The Voice, Ashes underpin Nine’s week

There were season highs last week on both Nine and TEN but the records were close to being toppled on GEM thanks to the Ashes, as high as 782,000 on Thursday.

That drew a whopping 14.2% share, the second-best since the channel launched.

Network:
Nine: 31.3
Seven: 26.2
TEN: 19.6
ABC: 16.8
SBS: 6.1

The Voice enjoyed its best numbers so far this year, as high as 1.82m on Sunday. Also scoring were Nine News (Sun: 1.49m), 60 Minutes (1.1m) and A Current Affair (968,000).

Seven News (Sun: 1.37m) was best for Seven then House Rules (1.00m), Highway Patrol (752,000 in 4 cities) and Home and Away (727,000).

MasterChef also hit a new high this season at 1.24m on Wednesday as did Have You Been Paying Attention? (719,000).  Family Feud (Simulcast: 663,000) and The Project (7pm: 662,000) followed.

ABC News (885,000), Inspector George Gently (844,000) and Grand Designs (843,000) were best for ABC.

Tops on SBS were Dan Snow’s History of Railways (359,000), 24 Hours in Emergency and What’s the Right Diet for You? (both on 226,000).

Primary Channel:
Nine: 22.2
Seven: 18.2
TEN: 14.3
ABC: 12.3
SBS: 5.1

Multichannels:
GEM: 5.1
7TWO: / GO!: 4.1
7mate: 3.9
ABC2: 2.9
ELEVEN / ONE: 2.7
ABC News 24: 1.0
SBS 2: 0.8
ABC3: 0.7
NITV: 0.1

Nine won 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54 demos.

Nine took every night except Wednesday which fell to Seven. ABC bettered TEN on Saturday.

Nine was first in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Seven won Adelaide (by just 0.6%) and Perth.