Thursday 21 August 2025 TV Ratings Australia - Thursday Night NRL Live on Channel 9 is #1 non news in primetime for overnights and wins in 7 Day consolidated

Thursday 21 August 2025 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 (National)

Daily Ratings (Metro)

News

Breakfast Television

Morning Shows

Afternoon News

Game Shows

Total People

(Note: Initial numbers are for reach and numbers in brackets are for average audience)

Seven

Seven News was #1 for the night with a reach audience lead of 76 000 and an average audience lead of 4 000 over 9News. Home and Away was #9 with 1 112 000 (749 000). Home and Away – episode 2 was #11 with 869 000 (677 000). Home and Away – episode 3 was #12 with 819 000 (632 000). Clarkson’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire UK was #14 with 769 000 (287 000). Air Crash Investigations was #33 with 471 000 (175 000). A repeat of Soham: Catching a Killer was #71 with 229 000 (94 000).

The Chase UK – 386 000 (206 000)

Kick Ons – 71 000 (38 000)

Nine

9News was #2 for the night. A Current Affair was #3 with 1 543 000 (1 073 000). Thursday Night NRL Live – Pre Match was #15 with 766 000 (448 000). Thursday Night NRL Live was #5 with 1 320 000 (583 000). Thursday Night NRL Live – Post Match was #30 with 483 000 (218 000). 9News Late was #60 with 280 000 (155 000). Outback Opal Hunters was #82 with 191 000 (81 000).

RBT – 550 000 (270 000)

Emergency (R) – 663 000 (307 000)

RPA (R) – 429 000 (220 000)

Chicago Med – 184 000 (86 000)

Tipping Point UK – 549 000 (306 000)

10

10 News+ was #45 for the night. Deal or No Deal was #43 with 368 000 (230 000). A repeat of The Dog House Australia was #23 with 595 000 (268 000). Law & Order: SVU was #39 with 391 000 (200 000). An encore of The Cheap Seats was #52 with 325 000 (119 000). 10’s Late News was #110 with 140 000 (80 000).

ABC

ABC News was #7 for the night. 730 was #8 with 1 171 000 (671 000). Back Roads was #16 with 743 000 (501 000). Griff’s Great American South was #18 with 708 000 (320 000). An encore of The Family Next Door was #37 with 408 000 (104 000). ABC Late News was #75 with 213 000 (59 000). Culture By Design was #237 with 65 000 (25 000).

Hard Quiz S7 (R) – 688 000 (404 000)

Antiques Roadshow – 499 000 (235 000)

SBS

SBS World News was #51 with 327 000 (207 000). SBS World News 7pm was #62 with 263 000 (152 000). Great Australian Road Trips was #38 with 403 000 (147 000). National Parks from Above: Ireland was #59 with 281 000 (100 000). Snowpiercer was #95 with 160 000 (27 000). SBS World News Late was #246 with 62 000 (15 000).

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

9News was the No. 1 program and No. 1 news bulletin across Australia with People 25-54 and People 16-39. It was also the No. 1 news bulletin with Total People across the 5 City Metro and in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The combined national bulletins registered a National Total TV Reach of 2.010 million and a Total TV National Audience of 1.304 million, up 14.1% year-on-year. On 9Now, it claimed a BVOD Audience of 133,000, increasing by 46.2% on the same night last year.

A Current Affair dominated the 7.00pm timeslot across Australia with Total People and all key demographics. It achieved a National Total TV Reach of 1.543 million and a Total TV National Audience of 1.073 million – up 11.4% year-on-year. On 9Now, it recorded a BVOD Audience of 104,000, up 38.7% year-on-year.

Thursday Night NRL dominated its timeslot with Total People and all key demographics in Sydney and Brisbane. It registered a National Total TV Reach of 1.320 million and a Total TV National Audience of 583,000, up 1.2% on the same night last year. On 9Now, it secured a BVOD audience of 84,000, increasing by 33.3% year-on-year.

Tipping Point Australia was the No.1 afternoon game show across Australia with Total People and all key demographics. It registered a National Total TV Reach of 1.383 million and a Total TV National Audience of 779,000, increasing by 24.0% on the same day last year. On 9Now its BVOD Audience was 80,000, up a massive 73.9% year-on-year.

Today was the breakfast program of choice with Total People in Melbourne and Brisbane. It achieved a National Total TV Reach of 817,000, a Total TV National Audience of 319,000. On 9Now it recorded a BVOD audience of 46,000, up 27.8% year-on-year.

The 9Network was the No.1 network on Thursday across the 5 City Metro with Total People and all key demographics.
9Now was the No.1 CFTA BVOD platform on Thursday across Australia with People 25-54 and People 16-39.