Rugby semi final and The Ashes dominate Friday’s television viewing

Tim Burrowes

November 25, 2017 1:14

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

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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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3 COMMENTS

BJ 27 Nov 17

Tim, it’s rugby league, not rugby. And no, it’s not “the same thing”.

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Tim Burrowes 27 Nov 17

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

Actually 27 Nov 17

@BJ it’s ‘thugby’

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