Week 22 of the TV ratings year is now complete and Nine has secured another significant win.
The Thursday night return of the NRL together with the launch of The Voice were key factors in Nine continuing its successful run.
Seven finished comfortably in second place due to another dominate news performance, while 10 was a distant third despite continuing strong numbers for MasterChef Australia.
Network Share
Nine – 28.8%
Seven – 25.7%
10: 20.3%
ABC: 16.8%
SBS: 8.4%
Primary Channel Share
Nine: 20.7%
Seven: 17.2%
10: 14.3%
ABC: 12.2%
SBS: 4.6%
10 Bold was the number 1 multichannel with 4.2%
Weekly Highlights
Season 9 of The Voice premiered on Sunday night and was the highest rating entertainment program with a national average audience of 1.434m (Metro: 1.012m Reg: 422,000) and was up 3.3% nationally for Total People.
The NRL on Nine had its highest rating regular season match since the 2016 season metro launch with 535,000 across Sydney and Brisbane to see the Eels defeat the Broncos. Add in the 303,000 people in regional and the average audience was 838,000.
The return of NRL also did well for Foxtel with an average audience of 401,000 tuning in for the Broncos v Eels (366k Linear TV + 27k Foxtel Now/Go + 8k Duration Weighted Replays). Fox League’s Thursday coverage ranks as the #1 rating regular season simulcast game ever (surpassing the 360K – Rabbitohs v Storm in R21 last year)
Friday night’s game also did well for Nine across Sydney and Brisbane with 422,000 watching the Cowboys defeat the Titans across Sydney and Brisbane. When combined with the regional audience of 242,000 it had an average audience of 664,000.
Seven News continued its ratings dominance at 6pm averaging Monday to Friday 1.826 million nationally (1.170 million metro)
It’s a similar story in Breakfast with Sunrise averaging 498,000 nationally (290,000 metro) across Monday to Friday. Today on Nine continued to struggle, now consistently finishing third in its timeslot behind ABC News Breakfast.
MasterChef Australia’s week 22 episodes each surpassed 1.1 million total viewers.
Have You Been Paying Attention? on Monday night had 1.06 million viewers nationally. 816,000 capital city viewers. Up 8% compared to its 2019 average.
The Secrets She Keeps wrapped the season with its biggest audience of the season and was up 7% week-on-week with 780,000 viewers nationally. 548,000 capital city viewers.
Time-shifted ratings data released this week revealed that the ‘Winner Announced’ segment of the LEGO Masters finale achieved a consolidated national average audience of 2.158m (Metro: 1.630m Reg: 528,000).
In doing so, it becomes the most-watched entertainment program on Australian TV in 2020 and the second most-watched program overall (after the Nadal v Kyrgios Australian Open quarter-final clash.