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Melbourne Cup was a winner for Half Yours and for Nine, attracting a whopping 2.08 million viewers in the National TV audience yesterday.

That’s more than the 1.91 meters of 2024. While it doesn’t include everyone watching at parties, pubs and offices, it does include 9Now live BVOD.

Some media may be calling it the biggest race in a decade, which is technically true. However, since 2024, ratings have included both Live/Catch-Up BVOD and regional + Metro figures in both a reach figure and national TV audience (also called average).

2025: 2.08 m
2024: 1.91m
————- OzTAM ratings updated
2023: 1,110m
2022: 1.02m
2021: 1.21m
2020: 1.41m
2019: 1.32m
2018: 1.84m
2017: 1.8 million
2016: 1.99m
2015: 2.07 m
2014: 2.12 m
2013: 2.17 m

In the meantime My kitchen rules top entertainment at 1.05m then 7:30 am (759,000)Taronga: Who’s who in the zoo? (555,000), I was actually there (443,000) and Talking about your Gen (304,000).

Later The Rookie then led with 479,000 The cheap seats (389,000), Endgame with Tony Armstrong (250,000) and Bump (230,000).

Despite the arvo crowd, Seven has a very easy win on Tuesday in primetime.

Seven news Then Seven reached 1.34m Home and away (859,000) and The hunt (593,000). Ron Iddles: The good cop amounted to 193,000

Nine news then led with 1.37m A current issue (1.01m) and Tipping point (795,000). Nine news too late amounted to 153,000. Worth mentioning Love Island with 296,000 surpassed Bump on the main channel.

ABC News scored 759,000. Difficult quiz (335,000) QI (156,000) and The Art Of, The Assembly (both TBD) followed.

10 News drew 343,000 for 10. Deal or no deal (256,000) and then TBD: 10 News+ and Ghosts Australia.

SBS shows were SBS World News (196,000 / TBD), Great British Railway Journeys, Tell Me What You Really Think, Mastermind and The Cancer Killers, all TBD.

Sunrise: 417,000
Today: 342,000
News Breakfast: 238,000

National Totaal TV: Tuesday, November 4, 2025

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