News shows dominates Thursday viewing

Factual series RBT and soapie Home And Away were the only non-news and public affairs shows to crack the ratings top 10.

Not one program cracked a million viewers with Seven News (966,000) winning the overnight OzTAM ratings on Thursday.

RBT (770,000), in seventh place, was the highest rating non-news and public affairs show, while Home And Away (711,000) was ninth and a repeat episode of RBT (709,000) was 10th.

Most watched shows on Thursday

1. Seven News (Seven) - 966,000

2. Seven News/Today Tonight (Seven) - 919,000

3. Nine News (Nine) - 911,000

4. Nine News 6.30pm (Nine) - 898,000

5. ABC News (ABC) - 830,000

6. A Current Affair (Nine) - 829,000

7. RBT (Nine) - 770,000

8. 7.30 (ABC) - 742,000

9. Home And Away (Seven) - 711,000

10. RBT rpt (Nine) - 709,000

* Source OzTAM