Wednesday 25 March 2026

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NATIONAL
TOTAL PEOPLE
Total TV TV BVOD
SEVEN 28.8% 30.0% 24.3%
NINE 36.9% 34.8% 45.3%
10 10.2% 10.9% 7.8%
SBS 8.5% 8.4% 8.8%
ABC 15.5% 16.0% 13.8%
5 CITIES
TOTAL PEOPLE
Total TV TV BVOD
SEVEN 26.3% 27.6% 21.2%
NINE 39.9% 38.1% 46.7%
10 9.7% 10.2% 7.9%
SBS 9.0% 8.6% 10.4%
ABC 15.1% 15.5% 13.8%
PEOPLE 25-54
Total TV TV BVOD
SEVEN 21.9% 22.6% 20.5%
NINE 48.6% 47.0% 52.0%
10 10.9% 12.2% 8.2%
SBS 6.2% 5.9% 6.6%
ABC 12.4% 12.3% 12.6%
PEOPLE 16-39
Total TV TV BVOD
SEVEN 17.7% 17.0% 18.8%
NINE 54.7% 53.3% 56.5%
10 10.7% 12.8% 7.7%
SBS 5.1% 5.2% 5.0%
ABC 11.8% 11.6% 12.0%

Total TV Overnight Top 30 Programs

Top 30 Programs - Free-to-Air - Total People - Total TV

Rank Description Network Reach Average BVOD
1 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -WED Nine 2,941,000 1,883,000 602,000
2 SEVEN NEWS Seven 2,144,000 1,355,000 175,000
3 9NEWS Nine 2,092,000 1,290,000 212,000
4 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine 1,942,000 1,220,000 203,000
5 THE GIRL FROM PLAINVILLE Nine 1,841,000 462,000 106,000
6 HOME AND AWAY Seven 1,453,000 981,000 254,000
7 TIPPING POINT AUSTRALIA Nine 1,421,000 767,000 110,000
8 THE FRONT BAR Seven 1,253,000 602,000 68,000
9 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Seven 1,223,000 607,000 78,000
10 SUNRISE Seven 1,024,000 471,000 64,000
11 THE 1% CLUB UK (R) Seven 894,000 517,000 59,000
12 TODAY Nine 850,000 342,000 65,000
13 AUSTRALIAN STORY-ENCORE ABC 805,000 308,000 15,000
14 9NEWS AFTERNOON Nine 738,000 371,000 50,000
15 NEWS BREAKFAST-AM ABC 715,000 265,000 22,000
16 BBC WORLD NEWS-EV ABC 641,000 82,000 10,000
17 THE MORNING SHOW Seven 639,000 282,000 39,000
18 SEVEN NEWS AT 4 Seven 624,000 342,000 41,000
19 10 NEWS 10 620,000 315,000 24,000
20 UNFILTERED Seven 614,000 310,000 35,000
21 HARD QUIZ BATTLE OF THE NETWORKS RPT ABC 581,000 347,000 14,000
22 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -TUE -ENCORE Nine 560,000 237,000 22,000
23 HARD QUIZ S9 RPT ABC 560,000 297,000 17,000
24 THE 1% CLUB UK Seven 557,000 310,000 27,000
25 KATE: A QUEEN FOR THE FUTURE 10 550,000 173,000 16,000
26 SBS WORLD NEWS 7PM SBS 548,000 381,000 13,000
27 SUNRISE -EARLY Seven 529,000 260,000 41,000
28 ABC NEWS MORNINGS-AM ABC 526,000 123,000 14,000
29 TODAY EXTRA Nine 525,000 197,000 39,000
30 MELBOURNE COMEDY FESTIVAL-LE ABC 520,000 151,000 8,000

Top 30 Programs - Free-to-Air - 25-54 - Total TV

Rank Description Network Reach Average BVOD
1 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -WED Nine 1,240,000 872,000 354,000
2 THE GIRL FROM PLAINVILLE Nine 780,000 193,000 60,000
3 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine 641,000 362,000 107,000
4 9NEWS Nine 611,000 371,000 105,000
5 SEVEN NEWS Seven 541,000 312,000 83,000
6 HOME AND AWAY Seven 444,000 320,000 132,000
7 THE FRONT BAR Seven 386,000 178,000 35,000
8 TIPPING POINT AUSTRALIA Nine 356,000 174,000 51,000
9 SUNRISE Seven 308,000 143,000 34,000
10 TODAY Nine 297,000 123,000 35,000
11 THE 1% CLUB UK (R) Seven 268,000 143,000 29,000
12 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Seven 247,000 131,000 36,000
13 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -TUE -ENCORE Nine 237,000 115,000 12,000
14 NEWS BREAKFAST-AM ABC 218,000 78,000 10,000
15 BBC WORLD NEWS-EV ABC 199,000 25,000 5,000
16 9NEWS LATE Nine 181,000 93,000 28,000
17 TODAY EXTRA Nine 181,000 80,000 21,000
18 THE BIG BANG THEORY RPT 10 174,000 29,000 2,000
19 SUNRISE -EARLY Seven 174,000 92,000 22,000
20 10 NEWS 10 173,000 88,000 12,000
21 9NEWS AFTERNOON Nine 171,000 86,000 23,000
22 UNFILTERED Seven 171,000 90,000 19,000
23 KATE: A QUEEN FOR THE FUTURE 10 169,000 42,000 7,000
24 TODAY -EARLY Nine 166,000 85,000 23,000
25 THE MORNING SHOW Seven 164,000 84,000 20,000
26 SEVEN NEWS AT 4 Seven 152,000 84,000 20,000
27 THE 1% CLUB UK Seven 141,000 63,000 14,000
28 MILLIONAIRE HOT SEAT 10 141,000 97,000 9,000
29 AUSTRALIAN STORY-ENCORE ABC 140,000 47,000 6,000
30 THE WEEKLY WITH CHARLIE PICKERING-EV ABC 128,000 95,000 12,000

Top 30 Programs - Free-to-Air - 16-39 - Total TV

Rank Description Network Reach Average BVOD
1 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -WED Nine 638,000 456,000 218,000
2 THE GIRL FROM PLAINVILLE Nine 383,000 90,000 33,000
3 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine 294,000 171,000 57,000
4 9NEWS Nine 267,000 148,000 52,000
5 SEVEN NEWS Seven 222,000 117,000 41,000
6 HOME AND AWAY Seven 190,000 136,000 75,000
7 THE FRONT BAR Seven 147,000 66,000 18,000
8 TIPPING POINT AUSTRALIA Nine 143,000 64,000 25,000
9 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -TUE -ENCORE Nine 117,000 65,000 6,000
10 TODAY Nine 110,000 47,000 16,000
11 SUNRISE Seven 108,000 45,000 15,000
12 THE 1% CLUB UK (R) Seven 108,000 51,000 15,000
13 BBC WORLD NEWS-EV ABC 94,000 13,000 2,000
14 TODAY EXTRA Nine 83,000 37,000 10,000
15 NEWS BREAKFAST-AM ABC 83,000 24,000 5,000
16 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Seven 82,000 43,000 18,000
17 9NEWS LATE Nine 72,000 35,000 15,000
18 KATE: A QUEEN FOR THE FUTURE 10 69,000 17,000 3,000
19 THE BIG BANG THEORY RPT 10 68,000 11,000 1,000
20 9NEWS AFTERNOON Nine 65,000 33,000 11,000
21 UNFILTERED Seven 63,000 31,000 9,000
22 THE MORNING SHOW Seven 63,000 33,000 10,000
23 MILLIONAIRE HOT SEAT 10 62,000 47,000 4,000
24 10 NEWS 10 61,000 29,000 5,000
25 EXPLORE TV Nine 56,000 21,000 4,000
26 SEVEN NEWS AT 4 Seven 56,000 30,000 10,000
27 TODAY -EARLY Nine 54,000 26,000 10,000
28 DEAL OR NO DEAL 10 50,000 27,000 4,000
29 9NEWS MORNING Nine 49,000 37,000 6,000
30 NEWS BREAKFAST: EARLY-AM ABC 47,000 26,000 2,000

Top 30 Programs - Free-to-Air - Grocery Shoppers - Total TV

Rank Description Network Reach Average BVOD
1 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -WED Nine 2,350,000 1,532,000 490,000
2 SEVEN NEWS Seven 1,726,000 1,101,000 142,000
3 9NEWS Nine 1,668,000 1,030,000 174,000
4 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine 1,553,000 983,000 167,000
5 THE GIRL FROM PLAINVILLE Nine 1,504,000 380,000 87,000
6 HOME AND AWAY Seven 1,173,000 790,000 206,000
7 TIPPING POINT AUSTRALIA Nine 1,147,000 624,000 91,000
8 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Seven 1,005,000 501,000 63,000
9 THE FRONT BAR Seven 981,000 477,000 54,000
10 SUNRISE Seven 830,000 388,000 53,000
11 THE 1% CLUB UK (R) Seven 710,000 413,000 48,000
12 TODAY Nine 690,000 281,000 54,000
13 AUSTRALIAN STORY-ENCORE ABC 673,000 260,000 14,000
14 NEWS BREAKFAST-AM ABC 601,000 223,000 20,000
15 9NEWS AFTERNOON Nine 594,000 303,000 41,000
16 BBC WORLD NEWS-EV ABC 530,000 68,000 9,000
17 THE MORNING SHOW Seven 529,000 233,000 32,000
18 SEVEN NEWS AT 4 Seven 512,000 278,000 34,000
19 10 NEWS 10 502,000 262,000 20,000
20 HARD QUIZ BATTLE OF THE NETWORKS RPT ABC 490,000 293,000 12,000
21 UNFILTERED Seven 484,000 244,000 28,000
22 HARD QUIZ S9 RPT ABC 475,000 252,000 15,000
23 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -TUE -ENCORE Nine 470,000 198,000 18,000
24 SBS WORLD NEWS 7PM SBS 463,000 320,000 11,000
25 THE 1% CLUB UK Seven 449,000 249,000 22,000
26 ABC NEWS MORNINGS-AM ABC 441,000 104,000 12,000
27 SUNRISE -EARLY Seven 437,000 216,000 34,000
28 MELBOURNE COMEDY FESTIVAL-LE ABC 437,000 128,000 7,000
29 TODAY EXTRA Nine 434,000 162,000 32,000
30 KATE: A QUEEN FOR THE FUTURE 10 434,000 142,000 14,000

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Average audience from reordered Reach Table

Top 30 Programs

By Average By Reach Description Network Average BVOD Reach
1 1 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -WED Nine 1,883,000 602,000 2,941,000
2 2 SEVEN NEWS Seven 1,355,000 175,000 2,144,000
3 3 9NEWS Nine 1,290,000 212,000 2,092,000
4 4 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine 1,220,000 203,000 1,942,000
5 6 HOME AND AWAY Seven 981,000 254,000 1,453,000
6 7 TIPPING POINT AUSTRALIA Nine 767,000 110,000 1,421,000
7 9 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Seven 607,000 78,000 1,223,000
8 8 THE FRONT BAR Seven 602,000 68,000 1,253,000
9 11 THE 1% CLUB UK (R) Seven 517,000 59,000 894,000
10 10 SUNRISE Seven 471,000 64,000 1,024,000
11 5 THE GIRL FROM PLAINVILLE Nine 462,000 106,000 1,841,000
12 26 SBS WORLD NEWS 7PM SBS 381,000 13,000 548,000
13 14 9NEWS AFTERNOON Nine 371,000 50,000 738,000
14 21 HARD QUIZ BATTLE OF THE NETWORKS RPT ABC 347,000 14,000 581,000
15 12 TODAY Nine 342,000 65,000 850,000
16 18 SEVEN NEWS AT 4 Seven 342,000 41,000 624,000
17 19 10 NEWS 10 315,000 24,000 620,000
18 20 UNFILTERED Seven 310,000 35,000 614,000
19 24 THE 1% CLUB UK Seven 310,000 27,000 557,000
20 13 AUSTRALIAN STORY-ENCORE ABC 308,000 15,000 805,000
21 23 HARD QUIZ S9 RPT ABC 297,000 17,000 560,000
22 17 THE MORNING SHOW Seven 282,000 39,000 639,000
23 15 NEWS BREAKFAST-AM ABC 265,000 22,000 715,000
24 27 SUNRISE -EARLY Seven 260,000 41,000 529,000
25 22 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -TUE -ENCORE Nine 237,000 22,000 560,000
26 29 TODAY EXTRA Nine 197,000 39,000 525,000
27 25 KATE: A QUEEN FOR THE FUTURE 10 173,000 16,000 550,000
28 30 MELBOURNE COMEDY FESTIVAL-LE ABC 151,000 8,000 520,000
29 28 ABC NEWS MORNINGS-AM ABC 123,000 14,000 526,000
30 16 BBC WORLD NEWS-EV ABC 82,000 10,000 641,000

Top 30 Programs 25-54

By Average By Reach Description Network Average BVOD Reach
1 1 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -WED Nine 872,000 354,000 1,240,000
2 4 9NEWS Nine 371,000 105,000 611,000
3 3 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine 362,000 107,000 641,000
4 6 HOME AND AWAY Seven 320,000 132,000 444,000
5 5 SEVEN NEWS Seven 312,000 83,000 541,000
6 2 THE GIRL FROM PLAINVILLE Nine 193,000 60,000 780,000
7 7 THE FRONT BAR Seven 178,000 35,000 386,000
8 8 TIPPING POINT AUSTRALIA Nine 174,000 51,000 356,000
9 9 SUNRISE Seven 143,000 34,000 308,000
10 11 THE 1% CLUB UK (R) Seven 143,000 29,000 268,000
11 12 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Seven 131,000 36,000 247,000
12 10 TODAY Nine 123,000 35,000 297,000
13 13 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -TUE -ENCORE Nine 115,000 12,000 237,000
14 28 MILLIONAIRE HOT SEAT 10 97,000 9,000 141,000
15 30 THE WEEKLY WITH CHARLIE PICKERING-EV ABC 95,000 12,000 128,000
16 16 9NEWS LATE Nine 93,000 28,000 181,000
17 19 SUNRISE -EARLY Seven 92,000 22,000 174,000
18 22 UNFILTERED Seven 90,000 19,000 171,000
19 20 10 NEWS 10 88,000 12,000 173,000
20 21 9NEWS AFTERNOON Nine 86,000 23,000 171,000
21 24 TODAY -EARLY Nine 85,000 23,000 166,000
22 25 THE MORNING SHOW Seven 84,000 20,000 164,000
23 26 SEVEN NEWS AT 4 Seven 84,000 20,000 152,000
24 17 TODAY EXTRA Nine 80,000 21,000 181,000
25 14 NEWS BREAKFAST-AM ABC 78,000 10,000 218,000
26 27 THE 1% CLUB UK Seven 63,000 14,000 141,000
27 29 AUSTRALIAN STORY-ENCORE ABC 47,000 6,000 140,000
28 23 KATE: A QUEEN FOR THE FUTURE 10 42,000 7,000 169,000
29 18 THE BIG BANG THEORY RPT 10 29,000 2,000 174,000
30 15 BBC WORLD NEWS-EV ABC 25,000 5,000 199,000

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Last night’s Married at First Sight featuring the second-last dinner party began with an emotional tribute to Mel Shilling. An audience of 1.883m tuned in compared to last week’s 1.85m.

And on a day when ABC Staff took industrial action Australian Story aired at 7pm with Hard Quiz Battle of the Networks at 7.30pm. The 7pm rating of 308k compares to ABC News last Wednesday that had 936k while Hard Quiz’s 347k was down from 7.30 that had 790k a week ago. Also impacted was ABC News Channel programming from 11am AEDT with BBC World News on 80k making the top 30.

Meanwhile, over on Seven The 1% Club UK had an episode unseen in Melbourne and Adelaide but a repeat elsewhere. The combined rating of 827k (2 entries) was down slightly on last week that had 835k.

10 aired the one off special Kate: A Queen For The Future that perhaps unsurprisingly disappointed managing 173k. That was lower than Sandi Toksvig’s Great Riviera Rail Trip on SBS that had 199k.

Original programming recommenced on ABC at 8pm but was impacted by the much lower lead in. Tonight At The Museum down 125k to 281k and The Weekly With Charlie Pickering falling 135k to 377k. Later, the 2-hour Melbourne Comedy Festival: Gala made the top 30 with 151k.

Seven’s block of AFL programming started with The Front Bar that topped 600k for the first time this year. Unfiltered that followed was down slightly to 310k in preliminary numbers.

Nine’s FTA premiere of The Girl From Plainville had 426k with 10’s Elsbeth on just 128k.

Seven’s 6pm news bulletin continued to have the edge of Nine’s, yesterday by 65k. That followed Tipping Points’ 5pm winning margin of 160k.

The 7pm numbers, without the competition from ABC News featured A Current Affair on 1.22m and Home and Away with 981k – both up on last week.

Some ABC News viewers opted to watch SBS’s News with the 7pm segment surging to 381k to rank 12th overall.

Breakfast TV saw Sunrise with a 2026 record rating of 471k while Today had 342k and News Breakfast 265k.

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Any audience numbers for the BBC News channel?

At 7pm: Australian Story 308k, MHS approx. 260k (est.) At 7.30pm: Hard Quiz 347k, Kate documentary 173k. The ABC could put up a test card and still draw more viewers than 10.

For the first time today (numbers out tomorrow), News Breakfast draws an audience of zero.

Indeed.

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THE 9NETWORK WINS WEDNESDAY AS MAFS RANKS NO. 1 PROGRAM AND TIPPING POINT, 9NEWS & ACA BUILD YEAR-ON-YEAR AUDIENCES

  • Married at First Sight was the No. 1 program with Total People and all key demographics across Australia. It was also the No. 1 program with People 25-54 and People 16-39 in all five metro capitals. It secured a National Total TV Reach of 2.941 million and a Total TV National Audience of 1.883 million (up 9.9% year-on-year) and a BVOD audience of 602,000 – up 32.3% compared to the same day last year.

  • 9News was the No. 1 news bulletin with Total People and all key demos across the 5 City Metro and in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. It was also the No. 1 news bulletin with People 25-54 and People 16-39 in Adelaide. The combined national bulletins registered a National Total TV Reach of 2.092 million and a Total TV National Audience of 1.290 million - up 2.4% year-on-year. On 9Now, its BVOD audience of 212,000 was up an impressive 86.0% year-on-year.

  • A Current Affair won the 7.00pm timeslot with Total People across Australia and in all five metro capitals. It achieved a National Total TV Reach of 1.942 million and a Total TV National Audience of 1.220 million - increasing by 5.7% compared to the previous year. On 9Now, it recorded a BVOD audience of 203,000 , up 65.0% on the same night last year.

  • Tipping Point Australia was the No. 1 afternoon game show with Total People and all key demos across Australia and in all five metro capitals. It secured a National Total TV Reach of 1.421 million and a Total TV National Audience of 767,000 . It secured a BVOD audience of 110,000 , lifting the timeslot by a significant 74.6% compared to the same day last year.

  • Today was the No.1 breakfast program with Total People in Melbourne and Brisbane. It achieved a National Total TV Reach of 850,000 , a Total TV National Audience of 342,000 and BVOD audience of 65,000 , up 54.8% on the same morning last year.

  • The 9Network was the No.1 network on Wednesday across the 5 City Metro with Total People and all key demographics.

  • 9Now was the No.1 CFTA BVOD Platform on Wednesday across Australia with Total People and all key demographics.

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Seven wins news. Home and Away, The Front Bar win new fans

  • National total TV audience share, 6.00am to midnight: 40.1%
  • National total TV audience share, 6.00am to midnight: 37.9%
  • 7plus: flies 55% year-on-year
  • 7NEWS: #1 news, reaches 2.14 million
  • Home and Away: #1 drama, reaches 1.45 million, up 10% year-on-year
  • The Front Bar: reaches 1.25 million, up 17% year-on-year
  • Sunrise: #1 at breakfast, 48% more viewers than Today

Seven Network reaches 5.67 million Australians nationally. Total TV reach up year-on-year.

7plus: 35.9% BVOD commercial share. Reach up 55% year-on-year.

7NEWS Wednesday: #1 news program. National reach 2.14 million, national audience 1.36 million.

Home and Away Wednesday: #1 drama. National reach 1.45 million, national audience 981,000.

  • Up 10% in total TV year-on-year, up 94% on 7plus.

The Front Bar: National reach 1.25 million, national audience 602,000.

  • Biggest audience since September last year.
  • Up 17% in total TV year-on-year, up 99% on 7plus.
  • Up 8% in total TV year-on-year, up 19% on 7plus.

The Chase Australia Wednesday: National reach 1.22 million, national audience 607,000.

Sunrise Wednesday: #1 breakfast program. National reach 1.02 million, national audience 471,000.

  • 38% more viewers than Today.

The 1% Club UK (R): National reach 894,000, national audience 517,000.

NATIONAL TOTAL TV COMMERCIAL SHARES (%):

6.00am to midnight

Network All people 25 to 54s Grocery shoppers
Seven Network 40.1 34.3 40.0
Nine Network 45.9 51.3 46.1
Network Ten 14.0 14.4 13.9

NATIONAL TOTAL TV COMMERCIAL SHARES (%):

6.00pm to midnight

Network All people 25 to 54s Grocery shoppers
Seven Network 37.9 30.2 37.8
Nine Network 48.6 55.4 48.7
Network Ten 13.5 14.4 13.5

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Nice little surge for SBS News at 7pm (thanks to no news on the ABC).

Good to see Married up too, with the noce little tribute to Mel.

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SBS World News benefitted from the absence of ABC News at 7pm.

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Ranking by average audience

Top 30 Programs

Rank Program Ntwk Average
Total TV		 Average
Broadcast		 Average
BVOD
1 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -WED NINE 1,883,000 1,281,000 602,000
2 SEVEN NEWS SEVEN 1,355,000 1,180,000 175,000
3 9NEWS NINE 1,290,000 1,078,000 212,000
4 A CURRENT AFFAIR NINE 1,220,000 1,016,000 203,000
5 HOME AND AWAY SEVEN 981,000 727,000 254,000
6 TIPPING POINT AUSTRALIA NINE 767,000 657,000 110,000
7 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA SEVEN 607,000 530,000 78,000
8 THE FRONT BAR SEVEN 602,000 534,000 68,000
9 THE 1% CLUB UK (R) SEVEN 517,000 457,000 59,000
10 SUNRISE SEVEN 471,000 407,000 64,000
11 THE GIRL FROM PLAINVILLE NINE 462,000 355,000 106,000
12 SBS WORLD NEWS 7PM SBS 381,000 368,000 13,000
13 THE WEEKLY WITH CHARLIE PICKERING-EV ABC 377,000 350,000 28,000
14 9NEWS AFTERNOON NINE 371,000 322,000 50,000
15 HARD QUIZ BATTLE OF THE NETWORKS RPT ABC 347,000 333,000 14,000
16 TODAY NINE 342,000 277,000 65,000
17 SEVEN NEWS AT 4 SEVEN 342,000 300,000 41,000
18 10 NEWS TEN 315,000 291,000 24,000
19 UNFILTERED SEVEN 310,000 275,000 35,000
20 THE 1% CLUB UK SEVEN 310,000 283,000 27,000
21 AUSTRALIAN STORY-ENCORE ABC 308,000 293,000 15,000
22 HARD QUIZ S9 RPT ABC 297,000 280,000 17,000
23 MILLIONAIRE HOT SEAT TEN 290,000 271,000 19,000
24 THE MORNING SHOW SEVEN 282,000 243,000 39,000
25 TONIGHT AT THE MUSEUM-EV ABC 280,000 267,000 14,000
26 TIPPING POINT UK NINE 266,000 236,000 30,000
27 NEWS BREAKFAST-AM ABC 265,000 242,000 22,000
28 SUNRISE -EARLY SEVEN 260,000 219,000 41,000
29 SBS WORLD NEWS SBS 258,000 239,000 19,000
30 9NEWS LATE NINE 244,000 194,000 50,000

Top 30 Programs 25-54

Rank Program Ntwk Average
Total TV		 Average
Broadcast		 Average
BVOD
1 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -WED NINE 872,000 518,000 354,000
2 9NEWS NINE 371,000 265,000 105,000
3 A CURRENT AFFAIR NINE 362,000 254,000 107,000
4 HOME AND AWAY SEVEN 320,000 188,000 132,000
5 SEVEN NEWS SEVEN 312,000 229,000 83,000
6 THE GIRL FROM PLAINVILLE NINE 193,000 132,000 60,000
7 THE FRONT BAR SEVEN 178,000 144,000 35,000
8 TIPPING POINT AUSTRALIA NINE 174,000 123,000 51,000
9 SUNRISE SEVEN 143,000 110,000 34,000
10 THE 1% CLUB UK (R) SEVEN 143,000 113,000 29,000
11 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA SEVEN 131,000 95,000 36,000
12 TODAY NINE 123,000 88,000 35,000
13 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -TUE -ENCORE NINE 115,000 103,000 12,000
14 MILLIONAIRE HOT SEAT TEN 97,000 88,000 9,000
15 THE WEEKLY WITH CHARLIE PICKERING-EV ABC 95,000 83,000 12,000
16 9NEWS LATE NINE 93,000 65,000 28,000
17 SUNRISE -EARLY SEVEN 92,000 70,000 22,000
18 UNFILTERED SEVEN 90,000 72,000 19,000
19 10 NEWS TEN 88,000 76,000 12,000
20 9NEWS AFTERNOON NINE 86,000 63,000 23,000
21 TODAY -EARLY NINE 85,000 62,000 23,000
22 THE MORNING SHOW SEVEN 84,000 64,000 20,000
23 SEVEN NEWS AT 4 SEVEN 84,000 64,000 20,000
24 TODAY EXTRA NINE 80,000 59,000 21,000
25 NEWS BREAKFAST-AM ABC 78,000 67,000 10,000
26 9NEWS MORNING NINE 72,000 59,000 13,000
27 TONIGHT AT THE MUSEUM-EV ABC 70,000 65,000 6,000
28 THE 1% CLUB UK SEVEN 63,000 50,000 14,000
29 SEVEN’S NATIONAL NEWS AT NOON SEVEN 59,000 48,000 12,000
30 TIPPING POINT UK NINE 56,000 42,000 14,000

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What was the reason for this?

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ABC’s strike programming reinforced several lessons - mostly around the importance of a good early evening lead in and the value of news.

With ABC News (and 7.30) out of the line up, that timeslot was down 600,000 on the usual audience and that saw major loss of viewers for the rest of the night. The Weekly With Charlie Pickering was down from its usual respectable +500,000 to just 377,000 after Night at the Museum dropped 125,000 to 281,000 - a very poor 8pm result for ABC.

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How bad are 10 doing that they couldn’t even beat the ABC’s lineup of repeats and cheap filler

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Melbourne and Adelaide skipped the episode because of Sunday AFL.

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Outside the real top 30 included

Program Ntwk Average
Total TV
SEVEN’S NATIONAL NEWS AT NOON SEVEN 225,000
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL TEN 200,000
SANDI TOKSVIG’S GREAT RIVIERA RAIL TRIP SBS 199,000
9NEWS MORNING NINE 196,000
CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET?-ENCORE ABC 181,000
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW-PM ABC 164,000
DEAL OR NO DEAL TEN 158,000
10 NEWS+ TEN 145,000
WIN NEWS NINE 143,000
ELSBETH TEN 128,000
10’S LATE NEWS TEN 118,000
MYSTERIES OF LOCH NESS RPT SBS 116,000
THE AGENDA SETTERS - ENCORE SEVEN 115,000
MASTERMIND RPT SBS 92,000
10 NEWS+ ENCORE TEN 81,000
LETTERS AND NUMBERS RPT SBS 76,000
Will post some ABC News programming later
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And that’s exactly what those going on strike wants. If no news programming for one day, audience went away.

Who knows if BBC would have been a good option to lessen or accelerate the losses. Probably the latter was why that wasn’t implemented.

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No bump for 10 with those 500k viewers going elsewhere from ABC. I thought maybe 10 news + might have gotten 20k more viewers looking for their news fix.

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5 cities

Nine wins all markets, despite the amount of AFL focused programming on Seven.

Sydney 40.4% -to Seven’s 24.2%
Melbourne 39.2% - 25.4%
Brisbane 46.1% - 23.0%
Adelaide 35.3% - 30.4%
Perth 36.0% - 33.8%

Nine News wins at 6pm with a +100,000 margin in Melbourne.

Tipping Point wins all markets.

Sunrise has another big day but can’t reproduces yesterday’s clean sweep. All breakfast is up on average.

5 City Syd Mel Bri Ade Per
Seven News 843,000 210,000 218,000 162,000 98,000 154,000
Nine News 984,000 251,000 329,000 213,000 87,000 104,000
10 News 241,000 71,000 68,000 37,000 31,000 34,000
5 City Syd Mel Bri Ade Per
Chase Aus 354,000 85,000 119,000 57,000 40,000 53,000
Tipping Aus 547,000 147,000 162,000 122,000 46,000 69,000
5 City Syd Mel Bri Ade Per
Sunrise 252,000 72,000 60,000 50,000 20,000 49,000
Today 228,000 69,000 63,000 66,000 16,000 15,000
News Breakf 157,000 50,000 51,000 28,000 13,000 14,000

Afternoon results interesting with Seven winning at 4pm in Melbourne while Nine wins in Perth.

5 City Syd Mel Bri Ade Per
Seven at 4 206,000 48,000 66,000 37,000 27,000 27,000
9 Afternoon 247,000 80,000 56,000 49,000 27,000 36,000
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ABC News Channel ratings

This is what I could determine were the ratings yesterday. It doesn’t exactly match the EPG but it is a good indication nonetheless. The 7pm 3 hour segment made the top 30 because of reach over a long broadcast. 7pm numbers were probably the highest across the telecast.
11:00 BBC WORLD NEWS-AM 103,000
11:30 PLANET AMERICA-AM 100,000
12:30 NATIONAL PRESS CLUB ADDRESS-PM 110,000
2:00 PARLIAMENT QUESTION TIME-PM 57,000
3:10 PARLIAMENT LIVE-PM 55,000
4:00 BBC WORLD NEWS-PM 74,000
7:00 BBC WORLD NEWS-EV 82,000
10:00 BBC WORLD NEWS-LE 46,000
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Is this comparable to given-day average for the NC?

The PM and LE codings were similarly long - 3 and 4 hours respectively.

They could code a single time for all 10 hours - which averaged 67.3k viewers - and see what happens. If the EV coding already reached 641k, then it may have reached >1m in all.

Those are very strong numbers for ABC NC despite a disruptive day.

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Thanks for the numbers for the ABC News Channel. Not surprising that numbers are down for the longer blocks of NBC World News.