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The Voice pulls in more than 1m metro viewers to help Nine win the night

Nine’s The Voice aired its final episode of the blind auditions last night, pulling in 1.051m metro viewers.

According to OzTAM’s overnight preliminary metro ratings, The Voice was the most watched non-news program and the only entertainment program to crack one million metro viewers.

Seven’s House Rules, which competed against Nine’s The Voice in the 7.30pm timeslot, managed 901,000 metro viewers finishing in second place for the timeslot.

Meanwhile, Ten’s Masterchef attracted 868,000 metro viewers and finished ninth on the overall ratings leaderboard.

Airing at sightly later at 8.30pm, Ten’s Have You Been Paying Attention? dominated the key advertising demographics (16-39, 18-49 and 25-54) as 876,000 metro viewers tuned in.

Nine’s Lip Sync Battle between Ricky Martin and Kate Upton and DeAndre Jordan and Sarah Hyland didn’t manage to make the top 20, while Seven’s Seven Year Switch just made the top 20 with a metro audience of 519,000.

In overall audience share Nine took home a win with 19.7% ahead of Seven’s 18.8% share and Ten’s 16.2%, while ABC pulled a 13.9% share beating SBS’ 3.5%.

Nine News at 6pm topped the ratings last night averaging 1.132m metro viewers beating Seven News’ 1.083m.

At 6.30pm, Nine News attracted 1.076m metro viewers while Seven News/Today Tonight had 1.061m metro viewers.

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