# Ratings: Nine’s The Block and Unreal Estate on top but Seven wins Tuesday **URL:** \ **Category:** News Articles\ **Tags:** ratings\ **Created:** [October 18, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/ratings-nine-s-the-block-and-unreal-estate-on-top-but-seven-wins-tuesday/1994 "2016-10-18T23:44:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TV.Cynic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tv.cynic/32/316932_2.png) [@TV.Cynic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TV.Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/ratings-nine-s-the-block-and-unreal-estate-on-top-but-seven-wins-tuesday/1994/1 "2016-10-18T23:44:11Z")
The **Seven** Network won Tuesday’s TV viewing despite _The Block_ and _Unreal Estate_ securing big timeslot wins for Channel **Nine**. _The Block_ was the top entertainment show for the night with 1.045 million metro viewers, up 90,000 from last Tuesday and well clear of the underperforming _X-Factor_ on Seven that slipped to 806,000 while **Ten’s** late schedule addition _Celebrity Family Feud_ could only manage 392,000 in the 7.30 timeslot to be just ahead of **SBS’s** offering _Who Do You Think You Are?_. Seven’s network share was 29.2% just ahead of Nine on 28.6%. Ten improved to 18.4% while **ABC** (16.1%) and SBS (7.7%) were steady. Nine won in Sydney and Melbourne with Seven ahead in the other three markets. _Seven News_ continued its dominance of the news hour including a rare win in Sydney with 1,106,000 and 1,090,000. At 7pm _Home and Away_ was steady with last week to average 742,000 leading into The X Factor (806,000). _Cold Feet_ that followed was down from the debut episode to 556,000 while a double episode of _The Windsors_ managed 312,000 and 221,000. The afternoon’s _The Chase_ has 612,000 and 312,000. The audience for _The Block_ lifted above one million for just the second time on a Tuesday this season with 1,045,000. That helped _Unreal Estate_ to a 166,000 audience gain from last week, to 684,000. _Nine News_, earlier, had 946,000 and 922,000 with _A Current Affair_ on 841,000. Later, _Millionaire’s Holiday Club_ rated 312,000 while at 5.30 _Hot Seat_ averaged 525,000. Over on Ten, _Todd Sampson’s Bodyhack_ was up 83,000 from the previous week to 568,000 with good demographic results. Earlier, _The Project_ led the network with 574,000 and 434,000 with 512,000 for _Family Feud_ at 6pm and 485,000 for _Ten Eyewitness News_ at 5pm. _All Star Family Feud_ had 392,000 at 7.30pm with a new _NCIS Los Angeles_ on 292,000. ABC’s night was topped by _ABC News_ (847,000) with _7:30_ (671,000) and _Catalyst_ (472,000) also top twenty entries. _Man Up_ could only manage 352,000 with _Pointless_ on 301,000 and _Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity_ with 244,000. _Who Do You Think You Are?_ with 375,000 and _Insight_ on 299,000 were the best SBS results. Breakfast and morning television saw _Today_ (321,000) lead _Sunrise_ (293,000) while _The Morning Show_ (131,000) was ahead of _Today Extra_ (121,000) and _Studio 10_ (92,000). _Seven Morning News_ then had 105,000 with _Nine Morning News_ on 93,000 and Ten’s _The Talk_ with 67,000. _Dr Phil_ scored 112,000 for a Jonbenet Ramsey Murder Encore followed by 111,000 for a _Survivor Australia_ Encore. See [Tuesday 18 October 2016](http://forums.mediaspy.org/t/tuesday-18-october-2016/1993) for a more detailed look at the ratings numbers in the Media Spy forums. > Data © OzTAM Pty Limited 2016. The Data may not be reproduced, published or communicated (electronically or in hard copy) in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of OzTAM. ---
**Author:** ![TV.Cynic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tv.cynic/32/316932_2.png) [@TV.Cynic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TV.Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/ratings-nine-s-the-block-and-unreal-estate-on-top-but-seven-wins-tuesday/1994/2 "2016-10-18T23:44:20Z")