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Hewitt’s battling loss helps Seven to win on night of sporting drama

Tennis came through on a sport-heavy night for TV viewers last night with Lleyton Hewitt’s five-set loss to Bejamin Becker proving more compelling than the Soceroos in the Asian Cup and Brett Lee’s final game at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Seven’s night coverage of the Australian Open was the most watched non-news show of the evening with 888,000 viewers,  with 436,000 sticking with the late session on the channel.

Tim Cahill’s heroics in the Asian Cup quarter final between Australia and China had an audience of 618,000 on ABC from 9.30pm, the biggest audience so far for the tournament. Fox Sports’ live coverage got 286,000 viewers.

Meanwhile fast-bowler Lee’s dramatic farewell to his home ground in the Big Bash League, which saw his Sydney Sixers side beat rivals Sydney Thunder with the last ball of the match, could only pull in 441,000 for the first innings from 7.30pm, and 524,000 for the second innings, according to OzTam overnight ratings.

Figures from Ten, based on the actual timings of the match from OzTam figures, puts the session one audience at 544,000 (including on One in Perth) and session two at 483,000.

Nine’s quiz show Hot Seat was the most watched non-news or sport show of the evening with 582,000 viewers, with Getaway Summer at 7.30pm pulling 531,000 viewers. Ten’s simulcast of Family Feud got 511,000, whilst kings Cross ER on Nine had 499,000 viewers.

Nine News was the most-watched show of the evening with 1.001m viewers, with the 6.30pm bulletin dropping to 972,000, as Seven News had 956,000 viewers.

The tennis helped Seven to a commanding win with 24 per cent audience share on its primary channel, while Nine beat ABC with 14.8 per cent to 13.2 per cent and Ten was fourth with 12.9 per cent.

Top 15 shows:

1 NINE NEWS Network 9 1,001,000

2 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network 9 972,000

3 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 956,000

4 SEVEN’S TENNIS: 2015 AUSTRALIAN OPEN – NIGHT 4 Network 7 888,000

5 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 865,000

6 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network 9 823,000

7 ABC NEWS-EV Network ABC 662,000

8 FOOTBALL: ASIAN CUP 2015 QTR FINAL AUS V CHN LIVE-LE Network ABC 618,000

9 HOT SEAT Network 9 582,000

10 TEN EYEWITNESS NEWS Network TEN 566,000

11 GETAWAY -SUMMER Network 9 531,000

12 CRICKET: T20 BIG BASH LEAGUE GAME 32 – SESSION 1 Network TEN 524,000

13 FAMILY FEUD Network TEN 511,000

14 KINGS CROSS ER Network 9 499,000

15 7.30 SUMMER-EV Network ABC 486,000

Audience share – channel

Network 7 24.0%

Network 9 14.8%

Network ABC 13.2%

Network TEN 12.9%

Network GO! 5.3%

Network 7mate 4.7%

Network SBS ONE 4.4%

Network Gem 3.9%

Network ELEVEN 3.8%

Network ONE 3.7%

Network ABC2 3.5%

Network 7TWO 2.4%

Network ABC3 1.2%

Network SBS 2 1.1%

Network ABC News 24 1.1%

Network NITV 0.1% 0.1%

Audience share – total network

Network 7 TTL 31.1%

Network 9 TTL 24.0%

Network TEN TTL 20.3%

Network ABC TTL 19.0%

Network SBS TTL 5.5%

Ratings data is copyright OzTAM and may not be reproduced, published or communicated without the prior written consent of OzTAM.

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