State of Origin tops Rudd’s return

The State of Origin rugby match between Queensland and NSW dominated TV ratings last night despite breaking news coverage from Canberra throwing the program schedule into disarray on most channels.

Channel Nine extended its 6pm news bulletin, which had 1.544m viewers, with political coverage reporting on the Labor spill from 6.30pm, and dominated the night with a third of the audience share.

The State of Origin match did not air in Perth, however it still had an audience of 2.235m, compared with 2.433m across the five cities for the previous match on June 5. Pre-match coverage started at 7.45pm in the four cities bar Perth and had 1.721m viewers, while post-match coverage was only shown in NSW and Queensland and had 944,000 viewers.

Updated TV ratings released by OzTAM on Friday show ABC’s live political news coverage broadcast across the country drew 977,000 viewers for reporting on the Labor leadership ballot, 831,000 for the Labor leadership change and 727,000 for the Labor leadership conference.

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