Married At First Sight keeps Sunday night crown
Weekend viewers flocked to Seven’s marathon Fire Fight Australia concert broadcast - at least until MAFS came on.
The marathon 10-hour plus Fire Fight Australia concert on Seven Network dominated free-to-air television viewing on Sunday, but it wasn't enough to knock Nine's reality dating show Married At First Sight off top spot.
The concert, which attracted more than 70,000 people at ANZ Stadium in Sydney and raised more than $8.8m for bushfire-affected communities, took five slots among the top 20 TV shows across the nation’s five metropolitan cities on Sunday.
But MAF’s first so-called ‘commitment ceremony’ of season seven was watched by more than 1.1m viewers, while the end of the concert – featuring Queen and Adam Lambert – attracted an audience of just over 1m, coming in second on the TV metro ratings table.
The two entertainment programs bumped Seven's evening news to third spot, with 979,000 metro viewers.
The Fire Fight concert, which kicked-off at 1pm Sydney time, also took fourth, seventh, 10th and 16th spot on the ratings table, according to figures from ratings agency OzTam.
Seven said the concert reached 4.7m viewers nationally, with an average national audience of 1.11m. The audience peaked at 2.04m viewers nationally just before 9pm Sydney time.
The long-running concert meant Seven didn't broadcast the latest episode of its struggling cooking competition series, My Kitchen Rules: The Rivals, on Sunday night.
Ten's dancing competition Dancing With The Stars had a tough night, with the first part watched by 348,000, in 13th spot. But the elimination episode only managed 327,000.
Nine's 60 Minutes, which heavily promoted its interview with Sarah Ristevski whose father Borce Ristevski killed her mother Karen Ristevski, was watched by 772,000 people across the metro cities. It was the eighth most watched program on Sunday.
That compares to the previous week's episode of 60 Minutes, which was watched by 688,000 viewers, taking fifth spot.
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