Fight Club - Football TV Ratings (AFL vs NRL)

[Xman]

Quick recap. For last season the NRL finished 10m viewers up on the OZ numbers and 22m up when you included the full NRL competition.

So has the AFL made up the 10m or the 20m? Hope your not relying on the TV ratings posted on this site as they are not even close when it comes to the NRL numbers.

The duration of the game/coverage has nothing to do with popularity as it is the same person watching.

Quick recap for you: the NRL had 7-8 exclusive broadcasts per round over a longer season, a far shorter broadcast for better averaging, and SOO thrown in, which resulted in the NRL media claiming some bogus victory in a meaningless cumulative ratings. having said that the AFL are so dominant this year they will still win this bogus cumulative ratings race, by a fair way too.

The real sign of the most popular sport on TV is an apples v apples comparison like the finals series provides, where games a all exclusive, at a similar time, and of interest to a similar sized homeland market. The AFL have smashed it wide open.

Lol what a load of garbage again from you........

Apples vs Apples the NRL wins and easy.

Foxtell numbers have the NRL winning easy with a average of 280k during the regular season, the AFL is at 190k or there abouts.
FTA average for the regular season has NRL winning easy with over a million viewers for every match on 9.

You can have your game broadcasts on Fox, Speed, ESPN for all i care but when you compare apples v apples the NRL wins and easy.

All AFL foxtel ratings are split with concurrent games.

The AFL finals arent and have been getting a total audience between 1.5m and 1.92m. The NRL are lower by a substantial margin.

[Xman]

Quick recap. For last season the NRL finished 10m viewers up on the OZ numbers and 22m up when you included the full NRL competition.

So has the AFL made up the 10m or the 20m? Hope your not relying on the TV ratings posted on this site as they are not even close when it comes to the NRL numbers.

The duration of the game/coverage has nothing to do with popularity as it is the same person watching.

Quick recap for you: the NRL had 7-8 exclusive broadcasts per round over a longer season, a far shorter broadcast for better averaging, and SOO thrown in, which resulted in the NRL media claiming some bogus victory in a meaningless cumulative ratings. having said that the AFL are so dominant this year they will still win this bogus cumulative ratings race, by a fair way too.

The real sign of the most popular sport on TV is an apples v apples comparison like the finals series provides, where games a all exclusive, at a similar time, and of interest to a similar sized homeland market. The AFL have smashed it wide open.

Lol what a load of garbage again from you........

Apples vs Apples the NRL wins and easy.

Foxtell numbers have the NRL winning easy with a average of 280k during the regular season, the AFL is at 190k or there abouts.
FTA average for the regular season has NRL winning easy with over a million viewers for every match on 9.

You can have your game broadcasts on Fox, Speed, ESPN for all i care but when you compare apples v apples the NRL wins and easy.

Wanna see what apple vs apple looks like?

NRL FTA+Regional Australia...............Yess you AFL fans regional Aus is still counted as Australia................
26 RUGBY LEAGUE FINAL SERIES QF1 1,339
29 RUGBY LEAGUE FINAL SERIES EF1 1,246
31 RUGBY LEAGUE FINAL SERIES QF2 1,224

AFL FTA + Regionals
AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL FINALS 1,173
AFL: SAT NIGHT FOOTBALL FINALS 1,066

=D> =D>

Doesn't include tas, sa, wa, 7 mate or foxtel!

Thanks!

[Xman]

See the final numbers were calculated by various independent organisations, the best known being Repucom. The NRL then went hey were number one. Still are till someone beats us.

And if your beating the NRL you need to have found nearly a million viewers a week. If you are beating the OZ part of the NRL then you need 500k per week.

The NRL has not gone backwards this year. As a matter of interest they were 61 of the top 100 Foxtel this year.

PS One more time SOO is NRL.So are the regional teams,so is the Warriors etc

Show us this repucom report I've got some independent reports too, like the one on this site showing the AFL comfortably the most popular sport on TV

So the NRL hasn't gone backwards but has less foxtel games in the top 100?

How is the NRL number one when the AFL beat them by a massive 500k for one game on SN, and not far off it for Friday night?

[Xman]

http://www.theage.com.au/business/afls- ... =text-only

You mean like this repucom report?

The AFL was the most-watched football competition on Australian television last year, with an average of 14.64 million viewers per club. That compares with 13.81 million viewers per club for the NRL.

[enarelle]

Your "quoting" a report about Repucom from March 2011? Seriously? You couldn't find the end of season one that even the AFL quoted?

The NRL has not gone backwards on FTA or cable - 61 out of a hundred still seems like alot especially since the AFL now had 9 games to 5.

Forget the finals or just one part of it come on an declare for the whole season. Surely the AFL Masters of the Universe with twice the membership and twice crowds must get twice the TV ratings of the poor little NRL this year. You have 4 FTA versus 3 and 9 Foxtel versus 5.

So once again will you beat the OZ component of the NRL or will you go for the big prize and beat the NRL in total?

[Xman]

Your "quoting" a report about Repucom from March 2011? Seriously? You couldn't find the end of season one that even the AFL quoted?

The NRL has not gone backwards on FTA or cable - 61 out of a hundred still seems like alot especially since the AFL now had 9 games to 5.

Forget the finals or just one part of it come on an declare for the whole season. Surely the AFL Masters of the Universe with twice the membership and twice crowds must get twice the TV ratings of the poor little NRL this year. You have 4 FTA versus 3 and 9 Foxtel versus 5.

So once again will you beat the OZ component of the NRL or will you go for the big prize and beat the NRL in total?

Yeah 9 games with all but one shown against another foxtel game, splitting the audience.

Why forget the finals? They show the size of the AFLs audience.

The AFL will easily win the bogus cumulative count despite the fact the figure is meaningless. There are too many differences in the way each code schedules their games for the figure to be a decent comparison. But it suites the NRL to claim this figure since they lose everything else by a huge margin.

[enarelle]

Yep we win and you guys whine.

How about you put your top twenty games up against the NRLs top twenty? See who wins.

[Xman]

Yep we win and you guys whine.

How about you put your top twenty games up against the NRLs top twenty? See who wins.

You're kidding right? The AFL have had multiple games rating near 2m. Other than SOO the NRL have struggled to get near 1.4m.

[pussycat]

Your Grand Final is your only game not on PayTV this year, it will be interesting to see if your viewers are up over 20%. (or anywhere near that)

[Xman]

Your Grand Final is your only game not on PayTV this year, it will be interesting to see if your viewers are up over 20%. (or anywhere near that)

not sure that proves anything actually. it mostly depends on who plays. The Swans v WC GFs were 700k above the last few with Melbourne teams only. Having the AFL on Fox and FTA also helps the ratings because the foxtel ratings include regional and metro and are in HD.

[QueenslandISAFL]

a sydney and hawthorn grand final would rate through the roof, i'm expecting 900k-1million viewers for that in nsw alone.

[piesman2011]

http://www.AFL.com.au/news/newsarticle/ ... fault.aspx

This article says that the AFL is 1.6 million viewers up compared to last year after the first 2 weeks of the AFL finals.

[piesman2011]

Here are my ratings predictions for the 2 AFL prelimary final games

Sydney V Collingwood (Close game)

Foxtel: 460K
metro FTA: 1300 K
national total: 2.1 million

Hawthorn V Adelaide (bit of a blowout)
Foxtel :390K
Metro FTA: 1 million
national total: 1.75 million

[QueenslandISAFL]

the sydney game is on 7mate in queensland and brisbane, so it won't do that great

I'm expecting this for that game

Fri TV #AFL #AFLSwansPies 1,115,000 (Syd 117k Mel 600k Bri 68k Ade 170k Per 160k) Seven/7mate
Fri TV #AFL #AFLSwansPies FoxFooty 490k

For the saturday game i'm predicitng this
Sat TV #AFL #AFLHawksCrows 1,122,000 (Syd 72k Mel 580k Bri 70k Ade 250k Per 150k) Seven/7mate
Sat TV #AFL #AFLHawksCrows FoxFooty 440k

[pussycat]

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