Cricket dominates Sunday ratings as Australia closes on first test victory

Tim Burrowes

November 27, 2017 9:32

Australia’s breakthrough day in The Ashes drove big audiences to Nine throughout the day on Sunday.

The evening session of the fourth day of the first test match against England drew the biggest audience of the series so far, as viewers watched Australia’s batsmen begin their run chase in Brisbane. The session averaged 1.174m metro viewers, according to preliminary overnight data from OzTam. Including regional viewing this rose to 1.63.

Australia need 56 more runs to win! #Ashes pic.twitter.com/n0Td8PwHM7

— Wide World of Sports (@wwos) November 26, 2017

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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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1 COMMENTS

Dave 27 Nov 17

Tim, to be fair to Seven, they actually did really well (winning in network share – so they actually beat Nine) and Channel 7 was just 0.3% behind Channel 7.

Cricket (even Ashes) is a DAY game rememeber, there is no “evening session” (it’s Session 3), that’s just due to the over-run.

Which is why all of Channel 9’s ratings are incorrect. Food Fight will be down, 60 Minutes up I’ll tell you now. Session 3 and News will also go up/down.

Can you post any revised ratings?

Thank you very much Mumbrella team.

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