Saturday TV ratings: ABC places second ahead of Nine and Ten

April 30, 2017 2:25

It was a quiet night for television on Saturday, with no programs cracking the 1m metro viewers benchmark and the national broadcaster beating both Nine and Ten in terms of average audience share.

For the fifth time since Sunday, the ABC posted a higher audience share than Ten – 14.9% compared to 7.2%. The ABC placed second behind Seven’s 21.1%, also finishing ahead of Nine (14.5%) and SBS (5.6%).

The ABC had a strong showing in the top 10 programs, according to OzTam’s overnight preliminary metro ratings, with ABC News placing third (788,000), The Coroner fourth (688,000), The Halcyon fifth (558,000), Gardening Australia eighth (410,000) and New Tricks 10th (382,000).

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Vivienne Kelly

Vivienne Kelly was previously the editor of Mumbrella from 2016 to August 2020.

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