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More than 1m watch England beat Australia in first one day international

More than 1m viewers across Australia’s five metro cities tuned in to watch England defeat Australia in cricket for the first time this summer in the first One Day International.

The One Day International ran on Nine, making it the most watched program aside from news on Sunday. The match also rated strongly in OzTam’s’ key advertising demographics of 16-39s, 18-49s and 25-54s.

Updated figures from Nine revealed the first session averaged 1.038m metro viewers, but that number climbed in the second session to 1.216m, as Australia was defeated in a record run chase.

Session two gave Nine its highest rating One Day International match in two years.

The national figures – which include regional markets – attracted 1.520m and 1.795m for the first and second sessions respectively.

According to OzTAM, the only other program to attract more than 1m metro viewers on the weekend was Nine News Sunday, with 1.329m.

Seven News Sunday fell short to Nine, with 975,000 metro viewers, while ABC News Sunday managed 629,000.

Ten Eyewitness News pulled in 277,000 at 5pm.

A repeat of Midsomer Murders on the ABC was the most watched entertainment program last night, with 499,000 metro viewers.

The last leg of SBS Viceland’s The Ghan – which ran from 5:15pm til 8:30pm, had 69,000 metro viewers. Its combined audience – which includes regional marketers – was 95,000.

Between 2:40am and 8:30pm, the Ghan’s combined average audience was 58,000.

In the multi-channels, 9Life’s Fixer Upper was the most watched program of the evening, rating 172,000. It managed to make the top 20 in the overall ratings.

Nine’s cricket coverage helped the channel to a 29.8% audience share, comfortably ahead of its nearest competitors Seven (17.9%) and ABC’s 11.3%.

Unusually, SBS beat Ten into fifth place, with shares of 6.2% and 4.9% respectively.

SBS Viceland attracted a share of 2.1%.

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