{"id":934599,"date":"2026-10-20T05:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934599\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T05:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:52:11","slug":"mkr-pips-block-730-lifts-for-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934599\/","title":{"rendered":"MKR pips Block, 7:30 lifts for ABC."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tInstant restaurant edges out renovation. Breaking news sees 7:30 rise. Sam Pang returns for 10.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>My Kitchen Rules managed another win over The Block on Monday night, for a second week running.<\/p>\n<p>MKR topped entertainment at 1.14m edging out The Block\u2018s 1.11m.<\/p>\n<p>With breaking news events 7:30 was high at 926,000 well up on last Monday\u2019s 691,000.<\/p>\n<p>Next in the slot were Australian Story (643,000) and Shaun Micallef\u2019s Parents\u2019 Evening (400,000).<\/p>\n<p>The Rookie enjoyed a rare timeslot win at 556,000 then Media Watch (522,000),\u00a0 Four Corners (505,000), ACS: The Investigators (465,000), and the return of Sam Pang Tonight at 428,000, down on its S2 premiere of 478,000.<\/p>\n<p>Seven News was #1 at 1.46m then Home &amp; Away high at 1.01m and The Chase (669,000). The Agenda Setters: Rugby League was 125,000.<\/p>\n<p>Nine News drew 1.26m then wins for A Current Affair (1.06m) and Tipping Point (808,000). Catching My Stalker which must have thought it was Sunday drew 228,000.<\/p>\n<p>ABC News was 932,000 then Planet America (496,000) and Hard Quiz (361,000).<\/p>\n<p>10 News was 274,000\u00a0 \/ 152,000 then Millionaire Hot Seat (257,000), 10 Late News (201,000) and Deal or No Deal (170,000).<\/p>\n<p>SBS World News was 223,000 \/ 132,000 then Mastermind (117,000),\u00a0 24 Hours in Emergency (95,000), Big Fat Quiz was way too low for 7:30pm at just 45,000 and 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (38,000).<\/p>\n<p>Sunrise: 460,000<br \/>Today: 280,000<br \/>News Breakfast: 220,000<\/p>\n<p>National Total TV: <a href=\"https:\/\/tvtonight.com.au\/2026\/10\/monday-19-october-2026.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monday 19 October 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Instant restaurant edges out renovation. Breaking news sees 7:30 rise. Sam Pang returns for 10. My Kitchen Rules&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-934599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}