Solid return for The Block helps Nine dominate Sunday ratings

Ratings for the first night of  The Block  have held steady on previous years for Nine, only fractionally down on 2012 and 2011.

The show rated a preliminary metro audience of 1.312m, according to OzTAM. This was only slightly down on last year’s 1.404m and 2011’s 1.342m. it was also well ahead of the opening night of spin off The Block All Stars which rated 959,000 earlier this year.

Nine dominated Sunday night television with the top four shows of the night.

1.312m viewers tuned into Nine’s 60 Minutes special last night, which focussed on ‘the Titanic of air disasters’ Flight 447 – the Air France passenger plane that crashed into the Atlantic in June 2009.