News dominates Thursday night television

Tim Burrowes

April 19, 2013 10:43

News programming dominated Thursday night’s television.

The most watched programme of the night was Nine News, with 1.222m metro viewers, according to preliminary overnight metro figures from OzTAM. News ratings were boosted by viewers tuning in for news on the large explosion at a fertiliser factory in Texas.

This was followed by Seven News (1.15m) and ABC News (1.061m).

Mrs Brown’s Boys rated 993,000 for Seven while Citizen Khan rated 653,000.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.