Each day during the election campaign, Digital Spy will be tracking the performance of the major news broadcasters. Check in daily for a roundup of the latest ratings for the terrestrial news programmes and the rolling news channels.

Overnight data for Thursday, April 7 follows.

Terrestrials: Breakfast

BBC One
Breakfast (6am - 9.15am): 943,000 (26.8%)

ITV1
GMTV Newshour (6am - 7am): 610,000 (41.3%)
GMTV Today (7am - 8.35am): 1.35 million (31.5%)

Terrestrials: Daytime

BBC One
One O'Clock News (1pm - 1.40pm): 2.91 million (38.1%)

BBC Two
The Daily Politics (12pm - 12.30pm): 181,000 (3.2%)

ITV1
Lunchtime News (12.30pm - 1pm): 1.35 million (20.1%)

Channel 4
News at Noon (1pm - 12.30pm): 316,000 (5.6%)

Five
The Wright Stuff (9am - 10am): 246,000 (4.7%)
Five News at Noon (12pm - 12.30pm): 172,000 (3.1%)

Terrestrials: Evening/Primetime

BBC One
Six O'Clock News (6pm - 6.30pm): 4.8 million (27%)
Regional News (6.30pm - 7pm): 6.02 million (32%)
Ten O'Clock News (10pm - 10.35pm): 4.49 million (23%)

BBC Two
Newsnight (10.30pm - 11.20pm): 1.17 million (8.3%)

ITV1
Regional News (6pm - 6.30pm): 3.62 million (20.4%)
Early Evening News (6.30pm - 7pm): 4.49 million (23.8%)
Evening News (10.30pm - 11pm): 2.48 million (15.8%)

Channel 4
Channel 4 News (7pm - 7.55pm): 953,000 (4.6%)

Five
Five News (5.30pm - 6pm): 587,000 (4.2%)
Five News (7pm - 7.15pm): 278,000 (1.4%)

News Channels: Daytime

A heavy news day saw figures rise across the board amongst the news channels. Developments in the Michael Jackson case helped Sky News to top place, with its 9.30am court reconstruction pulling in 93,000 viewers (2.5%). News 24's 11pm bulletin had 92,000 (1.15%) for second place, while Sky's News at Ten drew in 86,000 (0.64%).

Once again Sky News held an impressive audience throughout most of the day, with a solid 41,000 (1.08%) between 10am and 1pm; 72,000 (1.31%) between 3pm and 5pm and 65,000 (0.66%) between 5pm and 7pm.

News channels: Primetime

7pm - 8pm
Sky News: 28,000 (0.21%)
News 24: 24,000 (0.18%)

8pm - 9pm
Sky News: 23,000 (0.15%)
News 24: 38,000 (0.25%)

9pm - 10pm
Sky News: 38,000 (0.24%)
News 24: 44,000 (0.28%)

10pm - 11pm
Sky News: 64,000 (0.51%)
News 24: 52,000 (0.42%)

Ratings data supplied by ViewingFigures.com