Nearly 1.8m for Australia’s rugby exit

Australia’s exit from the Rugby World Cup helped Nine to an easy ratings win on Sunday.

The contest with New Zealand rated 1.788m, according to preliminary metro ratings from OzTam.

Second was Nine News with 1.382m, followed by Underbelly Razor with 1.336m.

Seven’s Wild Boys slipped below 1m, to 997,000, while Seven News rated 1.243m.

Junior Masterchef was Ten’s best performing show of the night although it only rated 872,000.  

Sunday’s top 15:

1. Rugby World Cup: New Zealand v Australia Nine 1.788m
2. Nine News Nine 1.382m
3. Underbelly: Razor Nine 1.336m
4. Seven News Seven 1.243m
5. Sunday Night – not broadcast in Perth Seven 0.956m
6. Rugby League: Australia v New Zealand Nine 0.943m
7. Wild Boys Seven 0.890m
8. Junior Masterchef Ten 0.872m
9. Terra Nova Ten 0.827m
10. Wide Open Road ABC 0.774m
11. The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency ABC 0.727m
12. Bones Seven 0.723m
13. ABC News ABC 0.694m
14. Person of Interest Nine 0.670m
15. Merlin Ten 0.624m

Sunday’s share:

• Nine: 29.9%
• Seven: 21.4%
• Ten: 13.5%
• ABC1: 11.2%
• 7TWO 3.7%
• GO!: 3.6%
• Eleven: 3.0%
• SBS1: 3.0%
• 7mate: 2.7%
• One: 2.7%
• ABC2: 1.7%
• Gem: 1.5%
• ABC3: 0.6%
• ABC News 24: 0.6%
• SBS2: 0.6%

Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.

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Comments: 5

hugh 17 Oct 11

what was the break down between the Gem and channel 9 coverage of the rugby? Was great to watch sport in hd again

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Tony D 17 Oct 11

Channel 9 commentary with Ray Hadley was appalling. He is a radio man for rugby league, not television and not union. The only thing more annoying than watching the Wallabies get belted was listening to Hadley fumble his way through the call.

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numbers 17 Oct 11

Commentary was crap, and so were the 30 Swiss ad’s placed in 10sec breaks.

But lets remember, no ad’s = no sport!

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Adam Paull 17 Oct 11

Apparently someone at Nine said “call 2GB and get that rugby guy” and Ray Hadley answered the phone… but it was probably just as well – Alan Jones would have estimated the crowd size at 250,000 with millions more being stopped by police from getting in.

While Ray’s commentary wasn’t up to scratch, I was thankful he didn’t launch into a pro-pokies rant at halftime.

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Dean Robbies 17 Oct 11

Channel 9 should be congratulated for their coverage of the Rugby World Cup – its obvious why they won the rights to broadcast this event… well deserved!

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