Masterchef most popular entertainment program for Wednesday night
Ten’s reality cooking program Masterchef was the most-watched non-news program last night, despite finishing sixth on the ratings ladder.
The show averaged 868,000 metro viewers and was the most-watched show across key advertising demographics 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54, according to OzTAM’s overnight preliminary metro ratings.
Airing at 7.30pm, the program beat Seven’s Border Security which pulled in 708,000 viewers, ahead of Nine’s Britain’s Got Talent which attracted a metro audience of 650,000.
Seven managed to win the night with an overall audience share of 19.5%, ahead of Nine’s 18.7% and Ten’s 14.4%.
Meanwhile, ABC saw a share of 11.9%, beating SBS’ 4.8%.
In the news battle for the evening Seven News won the night with 1.113m metro viewers at 6pm, in front of Nine News’ 1.109m.
Abigail Dawson was Mumbrella's senior content journalist covering event content. She left Mumbrella to move into an agency role in 2020.
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