Hi there this is my first time posting and I would like to make a comment on the spreadsheet on the first page (up to round 16) from an NRL point of view. 1.NRL averages 34,000 per game in Melb, Perth and Adelaide where there is 1 NRL team. AFL averaged 50,000 in Sydney and Brisbane where there is 4...

The argument is that they should be sold based on regional ratings, particularly based on the large number of regional viewers the NRL is getting. When a league has almost a third of its teams located outside the metro ratings area any deal must include their viewership or the league is simply being...

Neilson do TV ratings in Regional Areas. http://www.agbnielsen.net/Uploads/Australia/RegTAM-20110410-E2RegFTARankSumCons.pdf In regional NSW, VIC and QLD, Friday night footy (NRL) draws around 500,000 additional viewers. This is ontop of the figures listed at the start of this forum which were for m...

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Astra does ratings for Foxtel nationally, and NRL wins quite easily.

I would be fairly confident that NRL has a larger TV audience that AFL.

http://assets.astra.org.au.s3.amazonaws ... Week20.pdf

And regarding Foxtell numbers per game I can only compare games that are solely viewed on Foxtel Round 1 - NRL (5 games) average 182,000 viewers, AFL (1 game) 133,000 viewers Round 2 - NRL (5 games) average 176,000 viewers, AFL (1 game) 154,000 viewers This leads me to the bottom of the ratings page...

I have just found this page which lists the estimated TV viewers in regional areas, ie not in metro areas and not in TV ratings areas. http://www.agbnielsen.net/Uploads/Australia/2011UniverseEstimates.pdf You will see that regional NSW, QLD and Canberra (considered NRL heartland) are much larger (ov...

Hopefully Quade Cooper can reverse this trend.

Before I start I must mention that I know nothing about AFL and the points I make might apply to AFL aswell, but from a strictly NRL perspective I see two issues with the ratings system 1st Point - NRL has too many Foxtel only games. If you take into account games that were only available on free to...