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94th Annual Academy Awards: Will Smith and Chris Rock moment aired to 371K metro viewers

The 94th Annual Academy Awards – involving comedian Chris Rock making a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s short hair, triggering Will Smith to slap him across the face – aired to a metro audience of 371,000 metro viewers.

There was a total overnight audience of 623,000, which included live and the encore, as well as 584,000 viewers nationally, with 39,000 on BVOD. 7Plus live streaming of the Oscars was also up 123% year-on-year.

Meanwhile, Married at First Sight topped entertainment on Monday, as the network celebrated an overall network share win.

The episode aired to a metro audience of 997,000 metro viewers, with the program also winning all three key advertising demos. This was down in audience share from last week.

In the latest Daily Consolidated Total TV Report for 21 March, last Monday’s episode of MAFS was the #1 program nationally across linear, with 1.911 million viewers, including 490,000 on BVOD and an uplift of 45%.

It was an episode of La Brea on Nine which had the biggest uplift of the week, at a percentage of 54%, with a total audience of 645,000 and a BVOD audience of 99,000.

Looking back at yesterday’s ratings, and next in entertainment was Seven’s The Chase Australia which aired to an average metro audience of 542,000 viewers.

Meanwhile, an episode of ABC’s Australian Story aired to a metro audience of 523,000, followed by an episode of Home and Away on Seven with 503,000 metro viewers.

Seven News was the #1 metro program on Monday, airing to 1.062 million metro viewers, followed by Seven News at 6:30 with 1.002 million metro viewers, while Nine News had 925,000 metro viewers, and Nine News at 6:30 brought in 914,000 metro viewers.

Nine won the night, taking an overall network share of 31.6% over Seven’s 24.7%, while Ten took a 17.7% share and the ABC had 18.2%.

Nine also won the primary channel share, and the top-rating multi-channel on Monday was 7TWO 3.8%.

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