pussycat wrote: Mon Apr 23, 2018 1:33 pm
Either the AFL's broadcast guide is wrong or your wrong, i'm confident it's the latter.
The Lions game started at 4.00 and was the final game of the day. Hawthorn started at 2.30 .Meaning almost 2/3 of the Lions game was shown in complete isolation. But, once again, no interest or Just 80k worth.
You're wrong, as usual
http://www.AFL.com.au/tv-radio/broadcastguide
Nth v Hawks, like every other Sunday mid-arvo game, started at 3.20pm so it could lead into the news. It finished right on 6pm. The Lions v Suns game started at 4.45pm and half time started at ~5.55pm (~31 mins Q1, ~6 min break, ~31 mins Q2).
Yes the suns v Lions ratings are ordinary, but it overlapped a more interesting game plus the news.
You are quite correct that our bottom few teams dont rate that well, but that's hardly surprising. The AFL have 4 expansion teams in NRL markets, the NRL only have 1 in an AFL market. The new AFL expansion teams are our 17th and 18th teams. Our 1-16th teams are still as popular as they have always been.
Imagine if the NRL put a new second side into Melbourne and a new team into Perth. If these teams were performing poorly over a long period of time do you think their ratings would be any better? Do you think this extra game with expansion sides makes your existing 16 clubs less popular on TV? Of course not! They're an extra game on top of your existing popular product. Picking on the 9th game as less popular in comparison is idiotic