News specials perform well amid chaotic weather, ACA records highest result of 2015

Seven’s decision to have Sunrise host Samantha Armytage in the anchor seat for its Sydney bulletin last night helped boost its audience with an extra 100,000 people tuning in for Seven’s Sydney Storm coverage, in a strong night for news all round.

However, Nine still beat Seven in both Sydney and nationally with an audience of 1.267m for its national news bulletin, with a boost in Sydney of 174,000 viewers.

The decision to put Armytage, whose contract with Seven ends midyear, was made to due the extraordinary weather in Sydney and the fact that regular newsreader Mark Ferguson is in Turkey covering the Gallipoli centenary.