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Just for MAFS: 1m metro viewers tune in for second night in a row

Nine’s Married at First Sight topped the overall ratings and entertainment on Wednesday, for the second night in a row, with the network also celebrating an overall network share win.

The episode aired to a metro audience of 1.015 million metro viewers, with the program also winning all three key advertising demos, and surpassed both Seven and Nine News.

In the latest Daily Consolidated Total TV Report for 2 March, Wednesday’s episode of MAFS was the #1 program nationally across linear, with 1.959 million viewers, including 472,000 on BVOD and an uplift of 51%. This was also the program with the biggest uplift.

Next in entertainment was ABC’s Hard Quiz which brought in 571,000 metro viewers, followed by Seven’s The Chase Australia which saw an average of 516,000 metro viewers tune in.

Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell aired to 441,000 metro viewers, followed by Hot Seat on Nine which saw an average of 359,000 metro viewers tune in.

As previously mentioned, the #1 program on Wednesday was MAFS, followed by Seven News which aired to 939,000 metro viewers, while Seven News at 6:30 had 887,000 metro viewers. Nine News at 6:30 had 859,000, and Nine News brought in 850,000 metro viewers,

Nine won the night, taking an overall network share of 35.5, same as last night, over Seven’s 23.7%, while the ABC had a 17.1% share and Ten had an 15.6% share.

Nine won the primary channel share and the top-rating multi-channel on Wednesday was 7TWO with a share of 3.8%.

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