News dominates Friday night TV, handing Seven another win

December 2, 2017 12:50

News and current affairs programs once again topped the ratings ladder on Friday night, with no shows surpassing the 1m metro viewers mark, according to OzTAM’s overnight preliminary metro ratings.

Seven News regularly wins the Friday night ratings battle

Seven News was the most-watched program for the night, drawing in 849,000 viewers across the five capital cities, while Better Homes & Gardens on the same channel was the most-watched entertainment show, with 616,000.

Nine News had 747,000 viewers, slightly ahead of ABC’s news offering which pulled 647,000. Ten’s news, which screens earlier at 5pm, had 435,000 metro viewers.

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Vivienne Kelly

Vivienne Kelly was previously the editor of Mumbrella from 2016 to August 2020.

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