Masterchef dominates prime-time, but Nine wins Tuesday evening

Each commercial television network can claim some form of victory in the television ratings battle last night.

Seven had the most-watched program with Seven News (1.193m metro viewers), Ten’s Masterchef won the entertainment battle (949,000), but it was Nine which won the audience share battle with a total people share of 19.5%.

Masterchef also topped the key advertising demographics of those aged 16 to 39, 18 to 49 and 25 to 54, ahead of Seven’s Big Brother.

But Big Brother’s total metro audience of 695,000 was beaten by The Voice on Nine, which had 703,000.