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Seven edges out competitors achieving weekly ratings win with help from Royal wedding

Seven has managed to win the weekly TV ratings battle with a 20.1% overall audience share, beating out its free-to-air rivals with the help of Saturday night’s Seven News Special for the Royal wedding of Princess Eugenie.

The second Royal wedding of the year saw Princess Eugenie marry Jack Brooksbank as 1.060m metro viewers tuned in to watch the ceremony, according to OzTAM’s overnight preliminary metro ratings.

Princess Eugenie marry Jack Brooksbank as 1.060m watched on

Despite the success of the Royal wedding, Nine’s Sunday night episode of The Block was still the most watched program of the week with 1.147m metro viewers tuning in. Monday night’s episode of the reality renovation program also topped the Royal wedding ceremony with 1.035m metro viewers.

Meanwhile, Ten’s best performing program of the week was its airing of the Supercars Championship: Bathurst, which attracted 957,000 metro viewers.

Ten’s finale of Australian Survivor also made the top 20 weekly programs as it attracted its highest finale audience of 862,000 for the episode and 877,000 for the winner announcement.

However, The debut of this year’s Bachelorette failed to make the top 20 for the channel as it premiered with its lower audience yet, 631,000.

This week also saw the launch of Seven’s new show All Together Now which attracted more than 800,000 metro viewers across Australia.

In overall audience share, coming in just behind Seven was Nine, with a 19.2% share, followed by Ten’s 13.3%, ABC’s 12.4% and SBS’ 4.4% share.

However, in the key advertising demographics 25-54, 16-39 and grocery shopper with child, Nine and Ten both managed to top Seven in audience share.

In the 25-54 demographic, Nine saw a 20.8% audience share compared to Ten’s 18.6%, Seven’s 18%, ABC’s 7.4% and SBS’ 2.5% share.

For the 16-39 demographic Ten topped the demo with a 22.7% share ahead of Nine’s 20.7%, Seven’s 17.5%, ABC’s 5.9% and SBS’ 1.8%.

The tables and graphs below are provided by Nine and sourced from OzTAM data. They only include information on the commercial free-to-air networks Nine, Seven and Ten, and exclude SBS and ABC.

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