MKR wins narrowing battle with The Block as Masterchef fades

Tim Burrowes

March 5, 2013 9:30

Monday night was a two-way ratings battle between Seven and Nine with the gap closing between My Kitchen Rules and The Block: All Stars.

The Block rated 1.531m for Nine while MKR rated 1.791m for Seven, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTAM.

Seven narrowly won the night on share with 25.9 per cent fo the free to air audience compared to Nine’s 24.7 per cent.

Meanwhile, the only programme that Ten had in the top 20 most watched was Ten News At Five, which rated 694,000. Ten’s share for the night was 8.9 per cent, well behind ABC1’s 15.4 per cent.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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2 COMMENTS

NJK 5 Mar 13

“Despite” the presence of Curtis Stone? I would have thought with most viewers loathing his cheesy Coles ads it would be “because” of the presence of Curtis Stone

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Chris 5 Mar 13

Hey, I love Curtis Stone. He is the best thing to come out of Coles in a long while. The ratings are a two horse race now- Today beat Sunrise, Sunrise beat Today- ping pong.

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