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Seven and ABC dominate Sunday while Ten clocks up 95.6% in Melbourne for AFL final

Seven and the ABC dominated Sunday night’s viewing, with each of them pulling in four of the top ten slots.  

Seven won Sunday with a share of 27%, while Ten had another below 20% performance, according to preliminary TV ratings from Oztam.

Sunday’s top ten TV shows:

  1. Seven News Seven 1.5m
  2. Midsomer Murders ABC 1.5m
  3. Border Security Seven 1.4m
  4. The Force Seven 1.4m
  5. Sunday Night Seven 1.3m
  6. Nine News Nine 1.2m
  7. Yellowstone ABC 1.1m
  8. ABC News Update ABC 1m
  9. ABC News ABC 0.985m
  10. Australian Idol Ten 0.984m

Sunday’s share:

  • Seven: 27.0
  • Nine: 21.2
  • ABC1: 21.1
  • Ten: 18.3
  • SBS1 4.9
  • GO!: 3.2
  • ONE: 2.5
  • ABC2: 1.5
  • SBS2: 0.4

However, it was a different story for Ten on Saturday afternoon when the channel recorded one of its best audiences of the year, with the AFL grand final rating an astonishing 95.6% commercial share in Melbourne. Across the five cities it rated 2.9m, rising to 3.4m taking into account regional viewers.

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