News most watched while Masterchef cracks 1m viewers

Miranda Ward

June 20, 2014 9:35

In the absence of The Voice and House Rules, Masterchef was the most watched non-news program for Thursday evening attracting 1.039m metro viewers, preliminary overnight ratings from OzTam have shown.

It wasn’t enough to break Nine’s audience share, with Nine News and A Current Affair helping the network to 20.6 per cent while Seven lagged behind with a share of 16.9 per cent. ABC1 was close behind with a share of 15.3 per cent while Ten was fourth with 14.7 per cent.

Nine News was the best rated program for the night, taking a metro audience of 1.173m while Seven News had an audience of 1.105m.

The second half hour of Nine News at 6.30pm had a metro audience of 1.026m and the second half hour of Seven News, or Today Tonight in some cities, was watched by 1.002m metro viewers.

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Miranda Ward

Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.

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2 COMMENTS

Josh 20 Jun 14

Does SBS1 ratings include SBSHD?

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Johnson 20 Jun 14

The Australia-Netherlands game was shown in Perth at midnight Thursday local time, so it was included in Wednesday’s ratings which counted up to 2am Thursday. The game got 58,000 in Perth.

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