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The Voice finale drops for Nine

Ratings: It may have topped the night for Nine but 1.66m for The Voice is way short of its 2013 finale.

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2014-07-22_1006The grand final of The Voice has dropped significantly on its 2013 finale, falling well short of the 2 million viewer margin.

While it was the top-rated show of the night, the Grand Final pulled 1.66m in Overnight numbers and the Winner Announced -which is normally a higher number than the bulk of the show- was 1.58m, down by 31% on 2013.

Anja Nissen’s win was well down on the Harrison Craig’s win -as high as 2.28m- which itself was down on the stunning first season of 3.3m viewers.

But Nine still ruled Monday night with a network share of 33.1% then Seven 26.5%, TEN 18.5%, ABC 17.5% and SBS 4.5%.

Elsewhere, Nine News was 1.29m / 1.21m for Nine then A Current Affair (1.17m), Hot Seat (674,000), House Husbands (429,000) and Footy Classified (259,000 in 3 cities).

Seven News (1.2m / 1.1m) was best for Seven but its other shows fell under the magic million on a night when it held off big titles. Home and Away was 939,000, Highway Patrol was 778,000, The Force was 689,000, Million Dollar Minute was 683,000, an Avengers movie was 563,000 and Talking Footy was 36,000 in 3 cities (80,000 on 7mate).

TEN had a rare Monday win over ABC with Masterchef holding strong against The Voice on 1.17m. The Project was 753,000 / 507,000 and TEN Eyewitness News was 706,000. Have You Been Paying Attention? hit its best-ever audience of 500,000 -against The Voice finale no less- indicating that a better lead-in affords it a fighting chance, and validating TEN’s programming shift. 24 ended with 264,000 loyal Jack Bauer fans.

ABC News (831,000) topped ABC followed by 7:30 (818,000), Australian Story (785,000), Media Watch (571,000), Four Corners (555,000) and Q & A (537,000).

The memorably-titled Pain, Pus and Poison (258,000) led SBS ONE then Richard Hammond’s Miracles of Nature (207,000), SBS World News (157,000) and Tour de France Daily Highlights (128,000).

Neighbours was best on multichannels at 287,000.

Sunrise: 355,000
Today: 272,000
ABC News Breakfast: 89,000 / 49,000.

OzTAM Overnights: Monday 21 July 2014

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  1. Agree with the comments about Will.i.am
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    Cannot stand him – yes, his offhand behaviour towards Jackson came across as really rude and disrespectful
    Really hope he’s not asked back as a judge next year – it really has been all about him and his endless namedropping..
    Hasn’t appeared the slightest bit interested in his proteges

    Also found Joel’s comments about not expecting Jackson to still be there above other performers etc, pretty rude and insulting as well.

  2. I loved the first two seasons of The Voice but this season the talent overall was pretty mediocre and it became the Will.i.am show. Having been in two Black Eyed Peas concert audiences where Will.i.am has been hideously rude, I have zero time for his auto-tuned ego.

    Great to see Masterchef doing well. However, what have Ten got planned for the back end of the year? The Bachelor will air Wednesday and Thursday, Party Tricks and Wonderland are on the schedule. But other than that the cupboard looks very bare. Is Wanted back for a second series?

  3. Small congrats to 9 for finishing up on the advertised time of 9.55…had a small bet that there is no chance of that happening so I was pleasantly surprised.

  4. After watching Kylie Minogue and Johnny Rollins performing “Can’t get you out of my Head” on the Voice, I wouldn’t waste my money going to see her in concert. I know her shows are very visual, but she cannot sing to save herself. Then again, her bank account tells a different story lol.

  5. Hope that The Voice will jettison Will.i.am for next year. He added nothing this year & disrespected Jackson last night. When he was asked to comment on Jackson he went on about how disappointed he was that ZK had been eliminated
    7 made no mention of Jackson. Even Darren the host looked surprised.

  6. I agree with the comments about the Glut of singing shows, I used to be a big watcher of them, and now I just don’t. Not even to flick over in the ad breaks, I just don’t give a crap anymore.

    I still love my Masterchef and Block. But I’m very over most reality on now.

  7. Very happy to see TEN doing well. Their problem is consistency – Lets hope they can keep up their higher performance for the rest of the year. Hopefully HYBPA can keep building and viewers don’t just go back to other channels like sheep.

  8. There were also problems with the ABC signal in Sydney from around 7.10 last night affecting all of their 4 channels. The pixellating and sound quality was so bad I had to switch channels. I switched back at the end of the news and all was ok but Juanita Phillips did apologise for the signal problems in parts of NSW.

    And good on HYBPA getting its best ratings ever. Easily the funniest show on TV.

  10. I noticed TEN continued with the Family Feud multicasting (despite saying it would only be 1 week) — I assume that means there’s no indiv. channel #s for FF?

  11. I like family feud. The episodes have gotten better since it started but how good the episodes are does depend on the contestants. I do think the show lends itself more to a host/comedian rather than a straight host. Even though I wasn’t keen on the idea Grant Denyer hosting he has improved since the first episode and as yet hasn’t been a reason to turn off.

    Masterchef has been good this year. In saying that I do want to turn the tv off everytime I hear a sob story or see tears.

  13. The only thing I watched last night was Media Watch which was a bit of a challenge as the ABC signal in Melbourne kept dropping out.

    They seemed to have fixed the gremlins in time for Q&A.

  14. So the Voice “winner announced” got 3.3m viewers for season 1, dropped 31% to 2.28m for season 2, and now has dropped another 31% to 1.58m for season 3. If it continues to shed 31% of viewers each year then season 4 will get 1.09m, season 5 around 0.75m, while season 23 will get around 1,000 viewers. Joel Madden will be 55 years old by then.

  16. I have never watched The voice… but I do follow the ratings results and well I am glad that Masterchef took it on and held its ground.
    I think that reality singing fatigue has set in… and that was a bad number for HH.

    I just want to say go Ten!!

  18. Seven did remarkable considering it didn’t air its dominating shows! Proves ten has a long way to go!! The voice is killing the song comp genre with airing the voice kids…. over saturation!! It is obvious the voice failed this year due to the egos and focus on the celebrities!! It was sickening! Perhaps the producers wanted to deflect from the awful competitors this year… just saying!

  19. Good to see the long overdue decline in ratings for these contrived and manipulative singing contests.

    Can we please have some more original television now? What about investing in some comedy, FTA networks? The ABC shouldn’t have to do all the heavy lifting here.

  21. HYBPA rise probably attributed to MC returning to form, and more eyeballs discovering the show. Awkward timing for it to not be on next week with a two week gap.

    Very odd for Winner Announced to be behind main show. Not a good look for a 5 min figure designed to be an inflated headline figure – it is again this time, just an embarrasing hradline figure.

  22. Can’t say I’m surprised at the lower Voice ratings. The contestants this year have been far less compelling, although the coaches were pretty good this year.

  23. Appears interest may be starting to wane for the singing/talent show genre.
    No wonder, with the glut of them around over the last few years.

    Regarding The Voice, found it all a bit lacklustre this year – talent was overall mediocre compared to other years and something was missing.
    The “atmosphere” of previous years just wasn’t there.

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