Ratings win for Nine on a slow Thursday night

Tim Burrowes

May 8, 2009 11:38

Nine won Thursday’s TV ratings, in an evening that didn’t see a single show rate over 1.5m.

The Nine Network took a share for the evening of 29.2%, according to preliminary OzTam ratings. This was followed by Seven’s 25.9% and Ten’s 21.8%.

The ABC was on 18.6% and SBS on 4.6%. Last night’s one hour Media Watch 20th anniversary special on ABC1 rated an average of just over 900,000 viewers.

For the ratings week -which ends tomorrow night – Nine has a narrow lead of 29% share to Seven’s 27%.

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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.