{"id":892793,"date":"2026-09-15T10:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/892793\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T10:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:54:13","slug":"national-forum-lifts-for-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/892793\/","title":{"rendered":"National Forum lifts for ABC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tA second David Speers forum improved in viewing numbers for ABC. The Block and HYBPA? won their slots.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A second ABC National Forum lifted on its debut episode earlier this year: 535,000 was considerably better than 342,000 viewers in March.<\/p>\n<p>The Block topped entertainment at 1.08m then The Voice (930,000), Australian Story (631,000), 7:30 (821,000), and Deal or No Deal: Celebrity Jackpot (322,000).<\/p>\n<p>Later Have You Been Paying Attention? led with 687,000 then ABC National Forum (535,000), The Rookie (469,000), and in key markets Footy Classified (204,000), 100% Footy (186,000).<\/p>\n<p>Seven News was #1 at 1.52m then Home &amp; Away (986,000) The Chase (690,000) and The Agenda Setters \/ Rugby League (690,000 \/ 83,000).<\/p>\n<p>Nine News drew 1.36m then A Current Affair (1.09m) then Tipping Point (794,000). Nine News Late managed 117,000.<\/p>\n<p>ABC News was 1.01m then Media Watch (473,000), Hard Quiz (439,000) and Planet America (395,000).<\/p>\n<p>Millionaire Hot Seat was 343,000 then 10 News (299,000 \/ 174,000), 10 Late News (279,000) and Deal or No Deal rpt (205,000).<\/p>\n<p>SBS World News (196,000 \/ 132,000) then Bill Bailey\u2019s Vietnam (142,000), 24 Hours in Emergency (128,000) Mastermind\u00a0 (97,000) and Alone Australia (54,000).<\/p>\n<p>Sunrise: 435,000<br \/>Today: 274,000<br \/>News Breakfast: 213,000<\/p>\n<p>National Total TV: <a href=\"https:\/\/tvtonight.com.au\/2026\/09\/monday-14-september-2026.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monday 14 September 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second David Speers forum improved in viewing numbers for ABC. The Block and HYBPA? won their slots.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-892793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}