Australia’s Ashes win brings 1.4m to Nine

Australia celebrates victory over England in The Ashes. Photo from Cricket Australia

Channel Nine had over 1.4m metro viewers watching as Australia closed in on a whitewash over England in The Ashes fifth test on Sunday afternoon, with just under 1.4m staying tuned as the team cemented their victory and lifted the urn in the evening session.

The Ashes gave Channel Nine the top five programs yesterday with the three sessions of play as well as The Cricket Show, on at 12.30pm during the lunch interval, leading into Nine News at 6pm which grabbed more than 1.12m at 6pm.

Meanwhile Seven News at the same time averaged 961,000 metro viewers, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.