Olympics and cricket only win Nine silver in Sunday’s ratings

The sporting combo of one day cricket and the Winter Olympics wasn’t enough to win the TV ratings for Nine on Sunday.  

Australia’s comfortable victory over West Indies averaged just under 1.1m for both the afternoon and primetime sessions in Brisbane.

And Nine’s coverage of the first day’s Olympic competition rated 910,000, behind both Castle and House on Seven and ten (although both started half an hour earlier).

Based on preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam, the night belonged to Seven:

1. Seven: 27.2%
2. Nine: 25.9%
3. Ten: 21.4%
4. ABC1: 12.3%
5. SBS1: 4.9%
6. GO!: 4.7%
7. 7TWO: 1.8%
8. ABC2: 0.6%
9. One: 0.6%
10. ABC3: 0.3%
11. SBS2: 0.3%

However, the stronger performance of Nine’s digital channel Go means that as a network Nine’s share of 30.6% was ahead of Seven’s total of 29%.

Sunday’s top rating shows:

1. Nine News Nine 1.4m
2. Seven News Seven 1.4m
3. Air Ways Seven 1.4m
4. Border Security Seven 1.3m
5. Bones Seven 1.3m
6. The Good Wife Ten 1.2m
7. One Day Cricket – Primetime Nine 1.1m
8. Sunday Night Seven 1.1m
9. One Day Cricket – Afternoon Nine 1.1m
10. Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation Ten 1.1m
11. Castle Seven 0.978m
12. House Ten 0.946m
13. Olympic Winter Games: Vancouver Gold Nine 0.910m
14. ABC News ABC 0.868m
15. The Biggest Loser Ten 0.805m

Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.

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Comments: 1

Tony 15 Feb 10

I’m surprised no one is talking about how the Today show on Saturday was showing graphic footage of the luge competitor’s death (in repeat slo-mo, no less!). It was quickly dropped from the rest of the program. Disturbing.

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