Saturday TV ratings show a combined evening football audience close to the 3m+ watching on Friday night. Another consecutive AFL blowout, but two much closer NRL contests were on offer. The AFL on Saturday night had a combined FTA and STV audience of 1,564,000 with the NRL on 1,235,000. That total Saturday night football audience was 2,799,000 with the streaming audience pushing that number close to 3m.
Seven
Seven News saw the audience push just above 1m to start primetime.
Seven then had an audience of 920,000 for the Western Bulldogs v Port Adelaide Preliminary Final. The match was all but over in the second quarter when the home team showed it was not able to close the quarter time gap.
The Melbourne audience was 535,000 with 164,000 watching in Adelaide. This number would have been higher for a close contest.
Nine
The first weekend of NRL Finals saw Nine offer viewers two clashes. The Roosters won an edge-of-the-seat thriller over the Titans with 453,000 watching the late afternoon match. The Sydney audience was 282,000 with 125,000 in Brisbane.
The evening Penrith and South Sydney clash was also a close contest with the Rabbitohs ending up six-point winners. An audience of 536,000 were watching – 365,000 in Sydney and 129,000 in Brisbane.
10
10 News First just cracked 300,000 for its 5pm bulletin.
The next best on the channel was 201,000 for a repeat episode of The Dog House.
ABC
ABC News at 7pm was the fourth most-watched program of the day.
The Durrells was then on 307,000 followed by The Trial of Christine Keeler on 164,000.
SBS
SBS World News at 6.30pm was on 162,000.
Later in the evening a repeat screening of 9/11: 102 Minutes That Changed America was 151,000.
Saturday TV ratings Metro primetime shares primary/network
ABC 7.7% (12.5%)
Seven 29.1% (39.9%)
Nine 20.3% (29.0%)
10 4.6% (11.1%)
SBS 5.2% (7.6%)
See also: Weekend TV ratings Saturday September 4, 2021
Saturday TV ratings Metro top 20 all people
| 1 | SEVEN NEWS SATURDAY | Channel 7 | 1,074,000 |
| 2 | SEVEN’S AFL: SATURDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL FINALS | 7mate, Channel 7 | 920,000 |
| 3 | NINE NEWS SATURDAY | Channel 9 | 637,000 |
| 4 | ABC NEWS SATURDAY | ABC TV | 602,000 |
| 5 | RUBY LEAGUE FINAL SERIES QF2 | Gem, Channel 9 | 536,000 |
| 6 | SEVEN’S AFL: SATURDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL FINALS – PRE MATCH | 7mate, Channel 7 | 533,000 |
| 7 | RUBY LEAGUE FINAL SERIES QF2 -PRE MATCH | Gem, Channel 9 | 511,000 |
| 8 | RUGBY LEAGUE FINAL SERIES EF1 | Gem, Channel 9 | 453,000 |
| 9 | SEVEN’S AFL: SATURDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL FINALS – POST MATCH | 7mate, Channel 7 | 409,000 |
| 10 | LIVE: AFL PF PORT ADELAIDE V W. BULLDOGS | FOX FOOTY | 326,000 |
| 11 | THE DURRELLS | ABC TV | 307,000 |
| 12 | 10 NEWS FIRST SATURDAY | Channel 10 | 301,000 |
| 13 | GETAWAY | Channel 9 | 293,000 |
| 14 | WEEKEND SUNRISE SATURDAY | Channel 7 | 289,000 |
| 15 | LIVE: NRL: QF PANTHERS V RABBITOHS | FOX LEAGUE | 282,000 |
| 16 | THE REPAIR SHOP (R) | ABC TV | 264,000 |
| 17 | WEEKEND TODAY SATURDAY | Channel 9 | 252,000 |
| 18 | A CURRENT AFFAIR SATURDAY | Channel 9 | 249,000 |
| 19 | WEEKEND SUNRISE SATURDAY LATE | Channel 7 | 242,000 |
| 20 | LIVE: NRL: EF ROOSTERS V TITANS | FOX LEAGUE | 238,000 |
Saturday Sports FTA and STV
AFL
Seven Saturday Night
Western Bulldogs v Port Adelaide
1,180,000 (Metro 920,000 Regional 260,000)
Fox Footy
Western Bulldogs v Port Adelaide 384,000
NRL
Nine Saturday
#NRLRoostersTitans 705,000 (Metro 453,000 Regional 252,000)
#NRLPanthersSouths 853,000 (Metro 536,000 Regional 317,000)
Fox League
#NRLRoostersTitans 344,000
#NRLPanthersSouths 382,000
F1 Italian Grand Prix
Fox Sports
Sprint Qualifying 70,000