The announcement of Dami Im as winner of The X Factor brought Seven an audience of over 2.4m last night.
OzTam’s preliminary overnight ratings recorded a metro audience of 2.431m for the announcement of the winner at the end of the show – up by over 250,000 from last year.
The ratings result was higher the winner announcement for The Voice, which brought 2.3m metro viewers to Channel Nine.
Meanwhile the two hour X Factor show – featuring live performances from Katy Perry and Guy Sebastian – averaged 2.251m in the lead up to the announcement.
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The X Factor was the most watched show of Monday and also in the key advertising demographic of people 25-54. The network had a huge 35.6 per cent share of the free to air audience.
Nine’s best performer of the night was Nine News, with 1.143m, followed by A Current Affair, which averaged 984,000. Big Brother held onto its audience with 856,000 metro viewers and was third in the key advertising demographic of people 25-54.
Ten’s top show was Ten Eyewitness News with 581,000 metro viewers. Homeland averaged 351,000 and A League of Their Own 242,000. Ten’s share was a dismal 7.4 per cent – one if its worst of the year.
Monday’s top 15 shows:
- The X Factor Grand Final Winner Announced 2.431m
- The X Factor Grand Final Seven 2.251m
- Seven News Seven 1.178m
- Nine News Nine 1.143m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.096m
- Home and Away Seven 988,000
- A Current Affair Nine 984,000
- Australian Story ABC1 896,000
- ABC News ABC1 882,000
- Big Brother Nine 856,000
- 7.30 ABC1 837,000
- Scandal Seven 773,000
- ABC News Update ABC1 686,000
- The Big Bang Theory – Rpt ep1 Nine 679,000
- Four Corners ABC1 636,000
Monday’s share:
- Seven 35.6%
- Nine 16.8%
- ABC1 13.2%
- TEN 7.4%
- SBS ONE 3.6%
- 7mate 3.6%
- GO! 3.3%
- 7TWO 3.1%
- ELEVEN 3.0%
- ABC2 2.8%
- Gem 2.6%
- ONE 2.5%
- ABC News 24 1.1%
- ABC3 0.9%
- SBS 2 0.5%
- NITV 0.1%
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