Football and bullying score for Nine on Sunday

A special edition of A Current Affair, which featured bullied school kid Casey Heynes, and Nine’s Sunday Football, which dished up an end-to-end encounter between the Manly Sea Eagles and the Sydney Roosters, won the Sunday ratings contest for Nine.

The network claimed 22.4% share compared to Seven’s 21.9%, according to OzTam’s preliminary Sunday night ratings.

Seven News was the day’s most watched show, with 1.419m viewers, followed by Nine News. Seven’s The Force was the most watched non-news programme, up from 1.075m viewers last week to 1.302m last night.

Of the digital shows, GO!’s The Big Bang Theory did well, with 0.317m.

Sunday’s top rating shows:

1. Seven News Seven 1.419m
2. Nine News Nine 1.381m
3. The Force Seven 1.302m
4. A Current Affair 1.237m
5. 60 Minutes Nine 1.231m
6. Border Security Seven 1.214m
7. Midsomer Murders ABC1 1.119m
8. Sunday Night Seven 1.039m
9. The Biggest Loser Ten 1.017m
10. Modern Family Ten 1.01m
11. The Mentalist Nine 0.939m
12. Bondi Rescue Ten 0.904m
13. Customs Nine 0.903m
14. Bones Seven 0.873m
15. ABC News ABC 0.816m

Sunday’s station shares:

• Nine: 22.4%
• Seven: 21.9%
• Ten: 15.3%
• ABC1: 14.4%
• GO!: 4.9%
• SBS1: 4.6%
• 7TWO 3.6%
• 7mate: 3.4%
• Eleven: 3.1%
• Gem: 3.0%
• ABC2: 1.0%
• ABC News 24: 0.8%
• One: 0.7%
• SBS2: 0.6%
• ABC3: 0.5%

Robin Hicks

topics Customs NRL OzTam Sydney Roosters The Big Bang Theory The Force

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Comments: 4

RPB 21 Mar 11

I think the ratings for Customs are actually the special edition ACA that was on at 6.30pm with the story of the kid that was bullied. The Send in the Dogs figures would be the numbers for Customs which screened after it at 7pm. Could Ch 9 be planning a regular Sunday Night ACA to combat Sunday Night on Ch 7?

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Robin Hicks 21 Mar 11

Thanks Richie. I’ve amended the piece accordingly.

Cheers,
Robin – Mumbrella

Elbogrease 21 Mar 11

Something wrong here…..
How can rugby have been so big when it hasn’t made the top 15?
Hyperbole?
Or just your garden variety misleading headline?
Midsomer for ABC has “kicked footy out of the stadium” might have been a better headline.

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Robin Hicks 21 Mar 11

Thanks for your comment, Elbogrease.
Nine’s Sunday Football did really well in Sydney (281,000), and pretty well in Brisbane (159,000), and easily won its afternoon timeslot with 440,000 viewers.
This, I feel, would have made the difference between 1st and 2nd for Nine in ratings share overall for Sunday.

Robin – Mumbrella

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