Geelong AFL victory helps Seven to Friday night ratings win

Tim Burrowes

July 30, 2016 12:37

Seven’s AFL: Friday Night Football helped the network to its first ratings win of the week.

The Geelong Cats versus Western Bulldogs game topped viewing in Melbourne with 403,000 viewers, and rated another 110,000 in Adelaide. In Sydney, Brisbane and Perth, where the AFL was on secondary channel 7Mate, it delivered a further 129,000 metro viewers.

Meanwhile, Nine’s NRL coverage of Bulldogs vs Dragons rated 260,000 in Sydney and 129,000 in Brisbane.

Seven won the night with a share of 23.6%, while Nine averaged 16.1% and Ten 10%, according to the preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.

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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.