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Seven and Nine neck and neck in Wednesday’s ratings battle

Seven and Nine were neck-and-neck last night with Seven winning 21.7 per cent of the free to air audience share and Nine 21.6 per cent, preliminary metro ratings show.

In the battle between competing home renovation shows, Nine’s The Block was just ahead of Seven’s House Rules, with Nine winning 1.349m viewers and House Rules 1.228m.

Nine News was the most watched program of the night with 1.349m viewers.

Channel Ten’s Masterchef  had 736,000 viewers, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTAM. However the show did a little better in Ten’s target demographic of 25-54’s.

Ten’s Offspring also was the fourth most popular show among 25-54’s, and had 770,000 viewers overall, preliminary metro figures from OzTAM show.

In the Morning battle, Seven’s Sunrise had 354,000 viewers over Channel Nine’s Today program which had 326,000. The Morning Show on Channel Seven had 140,000 viewers, while Mornings on Channel Nine won an audience of 120,000.

Top 15 shows:

  1. Nine News Nine 1.349m
  2. The Block Sky High Nine 1.233m
  3. Seven News Seven 1.228m
  4. House Rules Seven 1.13m
  5. A Current Affair Nine 1.071m
  6. Today Tonight Seven 1.011m
  7. Home and Away Seven 925,000
  8. Arrow Nine 852,000
  9. ABC News ABC1 845,000
  10. The Big Bang Theory Nine 829,000
  11. Hot Seat Nine 775,000
  12. Criminal Minds Seven 774,000
  13. Offspring Ten 770,000
  14. 7.30 ABC1 752,000
  15. QI ABC1 747,000

Wednesday’s share:

  • Seven: 21.7%
  • Nine: 21.6%
  • Ten: 13.2%
  • ABC1: 13.1%
  • 7TWO: 4.4%
  • SBS1: 4.2%
  • 7mate: 3.6%
  • Eleven: 3.5%
  • GO!: 3.4%
  • Gem: 3.2%
  • ABC2: 2.9%
  • One: 2.3%
  • ABC News 24: 1.2%
  • ABC3: 0.7%
  • SBS2: 0.7%
  • NITV: 0.1%

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