Seven wins Sunday while Sunrise eats Today for breakfast

Tim Burrowes

March 8, 2010 11:46

It was Seven’s Sunday in the TV ratings, with the network pulling in the top three shows and its breakfast lineup winning by a margin it could only dream of on weekdays.

Seven News, with nearly 1.5m viewers, was the most watched show of Sunday night, according to preliminary ratings from OzTam.

Meanwhile Nine’s sci-fi miniseries V made a solid enough debut with nearly 1.3m viewers.

And while Nine’s weekday Today show has been breathing down Sunrise’s neck, particularly while the Olympics was on, there was no contest on Sunday.

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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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2 COMMENTS

Gavin 8 Mar 10

I’m actually stunned that more than 50% of the population still allegedly watch the great triumvirate of Channels Sad, Dead and Kid.

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Josh 8 Mar 10

More than 50% of the tv watching population do. Not ‘the population’.

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