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Ten’s Ambulance Australia premieres with 582,000 metro viewers, beats Seven’s Take Me Out

Ten’s new series Ambulance Australia debuted with 582,000 across the five metro cities yesterday evening.

The result was higher than that of Ten’s other new show, Blind Date, which premiered on Monday with 487,000 metro viewers.

Ten’s Ambulance Australia managed more than 500,000 metro viewers

It was also enough to beat Seven’s prime time show, Take Me Out, which averaged just 407,000. The show premiered a month ago with 604,000 viewers.

However Ten’s Ambulance Australia failed to conquer Nine’s long-standing renovation show The Block, which pulled in 1.017m.

Nationally Ten’s new show rose to 874,000, while Nine’s The Block finished with 1.421m viewers and Seven’s Take Me Out climbed to 602,000.

In the later time slot, Nine’s new season of The Big Bang Theory led OzTAM’s overnight figures, with 712,000 tuning into the 8:40pm offering. The result put Nine slightly ahead of Seven in the later time slot, with US drama Good Doctor achieving 634,000. Ten’s FBI captured 362,000 across the five metro cities.

Nine’s The Big Bang Theory also placed second in the 18-49 and 25-54 key ad demographics, losing out to The Block, which ran in the earlier time slot. The Block topped all three demographics – the 16-39s, 18-49s and 25-54s.

The 6pm news battle was won by Seven yesterday evening, with 964,000 metro viewers ahead of Nine News’ 915,000. By comparison, ABC News achieved 720,000 metro viewers and Ten’s Eyewitness News First at Five managed 358,000. Ten’s alternative news offering, The Project 7pm, pulled in 498,000.

Earlier on in the day, Seven’s Sunrise outdid Nine’s Today Show, with metro audiences of 292,000 and 222,000 respectively.

But overall it was Nine which achieved another win for the evening with a 22.2% main channel share. It beat Seven’s share of 18%, Ten’s 12.2% share and ABC and SBS’ shares of 10.3% and 6.2%. When considering multi-channels, Nine Network grew to 31% while Seven Network came in on a 27.9% network share, help by a 4.9% share from 7mate. Network Ten’s share was ahead of ABC Network – 17.1% and 15.5% respectively. SBS Network averaged an 8.5% share of audience.

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