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X Factor and Essendon special report win Seven the night

Seven’s X Factor topped the ratings again on Wednesday while the network’s special news report on the Essendon doping inquiry drew huge audiences in Melbourne.

The special report featuring portions of Luke Darcy’s interview with Essendon high performance manager Dean Robinson scored 410,000 viewers in the city, making it the third most watched show in Melbourne, and 17th program overall across the five capital cities with a total of 691,000 viewers.

The Seven Special Report panel program hosted by Bruce McAvaney,  featuring Mark McVeigh, Leigh Matthews and Cameron Ling, among others, had 389,000 viewers in Melbourne giving the show a total of 610,000 viewers across the five cities and making it 19th in the list of top programs of the night.

Seven’s X Factor from 7.30pm was the top program across the five cities for the third night in a row with 1.49m viewers, following 1.51m on Tuesday night and 1.633m for its first outing on Monday. Nine’s Big Brother from 7pm to 8.30pm had an average metro audience of 1.03m in the five cities, while Ten’s MasterChef from 7.30 to 8pm had 714,000.

Ten’s Offspring at 8.30pm had 874,000 viewers across the five cities and was the third highest rated among under-55’s.

Seven won the night with 25 per cent of the audience share, while Nine had 19 per cent and Ten 13.6 per cent.

In the morning battle Nine’s Today show was ahead of Seven’s Sunrise with 357,000 metro viewers over 338,000 on Seven.

Wednesday’s top 15 shows:

  1. The X Factor Seven 1.490m
  2. Nine News Nine 1.289m
  3. Seven News Seven 1.235m
  4. A Current Affair Nine 1.143m
  5. Today Tonight Seven 1.112m
  6. Big Brother Nine 1.030m
  7. ABC News ABC1 981,000
  8. Home and Away Seven 954,000
  9. Offspring Ten 874,000
  10. 7.30 ABC1 838,000
  11. QI repeat ABC1 816,000
  12. ABC News update ABC1 795,000
  13. Hot Seat Nine 723,000
  14. MasterChef Australia Ten 714,000
  15. Ten News at Five Ten 709,000

Wednesday’s share:

  • Seven 25.0%
  • Nine 19.1%
  • TEN 13.6%
  • ABC1 12.8%
  • SBS ONE 4.3%
  • 7mate 3.7%
  • ABC2 3.6%
  • ELEVEN 3.4%
  • 7TWO 3.4%
  • Gem 3.1%
  • GO! 2.9%
  • ONE 2.5%
  • ABC News 24 1.0%
  • ABC3 0.7%
  • SBS 2 0.7%
  • NITV 0.0%

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Megan Reynolds

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