NRL more popular in Melbourne , then AFL is in Sydney

[Raiderdave]

5pm - 7pm is in prime time stupid. You lot got smahed in the tv ratings in every market outside of Sydney and Brisbane for your grand final. Oh and the ratings in Brisbane were also well down on last season.

The AFL on the other hand won every timeslot in every market of Australia.

its not night ... nor prime time
prime time is post 7pm , after the news services

My god, how stupid are you. Prime time runs from 6pm onwards and the lead in from 5pm is considered very important to TV networks hence the battles we've seen with Deal or No Deal against Eddie's Who Wants to be a Millionaire etc, etc. You've clearly got no idea what you're talking about. Surprise, surprise.

& seriously what the hell would the AFL be up against at 2pm on a saturday to claim it beat anything .... ?
thats right
nothing
Elvis Presley movies .... & brady bunch repeats
no wonder it won every market

if it were on at 5pm ... it would not have beaten anything in NSW & QLD
not a thing.

Yeah, yeah.. Fact remains, the AFL won it's timeslot in every market it was broadcast in... The NRL did not achieve the same result. In fact, the NRL was smashed outside Sydney and Brisbane.

competing against nothing
while the NRL would have been up against plenty

the NRL's Grand Final ratings were remarkable

the AFL's , very much like its been for them all year
.... quite unremarkable

[King-Eliagh]

All it comes down to is it's the bloody Grandfinal for fukkks sake. Who gives a flying fuuuuk what time its played, if you support the code, you WATCH it. You dont go and watch channel 10 news on sunday night, and you dont go and watch the Elvis Presley re run or the Bold and the Beautiful on saturday afternoon. you watch the footy.

And it looks like there are thousands more RL supporters in Australia and New Zealand who want to watch their GF, than those who wish to watch theAFL GF.

Quite simple and no need for the nancy pancing around the issues with friggin prime time or not.

[Raiderdave]

All it comes down to is it's the bloody Grandfinal for fukkks sake. Who gives a flying fuuuuk what time its played, if you support the code, you WATCH it. You dont go and watch channel 10 news on sunday night, and you dont go and watch the Elvis Presley re run or the Bold and the Beautiful on saturday afternoon. you watch the footy.

And it looks like there are thousands more RL supporters in Australia and New Zealand who want to watch their GF, than those who wish to watch theAFL GF.

Quite simple and no need for the nancy pancing around the issues with friggin prime time or not.

correct E
& its not even close

now don't get me started on another source for ratings in our region we haven't even considered yet
PNG ..........
a country who's official national sport just happens to be Rugby League
a country that is so obsessed with RL .. NRL stars need army escorts for fear of being crushed by mobs of fans wanting to get near them.

another couple of million to the tally for our GF for sure ....

[Beaussie]

All it comes down to is it's the bloody Grandfinal for fukkks sake. Who gives a flying fuuuuk what time its played, if you support the code, you WATCH it. You dont go and watch channel 10 news on sunday night, and you dont go and watch the Elvis Presley re run or the Bold and the Beautiful on saturday afternoon. you watch the footy.

And it looks like there are thousands more RL supporters in Australia and New Zealand who want to watch their GF, than those who wish to watch theAFL GF.

Quite simple and no need for the nancy pancing around the issues with friggin prime time or not.

How fucking stupid are you. Seriously.

It’s just not right to include New Zealand

Alright, I am not a fan of the code wars. In fact, I openly detest the wars that happen on the blogosphere. However, I cannot stand by while I read putrid rubbish coming out of Sydney’s NRL heartland.

When discussing the Grand Final TV ratings, the Sydney Morning Herald and Daily Telegraph proudly proclaimed that the AFL Grand Final was out-rated by the NRL Grand Final in terms of television viewers.

Yet, when I read the ratings from TV Tonight on Monday, I saw that the AFL got 2.5 million metropolitan viewers, whereas the NRL on Nine got 2.1 million viewers. I suck at Maths but, I know that 2.5 million beats 2.1 million.

So where how did the newspapers conclude the NRL was more watched?

Surely, they have competent maths skills at Fairfax and News Ltd. Well, as it turns out, both included New Zealand viewership figures in their stories.

New Zealand? That tiny little country across the ditch, that is not involved in our code wars because they have differing sporting tastes?

Yes sir, the Sydney media used another country’s figures to try and show that NRL is a better TV product.

I know there is a great competition for viewers, sponsors and fans but to include another country’s viewership is blatant scraping the barrel to prove a point.

You say that New Zealand is involved in our competition?

Okay, fair enough, the New Zealand Warriors are an integral member of the best rugby league competition in the world, but if we use that logic, it can also prove other sports are more popular than both the NRL and AFL.

Using the Sydney media’s test, soccer is a more popular sport than League because a Socceroos match against Saudi Arabia will draw a bigger TV audience.

Only 300,000 Aussies will watch it, but in football-mad Saudi Arabia (population of 27 million) two to four million will tune in, giving it an audience of around three million people.

Cricket is even more popular than soccer and the NRL combined. A Test match may draw a viewership on Channel Nine of 600,000, but in the fanatical India (population 1.2 billion), up to 15 million people will tune in on their pay TV channels. Possibly more.

If this was printed, the four men of the horsemen of league (Masters, Rothfield, Gould and Ritchie) would go off their nut.

But I’m applying their theory that an Australian sport is more popular because international viewers are tuning in.

http://www.theroar.com.au/2011/10/06/it ... zealand-2/

[Raiderdave]

All it comes down to is it's the bloody Grandfinal for fukkks sake. Who gives a flying fuuuuk what time its played, if you support the code, you WATCH it. You dont go and watch channel 10 news on sunday night, and you dont go and watch the Elvis Presley re run or the Bold and the Beautiful on saturday afternoon. you watch the footy.

And it looks like there are thousands more RL supporters in Australia and New Zealand who want to watch their GF, than those who wish to watch theAFL GF.

Quite simple and no need for the nancy pancing around the issues with friggin prime time or not.

How ******* stupid are you. Seriously.

It’s just not right to include New Zealand

Alright, I am not a fan of the code wars. In fact, I openly detest the wars that happen on the blogosphere. However, I cannot stand by while I read putrid rubbish coming out of Sydney’s NRL heartland.

When discussing the Grand Final TV ratings, the Sydney Morning Herald and Daily Telegraph proudly proclaimed that the AFL Grand Final was out-rated by the NRL Grand Final in terms of television viewers.

Yet, when I read the ratings from TV Tonight on Monday, I saw that the AFL got 2.5 million metropolitan viewers, whereas the NRL on Nine got 2.1 million viewers. I suck at Maths but, I know that 2.5 million beats 2.1 million.

So where how did the newspapers conclude the NRL was more watched?

Surely, they have competent maths skills at Fairfax and News Ltd. Well, as it turns out, both included New Zealand viewership figures in their stories.

New Zealand? That tiny little country across the ditch, that is not involved in our code wars because they have differing sporting tastes?

Yes sir, the Sydney media used another country’s figures to try and show that NRL is a better TV product.

I know there is a great competition for viewers, sponsors and fans but to include another country’s viewership is blatant scraping the barrel to prove a point.

You say that New Zealand is involved in our competition?

Okay, fair enough, the New Zealand Warriors are an integral member of the best rugby league competition in the world, but if we use that logic, it can also prove other sports are more popular than both the NRL and AFL.

Using the Sydney media’s test, soccer is a more popular sport than League because a Socceroos match against Saudi Arabia will draw a bigger TV audience.

Only 300,000 Aussies will watch it, but in football-mad Saudi Arabia (population of 27 million) two to four million will tune in, giving it an audience of around three million people.

Cricket is even more popular than soccer and the NRL combined. A Test match may draw a viewership on Channel Nine of 600,000, but in the fanatical India (population 1.2 billion), up to 15 million people will tune in on their pay TV channels. Possibly more.

If this was printed, the four men of the horsemen of league (Masters, Rothfield, Gould and Ritchie) would go off their nut.

But I’m applying their theory that an Australian sport is more popular because international viewers are tuning in.

http://www.theroar.com.au/2011/10/06/it ... zealand-2/

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[Beaussie]

Again by your ******** logic, Soccer is bigger than Rugby League in Australia based on the audience numbers in Saudi Arabia.

[Raiderdave]

Again by your ******** logic, Soccer is bigger than Rugby League in Australia based on the audience numbers in Saudi Arabia.

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Auckland .... Wellington & Christchurch are all closer to Melbourne Sydney & Brisbane

then Perth is

NZ is part of our region
Saudi Arabia is not

so enough of your

but but but .............
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suck it up sunshine ..... you've been walloped

[Beaussie]

Again by your ******** logic, Soccer is bigger than Rugby League in Australia based on the audience numbers in Saudi Arabia.

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Auckland .... Wellington & Christchurch are all closer to Melbourne Sydney & Brisbane

then Perth is

NZ is part of our region
Saudi Arabia is not

so enough of your

but but but .............
but but but .............
but but but .............


suck it up sunshine ..... you've been walloped

Oh I see, that said, I can't wait to see the Rugby World Cup tv ratings for Australia and New Zealand. Going to be massive.

[Raiderdave]

Again by your ******** logic, Soccer is bigger than Rugby League in Australia based on the audience numbers in Saudi Arabia.

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Auckland .... Wellington & Christchurch are all closer to Melbourne Sydney & Brisbane

then Perth is

NZ is part of our region
Saudi Arabia is not

so enough of your

but but but .............
but but but .............
but but but .............


suck it up sunshine ..... you've been walloped

Oh I see, that said, I can't wait to see the Rugby World Cup tv ratings for Australia and New Zealand. Going to be massive.

yes ... they'll put the AFL Grand Final back to 4th biggest TV show
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[Beaussie]

Australians and New Zealanders only appreciate one code of Rugby, Union that is. Australian Football is our favourite sport in Australia followed by Rugby Union. That's a fact sunshine.

[Raiderdave]

Australians and New Zealanders only appreciate one code of Rugby, Union that is. Australian Football is our favourite sport in Australia followed by Rugby Union. That's a fact sunshine.

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[Beaussie]

I see you struggle with reality and utilise fake laughter to avoid the subject matter. Oh well.

[Raiderdave]

I see you struggle with reality and utilise fake laughter to avoid the subject matter. Oh well.

you claim Australians prefer Rugby union to Rugby League

& I'm the one struggling with reality


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now I'll indulge you here as this should make for some hilarious posts
so
do tell ?

[Beaussie]

Clearly if we include tv ratings and prime time broadcast times from Australia and New Zealand, Rugby Union is more popular than Rugby League. That's just a given using your own very logic when it comes to tv ratings and popularity. Do you get it?

[Raiderdave]

Clearly if we include tv ratings and prime time broadcast times from Australia and New Zealand, Rugby Union is more popular than Rugby League. That's just a given using your own very logic when it comes to tv ratings and popularity. Do you get it?

you sure about that ?

even with a RWC in NZ.... rugby unions TV ratings from Aust & NZ combined
would not get within a bulls roar of the 30 odd weeks that Rugby League gets

union might go close to getting Australias 2nd most popular TV sport though

the AFL ..........