ARIA Awards
(Image: AAP/Joel Carrett)

It was a very dull Wednesday night that saw the ARIA Awards on Nine (551,000 national viewers for two and a half hours from 7.30pm) join Nine’s Logies and Seven’s Brownlow Medal broadcasts (and the AFL Draft last night on Foxtel — 98,000 on Fox Footy) as the most boring TV for the year.

The final episode for 2019 of Gruen on the ABC was the most watched non-news program with 926,000. Seven won the night from Nine and the ABC with Ten a distant 4th (main channel share just 6.7%. It is going to be a miserable summer).

In regional markets Seven’s 6pm News led with 489,000, with Seven News/Today Tonight with 475,000, Home and Away was in 375,000, The Good Doctor, 334,000, The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 317,000.

Network channel share:

Seven (30.7%)
Nine (28.3%)
ABC (18.7%)
Ten (13.7%)
SBS (8.6%)

Network main channels:

Seven (21.3%)
Nine (19.5%)
ABC (13.8%)
Ten (6.7%)
SBS ONE (5.0%)

Top 5 digital channels:

10 Bold (4.5%)
7TWO (4.1%)
Gem (3.6%)
GO (3.0%)
ABC Kids/Comedy (2.7%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.370 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.317 million
  3. Nine/NBN News — 1.054 million
  4. Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.041 million
  5. Home and Away (Seven) — 968,000
  6. Gruen (ABC) — 926,000
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 926,000
  8. 7pm ABC News — 865,000
  9. The Good Doctor (Seven) — 851,000
  10. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 815,000

Top metro programs: None with a million or more viewers

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News —881,000
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight —841,000
  3. Nine News — 775,000
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 750,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 651,000
  6. 7pm ABC News — 600,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) —545,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 442,000
  9. Ten News First — 365,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 2509,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise: National: 436,000, Metro: 256,000
  2. Today: National: 289,000, Metro: 187,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC, ABC News) — 246,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 190,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) —139,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 68,000

Top 5 pay TV programs:

  1. Love It Or List It Australia (LifeStyle) — 101,000
  2. AFL Draft (Fox Footy) — 98,000
  3. Find Me A Beach House (LifeStyle) — 63,000
  4. Jones & Credlin (Sky News) — 60,000
  5. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 57,000