The final of a three-match rugby union series between Australia and France moved to Nine’s primary channel last night and was a TV ratings triumph. However the audience wasn’t quite enough to secure Nine a Saturday victory.
TV ratings: Seven
Helping Seven to a Saturday TV ratings win was a strong 6pm news hour with an audience of 1.05m, 100,000 ahead of Nine’s news audience.
The Saturday night AFL was first v seventeenth on the ladder. Melbourne failed to maintain an early lead and the game finished a draw as the form team couldn’t handle the pressure. The AFL audience was 427,000.
Nine
After a big TV ratings Saturday with Wimbledon a week ago, Nine pulled another rabbit out of the hat last night and found half a million metro. The Sydney audience for the Australia v France clash from Brisbane was 225,000 with 139,000 in Brisbane.
10
Share was up a little week-on-week, but still well short of where the network would like its Saturday primary number.
The channel’s best was again out of primetime with 10 News First at 5pm on 365,000.
Later in the night a repeat of The Dog House was on 270,000.
ABC
The Durrells maintains its place at 7.30pm with 341,000 last night.
The ABC News channel had a bigger audience on Saturday morning though with 417,000 tuning in to find out the latest Covid numbers and restriction changes.
Later in the evening Belgravia did 281,000.
SBS
The penultimate night of the Tour de France was again the main attraction with Stage 19 on 189,000.
Saturday TV ratings Metro primetime shares primary/network
ABC 9.5% (14.8%)
Seven 22.1% (34.6%)
Nine 18.3% (27.6%)
10 5.8% (13.9%)
SBS 6.6% (9.1%)
See also: Weekend TV ratings Saturday July 10, 2021
Saturday TV ratings Metro top 20 all people
| 1 | SEVEN NEWS SATURDAY | Channel 7 | 1,054,000 |
| 2 | NINE NEWS SATURDAY | Channel 9 | 956,000 |
| 3 | ABC NEWS SATURDAY | ABC TV | 721,000 |
| 4 | A CURRENT AFFAIR | Channel 9 | 498,000 |
| 5 | RUGBY: 2021 WALLABIES V FRANCE 3RD -MATCH | Channel 9 | 496,000 |
| 6 | SEVEN’S AFL: SATURDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL | 7mate, Channel 7 | 427,000 |
| 7 | CORONAVIRUS: PUBLIC UPDATE-AM | ABC NEWS | 417,000 |
| 8 | GETAWAY (R) | Channel 9 | 374,000 |
| 9 | 10 NEWS FIRST SATURDAY | Channel 10 | 365,000 |
| 10 | THE DURRELLS | ABC TV | 341,000 |
| 11 | RUGBY: 2021 WALLABIES V FRANCE 3RD PRE MATCH | Channel 9 | 324,000 |
| 12 | BORDER SECURITY – AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE (R) | Channel 7 | 307,000 |
| 13 | WEEKEND SUNRISE SATURDAY | Channel 7 | 303,000 |
| 14 | RUGBY: 2021 WALLABIES V FRANCE 3RD POST MATCH | Channel 9 | 301,000 |
| 15 | WEEKEND SUNRISE SATURDAY – LATE | Channel 7 | 289,000 |
| 16 | BELGRAVIA | ABC TV | 281,000 |
| 17 | M: INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE | 7mate, Channel 7 | 278,000 |
| 18 | THE DOG HOUSE (R) | Channel 10 | 270,000 |
| 19 | SEVEN NEWS AT 5 | Channel 7 | 254,000 |
| 20 | NINE NEWS: FIRST AT FIVE | Channel 9 | 234,000 |
Saturday Sports FTA and STV
Rugby Union
Wallabies v France Game 3
691,000 (Metro 496,000 Regional 195,000)
AFL
Seven Saturday night
#AFLDeesHawks 578,000 (Metro 427,000 Regional 151,000)
Fox Footy
#AFLSaintsPower 180,000
#AFLSunsDogs 186,000
#AFLDeesHawks 168,000
Fox League NRL
#NRLCowboysRoosters 296,000
#NRLRaidersSharks 177,000
#NRLStormKnights 207,000
Supercars Championship
Townsville Race 17
Fox Sports 96,000
Tour de France 2021
SBS Stage 19: 189,000
Suncorp Super Netball
Nine
Game 1 #SSNVixensMagpies 81,000
Game 2: #SSNSwiftsGIANTS 107,000
Cricket
Australia v West Indies T20 Game 5: 38,000