Talking Footy

Fred wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:41 pm

Yeah it wasn’t there a couple of AFL games pretty much shown at the same time ?

NlolRL wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 8:26 pm

pussycat Mark 11 wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 8:10 pm

NlolRL wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 1:38 pm

There are a number of factors:

- longer telecast lowers the average. Even the media were suggesting the AFL's increase in ratings last year was partly due to the shorter game length
- games are also on FTA whereas NRL games are exclusively on Fox
- the AFL is popular on TV overall, but less so on Fox. You only have to look at our FN ratings, where we can rate around 1mil but barely get 200k on Fox, to see AFL fans don't use foxtel to watch their sport in anywhere near the same proportion as NRL fans. Whether it's the fact NRL was well entrenched on pay TV well before AFL, or that AFL is more available for home teams on FTA, the difference is clear

Lack of interet is the one true reason that AFL is less popular on Fox, Kayo and social media!

You've rated over 1m twice this year, which will be perhaps, the amount of times you rate over 3m also!

The Nrl/AFL gap on PTV is increasing!

The Broncos are on FTA 80% of the time. How often would someone from NZ get Foxtel?

Your excuses are just that , excuses for a very lame sport/cult!

And you ratings have been getting poorer for years. If they did increase last year it was because more matches were shown in prime time.

lack of interest doesnt add up given our FTA numbers

pussycat Mark 11 wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 2:50 pm

NlolRL wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 8:26 pm

pussycat Mark 11 wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 8:10 pm

Lack of interet is the one true reason that AFL is less popular on Fox, Kayo and social media!

You've rated over 1m twice this year, which will be perhaps, the amount of times you rate over 3m also!

The Nrl/AFL gap on PTV is increasing!

The Broncos are on FTA 80% of the time. How often would someone from NZ get Foxtel?

Your excuses are just that , excuses for a very lame sport/cult!

And you ratings have been getting poorer for years. If they did increase last year it was because more matches were shown in prime time.

lack of interest doesnt add up given our FTA numbers

Gives people something to do rather than the boredom of living in Melbourne, but People aren't prepared to pay to watch that crap!

The_Wookie wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:33 pm

Terry wrote: Fri Apr 23, 2021 10:46 am

The_Wookie wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:33 pm

The Fox total numbers for RL are incredible. NRL ave 372k V AFL ave 213K last week. 160k more than the AFL per game. Nearly 1.3M more for the round. With numbers like these RL will smash the AFL for the year!!!

But I'm starting to think Peter The Great should have held his fire last year when he signed Fox up for 5 more years. On the evidence of this years numbers the value would be through the roof. Hopefully he factored in some form of performance based payments.

leeroy*NRL* wrote: Fri Apr 23, 2021 11:12 am

Terry wrote: Fri Apr 23, 2021 10:46 am

The_Wookie wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:33 pm

The Fox total numbers for RL are incredible. NRL ave 372k V AFL ave 213K last week. 160k more than the AFL per game. Nearly 1.3M more for the round. With numbers like these RL will smash the AFL for the year!!!

But I'm starting to think Peter The Great should have held his fire last year when he signed Fox up for 5 more years. On the evidence of this years numbers the value would be through the roof. Hopefully he factored in some form of performance based payments.

Rugby League was already going great guns last year without much kayo or FOX streaming factored in.

It was also beating the AFL comfortably,

I would be very interested to see what deal was done.

pussycat Mark 11 wrote: Fri Apr 23, 2021 11:33 am

800k for last nights game - better than expected.

pussycat Mark 11 wrote: Fri Apr 23, 2021 11:33 am

800k for last nights game - better than expected.