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

Tim Burrowes

September 28, 2009 11:25

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:

Seven News Seven 1.5m
Midsomer Murders ABC 1.5m
Border Security Seven 1.4m
The Force Seven 1.4m
Sunday Night Seven 1.3m
Nine News Nine 1.2m
Yellowstone ABC 1.1m
ABC News Update ABC 1m
ABC News ABC 0.985m
Australian Idol Ten 0.984m

Sunday’s share:

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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

Chris Walton 28 Sep 09

I just can’t believe there were actually 4.4% of people in Melbourne not watching it. Perhaps they were members of the Melbourne Storm warming up for their game?

And Go!/One getting almost 6% between them on a Sunday? That’s more than SBS.

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John 28 Sep 09

How did Rescue: Special Ops go? Is it rating well enough for a second series?

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John Grono 28 Sep 09

G’day Chris.

There was actually 66% of Melbourne who didn’t watch the AFL Grand Final. Of the people who were watching TV on Saturday afternoon, 85% watched the Grand Final. The 95.6% reported is the proportion of people who were watching commercial FTA TV at that time.