Seven wins Wednesday’s ratings as Ten slumps to 16%

Tim Burrowes

September 17, 2009 11:35

It was an easy ratings victory for Seven on Wednesday night, with every show in the network’s lineup beating its commercial rivals.

Seven News neat Nine News and Ten’s The Simpsons; Today Tonight beat A Current Affair and Neighbours; Home And Away defeated Two And A Half Men and The 7PM Project; while World’s Strictest Parents was well ahead of Nine’s Money For Jam and thrashed Ten’s 7.30pm Simpsons double bill.

Ten’s Law & Order UK continued to struggle with an average of just 593,000 last night as the network achieved a miserable 16% share, well behind the ABC.

Wednesday night’s share, based on preliminary OzTam ratings:

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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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