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The Voice dominates metro primetime with 1.162m metro viewers

Network Seven has kept up its momentum on linear free-to-air television off the back of the Olympics, with The Voice maintaining strong numbers on its second night.

The second night of blind auditions featuring the new-look judging panel with Jessica Mauboy, Rita Ora, Guy Sebastian and Keith Urban aired to 1.162 million metro viewers, and was easily the #1 entertainment program on Monday and also topping all three key advertising demos.

Season ten of The Voice is airing on Seven after the network nabbed the program from Nine, and Sunday’s premiere was up on the last two season launches.

Among other entertainment programming, Seven’s Home and Away has 710,000 metro viewers and The Chase Australia with 671,000 metro viewers continued to perform strongly as well.

The second night of Nine’s latest season of The Block brought in 627,000 metro viewers. Over on Ten, Australian Survivor had 618,000 metro viewers and Have You Been Paying Attention? aired to 603,000 metro viewers.

Seven News was the top-rating program overall on Monday, bringing in 1.245 million metro viewers, while Nine News had 1.089 million.

Media Watch, which was hosted by Jeremy Fernandez after regular host Paul Barry was hospitalised in a bicycle accident, drew 466,000 metro viewers.

Seven celebrated a nightly win with a 35.6% metro network share, ahead of Nine with 22.7%, Ten with 19.8% and ABC with 15.2%.

The #1 primary channel was Seven with a 24.7% share, and the top-rating multi-channel was 7Mate with 7.3%.

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