Titans defeat of Eels ratings turnoff for Friday night NRL audience

Tim Burrowes

March 18, 2017 2:42

Friday night’s trip to Queensland for the Parramatta Eels to take on the Gold Coast Titans failed to be a major attraction for Nine’s Sydney and Brisbane viewers on Friday night, with the NRL game failing to draw as big an audience as Seven News or Nine News in the two cities.

Seven News was the most watched show of the night across the country, with 844,000 metro viewers and 1.3m viewers nationally. Meanwhile Nine News rated 786,000 metro viewers.

The NRL game – which saw the Titans trounce the Eeels 26-14 – rated 205,000 in Sydney and 160,000 in Brisbane.

The ABC’s best performer was Broadchurch which brought in a metro audience of 607,000 and a national audience of 903,000.

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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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3 COMMENTS

Daniel 19 Mar 17

What were the ratings for the Fox League broadcast of the same game?

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Tim Burrowes 19 Mar 17

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the question. I’m afraid I probably won’t have access to those numbers until Monday morning.

Cheers,

Tim – Mumbrella

Ye Shall Receive 20 Mar 17

23,000 live and 6,000 for the replay later than night.

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