Sport sees Seven romp to easy win in Friday’s ratings

Tim Burrowes

August 20, 2016 2:51

The Olympics and AFL saw Seven stroll home to one of its biggest Friday wins of the year.

The network won Friday with a primetime share of 27.3%, streets ahead of Nine’s 14% and Ten’s 10.3%, according to preliminary metro ratings from OzTam.

Seven’s dominance in Melbourne was even greater, with an average of 352,000 viewers in the city tuning in for the AFL Premiership clash between West Coast and Hawthorn. A further 120,000 watched in Adelaide.

Meanwhile, the most watched program of the night across the five city metro was Seven News with 1.174m viewers.

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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.