Nine leads with Customs, while ABC1 strong among young viewers

Tim Burrowes

March 11, 2010 1:38

While Nine took the Wednesday ratings lead with observational documentary Customs, ABC1 was strong among younger viewers thanks to its music game show Spicks and Specks and Hungry Beast.

Customs was the most-watched show for the night with over 1.3 million viewers, according to preliminary overnight OzTam data in the main metro markets.

It was ahead of Seven’s Criminal Minds and evening news bulletin – both of which rated higher than the Nine program the previous Wednesday.

Meanwhile, ABC1’s evening news and Spicks and Specks made it on the top 15 most-watched list with over one million viewers respectively, while the Andrew Denton-produced Hungry Beast attracted 665,000.

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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.

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