Nine News pips Seven News on Sunday
Ratings: Nine shows led on Sunday, new ABC drama is second in its slot.
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Nine News managed a rare win over Seven News in preliminary figures last night at 1.18m and 1.17m respectively. That helped Nine to continue in front for the night.
The Voice led in entertainment stakes at 1.03m ahead of MasterChef Australia (979,000 from 7:30pm) with 10’s cooking show topping the demos then House Rules (605,000 / 597,000) and Grand Designs NZ (452,000 from 7:40pm).
Later 60 Minutes was 716,000 with Operation Buffalo debuting to 555,000 -second in its slot although, by comparison, 100,000 less than Mystery Road‘s return in April.
Nine network won Sunday with 31.6%, then Seven 24.9%, 10 20.7%, ABC 15.1% and SBS 7.7%.
A late edition of Nine News also drew 501,000.
Why Can’t We Sleep? was just 189,000 for Seven.
The Sunday Project drew 588,000 / 394,000 for 10. 10 News First 335,000 / 269,000 and FBI: Most Wanted (315,000) followed.
ABC News (752,000), Compass (211,000) and Killing Eve (187,000)
On SBS it was London: 2000 Years of History (225,000), SBS World News (204,000) and The Clinton Affair (107,000).
Bluey led multichannels at 222,000.
OzTAM Overnights: Sunday 31 March 2020
13 Responses
why are the numbers so small that little is watched from 25 million?
These ratings don’t reflect all Australia, only 5 city metros are in these ratings. Add up all the cities and the population counted for these ratings is approximately 15-16 million people. And remember people watch in families and groups so not everyone will be counted as 1 viewer.
Many other factors as well-pay tv of various sorts, online stuff, people watching previously recorded stuff etc etc.
It will be interesting to see the ratings for Operation Buffalo next week. I would expect a significant drop off, as the first ep was cringeworthy imo. So disappointing for an ABC commissioned drama.
Agree! I turned off after 30 minutes. Disappointing to say the least.
Glad I wasn’t the only one
The over run of the NRL in Sydney was why Sydney Nine news had big numbers resulting in Nine news winning overall against Seven news.
I figured it was something unique, which is why I noted preliminary numbers.
I don’t think that’s the case there. Seven won in Brisbane and the NRL was on Nine in Brisbane.
David would like to know what was the Ratings for the NRL Sunday Afternoon game on Nine? Can I know, cheers..
303k across all Nine channels.
Thanks David, that is great Ratings for Nine for the Afternoon..!!
I imagine Nine News’s figure will be adjusted. The first 10 minutes in Sydney and Brisbane will be the over run of the NRL game that preceeded it.