Dominant Australian display in The Ashes helps Nine to winning weekend

The Ashes second test and a lineup followed by Nine News, Christmas with the Australian Women’s Weekly and 60 Minutes helped Channel Nine dominate the top five programs and audience share last night, according to OzTam.

Saturday’s viewing was also dominated by the cricket with the Australian team looking to press home their advantage against England, drawing in 1.369m for the evening session and 1.231m for the afternoon, bettered only by Nine News on 1.384m.

Yesterday the third session of the Ashes test won more than 1.5m viewers, while Seven News was second in the 6.30pm timeslot with an audience of  1.07m and David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities averaged 377,000 metro viewers for Ten, preliminary overnight ratings show.

Channel Nine won across all timeslots as following The Ashes Nine News drew 1.6m metro viewers for a half hour bulletin from 6.30pm and Christmas with the Australian Women’s Weekly had over 1.2m viewers at 7pm.