A Double Kid’s Bedroom Reveal saw The Block lift by over 100k to top 1.4 million that was a season high. The result is up 150k on the equivalent episode of 2024 that only had two regular episodes that rated higher.
Earlier, Nine News was the number one show of the day with a 60k win over Seven News at 6pm to see Nine ahead in all key primetime slots for an easy win.
60 Minutes also dominated its timeslot, up 200k to 848k, it biggest audience since May then 9News Late that followed had 442k.
The Voice Season 14 premiered on Seven to an average audience of 984k, up slightly from the 2024 season that premiered to 977k on the Monday after the Logie Awards and to 2023’s debut episode that had 1.166m. Then on Seven’s big night of music, INXS: Live At Wembley held onto 404k of the audience.
Meanwhile, MasterChef’s role reversal episode was down 30k to 553k though to an improved ranking of 7th place. Watson lost another 10k to just make the top 30 on 172k. That was just ahead of 10 News+ that dropped 20k to 146k its lowest Sunday rating so far.
Austin continued on ABC, dropping 30k to 420k. That was followed by The Family Next Door Series Premiere that was just above 400k. Miss Austen then concluded with 188k while on SBS, The Roman Pantheon had 156k.
In the afternoon, the NRL on Nine saw a narrow win by the Eels over the Cowboys with a rating of 491k. That was just ahead of the AFL where Round 22 concluded with the Western Bulldogs narrow win over Melbourne seen in Melbourne plus West Coast v Adelaide in Adelaide and Perth while GWS v North Melbourne played in Sydney. Earlier, the NRLW comp continued with 137 and 128k.
Weekend Sunrise was just below the 400k mark while Weekend Today slipped to 276k not far ahead of Weekend Breakfast.
The Block was Australia’s No. 1 entertainment program with Total People and all key demos. It was also the No. 1 program with People 25-54 and 16-39 and the No. 1 entertainment program with Total People in all five metro capitals. It secured a National Total TV Reach of 2.617 million and a Total TV National Audience of 1.412 million - up 12.2% year-on-year. It recorded a BVOD Audience of 217,000 - up 15.8% year-on-year.
9News Sunday was the No. 1 program with Total People across Australia. It registered a National Total TV Reach of 2.409 million and a Total TV National Audience of 1.476 million. It recorded a BVOD Audience of 139,000.
60 Minutes won its timeslot with Total People and all key demos across Australia. It recorded a National Total TV Reach of 1.749 million and a Total TV National Audience of 848,000. On 9Now, it secured a BVOD Audience of 88,000.
Sunday Afternoon NRL won its timeslot across Australia and was a dominate timeslot winner in Sydney and Brisbane with Total People and all key demographics. It achieved a National Total TV Reach of 1.184 million and a Total TV National Audience of 491,000.
Weekend Today won its timeslot with Total People in Melbourne and Brisbane. It registered a Total TV Reach Audience of 784,000, a Total TV National Audience of 276,000 and a BVOD Audience of 37,000.
National total TV audience share, 6.00pm to midnight: 40.9% National total TV audience share, 6.00am to midnight: 39.7% 7plus: up 55.6% year-over-year 7NEWS: #1 news program, reaches 2.42 million The Voice – Launch: reaches 2.21 million AFL: Sunday Afternoon Football: #1 sport program, reaches 1.38 million Weekend Sunrise: #1 at breakfast, 45% more viewers than Today
Seven Network reaches 5.93 million Australians nationally. 7plus: reach up 55.6% year-on-year. 7NEWS Sunday: #1 news program. National reach 2.42 million, national audience 1.42 million. The Voice – Launch: National reach 2.21 million, national audience 984,000. Up on same episode last year. Seven’s AFL: Sunday Afternoon Football**: #1 sport program.** National reach 1.38 million, national audience 478,000. Up on previous week. INXS: Live at Wembley: National reach 1.29 million, national audience 404,000. Weekend Sunrise Sunday: #1 breakfast program. National reach 947,000, national audience 399,000. 45% more viewers than Today.
NATIONAL TOTAL TV COMMERCIAL SHARES (%): 6.00am to midnight
Network
All people
25 to 54s
Grocery shoppers
Seven Network
40.9
37.0
40.7
Nine Network
44.1
46.4
44.3
Network Ten
15.0
16.6
15.0
NATIONAL TOTAL TV COMMERCIAL SHARES (%): 6.00pm to midnight
I’m not sure Seven will be ‘thrilled’ though, especially after the saturated marketing campaign and Richard Marx on just about every show, plugs on all of Seven’s topical shows and promos at the start of every ad break during every program on every channel last week.
When you consider that figure (and the launch) is on-par with DWTS and it has rumours about a potential axing/resting again, citing the production costs (which surely Voice would cost a fortune as well) and Seven programmers refused to deny it in TV Central’s podcast last week.
It’s still a great number for FTA, but yeah when you think about it and Block some 400k+ in front, I’m just not so sure. They’ll want some good catch-up and a nice hold for Ep 2
Some criticisms of the show last night too online, also a News Corp article on it this morning.
Nine News has an easy win. Seve gets a big result in Perth but Adelaide numbers down due to AFL on 7Mate in competition and outrating the bulletin. Nine still wins Melbourne despite a big AFL lead in.
Weekend Sunrise has another easy win. Weekend Today down on recent Sunday numbers.
Sydney
SUNDAY AFTERNOON NRL LIVE NINE 141,000
SYDNEY WEEKENDER SEVEN 94,000
SEVEN’S AFL: SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOOTBALL 31,000
SUNDAY EARLY AFTERNOON NRLW 29,000
SUNDAY AFTERNOON NRLW 19,000
Melbourne
SEVEN’S AFL: SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOOTBALL SEVEN 153,000
POSTCARDS NINE 111,000
Brisbane
SUNDAY AFTERNOON NRL LIVE NINE 112,000
WEEKENDER SEVEN 103,000
SUNDAY AFTERNOON NRLW 44,000
SUNDAY EARLY AFTERNOON NRLW 32,000
Adelaide
SEVEN’S AFL: SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOOTBALL MULTI 7MATE 102,000
SEVEN’S AFL: SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOOTBALL SEVEN 99,000
HELLO SA NINE 32,000
Perth
SEVEN’S AFL: SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOOTBALL SEVEN 86,000
DESTINATION WA NINE 35,000
The table above is (in short) only showing viewing related to last night’s content. There is lots more viewing of other content happening. iView comes out ahead of the commercial as does SBS On Demand that ranks second.