HD Ratings: More Olympic Wins for TVNZ 1

TVNZ 1 swept Wednesday night in the core commercial demographics with its wall-to-wall coverage of the Tokyo Olympics.

The 7.00 hour averaged 7.0% of 25-54 year-olds and 5.7% of 18-49s, the 8.00 hour 6.1% / 4.3%, and the 9.00 hour, 4.1% / 3.0%.

Three dominated the competition with TVNZ 2, with The Block NZ, Emergency and NCIS: Los Angeles finishing second in their slots.

The Block averaged 4.4% of 25-54s and 3.2% of 18-49s vs 3.3% / 2.5% for MasterChef Australia while lead-out Emergency averaged 3.2% / 2.5% against Amazing Grace’s 2.4% / 1.9%.

At 9.30, NCIS: LA averaged 1.2% / 0.9% and Grey’s Anatomy, 0.6% / 0.5%.

Earlier, Shortland Street beat The Project in both key demos.

TVNZ 1 won the night with 30+ shares of the core demos, Three clocked up 17+ shares and TVNZ 2 trailed with 12.6% of 25-54s and 13.4% of 18-49s.