Impressive TV Ratings for NRL This year

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Impressive TV Ratings for NRL This year

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Good to see....

Also interesting to note how the NRL dominates Pay TV....( 78 0f the top 100 shows in 2006 were NRL matches...)

No wonder foxtel are baulking at shelling out dollars for the AFL coverage next year... :lol:

http://www.arldevelopment.com.au/index. ... 2c3308c8e6
Rugby League continues to rate as one of the premier sports on Australian Television, with the code increasing viewing figures in all the key performance indicators.

On Free to Air Television Friday Night Football increased by 3% in 2006 to bring its average up to 600,000 viewers across Sydney and Brisbane, whilst Sunday football rose by 7% to average 517,000 across Sydney and Brisbane. Viewing figures for regional NSW and Queensland also enjoyed significant increases throughout the regular season on the WIN and NBN networks.



In Sydney, the game surpassed both the World Cup and Commonwealth Games in terms of the most program to date, and has filled two of the top five most watched events in the city, whilst in Brisbane, league holds the top three.


On Pay TV Rugby League continued to be the most watched program on the available networks in 2006, taking out six of the top seven spots in the highest rating programs. The true dominance of the code on Pay TV is only heightened by Rugby League taking out 78 of the top 100 shows for the entire year so far.

The most watched game on Fox Sports was Melbourne Storm v Sydney Roosters at Olympic Park in Round 13. More than 3.6 million individual viewers watched matches on the medium, with each watching an average of 19 live games a year.
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Since when does small percentage of audience share in the big scheme of things in just two cities within Australia, considered to make a particular sport one of the premier sports on Australian television? :roll:

An average of 600,000 viewers combined from two markets for the match of the round in the NRL. :lol:
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As opposed to the 80,000 ratings for the Lions in Brisbane, and the 120,000 for the Swans in Sydney.... #-o
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200,000 more than the NRL audience in VIC, TAS, NT, SA and WA combined. Oh and lets not forget the 3.6 million viewers nationwide for the AFL GF.
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Re: Impressive TV Ratings for NRL This year

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Willis 21 wrote:
Good to see....

Also interesting to note how the NRL dominates Pay TV....( 78 0f the top 100 shows in 2006 were NRL matches...)

No wonder foxtel are baulking at shelling out dollars for the AFL coverage next year... :lol:
Gee how things have a changed this season now that Foxtel has better quality games to broadcast.
Fox Sports gives AFL a mark
Roy Masters | May 19, 2007
http://www.leaguehq.com.au/news/news...995418201.html

AFL ratings on pay TV have doubled, while NRL ratings have increased minimally, following a decision by Fox Sports to swap the channels on which both codes are telecast.

NRL ratings are up only 1 per cent, while AFL matches on the sports channel once reserved for rugby league have increased almost 100 per cent.

Although the figures are based on the first two months in both leagues, NRL officials are concerned it will reflect poorly on the next TV contract, while AFL executives are already anticipating another pay day. "We'll have no added value on our next contract while they are looking at a bonanza," one NRL club official lamented.

AFL games are now on Fox Sports 1, an established channel with strong viewership, while live NRL games are on the newly created Fox Sports 3, a channel unavailable in many hotels, clubs and rural areas.

The figures validate NRL chief executive David Gallop's concern the code is "being taken for granted" by Fox Sports, which is half-owned by News Ltd which, in turn, half owns the NRL.

A News Ltd executive has said the media company is furious with the decision to swap channels, claiming it was not consulted by Fox Sports chief executive David Malone. Foxtel, one-quarter owned by News Ltd, is funding nearly half the AFL's rich TV contract and sought an existing sports channel to attract subscribers in order to defray the rights cost.

Although the total reach of NRL games has increased 12 per cent, this is largely off the back of Monday night football which was not played last year. After nine rounds, six Monday night matches rate in the NRL's top 10 pay TV programs. Overall, says a Fox Sports spokesman, ratings are up only 1 per cent, partly because of two Friday night matches shown on Channel Nine.

The average audience is 158,000, with 235,000 watching Saturday night matches, which has increased 4 per cent. Last year, rugby league produced 73 of the top 100 rated programs on pay TV. AFL had only two matches in the top 100 - two Geelong matches with 210,000 and 189,000 viewers.

This year, according to reports, AFL on Fox Sports 1 has had five matches attract more than 200,000, with an average audience of live matches of 160,000. In other words, NRL and AFL ratings on Fox Sports are drawing closer, despite the enormous disparity of last season.

A club official said Gallop told club delegates to this week's conference that relationships between himself and Malone were "at an all-time low".

When Malone told the Herald the reason Fox Sports did not carry Friday night matches into Melbourne was simply because the NRL had not asked, Gallop arranged such a request.

Channel Nine offered Friday night matches, particularly those involving the Storm, be shown on Foxtel, provided Broncos matches shown on Fox Sports could be replayed in Brisbane on Nine on Sunday afternoons. Malone subsequently said this was not possible. Given that Channel Nine owns the other half of Fox Sports and News Ltd owns the Storm, this is a curious outcome.

Nine boss Eddie McGuire, who will leave his post on June 30, told rugby league fans on Melbourne radio recently his executives had met Gallop to enhance coverage in Victoria. Confirming this, Gallop said: "There was an undertaking given to try and put games on in Melbourne earlier and give the Storm more exposure in news bulletins."

However, Nine's telecast of last night's St George Illawarra versus Titans match was due to begin at 1.10am, following the movie Election, a flick about a girl bribing classmates with muffins to be elected school captain. The after-midnight start is in breach of the existing NRL contract, which says Nine must televise games in Melbourne before midnight.

Gallop said: "It goes against the indications of an improved start time and we formally raised it with Nine on Thursday."

Still, Storm chief executive Brian Waldron, is hopeful, saying, "Channel Nine in Melbourne is working with the Storm to improve coverage, to the extent they are prepared to share coverage with Fox Sports."

Apart from the switch to Fox Sports 1, AFL ratings have also been boosted by an allocation of better quality games, an additional match per week and removing the blackout in the host city of the fixture.

As Waldron said: "Last Saturday, Fox had the Carlton-Collingwood game at 2pm. Two-thirds of Melbourne would have been watching."
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Post by Willis 21 »

The origin rated 358,000 average in Melb last night...

This is three times the average swans game gets in Sydney...

Melb needs more Rugby League...
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Willis 21 wrote:
The origin rated 358,000 average in Melb last night...
Apparently from what I've read on other forums, the spike in numbers in Melbourne for the State of Origin Post Match was due to the movie Collateral being broadcast pretty much straight after the final siren.

The Chasers War on Everything along with Spicks and Specks rated very well in Melbourne in particular and Last Chance Learners and Heros did well for Channel 7. Overall from what I can gather from the figures below, the State of Origin broadcast in Melbourne was the 3rd most watched program and only just scrapped in to that position outrating a repeat of House on Channel 10. The Rugby League broadcast was just 7,000 viewers ahead of the last placed network its timeslot.

Is game 2 & 3 being broadcast live in Melbourne?
What Australia watched, Wednesday
Description Network Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth

1 STATE OF ORIGIN RUGBY LEAGUE MATCH Nine 1,982,000 831,000 358,000 725,000 38,000 30,000
2 STATE OF ORIGIN POST MATCH DISCUSSION Nine 1,851,000 762,000 392,000 667,000 17,000 13,000
3 SEVEN NEWS Seven 1,512,000 404,000 391,000 295,000 184,000 238,000
4 TODAY TONIGHT Seven 1,463,000 413,000 385,000 281,000 169,000 214,000
5 STATE OF ORIGIN PRE MATCH Nine 1,402,000 575,000 332,000 495,000
6 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine 1,343,000 357,000 434,000 275,000 143,000 134,000
7 NINE NEWS Nine 1,326,000 347,000 422,000 287,000 153,000 116,000
8 THE CHASER'S WAR ON EVERYTHING ABC 1,279,000 342,000 474,000 161,000 147,000 155,000
9 TEMPTATION Nine 1,269,000 319,000 429,000 262,000 120,000 139,000
10 HOME AND AWAY Seven 1,267,000 372,000 341,000 253,000 127,000 174,000
11 SPICKS AND SPECKS ABC 1,207,000 304,000 431,000 163,000 168,000 142,000
12 LAST CHANCE LEARNERS Seven 1,112,000 258,000 421,000 172,000 106,000 155,000
15 HOUSE RPT Ten 991,000 215,000 351,000 143,000 123,000 159,000
24 MEDIUM RPT Ten 749,000 163,000 268,000 123,000 91,000 103,000
25 HEROES Seven 624,000 M 372,000 A 106,000 P 146,000
52 M-FINDING NEVERLAND Seven 249,000 S161,000 B88,000
53 COLD CASE -RPT Nine 249,000 A124,000 P125,000
(OzTAM preliminary estimates, mainland capitals)

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Beaussie wrote:
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Apparently from what I've read on other forums, the spike in numbers in Melbourne for the State of Origin Post Match was due to the movie Collateral being broadcast pretty much straight after the final siren.

The Chasers War on Everything along with Spicks and Specks rated very well in Melbourne in particular and Last Chance Learners and Heros did well for Channel 7. Overall from what I can gather from the figures below, the State of Origin broadcast in Melbourne was the 3rd most watched program and only just scrapped in to that position outrating a repeat of House on Channel 10. The Rugby League broadcast was just 7,000 viewers ahead of the last placed network its timeslot.

Is game 2 & 3 being broadcast live in Melbourne?
Can I state to all your points above - 'so what'??

I never referred to the figures for the post match as I was aware that this was not what was actually shown in Melbourne...

The fact that the footy rated as high as it did up against tough opposition would be a positive i thought, and Channel 10 would love to see the Swans finishing third in their time slop instead of their usual fourth and occasionally dropping to last place behind SBS during half time breaks... :roll:
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