Seven wins the week despite ratings success of Married At First Sight
Seven has won the fourth week of the official ratings period, with an overall prime time commercial channel share of 39.1%, with My Kitchen Rules making up four of the top 10 programs of the week.
Nine managed an overall prime time commercial channel share of 36.9% for the week and Ten a share of 23.95%.
Despite Seven’s win, the network has experienced a slight decline in audience share, averaging 39.5% across the four weeks of the official ratings season, after it peaked at 45.2% following the Australian Open final.
However, since the end of the Australian Open, the network has experienced a slight decline in audience share, averaging 39.5% across the four weeks of the official ratings season.
Network Ten has experienced a gradual increase in network performance week on week, increasing it’s share from 22.6% to 23.9% across the four weeks of the official ratings period.
Nine’s total network performance has ranged between 38.6% and 36.4% since the period began.
This week, Nine’s Married at First Sight episodes, which aired on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights were the most-watched programs of the week, just ahead of Seven’s My Kitchen Rules shows on Sunday through until Wednesday.
Nine’s Married at First Sight captured 1.169m on Sunday night and 1.128m on Tuesday night, while My Kitchen Rules captured 1.059m on Sunday, 1.052m on Tuesday, 1.047m on Monday night and 1.016m on Wednesday.
Married at First Sight was also the most-watched program for the second week in a row, across the 25-54, 16-39 and grocery buyer demographics.
Seven News won the week’s news battlewith a Monday to Friday average metro audience of 904,000, but Nine News Sunday was the most-watched news program of the week with 1.049m viewers.
The tables, sourced from OzTAM data and prepared by Nine Network include only free-to-air commercial networks, not ABC and SBS.
