Seven wins the night with My Kitchen Rules, as Ten finishes fourth
My Kitchen Rules’ metro audience of 1.337m helped Seven dominate Wednesday night television, taking the network to an easy win ahead of rivals Nine and Ten.
Seven finished the night with an overall audience share of 26.9% ahead of Nine’s 17.5% and ABC’s 12.1%. Ten finished in fourth with 10.7% and SBS nabbed a 4.5% share.
The My Kitchen Rules episode was the most-watched program for the night, according to OzTAM’s overnight preliminary metro ratings.
Airing at 7.30pm MKR was also the most-watched program across key advertising demographics 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54, despite being down on last week’s 1.436m.
Nationally – including metro and regional affiliate stations where the program is broadcast – MKR saw 1.988m tune in.
Nine’s David Attenborough documentary, Planet Earth II, grabbed 446,000 viewers at the same time, falling from the previous week’s 586,000 metro viewers. When regional viewers were factored in, this figure climbed to 698,000.
Meanwhile Ten’s The Graham Norton Show averaged 465,000 viewers behind ABC’s current affairs program 7.30 which pulled 527,000 viewers at the same time.
The 6pm news battle saw Nine News come out on top with 992,000 metro viewers while Seven News averaged 984,000. At 6.30pm Nine News obtained 969,000 viewers ahead of Seven News/Today Tonight’s 947,000 metro viewers.
Nationally in news, Seven News at 6pm averaged 1.605m ahead of Nine News’ 998,000 viewers. At 6.30pm Seven News/Today Tonight had 1.449m national viewers while Nine News pulled 978,000.
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