
I have been describing Nine’s AFL Footy Show as DOA for weeks as its ratings collapsed to ever lower record lows. But even I did not think that they would plunge to the point where the program dropped out of the national top 100 programs.
Finding out the exact figures has become a state secret in TV land. Program number 100 nationally last night was a repeat of Two and A Half Men on Ten with 141,000 people watching. Last week the AFL Footy Show hit Number 67 with 185,000 nationally, so the fall last night was — at the very least — 44,000 viewers.
In contrast, Seven’s The Front Bar held up in the first of the two holiday weeks with 490,000 national viewers and 250,000 in Melbourne — the two measures that matter for AFL content. Elsewhere, Bachelor in Paradise had a solid 693,000 for Ten, The Weekly on the ABC again did well with 809,000 and Anh’s Brush with Fame returned to the ABC at 8pm with 866,000.
In the regionals — Seven’s 6pm News with 508,000, Seven News/TT with 476,000, Home and Away with 348,000, The Chase Australia 5.30pm with 341,000 and the 7pm ABC News with 307,000.
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Network channel share:
- Seven (27.4%)
- Nine (26.8%)
- ABC (19.3%)
- Ten (19.0%)
- SBS (7.6%)
Network main channels:
- Seven (18.3%)
- Nine (16.2%)
- ABC (13.8%)
- Ten (11.4%)
- SBS ONE (4.9%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 10 Bold (5.1%)
- GO (4.4%)
- Gem (3.6%)
- 7TWO (3.5%)
- Gem, 9Life (3.1%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.483 million
- Seven News — 1.438 million
- MKR (Seven) — 1.337 million
- Nine/NBN News — 1.174 million
- Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.158 million
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.025 million
- Home and Away (Seven) — 973,000
- 7pm ABC News — 966,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 906,000
- The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 894,000
Top metro programs: None with a million or more viewers
Losers: Nine’s AFL Footy Show, again. Very much deader than DOA after dropping even further last night
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News/TT —975,000
- Seven News — 962,000
- Nine News — 875,000
- Nine News 6.30 — 854,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) – 732,000
- 7pm ABC News —660,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 648,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 479,000
- 10 News First — 375,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 269,000
Morning (National) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 484,000 (Metros: 295,000)
- Today (Nine) — 302,000 (Metros: 215,000)
- News Breakfast (ABC, ABC News) —246,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 216,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 138,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 69,000
Top five pay TV programs:
- Gogglebox Australia (LifeStyle) — 219,000
- Selling Houses Australia (LifeStyle) — 165,000
- AFL 360 (Fox Footy) — 65,000
- NRL: 360 (Fox League) — 52,000
- Paul Murray Live – Our Town (Sky News) — 46.000
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