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Consolidated Regional Top 20 Programs Regional Ranking Report - Free To Air Only Week 36 2020 (30/08/2020 - 05/09/2020) 02:00 - 25:59 Total Individuals - including Guests Combined Agg. Markets excl. TAS/WA* QLD NNSW SNSW VIC Rank Description Channel 000's 000's 000's 000's 000's 1 SEVEN NEWS Prime7/7QLD 458 148 97 102 111 2 SEVEN NEWS - SUN Prime7/7QLD 448 157 71 90 130 3 SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 Prime7/7QLD 429 137 86 94 112 4 SEVEN NEWS - SAT Prime7/7QLD 364 111 64 74 115 5 VERA-EV ABC 354 66 90 99 99 6 THE BLOCK -ROOM WINNER SCA Nine/NBN 329 66 104 63 97 7 THE MASKED SINGER AUSTRALIA TUES - REVEAL WIN 318 77 101 72 69 8 THE MASKED SINGER AUSTRALIA MON - REVEAL WIN 317 79 91 65 81 9 ABC NEWS SUNDAY-EV ABC 310 70 73 88 79 10 THE BLOCK -SUN SCA Nine/NBN 308 61 101 52 93 11 NINE NEWS SUNDAY SCA Nine/NBN 307 51 134 56 66 12 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Prime7/7QLD 303 82 73 77 70 13 HOME AND AWAY Prime7/7QLD 300 94 69 69 69 14 BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS Prime7/7QLD 291 78 58 72 84 15 SHETLAND-EV ABC 290 60 73 74 84 16 NINE NEWS 6:30 SCA Nine/NBN 287 46 127 60 54 17 AUSTRALIAN STORY-EV ABC 286 57 88 67 73 18 THE MASKED SINGER AUSTRALIA TUES WIN 281 64 89 71 57 19 ABC NEWS-SA ABC 276 70 58 82 67 20 HARD QUIZ S5-EV ABC 271 43 68 88 72 TAS Rank Description Channel 000's 1 SEVEN NEWS - SUN Southern Cross Tas 94 2 SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 Southern Cross Tas 93 . 3 SEVEN NEWS Southern Cross Tas 88 4 SEVEN NEWS - SAT Southern Cross Tas 67 5 HOME AND AWAY Southern Cross Tas 66 6 ABC NEWS SUNDAY-EV ABC 48 7 HIGHWAY PATROL (R) Southern Cross Tas 44 8 BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS Southern Cross Tas 43 9 SEVEN'S AFL: THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - PRE MATCH Southern Cross Tas 43 10 ABC NEWS-SA ABC 42 11 VERA-EV ABC 41 12 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Southern Cross Tas 40 13 HOME AND AWAY 7TWO 39 14 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL Southern Cross Tas 39 15 ABC NEWS-EV ABC 37 16 THE MASKED SINGER AUSTRALIA MON - REVEAL WIN 37 17 SHAUN MICALLEF'S MAD AS HELL-EV ABC 35 18 9-1-1: LONE STAR Southern Cross Tas 34 19 PLATE OF ORIGIN - MON Southern Cross Tas 34 20 ANH'S BRUSH WITH FAME-EV ABC 34 WA Rank Description Channel 000's 1 SEVEN'S AFL: TUESDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL 7mate 44 2 ABC NEWS SUNDAY-EV ABC 42 3 SEVEN NEWS - SAT GWN7 41 4 SEVEN NEWS - SUN GWN7 40 5 SEVEN'S AFL: WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL 7mate 40 6 SEVEN NEWS GWN7 39 7 SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 GWN7 39 8 VERA-EV ABC 35 9 GWN7 NEWS GWN7 33 10 SHETLAND-EV ABC 32 11 ABC NEWS-SA ABC 32 12 ABC NEWS-EV ABC 29 13 BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS GWN7 27 14 PLATE OF ORIGIN - LAUNCH GWN7 27 15 HOME AND AWAY GWN7 25 16 HARD QUIZ S5-EV ABC 24 17 GARDENING AUSTRALIA-EV ABC 24 18 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL 7mate 24 19 FATHER BROWN-EV ABC 24 20 BORDER PATROL GWN7 23 * Note: Tasmania and WA have not been included in Aggregated market results due to there being markets with composite network affiliations. * Note: Program rankings are based on the absolute audience which is rounded to thousands. * Note: The sum of the individual markets may not add to the total (Combine Aggregate Markets) due to rounding. * Note: SCA Ten and WIN NNSW broadcast changes occur from September 1, 2017 Source: Nielsen Television Audience Measurement.

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