Good night for Masterchef and Gruen Transfer. Bad night for Hey Hey

Masterchef broke through the 2m mark again on Wednesday night, according to preliminary overnight ratings from OzTam.  

The Ten show averaged 2.012m viewers. However, Seven narrowly won the night.

Meanwhile, Nine’s Hey Hey It’s Saturday continued to struggle, fading to 801,000.

The ABC’s The Gruen Transfer performed well, delivering 1.4m viewers. The Pitch segment saw Meerkats and Jam Shop compete to convince the public that WA should seek independence.

Only one episode of The Gruen Tranfer – the last one in the first series – has topped that figure, pulling in 1.45m.

Wednesday’s top 15 shows:

1. Masterchef Ten 2.012m
2. Seven News Seven 1.502m
3. Today Tonight Seven 1.489m
4. The Gruen Transfer ABC 1.407m
5. Nine News Nine 1.381m
6. Spicks and Specks ABC 1.318m
7. A Current Affair Nine 1.222m
8. Highway Patrol Seven 1.211m
9. Police Under Fire Seven 1.134m
10. Lie to Me Ten 1.110m
11. ABC News ABC 1.091m
12. Home and Away Seven 1.089m
13. Two and a Half Men Nine 1.067m
14. The 7PM Project Ten 0.936m
15. Ten News Ten 0.907m

Wednesday’s station share:

• Seven: 25.2%
• Ten: 24.7%
• Nine: 22.0%
• ABC1: 17.1%
• SBS1: 4.0%
• ABC2: 2.0%
• 7TWO: 1.8%
• GO!: 1.6%
• ABC3: 0.6%
• SBS2: 0.6%
• One: 0.4%

Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the founder and content director of Mumbrella. He's written about media and marketing in Australia, the Middle East and the UK.

topics Gruen Transferhey hey It's SaturdayMasterChefMeerkatsNineratingsSeventelevisionTenTVWA

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El Dominus 1 Jul 10

Tired, well-worn, variety show not rating well?!! Hmm, perhaps Australian audiences are more savvy than Nine are giving them credit for.

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version 1 Jul 10

Wouldn’t it make sense to have had a representative from the media agency side of things on the night Gruen talks about Masterchef integration?

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