News programming dominates TV viewing for first Friday of summer

Tim Burrowes

December 3, 2016 2:57

News and current affairs dominated Australian television viewing on Friday, during an evening in which no program came close to a million metro viewers.

Six of the ten most watched programs were from the news and current affairs genre, with Seven News topping the night with an average of 814,000 viewers, according to preliminary overnight ratings from OzTam.

Nine News was a distant second with 739,000 viewers. However, it beat Seven News in Melbourne and Brisbane.

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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.