Voice beats MKR but audience fades on 2012

Tim Burrowes

April 9, 2013 9:27

Nine’s The Voice took first blood in the Monday night battle with Seven’s My Kitchen Rules on Monday night.

The Voice rated 1.874m metro viewers, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTAM, making it the most viewed program of the day. However, the second night audience was significantly lower than last year’s 2.533m.

Second for the night was MKR, with 1.586m viewers.

House Husbands also made a solid return for Nine, with 1.135m viewers, seventh for the night. It was ahead of Seven’s Revenge which rated 971,000 and 840,000 for its double episodes.

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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.