Auction seals Nine’s final week

The Block Auction helped Nine to clinch the final week of the 2020 ratings year.

Nine saved the best til last with The Winner Announced on a whopping 1.79m viewers, being the highest rated non-sport audience of the year.

But the rest of the week went Seven’s way with SAS Australia wrapping after a strong first season.

While 10 talks about 50 weeks of scheduling it struggled outside of HYBPA? but the context of production shutdown when Amazing Race Australia might have been screening is important.

Network:
Nine: 28.3
Seven: 27.8
ABC: 18.3
10: 17.0
SBS: 8.6

Primary channel:
Nine: 18.9
Seven: 18.2
ABC: 13.1
10: 9.6
SBS: 5.0

Multichannels:
10 BOLD: 4.0
7mate: 3.8
7TWO: 3.7
9GEM / 9GO! / 10 Peach / ABC Kids Comedy: 2.9
9Life: 2.2
7flix: 2.1
ABC News: 1.8
9 RUSH / SBS VICELAND: 1.3
SBS World Movies: 1.1
SBS Food: 1.0
ABC ME: 0.6
10 Shake: 0.5
NITV: 0.2

Nine won 16-39 and 25-543 demos.

Seven led on every night except Sunday which fell to Nine. ABC bettered 10 on Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday, both tied for Tuesday.

Best brands last week were:

Nine: The Block (Winner announced: 1.79m), Nine News (Sun: 979,000), 60 Minutes (658,000) and A Current Affair (586,000).

Seven: Seven News (Sun: 925,000), SAS Australia (Finale: 737,000), Beat the Chasers (583,000) and Home & Away (543,000).

ABC: Gruen (672,000), Hard Quiz (671,000), Australian Story (648,000) and ABC News (645,000).

10: Have You Been Paying Attention? (665,000), The Project (7pm: 410,000), The Living Room (305,000) and Jamie’s Easy Meals for Every Day (299,000).

SBS: Great British Railway Journeys (214,000), Pompeii: After the Eruption (203,000), Secrets of our Cities (200,000), Addicted Australia (178,000).

2021 ratings survey commences on February 7.

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