Nine covers its bases on Thursday night

Tim Burrowes

June 22, 2012 9:37

Nine’s The Block was Australia’s most watched TV show on Thursday night, while the network’s Hamish & Andy’s Euro Gap Year was top rating in the key advertising demographics of 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54.

The Block rated 1.394m, just ahead of Hamish and Andy’s 1.365m. Seven News was third with 1.266m viewers according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.

Ten’s best performer was Masterchef, fifth for the night with 1.108m.

Meanwhile, Seven’s Sunrise won the battle of breakfast over Nine’s Today by the narrowest of margins – 340,000 to 339,000.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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2 COMMENTS

cecgen 22 Jun 12

The Block seems to be the success of the year.cant figure it out. scott cam is not the most appealing host, the show itself is standard reality material, nothing special.Glad Sunrise reigns supreme, hot seat beating deal or no deal?

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Christian Mitchell 22 Jun 12

We’ve seen no ratings for ‘Breakfast’ this week…are you able to provide them?

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