Nine takes photo finish weekly ratings victory despite Seven winning Saturday

Tim Burrowes

September 4, 2016 12:36

Nine has hung on for a ratings victory for the week over Seven by the narrowest of margins.

Despite coming second to Seven on Saturday, Nine managed to pull in just enough of the lacklustre weekend free-to-air audience to claim what was only its fifth weekly ratings win of 2016.

Nine’s best non-news performer was Michael Bay movie Transformers: Age of Extinction, which rated 516,000 across the five capital cities.

Michael Bay helped Nine fall across the line for a rare weekly win

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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.