At 7:30 last night there was a right tussle for eyeballs between four networks.
Both 7:30 and Beach Cops tied on 629,000 viewers in a battle with an improved Bachelorette at 622,000. Highway Patrol, Young Sheldon and Invictus Games Today followed (from 8pm).
From 8:30pm Mad as Hell led at 616,000 then 9-1-1 and Playing for Keeps, the latter at 463,000 was up on last week’s 359,000. Manifest dropped again for Nine.
SBS moving Food Safari Water to an earlier slot saw it lift from 155,00 to 167,000. Train spotters were still loyal at 8pm.
Seven network won Wednesday with 30.2% then Nine 26.1%, TEN 19.0%, ABC 17.0% and SBS 7.7%.
Seven News (1.00m / 933,000) was #1 for Seven then Beach Cops (629,000), Home and Away (616,000), Highway Patrol (594,000), The Chase (542,000 / 331,000), 9-1-1 (559,000) and Criminal Minds (342,000).
Nine News (879,000 / 873,000) led for Nine then A Current Affair (759,000), Young Sheldon (582,000 / 528,000), Manifest (464,000), Hot Seat (454,000 / 270,000), World’s Wildest Flights (198,000).
The Bachelorette was best for TEN at 622,000 followed by Playing for Keeps (463,000), The Project (440,000 / 241,000), TEN Eyewitness News (357,000), Pointless (166,000) and Madam Secretary (161,000).
ABC News (644,000), 7:30 (629,000), Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell (616,000), Invictus Games Today (457,000) and Back in Very Small Business (279,000) comprised ABC. Black Comedy was 156,000 and Superwog was 111,000.
On SBS Great British Railway Journeys (240,000), Food Safari Water (167,000), The Missing (155,000 / 128,000) and Food Safari Water (124,000).
Peter Rabbit hopped to the top of multichannels at 142,000.
Sunrise: 272,000
Today: 216,000
News Breakfast: 99,000 / 43,000
OzTAM Overnights: Wednesday 24 October 2018.
