Tuesday nights — along with Saturdays and Thursdays outside of the footy season — is the sort of night that would justify one taking hostages and not returning them until the networks put something watchable on the free-to-air and Foxtel screens.
I know that if you have an internet-enabled TV you can go on YouTube and watch whatever you want in the commercial-TV fashion with the ads (and aren’t there a stack of them?). Streaming TV is fine — that excludes the offerings on Kayo and Binge because much of that is recycled from Foxtel’s various channels.
This all came to mind after seeing another Seven resurrection: This is Your Life. Hasn’t every network tried this turkey and derivatives thereof one time or another since TV first started in this and every other developed economy? Last night’s subject was Ray Meagher, an actor on Seven’s Home and Away (whose audience this year has shrunk alarmingly). Talk about crass cross-promotion of the type that commercial TV specialises in — a profile on 60 Minutes, anyone?
This Is Your Life averaged 948,000 nationally; Home and Away averaged 791,000. Seven narrowly won the night, with The Block on Nine pulling 991,000 viewers nationally.
Network channel share:
- Seven 30.1%)
- Nine (29.6%)
- Ten (17.5%)
- ABC (14.8%)
- SBS (8.1%)
Network main channels:
- Seven (22.3%)
- Nine (22.1%)
- Ten (11.0%)
- ABC (9.5%)
- SBS ONE (4.5%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7mate (3.2%)
- 7TWO (3.1%)
- 10 Peach (3.0%)
- ABC Kids/TV Plus (2.7%)
- 10 Bold (2.3%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News 6.30pm — 1.354 million
- Seven News — 1.329 million
- Nine News 6.30pm — 1.027 million
- The Block (Nine) — 991,000
- Nine News — 978,000
- This Is Your Life (Seven) — 948,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 935,000
- 7pm ABC News — 812,000
- Home and Away (Seven) — 791,000
- The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 690,000
Top metro programs: none with a million or more viewers.
Regional top 5: Seven News 6.30pm, 480,000; Seven News, 446,000, This Is Your Life, 352,000; The Block, 310,000; Home and Away, 297,000.
Losers: another weak Tuesday night.
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 883,000
- Seven News 6.30pm — 874,000
- Nine News 6.30pm — 757,000
- Nine News — 723,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 646,000
- 7pm ABC News — 544,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 417,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 329,000
- Ten News First — 245,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 198,000
Morning (national) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 362,000/219,000
- Today (Nine) — 287,000/193,000
- ABC News Breakfast (ABC, ABC News) — 246,000/158,000
- ABC News Mornings — 211,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 209,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 134,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 35,000
Top 5 pay TV programs:
- The Great British Bake-Off (LifeStyle) — 48,000
- Credlin (Sky News) — 41,000
- Paul Murray Live, The Bolt Report (Sky News), Below Deck Mediterranean (Fox Arena) — 33,000
