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House Rules helps Seven top the ratings week

Seven has won the 22nd ratings week of the year in a three-way battle defined by reality television.

Other than news broadcasts, Nine’s Ninja Warrior topped the metro ratings with an average capital cities audience of 943,000 (and 1.332m nationally) last Sunday.

Seven’s Sunday edition of House Rules was its top performer with 928,000 metro viewers and 1.505m nationally, landing it top of the national ratings.

And the Monday edition of House Rules rated 829,000 metro and 1.381m nationally, just ahead of Tuesday’s episode, which rated 824,000 metro viewers and 1.366m nationally.

Masterchef was Ten’s best contender, with a metro audience of 918,000 for Monday’s episode.

Seven was the top individual channel with a total people audience of 19.6%, just ahead of Nine’s 18.9%. Ten was some way behind, on 12.3%. However, it was just ahead of the ABC’s 11.3%.

In network share – taking into account secondary channels too – Seven’s victory was more comfortable – beating Nine by 29.7% to 27.7%.

Seven’s network performance was particularly strong on Friday (34.7%) and Saturday (32.7%).

However, Nine won the week in the key advertising demographic of 25-54.

In the ratings year to date, Seven is comfortably ahead on total people network share, averaging 31.1%, compared to Nine’s 27.2%, Ten’s 17.1% and ABC’s 16.7%. It also has a narrow lead on Nine in the demographics of 25-54 and 16-39.

In the battle of the primary channels, Seven (20.9%) is ahead of Nine (19.2%). Ten is on 12.2%.

The graphics below (which exclude the non commercial ABC and SBS channels) are compiled by Nine, based on OzTam data:

Top 10 national shows, compiled by Seven:

Tonight sees that last semi finals episode for Ninja Warrior on Nine, while Seven debuts Full Monty and Ten airs Masterchef. The coming week will see the finale of House Rules on Monday and the finales of both Ninja and Masterchef on Tuesday.

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