World Cup Cricket semi-final draws 1.6m handing Nine a dominant audience share

March 27, 2015 10:17

Australia’s 95 run win over India in last night’s second Cricket World Cup semi-final saw 1.6m people tune in on Channel Nine last night for the second innings, handing the network a commanding audience share victory for the night.

The strong audience came on a night when many of Nine’s rivals ran dead in the face of the major sporting event, with Seven choosing to screen four episodes of Home and Away, which drew 674,000 people, followed by a rerun of the 1990 movie Pretty Woman, which had 486,000 viewers, according to Oztam’s preliminary overnight ratings.

The first innings of the cricket which started at 2.30pm Eastern time got 790,000 viewers and helping Nine to a massive 36.6 per cent audience share on its main channel. Fox Sports also booked a bumper audience with 393,000 viewers for the second session, and 240,000 for the first.

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Nic Christensen

Nic Christensen worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2016, in roles including deputy editor and media & technology editor. He is former media writer for The Australian and has also worked as a reporter for The Daily Telegraph and senior producer for Radio 2GB.

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