The Block retains #1 entertainment spot since launch; a win for Nine
Nine’s The Block topped entertainment on Wednesday, while the network also celebrated an overall network share win.
The program aired to 772,000 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 7 September, Wednesday’s episode of The Block was the #1 program nationally across linear, with 1.486 million viewers, including 236,000 on BVOD and an uplift of 31%. Summer Love on ABC had the biggest uplift of 51% and was viewed by a total audience of 547,000.
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 497,000, followed by Hard Quiz on ABC, which aired to an average of 467,000. The Chase Australia on Seven aired to 460,000 metro viewers.
Home and Away on Seven brought in 443,000 metro viewers, followed by a tribute special titled Queen Elizabeth II: The Final Journey on Seven which saw a metro audience of 356,000 viewers tune in.
Meanwhile, Seven News at 6:30 was the #1 metro program on Wednesday with 866,000 metro viewers followed by Seven News with 831,000 metro viewers. Nine News at 6:30 aired to 783,000, and Nine News brought in 753,000. Next was A Current Affair which pulled in 536,000 viewers, while ABC News brought in 579,000.
As mentioned, Nine won the night, taking an overall network share of 32.1% over Seven’s 279.2%, while ABC had a share of 17.4%, followed by Ten on 13.4%.
Nine also won the primary channel share, and the top-rating multi-channel on Wednesday was 7TWO with a share of 3.1%.
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