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3.26m watch NSW win State of Origin II

With one game each to NSW and Queensland, Nine is on track for a massive Decider in July.

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A NSW Blues blitz over Queensland Maroons at State of Origin II last night drew a whopping 3.26m viewers in National TV Audience.

There were 902,000 watching in Sydney, 638,000 in Brissy and 258,000 in Melbourne where the match was played. Nine had a whopping 48% share.

Down slightly on Origin I‘s 3.44m, it is now the second-highest overnight audience for 2024 and sets up Nine beautifully for a decider III match on July 17.

Meanwhile Seven made a last minute programming change for the arrival of Julian Assange, which ran Live for 90 mins. Home & Away did not screen but the OzTAM numbers do not reflect the 30 min overrun.

Nine News was 1.27m then Tipping Point (721,000). Origin Post Match was 1.08m.

Seven News won its slot at 1.33m with The Chase at 596,000. Seven News Special: Assange Comes Home (599,000), Home & Away (437,000). The Front Bar drew 375,000 then in select cities, Talking Footy (183,000) and Unbelievable Moments Caught on Camera (53,000).

ABC News was 899,000 for ABC then 7:30 (614,000), Hard Quiz (567,000 / rpt 415,000), Gruen (562,000), Antiques Roadshow (248,000), Planet America (229,000).

MasterChef Australia scored 522,000 for 10. The Project was 368,000 then 10 News First (338,000), Deal or No Deal (299,000), NCIS: Sydney (265,000), and FBI: International (135,000).

On SBS it was SBS World News (206,000 / 136,000), Mastermind (110,000), Concorde: The Race For Supersonic (109,000) and This Town (43,000).

Sunrise:  382,000
Today: 314,000
News Breakfast: 250,000

National Total TV: Wednesday 26 June 2024

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  1. Does last night’s H&A now replace tonight’s ep 1 and tonight’s ep 3 pushed back to Monday night and so forth? Or quadruple eps tonight? Or a special Fri, Sat or Sun one off ep?

  2. Sevens idea that people might be interested in Julian Assange getting the royal treatment at the PM’s airport hanger in Canberra is a lesson for us all. Given Home and Away (News special replacement) numbers are 400K they more then likely handed an audience to Nine. Home and Away would’ve rated higher.

  3. DK, I wonder whether 258k Melbourne viewers is classified as a medium sized number? The last time the Origin being played in MCG in 2018, they had 365k viewers. I wonder how many Melburnians watched the Game 1 2012 (at Docklands) and Game 2 2015 (at MCG)? Because there’s seems to be a lot of Melburnians watching the Origin series in order to boost its hype. The lopsided Origin game didn’t help Melburnians.
    Nevertheless, 90,064 people attending game at the MCG. I still think the crowd number is excellent. But I wonder whether some Victorian NRL fans attended the match?

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