Nine wins first day as bushfires drive viewers towards news coverage

Tim Burrowes

February 9, 2009 11:49

Nine won the first day of the ratings season, although viewers tuning in for information about the Victorian bushfires also drove Seven’s current affairs programming to a strong evening.

Seven News was the top rating programme of the night, with a 1.9m audience, just 100,000 ahead of Nine News. Seven’s new current affairs show Sunday Night debuted with a strong 1.6m audience.

Seven will be happy enough with the performance of most of its Sunday night lineup, with Border Security, Triple Zero Heroes and City Homicide all rating in the top ten.

But the cricket, which went through to 10pm, helped Nine to a relatively comfortable share win for the day. Nine took 34%; Seven 30.9%; Ten 18.7%; ABC 13.7%; SBS 2.7%.

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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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