A Voice-less Sunday gives The Block top spot

Nine’s The Block has won its first Sunday night since the show’s 2012 start.

As The Voice goes into its ‘battle rounds’, the high-rating singing competition dropped its Sunday show, which allowed The Block to claim top spot with 1.561m across the five city metro markets, according to preliminary results from OzTam.

Nine News Sunday took second place with 1.502m, followed closely by Seven News Sunday on 1.5m.

Seven’s Dancing With the Stars is struggling to capture the same numbers as in previous seasons, the show averaged around the 1.5m mark last year. Last night it did its seasonal best with 1.238m in fifth place for total viewers, benefiting from the lack of The Voice, which it had gone head to head with in its first two weeks.