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Home and Away 30th anniversary celebration attracts 605,000 metro viewers

Endless Summer: 30 Years of Home and Away had 605,000 metro viewers last night, which celebrated the soap opera’s 30th birthday and featured interviews with former stars including Melissa George, Dannii Minogue and Kate Ritchie.

Prior to the anniversary special, 690,000 people tuned in to the regular Home and Away episode at 7:00pm, according to OzTAM’s preliminary overnight metro ratings.

Home and Away debuted on 17 January, 1988 and over 6,900 episodes have subsequently gone to air

The opening episode of this year’s Home and Away series had a metro audience of 796,000.

Overall in the 7:30pm prime-time battle between the free-to-air networks, Ten’s Masterchef was the winner, topping the key advertising demographics of 16-39s, 18-49s and 25-54s, as well as being the most-watched entertainment program with 821,000 metro viewers – exactly the same number as last week.

Not far behind was Nine’s Australian Ninja Warrior, with 817,000 – down on last week’s 851,000.

Last night’s episode was the lowest-rating for Australian Ninja Warrior to date, but Nine still won the night with a 22.5% audience share, and 31.0% on a network level, including multi-channels.

Seven’s best-rating program was Seven News, which also topped the ratings ladder with 1.22m metro viewers.

The main channel had an audience share of 17.5%, while Seven Network was also in second place with 27.0%.

Ten was in third place on 14.2% for the main channel, and 18.8% for the network, while ABC had 11.8% and 16.1% on a network level.

Post FIFA World Cup, SBS returned to regular programming – and its traditional position on the ratings ladder – with a 5.5% share for the main channel and 7.1% for the network.

The most-watched multi-channel was 7mate with 4.4%, with the top-rating program, Outback Truckers, drawing in 204,000.

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