The final Bathurst race — as we know it — ended with a bang: 1.320 million watched the race on Seven’s main channel and a further 343,000 on Foxtel. And 1.827 million watched the final podium with Holden’s swan song on Seven and 422,000 on Foxtel, for a total audience of 2.249 million — within sight of the NRL grand final’s weak 2.3 million the Sunday before (no BVOD figures in either total).
The spillover of viewers from the race and presentation boosted Seven’s 6 to 7 pm news with 1.683 million, but didn’t stay around to keep the returning episode of Australia’s Got Talent above a million viewers (the 978,000 was OK… but more than a mill is better).
The Amazing Race Australia on Ten finally found its way with the finish last night — 582,000 for the finishing line and 483,000 for working out how to master Google Maps. Nine’s The Block, 1.301 million and got the network home over Seven.
Frankly with Fran Kelly brought in 438,000 on Friday night at 8.30pm, which wasn’t bad — 186,000 for the repeat last night at 6.30pm.
Regional top 5: Bathurst Podium, 767,000; Seven News, 598,000; Bathurst Race, 546,000; The Block, 397,000; Australia’s Got Talent, 333,000.
Network channel share:
- Nine (31.3%)
- Seven (30.8%)
- Ten (15.0%)
- ABC (14.8%)
- SBS (8.1%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (25.1%)
- Seven (23.5%)
- ABC (11.6%)
- Ten (10.0%)
- SBS ONE (4.8%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7mate (2.9%)
- GO (2.6%)
- 7TWO, 10 Bold (2.4%)
- 7flix (2.1%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Bathurst Supercars Podium (Seven) — 1.827 million
- Seven News — 1.683 million
- Bathurst Supercars: The Race (Seven) — 1.320 million
- The Block (Nine) — 1.301 million
- Nine News — 1.012 million
- Australia’s Got Talent (Nine) — 980,000
- 60 Minutes (Nine) — 832,000
- 7pm ABC News — 816,000
- Spicks and Specks (ABC) — 632,000
- The Amazing Race: The Finish Line (Ten) — 582,000
Top metro programs:
1. Seven News — 1.085 million
2. Bathurst Supercars Podium (Seven) — 1.060 million
Metro news and current affair
- Seven News — 1.085 million
- Nine News — 736,000
- 60 Minutes (Nine) — 567,000
- 7pm ABC News — 536,000
- 7News Spotlight — 304,000
- Nine News Late — 313,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 264,000
- Sunday Project 6.30 (Ten) — 202,000
- Ten News First — 182,000
- SBS World News — 170,000
Morning (national) TV:
- Insiders (ABC, ABC News) — 500,000
- Weekend Sunrise (Seven) — pre-empted
- Weekend Today (Nine) — 330,000
- Landline (ABC) — 245,000
- Sports Sunday (Nine) — 193,000
- Offsiders (ABC) — 149,000
Top 5 pay TV programs:
- Bathurst Supercars Podium (Fox Sports 503) — 422,000
- Bathurst Supercars Race (Fox Sports 503) — 343,000
- Bathurst Supercars Grid (Fox Sports 503) — 208,000
- Bathurst Supercars Trackside (Fox Sports 503) — 187,000
- F1: Chequered Flag (Fox Sports 506) — 151,000
