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MAFS wins entertainment 3rd night in a row as Survivor audience drops

Nine’s third episode of Married at First Sight won entertainment on Wednesday night, as the network celebrated an overall network share win. 

The reality series brought in an average of 808,000 metro viewers, while also winning all three key advertising demos. The premiere aired to 869,000 metro viewers. The launch aired to 869,000 metro viewers.

Next in entertainment was the launch of ABC’s Hard Quiz which pulled in 562,000 metro viewers, followed by the network’s Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell Season 14 had 541,000 metro viewers. 

The Chase Australia on Seven had 518,000 metro viewers and the network’s third episode of spin-off series The Voice: Generations brought in 505,000 metro viewers. The launch saw a metro audience of 608,000 tune in.

Ten’s third episode of Australian Survivor Blood v Water pulled in an average metro audience of 486,000.

The #1 news program on Wednesday night was Seven News which aired to 956,000 metro viewers, while Seven News at 6:30 had 925,000 metro viewers. Nine News at 6:30 had 912,000. Nine News had 874,000.

As mentioned, Nine won the night, taking an overall network share of 32 over Seven’s 26.2%, while Ten had a 17.6% share, and the ABC took a 16.8% share.

Nine also won the primary channel share, and the top-rating multi-channel on Wednesday was 7TWO with a share of 3.5%.

In the latest Daily Consolidated Total TV Report for 26 January, Seven News was the #1 program nationally across linear, with 1.406 million viewers, including 26,000 on BVOD and an uplift of 2%.

The program with the biggest uplift however was an episode of Ten’s Bull with an uplift of 33% and had a total of 315,000 viewers overall, and BVOD audience of 10,000 nationally.

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