Nine comes out on top as The Block and Australian Survivor go head-to-head on Sunday night

September 2, 2019 10:39

The Sunday night win has again been handed to Nine after 975,000 metro viewers tuned in to watch The Block, making it the most-watched program for the evening. The show also held the top spot in two of the key advertising demographics – 18-49s and 25-54s.

The win was despite pressure from Ten, which has had several wins in the demographics across the last few weeks and took the top spot in the youngest demo – 16-39s – with Australian Survivor. Overall, 751,000 metro viewers tuned in for the show.

Australian Survivor has been performing well in the key advertising demographics

Seven held onto the top spot in the news battle – 944,000 metro viewers watched compared to 876,000 for Nine News. 599,000 metro viewers watched ABC News which airs an hour later at 7pm.

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Hannah Blackiston

Hannah Blackiston was the deputy editor of Mumbrella. She worked with the company from March 2019 to November 2020.

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