Sam Newman’s farewell helps Nine’s Footy Show into TV top twenty

Nine’s Footy Show made a rare return to the top twenty Thursday night TV shows as veteran commentator Sam Newman gave an emotional farewell to the program and viewers tuned in ahead of the weekend’s Preliminary AFL and NRL finals

Despite making the top twenty TV shows with 373,000 metro viewers, Nine’s footy show still trailed Seven’s rival AFL program, The Front Bar which attracted an audience of 407,000 across the five major cities.

In Melbourne, The Footy Show had 170,000 viewers to The Front Bar’s 278,000.