppers
Seven Network
38.5
31.1
38.6
Nine Network
46.6
51.9
46.7
Network Ten
14.8
17.0
14.8
NATIONAL TOTAL TV COMMERCIAL SHARES (%): 6.00pm to midnight
MAFS, ACA & TIPPING POINT DOMINATE TUESDAY NIGHT VIEWING ACROSS AUSTRALIA
Married at First Sight was Australia’s No. 1 program of the night with Total People and all key demographics. It was also the No.1 program in all five major capital cities with Total People and all key demographics. It secured a National Total TV Reach of 3.023 million and a Total TV National Audience of 1.860 million - up 6.4% on the same night last year. It recorded a BVOD audience of 641,000 (up 31.1% year-on-year).
Married at First Sight secured its highest-rating Tuesday night ep in VOZ history across Total TV (1.860 million) and BVOD (641,000) as well as across Total TV with 5 City Metro (1.362 million).
9News was the No. 1 news bulletin with People 25-54 and People 16-39 across Australia. It was also the No.1 news bulletin with Total People and all key demographics in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The combined national bulletins registered a National Total TV Reach of 2.095 million and a Total TV National Audience of 1.291 million – up 5.6% on the same night last year. On 9Now, its BVOD Audience of 190,000 – up an impressive 68.1% year-on-year.
A Current Affair won the 7.00pm timeslot with Total People and all key demographics across Australia and in Sydney and Brisbane. It achieved a National Total TV Reach of 1.817 million and a Total TV National Audience of 1.044 million. On 9Now, it recorded a BVOD Audience of 187,000 – up 47.2% on the same night last year.
Tipping Point Australia was the No. 1 afternoon game show with Total People and all key demographics across Australia and in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide. It secured a National Total TV Reach of 1.392 million and a Total TV National Audience of 711,000 . On 9Now, it registered a BVOD Audience of 102,000 - up a massive 72.9% compared to the same night last year.
Today was the breakfast program of choice with Total People and People 25-54, Shoppers 18+ in Sydney and Melbourne. It secured a National Total TV Reach of 830,000 , a Total TV National Audience of 327,000 and a BVOD audience of 57,000 – up 39% year-on-year.
The Hunting Wives won its time slot with Total People and all key demos across Australia on Tuesday night. It registered a National Total TV Reach of 1.641 million and a Total TV National Audience of 467,000 . On 9Now, it claimed a BVOD Audience of 109,000 .
The 9Network was the No.1 network on Tuesday across the 5 City Metro with Total People and all key demos.
9Now was the No.1 CFTA BVOD Platform on Tuesday across Australia with Total People and all key demos.
Nine seems to be struggling to get the massive MAFS audience to watch anything else on the network. They only seem to be invested in the drama of “the experiment” rather than scripted drama.
I feel like Home and Away is benefiting from MAFS and the people tuning in early not wanting to watch ACA turning on H&A away instead, then flipping over.
Just change the table to the “average broadcast” only - in that sense Nine isn’t that much off the competition average.
If I’m understanding correctly, you’ll be counted towards:
“Average broadcast” if you either watch Channel 9 on analogue TV or stream it live on 9Now
“Average BVOD” if you play back the relevant episode on-demand in normal speed, either via DVR or through 9Now (watch live earlier and re-watch again doesn’t count)
MAFS drew 641,000 BVOD viewers and I think it’s fair to say not a high % of them would have interest in anything else.