if these games were on their own there's no way they would have rated under 150kleeroy*NRL* wrote: Wed Aug 30, 2017 5:10 pmthe question that needs to be asked..
KANGAS V LIONS >>>>
(who the hell would of watched this $hitty game if it was the only game in that timeslot.
PORT v SUNS (same as above)
the figures would of been CRAP
AFL do it smartly, with there scheduling,
It is the reason why it is done>>
if they could get bigger ratings to show the networks they would be doing it..
ok, lets go through this again:
A single game on Saturday night between a Melbourne team and an Adelaide team would rate around 300k on FTA in Melbourne, 90k in Perth, 150k in Adelaide, 30k in Sydney and 20k in Brisbane. Add 250k for fox and 200k for regionals gives 1040k. Does anyone have any issues with these estimates?
If this game was played at the same time as a game between the Swans and Eagles the Perth FTA figures would be maybe 200k and the Sydney figures 70k. This game on fox would compete with the other game giving maybe 200k and 120k fox depending on which game was better.
These 2 games would therefore give a total audience of 1260k for prime time Saturday night. Unfortunately this would average on 630k per game, where as the single game would average 1040k per game.
The concurrent games may help the audience in each city but it destroys the average because it requires two games for moderate increase in total audience.
If you think this is wrong tell me why.............