Press conferences see The Morning Show outrank Today

Morning press conferences around the country continue to drive big numbers to morning television.

Yesterday The Morning Show‘s 226,000 / 187,000 even outranked the Today show’s 218,000.

For comparison Sunrise was 275,000 with Today Extra at 171,000 / 123,000 while Studio 10 struggled on 42,000.

In primetime 7:30 led its slot at 601,000 then MasterChef Australia (583,000), an extended Home & Away (537,000 across the network), Foreign Correspondent (394,000)

Later Q+A drew 325,000 then movie: The Intern (245,000).

Seven’s AFL was up to 485,000 and Nine’s NRL was 347,000 across the network.

Seven network easily won Thursday at 32.5% then Nine 27.3%, 10 17.1%, ABC 15.2% and SBS 7.9%.

Seven News drew 1.13m / 1.04m for Seven. The Chase was 587,000 / 387,000.

Nine News was #1 at 1.15m / 1.03m for Nine. A Current Affair was 711,000 with Hot Seat at 587,000 / 370,000. RBT was 163,000 in 3 cities and Paramedics was 140,000 in 3 cities.

The Project drew 403,000 / 275,000. 10 News First was The Battle for Britney (219,000) and a Law & Order: SVU repeat was just 95,000.

ABC News won its slot at 765,000. Sammy J (382,000), The Drum (207,000) and Australia Debates (86,000) followed.

On SBS it was SBS World News (195,000 / 132,000), Great Asian Railway Journeys (150,000), Tour de France (128,000 across the network), and The Good Fight (84,000).

ABC News topped multichannels at 181,000.

OzTAM Overnights: Thursday 1 July 2021