Ten wins 874,000 for Masterchef launch as Nine dominates with The Voice
The first episode of Masterchef brought Ten 874,000 metro viewers, one of the strongest results for the network so far this year but down on last year’s opening of 1.1m viewers.
Masterchef launched at 7.30pm in direct competition with Seven and Nine’s franchises The Voice and House Rules.
The Voice was the most popular with 1.987m viewers between 7.30pm and 9.13pm, down on its debut of 2.1m on Sunday, and House Rules followed with 1.085m from 7.30pm to 9pm, preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam show.
Masterchef’s audience was up on the first Monday night episode last year which had 739,000, marking one of the lowest ratings in the history of the show. However ratings declined throughout the 2013 series. However, it was down 240,000 viewers on the first episode of the last regular season, which was on Sunday, June 2 last year.
Watched Masterchef last night and it was certainly the best opening episode for a couple of years. Here’s hoping for a good epi tonight!
Good to see MediaWatch up there with 732k! More need to view and understand how bad the media can be, especially after their MH370 debunking sticking it to Seven: http://www.abc.net.au/mediawat.....998350.htm How do so many in Adelaide watch these false lies from 7?
Thoroughly enjoyed MasterChef last night. Best season opener for the show in years. Hope it does good things for Ten.
@Jason Mediawatch is just biased rhetoric from the ABC, the tax-payer funded left-wing platform which manages to whine about other media bias while ignoring their own.
The Voice is moving along at a funereal pace. Kylie and Will.i.am lack the competitive posturing and comments from the first two series between Delta and Seal. It’s all very tame and uninteresting.
Why is the voice rating so high? 2 new lackluster ‘judges’ and the same ‘I’ll make you a star if you’re on my team’ routine. And where is last years BIG winner? Singing at Revesby Workers Club on Mothers Day. Not exactly the Star maker nine would like us to believe