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Nine scores a win on Thursday evening with help of NRL coverage

May 25, 2018 9:52

Nine finished ahead of all free-to-air rivals on Thursday night, with the help of news and current affairs, an NRL clash and The Footy Show.

The most successful program for Nine was its 6pm news bulletin, which finished with 894,000 metro viewers. But the performance of the NRL clash between the Brisbane Broncos and Parramatta Eels – 388,000 across Sydney and Brisbane – coupled with The Footy Show’s 387,000 metro viewers, saw the channel defeat Seven’s 17.2% main channel share and Ten’s 16.6%.

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Zoe Samios worked at Mumbrella between 2016 and 2019, finishing up as senior media reporter in March 2019.

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