TV Ratings Week 5: Nine wins third consecutive week

The Nine Network is on a roll with one more week of summer survey left to run. The Network has now won the last three weeks after Seven started the year winning the first fortnight.

The Australian Open tennis first pushed Nine to the top and now Married At First Sight has helped it win the fifth ratings week of the year.

Nine’s primary share finished 3.5 ahead of Seven and Nine managed to double 10’s all people primary share. Nine was also a clear leader in combined channel share, 2.6 ahead of Seven.

Week five was Nine’s lowest winning primary share, but it was higher than Seven’s winning primary shares in weeks 1 and 2.

Week 5 channel shares (combined share in brackets)

ABC 11.5%
• Kids/Comedy 2.7% ABCME 0.7% ABCNews 1.5% (Total 16.4%)

Seven 19.3%
• 7TWO 3.4% 7mate 3.2% 7flix 1.8% 7food 0.8% (Total 28.5%)

Nine 22.8%
• GO! 3.8% Gem 2.4% 9Life 2.1% (Total 31.1%)

10 11.3%
• 10Bold 3.2% 10Peach 2.4% (Total 17.0%)

SBS 4.7%
• Viceland 1.2% Food 1.0% NITV 0.2% (Total 7.0%)

#1 show of Week 5

The biggest audience of the week, and the year so far, was Nine’s Australian Open Men’s Final with 1.589m. The regional audience of 512,000 took the national crowd to 2.101m.

Biggest News audience Week 5

Seven News M-F
• 6pm 1.478m (Metro 964,000 Regional 514,000)
• 6.30pm 1.416m (Metro 916,000 Regional 514,000)

Biggest Entertainment audience Week 5

Married At First Sight (Nine) Wednesday
• 1.361m (Metro 1.029m Regional 332,000) episodes did over 1m metro, with the other two not far behind on 999,000 and 954.

Seven's best in Week 5

My Kitchen Rules (Monday) with 819,000 metro.