NSW bushfires dominate Thursday’s TV viewing

October 18, 2013 11:50

The NSW bushfires drove the ratings for network news programs on Thursday with Nine News winning the night.

Both Seven and Nine extended their evening news coverage to one hour in Sydney with Nine moving A Current Affair back 30 minutes and Seven scrapping Today Tonight from the Sydney schedule.

The first half hour long news program had 417,000 viewers in Sydney while Seven’s hour long news special had 323,000 in the city, preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam show.

A special Nine News report on only in Sydney was the second most watched program in the city with 381,000 viewers at 10.30pm.

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Megan Reynolds

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