Nine cleans up Sunday night with The Block and news
Nine finished Sunday night well ahead of commercial free to air rivals on a 25.5% main channel share, thanks to programs including The Block, Nine News Sunday and 60 Minutes.
By comparison, Seven’s main channel share was 18.7% and Ten’s fell to 8.8% while ABC and SBS finished with shares of 12.5% and 8.8%.
When including multi-channels, Nine’s share hit 34.1%, beating Seven’s 28.7%, Ten’s 12.2% and ABC and SBS, which had shares of 17.7% and 7.3%.
Nine’s biggest program of the evening, according to OzTAM’s overnight preliminary figures, was The Block, with a metro audience of 1.192m. The program was most popular in Melbourne – with 433,000 viewers – and led all key advertising demographics, the 16-39s, 18-49s and 25-54s. When counting regional figures, the show pulled in an audience of 1.682m.
The Block’s metro figures result was almost double that of Seven’s All Together Now, which achieved 675,000 metro viewers in its second week, and more than triple Ten’s Game of Games audience, which sat at 325,000.
Nationally the two shows pulled in audiences of 963,000 and 467,000. All Together Now appeared among all ad demographics, while Ten’s Game of Games appeared in the 16-39 demographic.
Nine News Sunday defeated rival Seven overnight, with audiences of 966,000 and 907,000 respectively, while ABC News Sunday managed 747,000.
ABC had a number of programs to make the top 10 shows on Sunday, including its Invictus Games coverage – at 478,000 metro viewers – and Pine Gap, which captured a metro audience of 433,000.