TV ratings: Seven: 23.5% primary share, 3.2% 7mate, 31.6% network share
Although Nine has disputed Seven’s version of TV ratings dominance (see below), Seven managed to rank a clear leader this week. Seven has now won more weeks of the year (total people) with or without the Olympic Games.
Seven had a winning primary share, the #1 multichannel and the leading network share.
Central to Seven’s win as always was Seven News plus a highly anticipated final AFL regular season round on Friday and Saturday nights.
Sevens News again had the most-watched bulletins on all seven nights at 6pm.
The Voice was the #2 show for the week on 1.226m only behind Seven News Sunday on 1.267m. The Monday and Tuesday episodes of The Voice were subsequently each over 1.15m. The audience is holding up well after the season launched with 1.329 in Week 33.
Home and Away was on 669,000 after 693,000 last week.
Friday Night AFL was on 645,000 with Saturday doing 488,000 in four markets.
Nine: 18.8% primary share, 26.2% network share
Nine is reporting it narrowly leads the survey year-to-date (not counting Olympic Weeks) in commercial share. Nine is also claiming network and primary commercial share leadership in the key demos after Week 34.
The channel’s best of the week was its Sunday Nine News with 1.171m. The Monday to Friday 6pm bulletin averaged just over 1m with the 6.30pm half just under 1m.
The first room reveals on The Block a week ago was the best entertainment program with 758,000. The Monday and Wednesday episodes of The Block were under 700,000 while the Tuesday episode dipped below 600,000.
A Current Affair averaged just over 700,000 for the week. 60 Minutes was close to 650,000.
The only other offering to crack half a million was Hot Seat with 517,000.
10: 11.5% primary share, 3.2% 10 Bold, 18% network share
The Monday episode of Australian Survivor led the channel’s rankings with 733,000. The same night Have You Been Paying Attention? kept most of that audience with 715,000, up over 100,000 week-on-week.
Two other episodes of Australian Survivor were just below 700,000.
The Project 7pm had a week averaging just over half a million after 498,000 the week prior.
Not quite making it to 500,000 were two episodes of The Bachelor.
ABC: 11.8% primary share, 16.7% network share
ABC News on weeknights and Sunday was over 700,000. The Saturday edition was just under.
The weekly average of 7.30 was 626,000.
Also cracking 600,000 was episode two of Joanna Lumley’s Britain.
Just over 550,000 were two new arrivals – The Newsreader on 552,000 and the launch episode of Question Everything on 563,000.
Australian Story and the 60th-anniversary episode of Four Corners were also over half a million.
SBS: 4.3% primary share, 7.5% network share
A repeat episode of Insight performed best on 233,000 on Tuesday.
Four programs then followed close to 180,000 each – SBS World News 6.30pm, Secret Scotland and repeat episodes of Great Asian Railway Journeys and Who Do You Think You Are?