AFL helps Seven to Friday night ratings win

Tim Burrowes

June 18, 2016 1:28

Friday Night Football helped Seven to a comfortable ratings win last night.

Last night’s 23% audience share for Seven was well ahead of Nine’s 16.2%, Ten’s 11.7% and ABC’s 9%, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.

The strong performance means that although Nine has led the entire week for progressive share, its lead has now been virtually overhauled as the networks enter the final day of the ratings week.

Nine’s advantage over Seven has now been cut down to just 0.3 ratings points – a lead of 19.1% of the progressive Sunday to Friday share compared to Seven’s 18.8%. Ten is third on 16%.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.