Wednesday 4 February 2026

TV Ratings Television Ratings
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Metro top 30ish

Rank Program Ntwk Average
Total TV		 Average
Broadcast		 Average
BVOD
1 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -WED NINE 1,164,000 778,000 387,000
2 9NEWS NINE 918,000 782,000 136,000
3 SEVEN NEWS SEVEN 814,000 714,000 100,000
4 A CURRENT AFFAIR NINE 711,000 587,000 125,000
5 ABC NEWS-EV ABC 632,000 586,000 46,000
6 HOME AND AWAY SEVEN 531,000 394,000 136,000
7 7.30-EV ABC 519,000 475,000 44,000
8 TIPPING POINT AUSTRALIA NINE 478,000 413,000 65,000
9 HARD QUIZ S11-EV ABC 422,000 393,000 29,000
10 I’M A CELEBRITY…GET ME OUT OF HERE! WED TEN 402,000 342,000 60,000
11 THE 1% CLUB UK: ROLLOVER SEVEN 383,000 336,000 47,000
12 THE WEEKLY WITH CHARLIE PICKERING-EV ABC 378,000 354,000 24,000
13 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA SEVEN 374,000 328,000 46,000
14 WINTER OLYMPICS 2026 -LET THE GAMES BEGIN NINE 295,000 239,000 56,000
15 HIGHWAY PATROL SEVEN 240,000 213,000 27,000
16 SUNRISE SEVEN 232,000 196,000 36,000
17 SEVEN NEWS AT 4 SEVEN 222,000 199,000 23,000
18 HARD QUIZ S5 RPT ABC 215,000 202,000 13,000
19 9NEWS AFTERNOON NINE 214,000 187,000 27,000
20 MILLIONAIRE HOT SEAT TEN 211,000 185,000 26,000
21 DOG PARK-ENCORE ABC 208,000 200,000 8,000
22 10 NEWS TEN 203,000 186,000 17,000
23 TODAY NINE 199,000 160,000 39,000
24 TIPPING POINT UK NINE 164,000 146,000 17,000
25 ELSBETH TEN 162,000 152,000 10,000
26 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -TUE -ENCORE NINE 148,000 132,000 16,000
27 THE MORNING SHOW SEVEN 142,000 120,000 22,000
28 QI-LE ABC 141,000 135,000 6,000
29 SBS WORLD NEWS SBS 141,000 129,000 11,000
30 THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL TEN 132,000 123,000 8,000
33 NEWS BREAKFAST-AM ABC 128,000 112,000 17,000
36 DEAL OR NO DEAL TEN 118,000 102,000 16,000
38 10 NEWS+ TEN 110,000 97,000 13,000
42 10’S LATE NEWS TEN 93,000 88,000 5,000
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5 cities

Nine achieved a rare win in all metro markets on Wednesday.

Nine won Sydney by an almost 20% margin where Seven was 3rd, Melbourne by 16, Brisbane by +20, Adelaide by 6 and Perth by 1.5.

Nine News and Tipping Point both won by +100,000.

Today dropped just below 200,000 for an easy win to Sunrise.

5 City Syd Mel Bri Ade Per
Seven News 814,000 190,000 243,000 149,000 106,000 127,000
Nine News 918,000 238,000 267,000 230,000 95,000 87,000
10 News 203,000 52,000 58,000 43,000 28,000 23,000
ABC News 632,000 169,000 217,000 88,000 71,000 86,000
5 City Syd Mel Bri Ade Per
Chase Aus 374,000 101,000 100,000 72,000 42,000 60,000
Tipping Aus 478,000 119,000 128,000 119,000 55,000 57,000
5 City Syd Mel Bri Ade Per
Sunrise 232,000 62,000 47,000 57,000 19,000 48,000
Today 199,000 64,000 49,000 57,000 13,000 15,000
News Breakf 128,000 44,000 35,000 27,000 10,000 12,000
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Except Perth?

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Erratic scheduling and random new episodes mixed with repeats.

Now while 7 and 9 do this, they have multiple shows over a million viewers to advertise their changes to, 10 do not.

For example do the people who watched DOND at 7 and knew 6:30pm episodes were repeats, now know they are some newer episodes at 6:30pm now, and when they find out next week that new episodes will air at 6:30pm now, they’ll be greeted again by the random mix of new and repeats on different days,

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10 is now definitely missing The Project.

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The fact IAC is up year on year and pre recorded is a miracle for them, considering they have now shed eyeballs and demo from losing The project and Neighbours daily.

News down 80k and DOND down at least 40k based on same night last year.

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I’m not sure about that. It feels like 10 don’t know who their audience is anymore. They get it right with shows like Big Brother, it feels like it is aimed at the right demo. Then they do things like News+ and Millionaire, which feel much older. :man_shrugging:

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If it’s the network that’s the problem not the shows - exactly what is the poem with 10?

from my point of view they do branding better than the others, they tend to take more risk.

I se the problem as they’ve not been able to get 6-7pm work for 25 years now

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They also don’t have a major sport to have the mass audience to promote the good programs they do have to a larger group.

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They no longer know their true target audience - their younger audience went online and the older audience has never seen 10 as a network that produces the shows they want

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Worth noting that last night in those watching broadcast TV, 10 was second with the same share as Seven in 25-54.

The 10 “Play” share is letting them down in the Total TV market.

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The first episode of anything needs to start off with a high viewership so that it can handle the 20% second-episode drop and further room to fall later.

10 didn’t say it out loud, but they feared it might not work, so it was shown network-wide. It didn’t even crack the half-million mark.

I’m afraid to say it may have been the season high.

I called it a “flop” the following day. Still held true now, hope to be wrong later. Just not sure what time it can bounce back, but we can definitely rule out June-July and September-early October.