2020 State of Origin series concludes to 1.882m metro viewers

November 19, 2020 10:25

Last night’s decider State of Origin game achieved 1.882 million metro viewers, topping Oz TAM’s overnight ratings. The final match in the series, which saw the Queensland Maroon’s triumph over the NSW Blues 20 to 14, was down on last year’s decider which drew 2.002m metro viewers. Broadcast started at 7pm with kick-off taking place at 8:10pm AEDT.

The pre-match and post-match coverage reached 757,000 and 769,000 metro viewers, respectively. With metro and regional viewers combined, the game itself attracted 2.732m viewers. The national peak audience 3.19m metro viewers.

The Maroons triumph over the Blues reached 2.732m viewers nationally

The Origin coverage provided Nine with success in the key advertising demographics of the 16-39s, 18-49s and 25-54s, taking out the top three places in all. It also delivered Nine the highest network share of the night, on 44.2%, and a 37.8% primary channel share.

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Zoe Wilkinson

Zoe Wilkinson was a reporter at Mumbrella and the producer of the Mumbrellacast from March 2019 to May 2021.

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