Nine slips to third as Masterchef pips Australia’s Got Talent again
Nine continues to languish in third place for the week after strong performances from Masterchef on Ten (1.519m) and Australia’s Got Talent (1.457m).
Seven won Wednesday night with a 23.2% share, above Ten’s 19.2% and Nine’s 19%.
For the week to date, Seven has its nose ahead of Ten with 21.6% share to 21.5%. Nine is on 20.4%.
Last night saw Nine News the only program for the network with more than 900,000 viewers according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.
Wildlife doco Madagascar delivered 848,000, whuile the series return of RPA averaged 734,000.
Nine’s attempt to push into The Biggest Loser territory saw Big deliver 761,000, an acceptable number for the 9.30pm timeslot.
Meanwhile Ten’s 6.30pm With George Negus remained on exactly 500,000 – the target originally set for the show by executive producer Tony Ritchie. The audience boost came on the back of Masterchef lifting the whole network’s evening viewing and a big news week. So far this week the show has delivered audiences of 631,000 and 601,000.
Wednesday’s top 15 shows:
- Masterchef Ten 1.519m
- Australia’s Got Talent Seven 1.457m
- Seven News Seven 1.318m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.215m
- Criminal Minds Seven 1.086m
- Spicks and Specks ABC 1.078m
- Home and Away Seven 1.069m
- Nine News Nine 1.069m
- ABC News ABC 1.039m
- Glee Ten 0.943m
- A Current Affair Nine 0.893m
- David Attenborough’s Madagascar Nine 0.848m
- The 7PM Project Ten 0.844m
- The Big Bang Theory Nine 0.781m
- Big Nine 0.761m
Wednesday’s channel share:
- Seven: 23.0%
- Ten: 19.2%
- Nine: 19.0%
- ABC1: 13.3%
- SBS1: 3.7%
- 7TWO 3.6%
- 7mate: 3.5%
- Eleven: 3.5%
- Gem: 2.6%
- ABC2: 2.5%
- GO!: 2.5%
- One: 1.6%
- ABC3: 0.9%
- ABC News 24: 0.7%
- SBS2: 0.5%
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large. He returned to Mumbrella as Publisher in January 2025
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Missed opportunity on a ‘Australia has no talent’ headline.
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Nine is not going anywhere with Channel Seven bringing out the big guns in the second half of the year-Australia’s got Talent,Dancing with the Stars, footy. Nine have to stop focussing on karl and the today show and start thinking of overall performance
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Help me out here but the numbers for channel share look to add up to about 100%. So who’s watching Foxtel and why aren’t the viewer numbers for it included in ratings figures? If the numbers above are just for free-to-air then that doesn’t reflect what the viewers are watching.
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Wow my viewing habits must be all wrong. The only show in the top 15 i watched was Madagascar.
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Agree with Chris – why aren’t we shown the full picture if we’re talking about viewing habits? Just a thought
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