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The Block nails its entertainment rivals; Nine takes Tuesday

Nine’s The Block topped entertainment ratings on Monday, while the network also celebrated an overall network share win.

The program aired to 805,000 metro viewers, also winning all three key advertising demos. The 2022 launch aired to an average metro audience of 867,000. Last year, Nine aired the 2021 premiere of the program to 747,000 metro viewers.

In the latest Daily Consolidated Total TV Report for 8 August, The Block on Monday was the #1 program nationally across linear, with 1.670 million viewers, including 311,000 on BVOD, and uplift of 41%. The biggest uplift of the week was an episode of My Kitchen Rules on Seven with an uplift of 35% and aired to a total audience of 859,000.

Looking back at Sunday overnights, next in entertainment was Have You Been Paying Attention? on Ten, which aired to an average metro audience of 627,000, followed by The Chase Australia on Seven, which aired to an average of 567,000. The Masked Singer Reveal aired to 526,000 metro viewers, while the full episode was watched by 445,000 metro viewers.

My Kitchen Rules saw a metro audience of 513,000 viewers tune in, followed by Home and Away on Seven with 483,000 metro viewers.

Meanwhile, Seven News was the #1 metro program on Monday with 985,000 metro viewers followed by Seven News at 6:30 with 962,000 metro viewers. Nine News at 6:30 aired to 856,000, Nine News brought in 840,000. ABC News brought in 679,000, and A Current Affair pulled in 697,000 viewers.

As mentioned, Nine won the night, taking an overall network share of 28.8% over Seven’s 25.7%, while Ten took a 19.7% share and the ABC had 18.6%.

Nine also won the primary channel share, and the top-rating multi-channel on Monday was 7TWO with a share of 3.1%.

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