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MAFS walks down the aisle as Idol and Survivor fight for the bouquet

Married at First Sight held on to its entertainment crown on Wednesday night, topping all three key advertising demos and handing Nine another win.

The show aired to 790,000 metro viewers and remained the best performer so far among the three tentpole programs launched on Monday.

Married at First Sight

Seven’s Australian Idol and Ten’s Australian Survivor are running neck and neck on the ratings. While the former aired to 370,000 metro viewers on Wednesday, the latter attracted 369,000, both down on the first two nights.

The second in entertainment, however, was Seven’s Home and Away with 476,000 metro viewers, followed by The Chase Australia with 444,000. A repeat of Hard Quiz on ABC brought in 388,000 metro viewers.

The #1 news program on Wednesday was Seven News at 6:30 with 872,000 metro viewers, followed by Seven News with 836,000, Nine News at 6:30 with 695,000 and Nine News with 682,000.

As mentioned, Nine won the night with 32.5% overall network share, followed by Seven with 26.3%, Ten with 16.3% and ABC with 15.3%.

The top-rated primary channel was Nine with 25.4%, but the top-rated multichannel was 10 Bold with 3.2%.

In the latest Daily Consolidated 7 Total TV Report for 25 January, Seven News was the #1 program nationally across linear, with 1.33 million viewers, including 30,000 on BVOD and an uplift of 2%.

However, the program with the biggest uplift was Ten’s The Bachelors with an uplift of 54% and a total of 597,000 viewers overall, and BVOD audience of 159,000 nationally.

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