A big weekend of sports is about to kick off, with Seven getting in early with an AFL ratings win.
It was Seven’s night with the Thursday night AFL game pulling in 739,000 national viewers. Nine rested after the State of Origin win the night before, Ten battled — with MasterChef Australia attracting 717,000. A long weekend in most states so lots of sport — AFL Big Freeze game on Monday from Sydney the highlight.
Q&A was up to 464,000, up from 351,000 a week ago, and Foreign Correspondent pulled in 610,000 — up from 525,000.
Nine boasted on Thursday that the first 2021 State of Origin game “achieved a live average national audience of 2,988,000 people across linear broadcast on Channel 9 and BVOD streaming on 9Now, making it the most-watched program of the year to-date in Australia and exceeding all expectations. On Channel 9, the national average audience was up 12.7% on game one of the 2020 series with 2.7 million people. On 9Now, the live BVOD audience was up by a massive 56% year-on-year with 280,000 (including co-viewing) — the largest live BVOD audience ever recorded on any CFTA BVOD platform in Australian history.”
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