News bulletins top week’s ratings while ABC News channel attracts record audience share

Tim Burrowes

March 29, 2020 3:47

TV audiences turned back towards news programming as the coronavirus emergency worsened through the week, ratings from OzTam reveal.

The thirst for news saw the ABC News channel attract some of the biggest audience share in its history.

Unusually, the four most watched TV programs of the last seven days were all news bulletins, with last Sunday’s Seven News averaging 1.381m metro viewers, just ahead of Nine News Sunday which rated 1.264m.

Seven News bulletins were also in third and fourth slots in the all-people demographic too.

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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.

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Geoff Phillips 30 Mar 20

And Scomo wants to slash the ABC budget!!!!

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