AFL sees Seven dominate Friday night’s ratings

September 22, 2018 11:11

Seven’s AFL coverage topping the night’s viewing with a 1.154m metro audience, beating Nine’s NRL broadcast’s 675,000 viewers according to OzTAM’s preliminary overnight ratings.

The Richmond-Collingwood final saw Seven’s main channel take a metro audience share 31.9% for the evening with Mate, which broadcast the AFL in Sydney, Perth and Brisbane, taking a 8.3% share. Nine’s main channel audience was 18.8% while Ten attracted 7.1%, behind the ABC’s 8.9%.

Seven also saw success with non-sports coverage with Better Homes and Gardens – which went out on the main channel in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth – being the top rating entertainment show with 597,000 metro viewers and The Chase Australia attracting 502,000.

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Paul Wallbank

Paul Wallbank was news editor at Mumbrella between June 2017 and June 2019. Previously he's covered business and technology issues for outlets ranging from The Australian and Sydney Morning Herald to the ABC and Business Spectator.

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