Rugby semi final and The Ashes dominate Friday’s television viewing
Cricket and rugby dominated Friday night’s viewing, with strong audiences tuning in for the Rugby League World Cup semi final on Seven and for The Ashes on Nine.
Seven won the boasting rights, with preliminary overnight ratings showing a national audience of 1.077m tuning in to watch Australia trounce Fiji.
Meanwhile the third session of the first Ashes test averaged national audience of 956,000 for Nine. Nine said that, corrected for the actual broadcast times, this number rose to 1.035m.
Plenty of excitement from Day Two of the #Ashes. #9WWOS https://t.co/eD1psSKIB1
Tim, it’s rugby league, not rugby. And no, it’s not “the same thing”.
Hi BJ,
I feat this is as dangerous territory as when I ask someone to explain the difference between footy, footy, footy and soccer (the real footy…)
Cheers,
Tim
@BJ it’s ‘thugby’