Nine wins the week thanks to State of Origin boost

Round two of State of Origin and the pre-match programming were easily the most-watched shows of the week, helping Nine’s main station to an overall audience share win of 21.1%, ahead of Seven’s 19.9%, Ten’s 12.8%, ABC’s 11.3% and SBS’ 4.5%. 

Wednesday’s State of Origin match was unchallenged in the top spot with 2.384m metro viewers. The pre-match program was in second place with 1.447m. The remaining top 10 programs for the week were dominated by news with the exceptio of last Sunday’s House Rules on Seven in fifth wih 1.108m, Nine’s True Story with Hamish & Andy in seventh with 1.047m, and Monday’s House Rules in eighth with 1.035m.

The State of Origin was also the most-watched program across the 16-39, 25-54 and grocery buyer with child demographics.

Ten’s best performing program for the week – Tuesday night’s episode of Masterchef – ranked in 13th place with an audience of 913,000, but Have You Been Paying Attention also proved popular across the key advertising demographics. The comedy quiz show placed third behind the two State of Origin programs in the 16-39 demographic, and fourth in the 25-54 grouping, behind Origin programming and Tuesday’s Masterchef.