Overnight TV Ratings October 26
Primetime News TV ratings
Seven News 6pm 770,000/6.30pm 789,000
Nine News 6pm 735,000/6.30pm 716,000
ABC News 555,000
10 News First 217,000 (5:00 pm)/134,000 (6:00 pm)
SBS World News 132,000 (6:30 pm)/99,000 (7:00 pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 622,00
7.30 408,000
The Project 150,000 (6:30pm)/ 256,000 (7pm)
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 202,000
Today 196,000
ABC Breakfast 139,000
Share summary
Nine held on to top spot in a tightly fought Thursday contest. Primary share was 18.8% and combined channel share was 26.0%.
Seven narrowly held onto second place with 17.4% and 24.5%.
10 had one of its best shares for some time with primary share on 15.8% and a combined channel share of 15.8%. 10 was the #1 network and channel under 50, 25 to 54 and 16 to 39. 10Bold was a clear multichannel champ with a share of 5.6%.
Nine
A Current Affair snuck into the top five for the night with 622,000.
‘Homemade booze’ and ‘Regret’ were the episode names that give you an idea of last night’s lawbreakers on RBT. After an audience of 215,000 a week ago, the crowd last night was 440,000.
Week two of season four for Emergency was on 298,000 after the season launched on 277,000 a week ago.
Big Miracles tells the stories of Australians attempting to become parents via IVF. The audience watching a repeat of the second episode of season one was 117,000.
Seven
One hour of Home and Away to end the soapie’s week with 419,000 watching the first episode and then 372,000 the second.
Highway Patrol filled the 8pm slot with xxx.
Thursday night at the movies was 2015’s Kingsman: The Secret Service on 191,000.
10
The Project started on 150,000 and then climbed to 256,000.
Episode 7 of the fourth season of The Amazing Race Australia Celebrity Edition visited Cambodia with 383,000 watching.
A special celebrity edition of Gogglebox Australia ranked #1 in the timeslot with 433,000 after 421,000 were watching the final of the regular season a week ago.
10 stayed in first place after 9.30pm as the Matildas took on Iran in an Olympic qualifier. The pre-game audience was on 311,000 which later climbed to 361,000 when the match started.
ABC
Martin Clunes took 323,000 viewers to French Polynesia on the first episode of Martin Clunes: Islands of the Pacific.
Viewers staying with the channel, some 227,000 of them, were then taken to South Lincolnshire by Kevin McCloud for another episode of UK Grand Designs.
A night of travel then wrapped with Griff’s Great Australian Rail Trip with 186,000 still on board.
SBS
Week two of Every Family Has a Secret with 159,000 watching after the series launched on 198,000.
The fourth episode of Luke Nguyen’s India saw the chef visiting Tamil Nadu including a visit to Madurai. The audience was 56,000.
The first two episodes of the Lingo Pictures drama anthology seductively titled Erotic Stories were next with an average audience of 72,000 across the two 30-minute instalments. There are six eps in total with all of them also available at SBS On Demand.
