Sunday TV ratings goes to Nine

Tim Burrowes

May 3, 2010 12:02

The Nine Network led in the Sunday TV ratings, if not at the Logies.

The 52nd TV Week Logie Awards, broadcast on Nine, was the fourth most-watched show for the night with 1.4m tuning, however this was slightly down from the 1.5m it attracted last year.

According to preliminary overnight OzTam data in the main metro markets Seven’s evening news dominated viewing with over 1.8m, followed by Ten’s Masterchef with 1.532m.

In overall free-to-air TV viewing Nine managed a 32.8 per cent share, ahead of Seven with 25.4 per cent and Ten with 19.1 per cent.

Sunday’s top-rating shows:

SEVEN NEWS – SUN 1.816m
MASTERCHEF 1.532m
NINE NEWS SUNDAY 1.473m
52ND ANNUAL TV WEEK LOGIE AWARDS 1.4m
CUSTOMS 1.396m
BONES 1.357m
SEND IN THE DOGS 1.357m
THE FORCE – BEHIND THE LINE 1.214m
SUNDAY NIGHT 1.13m
BORDER SECURITY – AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE (R) 1.176m
MERLIN 1.035m
CASTLE 1.03m
THE GOOD WIFE 937,000
DOCTOR WHO-EV 915,000
ABC NEWS-SU 831,000

Sunday’s channel share:

Nine: 32.8%
Seven: 25.4%
Ten: 19.1%
ABC1: 9.9%
GO!: 4.5%
SBS1: 3.4%
7TWO: 2.5%
One: 1.4%
ABC2: 0.7%
ABC3: 0.2%
SBS2: 0.1%

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.