Thursday night usually involves Aussies huddling around the TV watching sport. However, last night’s TV ratings show that Nine’s tipping point was in fact more popular than its NRL coverage.
The game show where players compete against one another for a $200,000 grand prize had a total TV national reach of 1,506,000 and a total TV national average audience of 783,000. The next program—which usually tops the entertainment programs—the NRL, didn’t manage the same numbers.
The match between the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs and the Dolphins had 1,407,000 people tuned in and average audience of 601,000. This places the free-to-air broadcast of the sport at 6th spot—two spots under Nine’s very own Tipping Point.
In the game, both teams were searching for their fourth win of the season. Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, the win went the way of the Dolphins, who were much more clinical with ball-in-hand completing at 88 per cent. This allowed the Dolphins to build pressure on its opposition to ultimately lay on five second half tries to run away with a 44-12 victory.
For the Bulldogs it’s back to the drawing board, as its attack has failed to fire a shot throughout the season. The Bulldogs have the second worst attack in the comp, only better than the last placed St George Dragons.
Taking a look at Seven, its AFL broadcast came in third overall, taking the crown for the evening’s most watched entertainment program of the evening. Fremantle Docker’s five point win over the Hawthorn Hawks drew in a reach of 1,885,000 and an average audience of 757,000.
