Seven and Nine were neck and neck last night, split by just 0.1% on network shares, in Nine’s favour. But a win is a win.
While another night languished under the million viewers (for all but one show), the gap in breakfast TV remains vast, with Sunrise’s 413,000 viewers towering over Today‘s 284,000. Might be time for a new suit, Karl…
But it was ABC that had a strong outing, thanks to Australian Story, Four Corners and interest in the fortunes of the ABC funding on Media Watch and Q & A.
At 27.6% Nine Network pipped Seven’s 27.5%, then ABC 23.2%, TEN 18.0% and SBS 3.7%.
The Big Bang Theory repeats (1.05m / 977,000) was the only title to top a million viewers. Next for Nine were Nine News (967,000 / 977,000), A Current Affair (912,000), Big Brother (653,000), Hot Seat (504,000) and 2 Broke Girls (353,000).
Seven barely scrapped 900,000 viewers with Seven News (924,000 / 902,000) then Home and Away (835,000), Highway Patrol (785,000), The Blacklist (774,000), Nabbed (734,000), Castle (487,000) and Million Dollar Minute (482,000). Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD was 227,000.
Australian Story nearly won the night at 995,000 for ABC then Four Corners (857,000), ABC News (837,000), 7:30 (827,000), Media Watch (786,000), Q & A (730,000 / 90,000).
TEN Eyewitness News was 599,000 for TEN then Have You Been Paying Attention? (564,000), The Project (538,000 / 410,000), Territory Cops (497,000) and Gold Coast Cops (491,000). SVU was 244,000.
It was a tough night for SBS ONE with Stephen Hawking’s Grand Design (191,000), SBS World News (112,000), The Real Man’s Road Trip (112,000), Housos (93,000) and Brooklyn Nine-Nine (88,000).
Judge John Deed (303,000 topped multichannels on 7TWO.
Sunrise: 413,000
Today: 284,000
ABC News Breakfast: 70,000 / 50,000.
OzTAM Overnights: Monday 17 November 2014