Nine News Local

[TV.Cynic]

@TV-ACT

I believe the key difference of interpretation that Nine was ignoring the regional viewers, while Seven were saying “Australia’s number 1” is about the entire nation, not just the 5 city metro audience…

TV.Cynic:

No - Seven is number one for the metro viewers as well.

Here are the numbers from the news article

News ratings for 2016

Arguably the toughest ratings battleground, fought out every weeknight, is for dominance in TV news ratings. This year the 6pm rivalry between Seven and Nine was as tight fought as ever with the prize the best lead-in each night to prime time viewing. In the 2016 ratings survey just completed the best performer was Seven News across the five major metropolitan markets. As an added bonus, and despite the downward trend evident for most of this year’s ratings, Seven’s 6-7 pm timeslot increase…

Audience 6-7pm average