The Block remains entertainment leader; Nine wins Wednesday
Nine’s The Block topped entertainment on Wednesday, while the network also celebrated an overall network share win.
The program aired to 757,000 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.
Polished concrete is the go for not one, but two teams! #TheBlock | Watch on @Channel9 and @9Now pic.twitter.com/ivB9Ldgk1f
— The Block (@TheBlock) August 17, 2022
In the latest Daily Consolidated Total TV Report for 10 August, Wednesday’s episode of The Block was the #1 program nationally across linear, with 1.505 million viewers, including 270,000 on BVOD, and an uplift of 40%. It was also the highest uplift of the week.
Looking back at Wednesday’s overnights, next in entertainment was Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell on ABC, which aired to an average metro audience of 508,000, followed by The Chase Australia on Seven, which aired to an average of 493,000. My Kitchen Rules on Seven aired to 470,000 metro viewers.
ABC’s Hard Quiz brought in 463,000 metro viewers, followed by an episode of Home and Away on Seven which saw a metro audience of 448,000 viewers tune in.
Meanwhile, Seven News was the #1 metro program on Wednesday with 878,000 metro viewers followed by Nine News at 6:30 with 849,000 metro viewers. Seven News at 6:30 aired to 837,000, Nine News brought in 826,000. ABC News brought in 623,000, and A Current Affair pulled in 672,000 viewers.
As mentioned, Nine won the night, taking an overall network share of 30.6% over Seven’s 25.2%, while Ten took a 14.5% share and the ABC had 18.7%.
Nine also won the primary channel share, and the top-rating multi-channel on Wednesday was 7TWO with a share of 3.3%.
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