The Voice grand finale rakes in more than one million viewers, stirs controversy

The Voice’s grand finale and winner’s announcement last night did it for Seven, bringing in 1.163 million and 1.175 million national viewers, respectively — and Lachie Gill’s win generated some heated social media activity last night and this morning. Though these numbers may disappoint Seven as they weren’t as high as last Sunday’s 1.181 million for the penultimate episode.

Now the difference is only 12,000, but it is still an intriguing shortfall. It shows an audience not really all that interested in watching the conclusion of the 2022 competition. But The Voice was easily ahead of MasterChef Australia with 655,000, while Nine’s distasteful Celebrity Apprentice clung on to 529,000. So, it was Seven’s night easily, followed by Nine, Ten, the ABC and SBS.

Barons on the ABC at 8.30pm brought in a measly 176,000. Laughable. The Sunday afternoon football did poorly too — the AFL game on Seven received 386,000 viewers across all markets for all games; the NRL game, 379,000.

Regional top five: Seven News, 517,000; The Voice Grand Finale, 413,000; The Voice — Winner, 396,000; Nine News, 362,000; 7pm ABC News, 295,000.

Network channel share:

1. Seven (32.4%)
2. Nine (24.4%)
3. Ten (19.5%)
4. ABC (14.0%)
5. SBS (9.7%)

Network main channels:

1. Seven (24.9%)
2. Nine (17.5%)
3. Ten (12.5%)
4. ABC (9.9%)
5. SBS ONE (5.9%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

1. 7mate (3.5%)
2. 10 Bold (3.4%)
3. 7TWO (3.3%)
4. GO, 10 Peach (2.9%)

Top 10 national programs:

1. Seven News — 1.543 million
2. Nine News — 1.273 million
3. The Voice Winner (Seven) — 1.175 million
4. The Voice Grand Finale (Seven) — 1.163 million
5. 7pm ABC News — 911,000
6. Grand Designs (ABC) — 657,000
7. MasterChef Australia (Ten) — 595,000
8. Insiders (ABC, ABC News) — 635,000
9. Celebrity Apprentice: Return (Nine) — 529,000
10. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 484,000

Top metro programs: 

1. Seven News — 1.025 million

Losers: 60 Minutes — just weak last night, but not as weak as Barons on the ABC.

Metro news and current affair

1. Seven News — 1.025 million
2. Nine News — 911,000
3. 7pm ABC News — 611,000
4. Sunday Project 7pm (Ten) — 354,000
5. 60 Minutes – (Nine) — 322,000
6. Ten News First — 249,000
7. The Project 6.30pm (ABC) — 224,000
8. SBS World News (ABC) — 183,000

Morning (national) TV:

1. Insiders (ABC, ABC News) — 635,000
2. Weekend Sunrise (Nine) — 384,000
3. Landline (ABC) — 340,000
4. Weekend Today (Nine) — 260,000
5. Sports Sunday — 173,000
6. Offsiders (ABC) — 166,000

Top five pay TV programs:

1. NRL: Canberra vs Parramatta (Fox League) — 280,000
2. NRL: Sunday Ticket (Fox League) — 216,000
3. AFL: Collingwood vs Hawthorn (FoxSports 503) — 212,000
4. NRL: Canterbury vs St George (Fox League) — 178,000
5. F1: Monaco Race (Fox Sports 506) — 142,000