Nine’s Olympics dominates across the weekend

Tim Burrowes

August 6, 2012 10:03

Nine’s coverage of the Olympics dominated Australia’s weekend television viewing.

Friday’s main evening coverage of London 2012 rated an average metro audience of 1.427m according to ratings from OzTam, most watched show of the night. The early evening session rated 1.379m, second for Friday.

Saturday was even stronger for Nine, averaging 1.75m viewers for the evening session and 1.569m for the early evening.

Sunday night saw the main evening session averaging 1.667m, with the early evening session watched by 1.596m.

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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.