Sunday 17 May 2026 TV Ratings Australia Analysis for Total TV Consolidated 7 Day
Total TV Consolidated 7 Total People
Consolidated 7 25-54 Total TV
Total TV Consolidated 7 16-39
Consolidated 7 Grocery Shoppers (18+) Total TV
Overnight Ratings
Daily Shares
News
Breakfast Television
Morning Shows
Total People
(Note: Initial numbers are for reach and numbers in brackets are for average audience)
Seven
Seven News was #2 for the night with a reach audience loss of 154 000 and an average audience loss of 42 000 over 9News. The 1% Club was #4 with 1 533 000 (840 000). 7NEWS Spotlight was #9 with 1 189 000 (535 000). Child Snatchers: A Day at the Fair was #18 with 790 000 (240 000).
Seven’s AFL: Sunday Afternoon Football – 1 295 000 (414 000)
Nine
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10
MasterChef Australia – Sunday was #11 with 992 000 (609 000). Race Across the World was #25 with 565 000 (166 000).
ABC
ABC News was #10 for the night. The Assembly was #19 with 758 000 (410 000). Bad Company was #30 with 524 000 (319 000).
Insiders – 886 000 (599 000)
Landline – 600 000 (392 000)
Offsiders – 550 000 (290 000)
Compass – 547 000 (237 000)
Antiques Roadshow – 532 000 (243 000)
SBS
2026 Eurovision Song Contest – Grand Final (Evening) was #17 with 802 000 (167 000).
Destination Flavour Down Under (R) – 858 000 (796 000)
2026 Giro D’Italia: Stage 8 Highlights – 840 000 (200 000)
2026 Eurovision Song Contest – Grand Final (Morning) – 1 212 000 (464 000).
25-54
16-39
Grocery Shoppers (18+)
How the Networks Analysed their Own Performance
Note: N/A means the network has not sent out a report today
NINE
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SEVEN
Seven’s winning Sunday, #1 nationally, 7plus #1
- Seven #1 nationally in total TV
- Seven #1 in all people and grocery shoppers
- National total TV audience share, 6.00am to midnight: 42.9%
- National total TV audience share, 6.00pm to midnight: 42.5%
- 7plus: #1 in BVOD, jumps 49% year-on-year
- 7NEWS: reaches 2.09 million
- The 1% Club Australia: reaches 1.53 million
- AFL Sunday Afternoon Football: reaches 1.3 million
- Weekend Sunrise: #1 at breakfast, 41% more viewers than Today
17 May 2026:
Seven Network reaches 5.63 million Australians nationally.
6.00am to midnight:
- Seven Network: #1 nationally in total TV in all people with a 42.9% share.
- Seven Network: #1 nationally in total TV in grocery shoppers with a 43.3% share.
6.00pm to midnight:
- Seven Network: #1 nationally in total TV in all people with a 42.5% share.
- Seven Network: #1 nationally in total TV in grocery shoppers with a 42.9% share.
7plus: #1 in BVOD with a 43% commercial share. Reach up 49% year-on-year.
7NEWS Sunday:National reach 2.09 million, national audience 1.28 million.
- Up 70% year-on-year on 7plus.
The 1% Club Australia:National reach 1.53 million, national audience 840,000.
- Up 50% year-on-year on 7plus.
Seven’s AFL: Sunday Afternoon Football:National reach 1.3 million, national audience 414,000.
- Up 6% year-on-year in total TV, up 120% on 7plus.
7NEWS Spotlight:National reach 1.19 million, national audience 535,000.
- Up 7% week-on-week in total TV, up 6% on 7plus.
Weekend Sunrise Sunday: #1 breakfast program. National reach 915,000, national audience 389,000.
- 41% more viewers than Today.
NATIONAL TOTAL TV COMMERCIAL SHARES (%):
6.00am to midnight
| Network | All people | 25 to 54s | Grocery shoppers |
| Seven Network | 42.9 | 37.6 | 43.3 |
| Nine Network | 40.4 | 43.1 | 39.8 |
| Network Ten | 17.1 | 19.4 | 16.9 |
NATIONAL TOTAL TV COMMERCIAL SHARES (%):
6.00pm to midnight
| Network | All people | 25 to 54s | Grocery shoppers |
| Seven Network | 42.5 | 35.1 | 42.9 |
| Nine Network | 38.3 | 42.1 | 38.0 |
| Network Ten | 19.2 | 22.8 | 19.1 |
TEN
MasterChef Kicks Off Around The World Week With Record BVOD Audience.
Biggest BVOD Audience For Episode 16, Up 90% YOY.
10 is serving record audiences across cooking and comedy. MasterChef Australia is serving up its biggest total audience since 2021 and was the #1 show on BVOD last week. MasterChef Australia, Have You Been Paying Attention? and The Cheap Seats are recording their biggest streaming audiences ever.
MasterChef Australia:
It’s the start of Around the World Week, and global food icon Rick Stein joins the MasterChef kitchen to set an extra spicy Mystery Box challenge.
• Reached 992,000 national total viewers.
• 98,000 BVOD viewers, up 90% vs. same episode in 2025.
• Biggest ever BVOD audience for an Ep 16.
• 7-Day Total Viewing Audience (Sunday, 10 May): Reached 1.27 million total national viewers.
Season-To-Date:
• Reaching 6.3 million national total viewers.
• Biggest total national audience since 2021.
• 872,000 national total audience, up 15% year-on-year.
• MasterChef’s biggest ever BVOD audience.
• 228,000 BVOD viewers, up 69% year-on-year.
Week 20:
• MasterChef Australia: Biggest total audience since 2021, up 16% year-on-year season-to-date. #1 BVOD show last week. Streaming audience up 70%.
• Have You Been Paying Attention?: Biggest streaming audience ever, up 51% year-on-year season-to-date.
• The Cheap Seats: Biggest streaming audience ever, up 43% year-on-year season-to-date.
MasterChef Australia.
Sundays At 7pm, Monday To Wednesday At 7.30pm.
Watch + Stream On 10.
https://10.com.au/masterchef
Have You Been Paying Attention.
Mondays At 8.40pm.
Watch + Stream On 10.
https://10.com.au/have-you-been-paying-attention
Source: Virtual Australia, OzTAM, Regional TAM, Total TV. Timeslot stories based on Metro Overnight Audience.
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Sunday 17 May 2026 TV Ratings Australia
Sunday 17 May 2026 TV Ratings Australia
