X Factor sees off Australia’s Got Talent in the ratings for third week running

Tim Burrowes

August 26, 2013 9:19

The X Factor’s live performance show widened the gap on Nine’s Australia’s Got Talent on Sunday.

According t0 preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTAM, Seven’s The X Factor was top show for the night, with 1.522m viewers. AGT was fifth with 1.183m.

The gap of 339,000 is double last week’s 170,000 and ahead of the opening week margin of 270,000.

The two talent contests, squeezed Ten’s reality cooking show Masterchef, which rated just 716,000. Masterchef is entering the final week of the current series.

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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.