Ten wins the night on the back of Masterchef and Commonwealth Games
Cooking show Masterchef and the Commonwealth Games helped to deliver Channel Ten a 20.4 per cent audience share, giving the TV network a rare victory as the most watched channel of the night.
According to Oztam’s overnight metro ratings Masterchef was the most watched program of the evening with 1.171 million viewers tuning in to watch former bartender Jamie Fleming eliminated from the competition at 7.30pm.
The channel was also buoyed by the first night of competition in the Commonwealth Games with 911,000 viewers tuning in for the swimming and cycling from 9.30pm on the main channel, with Australia picking up five gold medals.
The Masterchef masterclass also had 883,000 viewers as the competition moves towards next Monday’s finale.
The win is the first time since February the troubled TV network has had the most watched channel of the night, when it was boosted by the Big Bash cricket final and opening of the Sochi Winter Olympics. However, these wins were outside the official ratings survey period.
In the 6pm slot Ten’s game show Family Feud pulled a metro audience of 489,000, a drop of 100,000 viewers from last week. However, it was not simulcast on One, which was carrying the Commonwealth Games.
Nine News won the news battle with 1.151m tuning in at 6pm and 1.084m in the 6.30pm slot while Seven News had 1.065m falling to 931,000 in the later half of the bulletin.
In terms of audience share with Ten was dominant with its 20.4 per cent share outstripping either of its rivals with Seven on 15.1 per cent and Nine with 17.9 per cent. Ten’s Commonwealth Games coverage on One also performed strongly with an 7.4 per cent, while SBS had 5.1 per cent the ABC 11.4 per cent.
Nic Christensen
Top 15 shows
1 Masterchef – Ten – 1.171m
2 Nine News – Nine – 1.151m
3 Nine News 6.30 – Nine – 1.084m
4 Seven News – Seven – 1.065m
5 Seven 6.30 – Seven – 931,000
6 Glasglow Live Commonwealth Games – Ten – 911,000
7 Masterchef Masterclass – Ten – 883,000
8 A Current Affair – Nine – 876,000
9 Home and Away – Seven – 840,000
10 ABC News – ABC – 828,000
11 The Big Bang Theory repeat episode 2 – Nine – 690,000
12 The Footy Show – Nine – 669,000
13 7.30 – ABC – 645,000
14 The Big Bang Theory repeat episode 1 – Nine – 642,000
15 Hot Seat – Nine – 624,000
Audience Share
Network TEN 20.4%
Network 9 17.9%
Network 7 15.1%
Network ABC1 11.4%
Network ONE 7.4%
Network SBS ONE 5.1%
Network 7TWO 4.4%
Network GO! 3.7%
Network ELEVEN 3.5%
Network 7mate 3.2%
Network ABC2 2.5%
Network Gem 2.5%
Network ABC News 24 1.0%
Network SBS 2 0.9%
Network ABC3 0.8%
Network NITV 0.3%
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Fascinating – LIVE Sport and importantly the Commonwealth Games rates !!!
Cannot believe that previous management bought these rights and they worked.
The embarrassing issue will be that current management has downplayed them so much, cut spend on talent and journo’s let alone that ugly set. Oh – forgot to really promote and market the Games as well.
Lesson learnt – forget blaming others and concentrate on delivering results – ratings, revenue and momentum !!
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