Beaussie wrote:
AFL Grand Final 2006 (10) 3.15m
NRL grand final 2006 (9) 2.56m
raider wrote:& the regionals ... where are the regionals
Beaussie wrote:FFS, how ******* stupid are you? ACNielsen compiles regional ratings and was included in the count listed and linked too previously. My god.
Monday, 2 October 2006
Media briefs and TV ratings
- Melbourne tunes in for NRL decider, Sydney over the Swans. Even though the AFL Grand Final attracted a larger national audience on Saturday afternoon than last night’s NRL Grand Final, the Rugby League would probably be happier about the result than the AFL. Melbourne audiences were more responsive to its NRL team than Sydney was to its AFL team, a turnaround on the situation in recent years. In fact Melbourne had the biggest audience for both Grand Finals, the first time that has happened. Considerably more people in Melbourne watched the Storm play and lose last night (903,000) than the audience in in Sydney to watch the Swans play and lose on Saturday (762,000).
The NRL Grand Final averaged 2.561 million, well short of the 3.15 million average for the AFL (both figures refer to audiences in the five metro markets).But a look at the make up of those figures shows that Sydney has gone off the AFL but Melbourne was definitely on song for the League due to the presence of the Storm in the Grand Final — it was a record audience for an NRL game in Melbourne and it easily out-ranked Sydney where only 804,000 tuned in (sort of understandable given the lack of a Sydney team). The NRL decider also had a huge 788,000 viewers in Brisbane, which will make the NRL very happy. The AFL had big audiences in both Brisbane (328,000) and Adelaide (325,000), but the big worry for the AFL was that sharp fall in the size of the Sydney audience — a decline of around 25 per cent compared to 2005 when 994,000 watched on average. Perth figures showed a record audience there: the average was 549,000 viewers. And in Melbourne the 1.18 million audience was off slightly from last year when more than 1.2 million people tuned in for the game.
The regional figures for both games will be officially released tomorrow. — Glenn Dyer[/size]