World Cup Cricket semi-final draws 1.6m handing Nine a dominant audience share
Australia’s 95 run win over India in last night’s second Cricket World Cup semi-final saw 1.6m people tune in on Channel Nine last night for the second innings, handing the network a commanding audience share victory for the night.
The strong audience came on a night when many of Nine’s rivals ran dead in the face of the major sporting event, with Seven choosing to screen four episodes of Home and Away, which drew 674,000 people, followed by a rerun of the 1990 movie Pretty Woman, which had 486,000 viewers, according to Oztam’s preliminary overnight ratings.
The first innings of the cricket which started at 2.30pm Eastern time got 790,000 viewers and helping Nine to a massive 36.6 per cent audience share on its main channel. Fox Sports also booked a bumper audience with 393,000 viewers for the second session, and 240,000 for the first.
Over on Ten a repeat of Modern Family in the 7.30pm slot drew 406,000 falling to 403,000 in the 8pm slot, while Gogglebox’s audiences rose on last week pulling 381,000 viewers, up from 376,000, but down from a fortnight ago where the show drew 445,000.
In the news stakes Nine beat Seven on the back on the audience boost for the cricket. Nine had 1.185m in the 6pm slot while 1.083m viewers tuned in for Seven while in the 6.30pm slot Nine had 1.06m to Seven’s 944,000.
In the terms of audience share Nine’s 36.6 per cent share was trailed by Seven on 17.7 per cent, Ten on 9.1 per cent and the ABC on 8.8 per cent.
Top 15 shows
1 ICC WORLD CUP CRICKET 2015 SESSION 2 Network 9 1,607,000
2 NINE NEWS Network 9 1,185,000
3 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 1,083,000
4 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network 9 1,060,000
5 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 944,000
6 THE FOOTY SHOW Network 9 910,000
7 ICC WORLD CUP CRICKET 2015 SESSION 1 Network 9 790,000
8 ABC NEWS Network ABC 698,000
9 HOME AND AWAY Network 7 674,000
10 MILLION DOLLAR MINUTE Network 7 602,000
11 7.30 Network ABC 542,000
12 THE PROJECT 7PM Network TEN 523,000
13 OUTBACK ER Network ABC 507,000
14 PRETTY WOMAN Network 7 486,000
15 FAMILY FEUD Network TEN 432,000
Audience Share
Network 9 36.6%
Network 7 17.7%
Network TEN 9.1%
Network ABC 8.8%
Network 7TWO 4.7%
Network SBS ONE 4.2%
Network GO! 3.8%
Network Gem 2.9%
Network ONE 2.9%
Network 7mate 2.5%
Network ELEVEN 2.3%
Network ABC2 2.2%
Network ABC News 24 1.1%
Network SBS 2 0.7%
Network ABC3 0.5%
Network NITV 0.1%
Total Audience Share
Network 9 TTL 43.2%
Network 7 TTL 24.9%
Network TEN TTL 14.3%
Network ABC TTL 12.6%
Network SBS TTL 5.1%
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