Weekend TV ratings Saturday September 4, 2021

TV ratings

Dogs beat Lions in AFL semi-final thriller, NRL: Rabbitohs roll Dragons

TV ratings: Seven

An AFL semi-final and the penultimate evening of the Paralympics secured Seven another first place finish. Seven again had the #1 primary channel, the leading network share and the biggest TV ratings for its multichannels 7mate (7.3%) and 7TWO (4.0%).

The AFL semi-final meeting of the Western Bulldogs and Brisbane Lions lived up to pre-match expectations with the scores level in the final minutes of the game. The Bulldogs managed to score a point and then hang on to the narrowest of victories giving them a place in a preliminary final next weekend against Port Adelaide. The metro audience was 835,000 with 471,000 in Melbourne. The audience in Brisbane was 88,000, almost double the number watching the NRL on Nine.

Nine

The last Saturday night of the regular NRL season featured South Sydney taking the points for the Nine metro audience of 243,000. Most of them were in Sydney of course – 177,000 – with 49,000 in Brisbane.

10

10 News First found a spot in the top 10 with the 5pm bulletin with 306,000 watching.

The only other show on the network to crack to the top 20 was a repeat episode of The Dog House on 226,000.

ABC

The Durrells was on 335,000 at 7.30pm followed by The Trial of Christine Keeler with 193,000.

SBS

The biggest audience after World News on 154,000 was Castles with 135,000.

Saturday TV ratings Metro primetime shares primary/network

ABC 8.4% (13.3%)
Seven 27.7% (41.6%)
Nine 16.9% (25.3%)
10 5.1% (12.5%)
SBS 4.5% (7.3%)

See also: Weekend TV ratings Saturday August 28, 2021

Saturday TV ratings Metro top 20 all people

 

1SEVEN NEWS – SATChannel 7983,000
2NINE NEWS SATURDAYChannel 9879,000
3SEVEN’S AFL: SATURDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL FINALS7mate, Channel 7835,000
4ABC NEWSABC TV621,000
5GETAWAYChannel 9386,000
6LIVE: AFL SF BRISBANE V WESTERN BULLDOGSFOX FOOTY362,000
7THE DURRELLSABC TV335,000
810 NEWS FIRSTChannel 10306,000
9WEEKEND SUNRISEChannel 7304,000
10CORONAVIRUS: PUBLIC UPDATEABC NEWS295,000
11BORDER SECURITY – AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE (R)Channel 7277,000
12NINE NEWS: FIRST AT FIVEChannel 9270,000
13WEEKEND SUNRISE LATEChannel 7266,000
14A CURRENT AFFAIRChannel 9260,000
15SEVEN’S AFL: SATURDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL FINALS – POST MATCH7mate, Channel 7258,000
16SATURDAY NIGHT NRL LIVEGem, Channel 9243,000
17WEEKEND TODAYChannel 9238,000
18SEVEN’S AFL: SATURDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL FINALS – PRE MATCH7mate, 7TWO, Channel 7236,000
19THE DOG HOUSE (R)Channel 10226,000
20WEEKEND TODAY LATEChannel 9224,000

 

Saturday Sports FTA and STV

 

TV ratings

 

AFL

 Seven Saturday Night

Western Bulldogs v Brisbane Lions
1,109,000 (Metro 835,000 Regional 274,000)

Fox Footy

Western Bulldogs v Brisbane Lions 425,000

 

 

NRL

Nine Saturday

#NRLSouthsDragons 384,000 (Metro 243,000 Regional 141,000)

 

Fox League

#NRLSouthsDragons 222,000
#NRLCowboysManly 290,000
#NRLBroncosKnights 202,000

 

F1 Dutch Grand Prix

Fox Sports
Qualifying 96,000

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