Nine’s The Voice claims series high with 1.824m viewers as 668,000 watch Wimbledon final
Nine’s The Voice claimed its largest audience for the season so far last night, pulling in 1.824m metro viewers, up from last week’s audience of 1.608m, while 668,000 metro viewers tuned in to see Novak Djokovic claim another Wimbledon title.
Nine’s reality singing contest, which ran for 90 minutes from 7pm, was the most-watched show across the key advertising demographics (16-39, 18-49 and 25-54), easily out-rating Ten’s Masterchef which grabbed 993,000 metro viewers.
Both shows out-rated Seven’s House Rules in the reality battle, which grabbed 905,000 metro viewers in the 7pm-8.15pm timeslot. It was down on last week’s audience of 992,000.
The men’s singles final of Wimbledon, which saw Djokovic beat out Roger Federer, on Seven from 10.30pm drew an audience of 582,000, boosting to 668,000 for the late broadcast. Meanwhile, on Saturday, 181,000 viewers in Melbourne and Adelaide tuned in to watch the women’s singles final, with 207,000 viewers watching Serena Williams defeat Garbiñe Muguruza.
Nine won Sunday night with a share of 26 per cent ahead of Seven’s audience share of 20 per cent. Ten claimed third place with a share of 13.2 per cent while the ABC managed a share of 12.8 per cent.
Ten’s CSI: Cyber, airing in the 8.30pm timeslot, saw its audience slide to 487,0000 last night after growing to 528,000 metro viewers last week. In time-shifted viewing, last week’s episode of the US drama was watched by an extra 110,000 viewers, taking its total audience to 638,000.
It was easily beaten by Nine’s 60 Minutes which attracted an audience of 1.097m while rival current affairs program Sunday Night, airing on Seven from 8.15pm, was watched by 678,000.
The second outing of Nine’s US bible series A.D. Kingdom and Empire, on at 9.40pm, which has already been cancelled by its network NBC, boosted it audience to 421,000 up from 407,000.
On the ABC, Grand Designs (7.40pm) was watched by 840,000 and Inspector George Gently (8.30pm) grabbed 840,000 metro viewers.
In sport, the Ashes on Friday pulled in 472,000 for session one which kicked off at 8pm on Gem, dropping to 413,000 for session two. On Saturday session one started strongly with 521,000 viewers tuning in, sliding to 320,000 for the second session as the Aussie wickets continued to tumble and the match moved towards an early finish in favour of England.
The Saturday cricket helped Gem defeat Ten with an audience share of 11.2 per cent while Ten settled for a share of 10.2 per cent. The secondary channel claimed a strong weekly audience share of 7.7 per cent.
In news last night, Nine News at 6pm was watched by 1.494m metro viewers while Seven News pulled in 1.367m.
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Top 15 Shows:
1 THE VOICE -SUN Network 9 1,824,000
2 NINE NEWS SUNDAY Network 9 1,494,000
3 SEVEN NEWS – SUN Network 7 1,367,000
4 60 MINUTES Network 9 1,097,000
5 MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA SUN Network TEN 993,000
6 HOUSE RULES-SUN Network 7 905,000
7 INSPECTOR GEORGE GENTLY-EV Network ABC 840,000
8 GRAND DESIGNS-EV Network ABC 840,000
9 ABC NEWS SUNDAY-EV Network ABC 818,000
10 SUNDAY NIGHT Network 7 678,000
11 2015 WIMBLEDON-DAY 13 -LATE Network 7 668,000
12 2015 WIMBLEDON-DAY 13 Network 7 582,000
13 MODERN FAMILY EP 2 RPT Network TEN 547,000
14 CSI: CYBER Network TEN 487,000
15 FAMILY FEUD SUNDAY Network TEN 484,000
Audience Share:
Network 9 26.0%
Network 7 20.0%
Network TEN 13.2%
Network ABC 12.8%
Network SBS ONE 4.7%
Network 7mate 4.5%
Network 7TWO 4.1%
Network GO! 3.0%
Network ELEVEN 2.9%
Network ONE 2.4%
Network ABC2 2.1%
Network Gem 1.7%
Network SBS 2 1.0%
Network ABC News 24 0.9%
Network ABC3 0.5%
Network NITV 0.1%
Total Audience Share:
Network 9 TTL 30.8%
Network 7 TTL 28.6%
Network TEN TTL 18.5%
Network ABC TTL 16.3%
Network SBS TTL 5.8%
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Good to see any FTA’s program audience growing WoW rather than declining
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