Nine wins TV ratings week thanks to weekend cricket boost

Tim Burrowes

December 18, 2016 1:34

Nine won Saturday’s ratings and with them the ratings week, preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam reveal.

Thanks to the cricket, the network took a 24.6% share of Saturday night’s audience, well ahead of Seven’s 19.6%.

The first session of the third day of the first Australia-Pakistan test drew an average metro audience of 709,000. This rose to 872,000 for the second session and 885,000 for the third.

The inherited audience also helped Nine News to a strong audience of 924,000, well ahead of Seven News’s 819,000 and ABC News’s 618,000.

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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.