# Ratings: Channel Nine and Seven Network win on Thursday

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**Created:** [August 14, 2020, 12:20am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/ratings-channel-nine-and-seven-network-win-on-thursday/15056 "2020-08-14T00:20:11Z")\
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**Nine** had the number one channel on Thursday, but **Seven** was first in network shares thanks to better multi-channel results in overnight prime-time ratings. Compared to the previous week, **10** was up three share three points to its best Thursday in more than two months, while, without AFL, Seven dropped three. Nine was up one at the expense of **SBS’s** share with **ABC** steady.

Nine won in Sydney and Brisbane with +30% shares. Seven won the AFL markets and 10 ranked second in Perth.

In 25-54 Nine was number one with 27.6% ahead of 10 (26.7%), Seven (25.5%), ABC (12.1%) and SBS (8.1%).

In 16-39, 10 averaged 31.0% to lead from Nine (26.5%), Seven (23.6%), ABC (11.5%) and SBS (7.4%).

The top 20 include nine news or current affair programs with another four entries afternoon game shows.

10’s _The Bachelor_ led the entertainment shows and won the demos with just over 600,000, down from Wednesday’s launch episode’s 680,000 with _Celebrity Gogglebox USA_ averaging 301,000 at 9pm.

In a split schedule, Seven’s _Home and Away_ made the top ten while _The Front Bar_ just made the top 20 with Melbourne its best market where it ranked 12th. The movie _The Devil Wears Prada_ averaged 102,000.

Nine’s NRL coverage was on par with recent results – 6th in Sydney and Brisbane while _Territory Cops_ had 274,000 and 230,000 in three markets.

ABC had _Escape From the City_ with 314,000, _Kurt Fearnley’s One Plus One_ with 248,000 and _The Heights_ with 204,000 while SBS had _World News_ on 190,000, _Dog Tales_ with 173,000 and _War Of The Worlds_ with 169,000.

Nine leads the week 28.2% to Seven’s 26.4%

Some morning TV results included:

| Program | Ntwk | 5-cities |
| --- | --- | --- |
| THE MORNING SHOW | Seven | 146,000 & 101,000 |
| TODAY EXTRA | Nine | 127,000 & 78,000 |
| SEVEN MORNING NEWS | Seven | 120,000 |
| ABC NEWS MORNINGS-AM | ABC | 104,000 |
| ABC NEWS MORNINGS-AM | ABC NEWS | 103,000 |
| NINE’S MORNING NEWS | Nine | 103,000 |
| ABC NEWS AT NOON-PM | ABC NEWS | 88,000 |
| ABC NEWS AT NOON-PM | ABC | 82,000 |
| STUDIO 10 | 10 | 60,000 & 59,000 |

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