Football and bullying score for Nine on Sunday

Robin Hicks

March 21, 2011 10:40

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.

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4 COMMENTS

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.

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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.

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