News events dominate Sunday

News events here and abroad drew viewers to television screens on Sunday.

Nine News was #1 at 1.07m metro viewers, ahead of Seven News at 1.07m.  ABC News was also high at 701,000.

Yet there were other notable indications, some outclassing primetime competition, including Nine Late News (391,000), Nine News: First at Five (370,000), The Sunday Project (354,000 / 243,000), Weekend Sunrise (322,000), 10 News First (313,000 / 218,000), Seven News at 5 (303,000) and Weekend Today (260,000).

Married at First Sight dominated in entertainment at 1.01m, defeating Dancing with the Stars: All Stars (605,000), Australian Survivor  (499,000) and Grand Designs NZ (444,000).

Later 60 Minutes (611,000) then Troppo (353,000), Crime Investigation Australia (270,000).

Nine network easily won Sunday with 34.5% then Seven 26.8%, ABC and 10 (both 16.0%) and SBS 6.7%.

Elsewhere last night were Killing Eve (153,000) and Antiques Roadshow (150,000) on ABC.

10’s movie Joker was a mere 116,000.

On SBS it was SBS World News (212,000 / 147,000), Treasures Of Arabia (139,000) and Attila’s Forbidden Tomb (123,000).

Insiders led multichannels at 169,000 on ABC News on top of its primary channel crowd (298,000).

In Total TV numbers last Sunday were:
Married at First Sight: 1.83m
Australian Survivor: 829,000
Vera: 1.23m
Dancing with the Stars: All Stars: 1.02m
FBI: 277,000

OzTAM Overnights: Sunday 27 February 2022