Nine’s Sunday edition of A Current Affair falls back

Tim Burrowes

March 28, 2011 9:39

Nine’s new Sunday edition of A Current Affair remains an open question after its third outing lost nearly 400,000 viewers on last week’s.

A week ago the show, hosted by Today’s Karl Stefanovic, rated 1.237m viewers on the back of an interview with one of the protagonists in the schoolyard fight video which became one of the stories of the week. It was the fourth biggest show of the night.

The previous week – the first Sunday edition of A Current Affair – had rated 875,000, 14th for the night, according to metro ratings from OzTam.

And last night A Current Affair’s Sunday edition delivered was back to around that level, delivering 881,000 viewers, 12th for the night.

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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.

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Adam Paull 28 Mar 11

It will be interesting to see how the shambolic Tim Minchin concert on ABC2 went last night – between Twitter exploding and everybody phoning their friends telling them to tune in, audience numbers must have gone through the roof!

In what can only be described as one of the most embarrassing broadcasts in Australian television history, the ABCs reputation as a ‘quality’ broadcaster took a bit of a battering last night…

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