NRL Finals Footy 2nd Preliminary Final that saw a come-from-behind win for the Broncos over the Panthers secured an amazing 1.764 million national viewers for the afternoon broadcast. That compares to the 2024 preliminary final on a Saturday night had 1.156m.
9News that followed overtook Seven’s news from the previous day to be the top rated bulletin of the year not far off 2 million At 6pm.
Earlier, NRL: Women’s Premiership 2nd Semi-Final saw the Broncos progress after defeating the Knights for a rating of 368k.
The Block’s Back Of House Reveal that followed at 7pm topped 1.63 million and was up 35k on the previous week.
The Voice The Knockouts began on Seven averaging 884k, on par with the previous week’s result while The Amazing Race Australia Celebrity episode was down 20k to 528k.
The Assembly’s second episode of the new season featuring Guy Sebastian was down 80k to 457k while Mystery Road: Origin dropped by almost 100k to a disappointing 382k. SBS’ Naachtun: The Forgotten Mayan City premiere managed 110k with ABC’s I, Jack Wright Season Final on 188k.
Later, 60 Minutes was up +200k with 946k, well ahead of 7NEWS Spotlight that was up 50k to 500k. Over on 10, Watson just made the top 30 with 154k.
The 7NEWS: The Balibo Five: 50 Years On premiere special had 276k on Seven while 9News Late had 421k.
In the afternoon on Seven AFL Women’s Round 7 came in just under 100k.
9News and NRL preliminary final recorded their highest results in VOZ history across all screens (Broadcast, BVOD and Total TV).
The Block was the No. 1 entertainment program on Sunday with Total People and all key demos across Australia and in all five metro markets. It secured a National Total TV Reach of 2.808 million, a Total TV National Audience of 1.632 million - up 23.9% year-on-year and a BVOD Audience of 326,000 - up 69.8% year-on-year.
9News Sunday was the No. 1 program with Total People and GS18+ across Australia. It achieved a National Total TV Reach of 3.214 million and a Total TV National Audience of 1.964 million, up 55.6% on the same night last year. It registered a BVOD Audience of 303,000 (up a massive 212.4% year-on-year).
NRL Live Final Series Broncos v Panthers was the No. 1 program of the day across Australia with People 25-54 and 16-39. It was also the No. 1 program of the day in Sydney and Brisbane with Total People and all key demos. It recorded a National Total TV Reach of 3.113 million, a Total TV National Audience of 1.764 million and a BVOD Audience of 429,000.
60 Minutes secured the later evening audience with Total People and all key demos across Australia. It achieved a National Total TV Reach of 1.831 million and a Total TV National Audience of 946,000 (up 45.1% year-on-year). On 9Now, it secured a BVOD Audience of 128,000 (up 75.3% year-on-year). Weekend Today registered a Total TV Reach Audience of 740,000, a Total TV National Audience of 259,000 and a BVOD Audience of 38,000 (up 46.2% year-on-year).
The 9Network was the No.1 network on Sunday across the 5 City Metro with Total People and all key demographics.
9Now was the No.1 CFTA BVOD platform on Sunday across Australia with Total People and all key demographics.
National total TV audience share, 6.00pm to midnight: 35.7% National total TV audience share, 6.00am to midnight: 32.9% 7plus: up 40% year-over-year 7NEWS: reaches 2.1 million The Voice: reaches 1.84 million Weekend Sunrise: #1 at breakfast, 47% more viewers than Today
Seven Network reaches 5.9 million Australians nationally. 7plus: reach up 40% year-on-year. 7NEWS Sunday: National reach 2.1 million, national audience 1.28 million. The Voice Sunday: National reach 1.84 million, national audience 884,000. 7NEWS Spotlight : National reach 1.06 million, national audience 500,000. Weekend Sunrise Sunday: #1 breakfast program. National reach 944,000, national audience 380,000. 47% more viewers than Today.
NATIONAL TOTAL TV COMMERCIAL SHARES (%): 6.00pm to midnight
Network
All people
25 to 54s
Grocery shoppers
Seven Network
35.7
28.8
36.0
Nine Network
48.9
53.0
48.6
Network Ten
15.4
18.1
15.4
NATIONAL TOTAL TV COMMERCIAL SHARES (%): 6.00am to midnight
Network
All people
25 to 54s
Grocery shoppers
Seven Network
32.9
28.2
33.4
Nine Network
53.8
57.5
53.3
Network Ten
13.4
14.3
13.3
The Amazing Race Is 10’s Biggest Reality Show Of 2025.
The Amazing Race Australia: Celebrity Edition:
Reached 884,000 total national viewers.
#2 in timeslot in 25 to 54s and 16 to 39s.
Season to-date:
10’s biggest reality show of 2025.
Reaching 4.7 million total national viewers.
Biggest total audience since 2021.
Biggest ever streaming audience.
7-Day Total Viewing Audience (Sunday, 21 August):
Reached 1.29 million total national viewers.
10:
Last night, 10 streaming was up 9% vs. the same night last year.
Really only 7 and ABC. Amazing Race is the only thing rating on a Sunday on 10 and I reckon it’ll probably only take a slight drop to 450 (10s reality viewers are pretty rusted on). The rest is already flatlining, so nothing to really drop.
Brisbane’s Nine News on GF day is a 30 min bulletin at 5pm and unlikely to get near 400,000.
Brisbane’s rating of 392,000 last night was the highest for the bulletin since January 2013 when it rated 409,000. Seven Brisbane that day had 413,000! That as an AO Final night.
Sydney
NRL LIVE FINAL SERIES PF2 NINE 473,000
NRLW FINAL SERIES PF2 NINE 83,000
SYDNEY WEEKENDER SEVEN 46,000
Melbourne
NRL LIVE FINAL SERIES PF2 NINE 144,000
BORDER SECURITY - AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE SEVEN 97,000
WOMEN’S AFL: SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOOTBALL SEVEN 24,000
Brisbane
NRL LIVE FINAL SERIES PF2 NINE 438,000
NRLW FINAL SERIES PF2 NINE 118,000
WEEKENDER SEVEN 44,000
Adelaide
SOUTH AUSSIE WITH COSI SEVEN 77,000
NRL LIVE FINAL SERIES PF2 NINE 27,000
WOMEN’S AFL: SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOOTBALL SEVEN 14,000
Perth
NRL LIVE FINAL SERIES PF2 NINE 56,000
BORDER SECURITY - AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE SEVEN 43,000
WOMEN’S AFL: SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL SEVEN 15,000
WOMEN’S AFL: SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOOTBALL SEVEN 8,000
Would be a huge surprise given the NRL grand final is historically weaker than the origin. And you have to ask yourself, where will they get the 700k viewers from to make the difference from last year. Sydney’s numbers will be weaker than last year given there’s no Sydney team, so Brisbane would have to do a lot of lifting given Melbourne was in it last year’s and it still fell short. Happy to be proven wrong, but a lack of Sydney team is causing me to doubt it.
