Thursday 26 March 2026 TV Ratings Australia – AFL Thursday Night Football on Channel 7 is #1 non news in primetime for overnights and wins in 7 Day consolidated

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SHARES
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Thursday 26 March 2026 TV Ratings Australia Analysis for Total TV Consolidated 7 Day

Total TV Consolidated 7 Total People

Thursday 26 March 2026 TV Ratings Australia

Consolidated 7 25-54 Total TV

Thursday 26 March 2026 TV Ratings Australia

Total TV Consolidated 7 16-39

Thursday 26 March 2026 TV Ratings Australia

Consolidated 7 Grocery Shoppers (18+) Total TV

Thursday 26 March 2026 TV Ratings Australia

Overnight Ratings

Daily Shares

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)

Thursday 26 March 2026 TV Ratings Australia

Seven

Seven News was #2 for the night with a reach audience lead of 89 000 and an average audience lead of 114 000 over 9News. Home and Away was #11 with 1 069 000 (790 000). Seven’s AFL: Thursday Night Football – Pre Game was #26 with 554 000 (263 000). Seven’s AFL: Thursday Night Football was #3 with 1 762 000 (635 000).

Sunrise – Early – 592 000 (287 000)

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Highway Patrol (R) – 560 000 (289 000)

M – Bridget Jones’s Baby – 541 000 (143 000)

Nine

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10

Gogglebox was #13 with 828 000 (492 000). The Graham Norton Show was #16 with 713 000 (222 000).

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ABC

ABC News was #7 for the night. 730 was #8 with 1 171 000 (701 000). Back Roads was #18 with 688 000 (411 000).

Hard Quiz S9 (R) – 642 000 (310 000)

BBC World News – 559 000 (78 000)

SBS

Thursday 26 March 2026 TV Ratings Australia

25-54

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16-39

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Thursday 26 March 2026 TV Ratings Australia

Grocery Shoppers (18+)

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Thursday 26 March 2026 TV Ratings Australia

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 mega Thursday: #1 in total TV, #1 program, #1 sport

  • Seven #1 in total TV
  • National total TV audience share, 6.00pm to midnight: 43%
  • National total TV audience share, 6.00am to midnight: 43.6%
  • 7plus: soars 58% year-on-year
  • 7NEWS: #1 program, reaches 2.16 million
  • AFL Thursday Night Football: #1 sport, reaches 1.76 million, up 15% year-on-year
  • Sunrise: #1 at breakfast, 36% more viewers than Today, biggest audience of 2026

26 March 2026:

Seven Network reaches 6.05 million Australians nationally. Total TV reach up 5% year-on-year.

6.00pm to midnight:

Seven Network: #1 nationally in total TV in all people with a 43% share.

Seven Network: #1 nationally in total TV in grocery shoppers with a 42.9% share.

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6.00am to midnight:

Seven Network: #1 nationally in total TV in all people with a 43.6% share.

Seven Network: #1 nationally in total TV in grocery shoppers with a 43.8% share.

7plus: 41.7% BVOD commercial share, 45.8% in streaming. Reach up 58% year-on-year.

7NEWS Thursday: #1 program in all people and grocery shoppers.National reach 2.16 million, national audience 1.36 million.

Seven’s AFL: Thursday Night Football: #1 sport, #1 program in 16 to 39s. National reach 1.76 million, national audience 635,000.

  • Up 15% in total TV year-on-year, up 144% on 7plus.

The Chase Australia Thursday:National reach 1.38 million, national audience 687,000.

Sunrise Thursday: #1 breakfast program. National reach 1.15 million, national audience 493,000.

  • Biggest audience so far in 2026.
  • 36% more viewers than Today.

Home and Away Thursday: #1 drama. National reach 1.07 million, national audience 790,000.

  • Up 12% in total TV year-on-year, up 89% on 7plus.

NATIONAL TOTAL TV COMMERCIAL SHARES (%):

6.00am to midnight

NetworkAll people25 to 54sGrocery shoppers
Seven Network43.640.743.8
Nine Network40.543.040.4
Network Ten15.816.415.8

NATIONAL TOTAL TV COMMERCIAL SHARES (%):

6.00pm to midnight

NetworkAll people25 to 54sGrocery shoppers
Seven Network43.039.042.9
Nine Network39.542.939.2
Network Ten17.518.117.9

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