The appearance of Seven’s director of network programming Angus Ross on the Mediaweek podcast coincided nicely with the network reclaiming top spot from Nine as the #1 network year-to-date in combined channel share. (The podcast will be online later on Monday at iTunes and PodcastOne.)
Seven also finished the network week ahead of Nine – 31.3% to 28.2%. The primary channel battle also went to Seven, but the margin was a little closer – Seven on 21.0% to Nine’s 19/3%.
Seven News and Home and Away were key to Seven’s win, with support from House Rules, particularly on Sunday and Monday where the episodes were both over 700,000.
Seven’s combined channel share got a big boost too from #1 multichannel 7mate where on three nights of the week its share was over 5%.
The AFL was again a key pillar for Seven with Friday and Saturday primary channel shares of 25.0% and 23.1%.
Before Easter Nine has 13 successive weeks of primary share well over 20%, yet in the five most recent weeks that share has been sitting just under 20%.
The channel’s best week 22 offering was The Voice with all three episodes the only non-news content to go top 10.
Nine News had the edge at 6pm in Sydney and Melbourne, but across the metro capitals Seven News is well ahead.
10 had its best primary share since January with 11.9%. Have You Been Paying Attention? was the channel’s strongest performer and the only program to rise over 700,000.
Five episodes of MasterChef then each did over 600,000.
Both HYBPA? and each MasterChef episode were on the list of the top 10 shows under 50 for the week.
The new Aussie drama Five Bedrooms was then the next best with just under half a million watching its third episode.
Weekend news bulletins remain the ABC’s strongest performer.
Next best was Anh’s Brush With Fame with the Danni Minogue episode on 682,000.
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering also performed well, cracking both 600,000 and the week’s top 30.
On SBS the newish series Medicine Or Myth was the broadcaster’s only program over 300,000. It even managed to outrate Who Do You Think You Are?, which was down to 268,000 this week.