Nine’s The Voice slides as Masterchef wins amongst younger viewers
Nine’s The Voice saw its audience drop to a new low last night a week after it posted its previous lowest ever figures.
The show did still manage to break the 1m viewer mark, posting a metro audience of 1.144m, down from last week’s metro audience of 1.186m, and it out-rated its reality rivals with Ten’s Masterchef pulling a metro audience of 918,000 at 7.30pm while Seven’s House Rules wasn’t too far behind with an audience of 915,000.
Masterchef was the most-watched program amongst 16-39 year old and 18-49 year old viewers while The Voice was the most-popular show amongst 25-54 year old viewers.
Nine won the the night with an audience share of 22.5%, ahead of Seven which had a share of 17.7%. Ten claimed third place with a share of 14.9% while the ABC had a share of 13.9%.
In the news battleground, Nine News at 6pm pulled the biggest audience with 1.258m metro viewers, which the network says is its biggest bulletin of the year, compared to Seven News 6pm audience of 1.160m.
Nine News at 6.30pm was watched by 1.197m while Seven News at 6.30pm had 1.062m.
On the ABC, 7.30 had an audience of 717,000, Australian Story (8pm) pulled in 604,000, Four Corners (8.30pm) grabbed 535,000, Media Watch (9.20pm) drew an audience of 631,000 and Q&A (9.30pm) was watched by 605,000.
In breakfast TV, Seven’s Sunrise was watched by 301,000 out-rating Nine’s Today which had 297,000 metro viewers.
On pay TV Game of Thrones managed 290,000 viewers for its 11am simulcast showing, and 259,000 for its 7.30pm encore, sandwiching the NRL game between the Knights and the Ells which had 275,000 viewers.
Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.
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