The Block draws 1.112m to help Nine win the night, while Ten’s audience share falls post Games

August 5, 2014 10:30

Last night bathroom renovations saw The Block Glasshouse once again win the night as the most watched non news program of the night helping Network Nine to a narrow win over rival Seven, with a main channel audience share of 22 per cent compared with 21.2 per cent in the metropolitan cities.

However, Network Ten’s audience has fallen with the conclusion of competition at The Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, yesterday’s broadcast of the closing ceremony drew 148,000 viewers for the live 5.30am showing and 209,000 viewers for a special repeat at 9.30pm last night.

The result was Ten had an audience share of 10.4 per cent on its main channel down from 25.1 per cent last week when it had the Games and the finale of Masterchef, while multi-channel One went from 6.9 per cent to 2.4 per cent.

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Nic Christensen

Nic Christensen worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2016, in roles including deputy editor and media & technology editor. He is former media writer for The Australian and has also worked as a reporter for The Daily Telegraph and senior producer for Radio 2GB.

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