pussycat wrote:Xman wrote:Your list means nothing as it doesn't account for concurrent games.
Further, subscription rates in NSW are around 40%, so payTV is available to approximately 2.9million NSW people. QLDs subscription rates are about 30% so 1.35million qlders have access.
AFL states have subscription rates around 25%, so that's around 2.7million people.
So the NRL heartland states have 4.25million subscribers and the AFL states 2.7million.
The NRL should completely dominate! Yet they don't, not at all. Sure, theyre ahead on the payTV ladder, but they have almost double the subscribers, yet when the AFLs concurrent games are added they well and truly even out the ladder.
Nice one!
XMan the people that fork out $billions for football rights couldn't give a F... about concurrent games. The only thing they will be interested in is that the NRL has 4 of the top 5 shows on PTV and (as of tommorrow) 4 of the top 5 show on FTA tv.
the only reason I mention concurrent games is because the total ratings of each code cannot be used to accurately gauge the popularity of each code because many of the AFLs games are shown concurrently against another AFL game. You don't seem happy to add them together. But you know very well that the entire audience of either code cannot watch two games at once! 
claiming the averages of concurrently shown games in isolation is disingenuous and you know it. The people that fork out the billions care about ratings but also how long these ratings go for. The AFL goes for 50% longer than the NRL.
Having great ratings on FTA and foxtel concurrently means both networks are willing to pay handsomely for the one game, so in effect double payment. Can the NRL boast this? How would we know? None of their games are shown concurrently. If their audience was split they could drop significantly, greatly reducing the value of either component.
