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Brownlow Medal reaches over one million viewers, Junior Masterchef doesn’t

The Brownlow Medal, where the best AFL player of the year is announced, was the highest rating non-news and current affair program for Monday night, carried by a large Melbourne audience.   

Seven’s telecast of the award’s night pulled a five-city metro audience of 1.13 million, according to preliminary metro ratings from OzTam.

It was the most-watched show of the night in Melbourne with 743,000 and Adelaide with 156,000.

The top show for the night in five-city ratings was Seven News with 1.304 million.

Over on Ten, Junior Masterchef’s second outing for the series slipped under 1 million to 955,000. It was down on Sunday’s debut episode of 1.129 million.

The Farmer Wants A Wife on Nine pulled in 864,000, up on last week’s 792,000.

Monday’s top 15 shows:

  1. Seven News – Seven – 1.304m
  2. Today Tonight -Seven – 1.210m
  3. The Brownlow Medal –  Seven – 1.130m
  4. Home and Away – Seven – 1.052m
  5. Nine News – Nine – 1.024m
  6. ABC News – ABC – 0.993m
  7. A Current Affair – Nine – 0.979m
  8. Junior Masterchef – Ten – 0.955m
  9. The Farmer Wants A Wife – Nine – 0.864m
  10. Undercover Boss – Ten – 0.796m
  11. The 7PM Project  – Ten – 0.778m
  12. Two and a Half Men – Nine – 0.763m
  13. The Brownlow Medal – Blue Carpet – Seven – 0.715m
  14. 7:30 – ABC – 0.671m
  15. Australian Story – ABC – 0.65m

Monday’s metro channel share:

  • Seven: 30.3%
  • Nine: 15.8%
  • Ten: 14.7%
  • ABC1: 12.2%
  • GO!: 4.5%
  • 7TWO: 4.3%
  • SBS1: 3.7%
  • Eleven: 3.6%
  • 7mate: 3%
  • Gem: 2.3%
  • ABC2: 2.1%
  • One: 1.9%
  • ABC News 24: 0.7%
  • SBS2: 0.6%
  • ABC3: 0.5%
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