Weekend TV Ratings Saturday April 17, 2021

TV Ratings

• Seven dominates Saturday with AFLW Grand Final and royal combo

The ABC, Seven, Nine, and 10 all aired the funeral of Prince Phillip last night with Seven coming out on top:

Seven– 430,000
Nine– 212,000 (plus a Nine News special with 275,000)
10– 147,000
ABC– 137,000 (plus an ABC News special with 172,000)

In the lead up to the funeral coverage Nine aired Downton Abbey (235,000), Seven aired the AFL (472,000) and The Queen (85,000), 10 aired a repeat of Ambulance Australia (138,00), while the ABC aired The Durrells (282,000) followed by Finding Alice (189,000) and an encore of Harrow (76,000).

This strong lead-in from the AFL potentially helped Seven secure the strongest numbers for the funeral coverage last night.

Another contributing factor to Seven’s win last night was the coverage of the AFLW grand final which saw the Brisbane Lions defeat the Adelaide Crows 38-20. A South Australian crowd of 22,934 was in attendance as 287,000 (+80,000 regional) watched from home as Brisbane became the first Queensland team to win the AFLW title.

Saturday TV ratings Metro primetime shares primary/network

ABC 7.9% (15.4%)
Seven 25.7% (35.5%)
Nine 17.3% (25.8%)
10 7.2% (15.2%)
SBS 4.4% (8.1%)

See also: TV ratings Saturday April 10, 2021

Saturday TV ratings Metro top 20 all people

1 NINE NEWS SATURDAY Channel 9 752,000
2 SEVEN NEWS  Channel 7 733,000
3 SEVEN’S AFL: SATURDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL 7mate, Channel 7 472,000
4 ABC NEWS ABC TV 457,000
5 A CURRENT AFFAIR Channel 9 442,000
6 THE FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH Channel 7 430,000
7 GETAWAY Channel 9 314,000
8 WOMEN’S AFL: GRAND FINAL: ADELAIDE V BRISBANE 7mate, Channel 7 287,000
9 THE DURRELLS ABC TV 282,000
10 9NEWS SPECIAL – THE FUNERAL OF HRH THE PRINCE PHILIP, DUKE OF ED Channel 9 275,000
11 WEEKEND SUNRISE Channel 7 254,000
12 THE DOG HOUSE Channel 10 235,000
13 DOWNTON ABBEY Channel 9 235,000
14 WOMEN’S AFL: GRAND FINAL – POST MATCH 7mate, Channel 7 232,000
15 SEVEN NEWS AT 5 Channel 7 230,000
16 SPACE INVADERS Channel 9 228,000
17 NINE NEWS: FIRST AT FIVE Channel 9 215,000
18 WEEKEND SUNRISE – LATE Channel 7 212,000
19 THE FUNERAL OF HRH THE PRINCE PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH Channel 9 212,000
20 10 NEWS FIRST SAT Channel 10 208,000

Saturday Sports FTA and STV

NRL Fox League

#NRLSouthsTigers 306,000
#NRLRaidersEels 285,000
#NRLManlyTitans 160,000

AFL

Seven Saturday night 472,000

Fox Footy
#AFLBluesPower 118,000
#AFLDogsSuns 103,000

Fox Sports

#AFLSwansGiants 89,000
#AFLLionsBombers 87,000

AFLW

Seven
#AFLWGF 287,000

Fox Footy
#AFLWGF 101,000

Supercars Tasmania

Fox Sports 118,000

A-League Fox Sports

#MCYvMVC 11,000
#WUNvCCM 8,000

SuperRugbyAU 9Gem
#FORvWAR74,000

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