Women’s BBL pulls 218,000 metro viewers on quiet Friday night

Despite being the only sport on offer, Friday night’s women’s 7:40pm BBL match between the Sydney Sixers and the Sydney Thunder pulled just 218,000 metro viewers for session one, with the pre game coverage attracting a bigger audience of 230,000. When combined with the regions, those numbers rose to 366,000 and 375,000 respectively. Session two of the Sydney derby played at North Sydney Oval performed worse, with 186,000 metro viewers.

Despite the women’s cricket not performing well for Seven, the network took out the night with 29.6% share, ahead of Nine’s 23.9%. On a channel basis, Seven had 17.5%, while Nine tied with the ABC on 13.7%. The public broadcaster pulled ahead of Ten for network share, 19.7% to 18.1%.