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.

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