Solid return for The Block helps Nine dominate Sunday ratings

Ratings for the first night of  The Block  have held steady on previous years for Nine, only fractionally down on 2012 and 2011.

The show rated a preliminary metro audience of 1.312m, according to OzTAM. This was only slightly down on last year’s 1.404m and 2011’s 1.342m. it was also well ahead of the opening night of spin off The Block All Stars which rated 959,000 earlier this year.

Nine dominated Sunday night television with the top four shows of the night.

1.312m viewers tuned into Nine’s 60 Minutes special last night, which focussed on ‘the Titanic of air disasters’ Flight 447 – the Air France passenger plane that crashed into the Atlantic in June 2009.

And The Voice continued to dominate with 1.925m viewers – a slight drop from 1.969m last week.

Nine easily dominated with a share of 28.8 per cent, up from last Sunday’s 26.8 per cent, while Seven’s share dropped from 24.2 per cent last week to 21.7 per cent last night. Nine also secured nearly a third of the share of viewers aged 16-39 (31.7 per cent) and 18-49 (31.8 per cent).

However, Seven pushed ahead in the morning battle with 359,000 viewers of Weekend Sunrise, compared with 259,000 of Weekend Today.

Sunday’s top 15 shows:

1. The Voice Nine 1.925m
2. Nine News Sunday 1.370m
3. 60 Minutes: Flight 447 Nine 1.312m
4. The Block Sky High Nine 1.312m
5. Sunday Night Seven 1.238m
6. Seven News Seven 1.236m
7. A Place to Call Home Seven 1.180m
8. The Force Behind the Line Seven 1.115m
9. Highway Patrol Seven 0.904m
10. ABC News ABC1 0.798m
11. Modern Family Ep2 Ten 0.746m
12. The Biggest Loser Ten 0.737m
13. Call the Midwife ABC1 0.726m
14. Doctor Who ABC1 0.696m
15. Elementary Ten 0.665m

Sunday’s share:

• Nine: 28.8%
• Seven: 21.7%
• Ten 13.2%
• ABC1: 10.5%
• SBS1: 4.3%
• GO! 3.9%
• One: 3.5%
• SevenTWO: 3.1%
• 7mate: 2.6%
• Gem: 2.5%
• ABC2: 2.0%
• Eleven: 1.9%
• ABC News 24: 0.8%
• SBS2: 0.7%
• ABC3: 0.4%
• NITV: 0.2%

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Megan Reynolds

topics Nine OzTam television The Block The Voice TV

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Comments: 2

Chris 13 May 13

That is a massive difference-weekend sunrise beating weekend today.

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Lucio 13 May 13

Thanks Ch9, just what I needed – more bogans.

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