Seven and Nine neck and neck in Wednesday’s ratings battle

Seven and Nine were neck-and-neck last night with Seven winning 21.7 per cent of the free to air audience share and Nine 21.6 per cent, preliminary metro ratings show.

In the battle between competing home renovation shows, Nine’s The Block was just ahead of Seven’s House Rules, with Nine winning 1.349m viewers and House Rules 1.228m.

Nine News was the most watched program of the night with 1.349m viewers.

Channel Ten’s Masterchef  had 736,000 viewers, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTAM. However the show did a little better in Ten’s target demographic of 25-54’s.