Australia’s rugby league victory over Kiwis takes Nine to weekly ratings win

Tim Burrowes

October 16, 2016 12:50

Australia’s rugby league victory over New Zealand helped Nine to a ratings victory on Saturday night which also took the network to a win for the week.

The game was the most watched TV program on Saturday, with an audience of 831,000 across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.

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Nine said the game’s peak national combined metro and regional audience was 1.674m when viewers in Adelaide on secondary channel 9Gem were also included.

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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.