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By a wide margin Seven beat closest competitor Nine, its team led by Today hosts Karl Stefanovic and Georgie Gardner.
Seven's coverage of the royal wedding, led by Michael Usher and Melissa Doyle, won the ratings battle.
Photo: Twitter/@michaelusherNine reached an average of 1.47 million viewers across the five cities during the main event — only 65,000 more than Seven achieved in their warm-up coverage. Nine's "unrivalled" reporting team and "unparalled" commentary panel of royal insiders were untriumphant.
Between 6pm and midnight, Seven enjoyed 44 per cent of the overall metro audience share, compared to Nine's 31 per cent.
Their only other commercial rival Ten was no threat.
Having bowed out of the contest, Ten played back to back episodes of the UK reality show Ambulance. Eyewitness News ranked as its top performing show on the night, coming in at 18th place.
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The ABC, which defended its programming expenditure against tabloid criticism this week, was a long way from the throne, the news proving more popular than nuptials.
Hosts Annabel Crabb and Jeremy Ferndandez pulled in half a million viewers for the ceremony, 6000 viewers less than the 7pm bulletin.
The coverage by SBS, hosted by journalist Ray Martin, presenter Myf Warhurst and comedian Joel Creasey, did not feature in the top 20. It reached an average of 128,000 viewers in the metro cities.