Nine’s Christmas with the Australian Women’s Weekly drops on last year but still tops night

In a quiet night in TV Nine’s Christmas with the Australian Women’s Weekly at 6.30pm was the most watched non-news program, pulling a metro audience of 797,000 but it was not enough for Nine to secure a ratings win for the evening, with Seven beating Nine’s share of 17.7 per cent with an audience share of 20.5 per cent.

The Australian Women’s Weekly audience was down on last year’s audience of 1.2m viewers when it aired in the 7pm timeslot, however it did out-rate Ten’s Scorpion which attracted 555,000 viewers and the ABC’s Compass which was watched by 218,000 viewers, in the first night outside the official ratings period.

The ABC beat Ten in terms of audience share, grabbing a share of 13.4 per cent while Ten settled for a share of 11.9 per cent. Seven News won the night with an audience of 1.082m, while Nine News had an audience of 1.066m, according to the OzTam overnight metro ratings.