Hattrick for Seven but Nine takes the night – now it’s down to Will Smith versus Kevin Costner

Tim Burrowes

February 27, 2009 10:58

Although Seven had the top shows, Nine won the night in what is becoming a ratings week that may go to the wire.

Seven News, Today Tonight and Home and Away delivered Seven a hattrick of top shows for the evening. But Nine still came in with an audience share of 27.4%, just ahead of Seven’s 26.7%. According to the preliminiary OzTam data, Ten racked up 25%, the ABC took 16.1%, and SBS 4.7%.

So far Nine’s weekly audience share is 28.5%, only just ahead of Seven’s 28.2%. Ten trails at 22.6%.

The weekly winner could well be decided by two things.

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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.