Masterchef winner announcement most watched entertainment show of the year so far

More than 2m metro viewers tuned in to Ten last night to watch 24-year-old Billie McKay win the Masterchef finale in a 5 hour cooking challenge.

Billie McKay

Billie McKay wins the 2015 Masterchef

According to Oztam overnight metro ratings, the winner announcement was the most watched non-sport program of 2015 (metro) so far with 2.13m viewers tuning in, well up on the revived 2014 Masterchef format, where 1.7m viewers tuned in to watch the winner announcement of the reality cooking show.

The show itself, which started at 7.30pm and ran until 10pm, had 1.84m viewers, up on last year’s average audience of 1.654m, with Melbourne the biggest market with 798,000 viewers from the city watching the winner announcement, more than the total metro audience for the 11th biggest show of the night, ABC’s 7.30.

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