Thursday night audiences down with Seven winning the night

August 1, 2014 10:49

Thursday night saw audiences down across the board with the Seven’s Home and Away and Nine’s The Block Glasshouse winning the entertainment battles.

With lacklustre audiences in most cities news programs were for the second night in a row the most watched. In the entertainment stakes Seven’s hour-long episode of Home Away became the top rating show with 908,000 viewers from 7pm.

In the 7.30pm slot The Block Glasshouse won out with 781,000 viewers compared with Ten’s The Bachelor which dropped to 594,000 viewers on its second outing. However an error with OzTam coding for The Block meant both the 7.30pm show and the Unlocked show at 8pm were banded together, with Nine releasing the split figures later on today.

Seven’s broadcast of the AFL game between Fremantle and Carlton drew 373,000 in Victoria and South Australia, while Border Security International drew 378,000 in other states according to the OzTam Overnight Metro ratings.

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Nic Christensen

Nic Christensen worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2016, in roles including deputy editor and media & technology editor. He is former media writer for The Australian and has also worked as a reporter for The Daily Telegraph and senior producer for Radio 2GB.

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