Half a million tune in to watch Samantha Stosur win US Open
Just over half a million people tuned in to Nine watch Australian Samantha Stosur beat Serena Williams in the women’s final of the US Open tennis yesterday morning.
According to preliminary metro ratings from OzTam, the tennis pulled in 508,000 on Nine which was 109,000 ahead of Seven’s Sunrise on at the same time.
During the tennis, Today was shifted to digital channel Gem where it fetched just 24,000. When it returned to Nine following the tennis it averaged 381,000.
Overall The X Factor won the night with 1.398 million.
The ABC’s Australian Story which centred on former CEO of The Brand Shop Gavin Larkin received 817,000.
Monday’s top 15 shows:
- The X Factor – Seven – 1.398m
- Seven News – Seven – 1.285m
- Today Tonight – Seven – 1.234m
- Home and Away – Seven – 1.185m
- Nine News – Nine – 1.145m
- ABC News – ABC – 1.010m
- A Current Affair – Nine – 0.997m
- Body of Proof – Seven – 0.996m
- The Farmer Wants A Wife – Nine – 0.969m
- The Big Bang Theory – Nine – 0.828m
- Australian Story – ABC – 0.817m
- The 7PM Project – Ten – 0.784m
- Undercover Boss – Ten – 0.764m
- 7:30 – ABC – 0.711m
- Four Corners – ABC – 0.687m
Monday’s metro channel share:
- Seven: 24.7%
- Nine: 19.3%
- ABC1: 14.2%
- Ten: 12.6%
- 7TWO: 4.8%
- GO!: 4.4%
- SBS1: 4.3%
- Eleven: 3.8%
- 7mate: 3.2%
- Gem: 2.7%
- ABC2: 2.2%
- One: 1.8%
- ABC News 24: 0.9%
- ABC3: 0.5%
- SBS2: 0.5%
Paid off for Nine to show it live, a sthey should have
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