Talking Footy

eelofwest wrote:

These TV ratings are below what was expected....Sydney swans in the GF and they could not get close to 2005.

2005 AFL Grand Final: Sydney vs West Coast
Sydney: 991,000 (peak 1,230,000)
Perth: 514,000 (peak 570,000)
Melbourne: 1,230,000 (peak 1,367,000)
Adelaide: 314,000 (peak 406,000)
Brisbane: 342,000 (peak 425,000)
NNSW: 239,000
SNSW: 230,000
Reg.Qld: 177,000
Reg.Vic: 264,000
Tas: 148,000

Total Average audience: 4,449,000

Total Peak audience: 5,250,000

AFL 2006 GRAND FINAL SYDNEY V WEST COAST Ten 3,155,000 metro

The TV ratings are easy below what is expected for a Swans vs Melbourne GF.

And all this talk about beating SOO.......please SOO 2012 garnered close to 12million viewers in AUS alone. You would have to add 3 AFL GF's together to get what SOO gets in 1 year.

eelofwest wrote:

These TV ratings are below what was expected....Sydney swans in the GF and they could not get close to 2005.

2005 AFL Grand Final: Sydney vs West Coast
Sydney: 991,000 (peak 1,230,000)
Perth: 514,000 (peak 570,000)
Melbourne: 1,230,000 (peak 1,367,000)
Adelaide: 314,000 (peak 406,000)
Brisbane: 342,000 (peak 425,000)
NNSW: 239,000
SNSW: 230,000
Reg.Qld: 177,000
Reg.Vic: 264,000
Tas: 148,000

Total Average audience: 4,449,000

Total Peak audience: 5,250,000

AFL 2006 GRAND FINAL SYDNEY V WEST COAST Ten 3,155,000 metro

The TV ratings are easy below what is expected for a Swans vs Melbourne GF.

And all this talk about beating SOO.......please SOO 2012 garnered close to 12million viewers in AUS alone. You would have to add 3 AFL GF's together to get what SOO gets in 1 year.

eelofwest wrote:

eelofwest wrote:

These TV ratings are below what was expected....Sydney swans in the GF and they could not get close to 2005.

2005 AFL Grand Final: Sydney vs West Coast
Sydney: 991,000 (peak 1,230,000)
Perth: 514,000 (peak 570,000)
Melbourne: 1,230,000 (peak 1,367,000)
Adelaide: 314,000 (peak 406,000)
Brisbane: 342,000 (peak 425,000)
NNSW: 239,000
SNSW: 230,000
Reg.Qld: 177,000
Reg.Vic: 264,000
Tas: 148,000

Total Average audience: 4,449,000

Total Peak audience: 5,250,000

AFL 2006 GRAND FINAL SYDNEY V WEST COAST Ten 3,155,000 metro

The TV ratings are easy below what is expected for a Swans vs Melbourne GF.

And all this talk about beating SOO.......please SOO 2012 garnered close to 12million viewers in AUS alone. You would have to add 3 AFL GF's together to get what SOO gets in 1 year.

Yes like i said out of the 3 Swans GF's this is the lowest tv ratings of the lot. Not a great result considering the Swans were playing and the bandwagon was out in force including me and they still could not beat the 2005, 2006 Swans GF's.

QueenslandISAFL wrote:

I doubt the 2005 grand final ever got a 6million peak

Xman wrote:

eelofwest wrote:

eelofwest wrote:

These TV ratings are below what was expected....Sydney swans in the GF and they could not get close to 2005.

2005 AFL Grand Final: Sydney vs West Coast
Sydney: 991,000 (peak 1,230,000)
Perth: 514,000 (peak 570,000)
Melbourne: 1,230,000 (peak 1,367,000)
Adelaide: 314,000 (peak 406,000)
Brisbane: 342,000 (peak 425,000)
NNSW: 239,000
SNSW: 230,000
Reg.Qld: 177,000
Reg.Vic: 264,000
Tas: 148,000

Total Average audience: 4,449,000

Total Peak audience: 5,250,000

AFL 2006 GRAND FINAL SYDNEY V WEST COAST Ten 3,155,000 metro

The TV ratings are easy below what is expected for a Swans vs Melbourne GF.

And all this talk about beating SOO.......please SOO 2012 garnered close to 12million viewers in AUS alone. You would have to add 3 AFL GF's together to get what SOO gets in 1 year.

Yes like i said out of the 3 Swans GF's this is the lowest tv ratings of the lot. Not a great result considering the Swans were playing and the bandwagon was out in force including me and they still could not beat the 2005, 2006 Swans GF's.

The reason for the slightly lower ratings overall is that both the previous Swans games were against WC and Perth rated far higher for obvious reasons.

Melbourne Storms GF ratings have also dropped since their previous GF appearances

eelofwest wrote:

Xman wrote:

eelofwest wrote:

Yes like i said out of the 3 Swans GF's this is the lowest tv ratings of the lot. Not a great result considering the Swans were playing and the bandwagon was out in force including me and they still could not beat the 2005, 2006 Swans GF's.

The reason for the slightly lower ratings overall is that both the previous Swans games were against WC and Perth rated far higher for obvious reasons.

Melbourne Storms GF ratings have also dropped since their previous GF appearances

Ahh all i heard was blablahblah.

More excuses and no real evidence to back it up GJ looser.

Facts is that This is the lowest GF ratings for the Swans to date... =D>

Xman wrote:

pussycat wrote:

Xman wrote:

Yep, 3.2m is a huge result, far higher than last year, and vindicates the increase in overall AFL ratings this year, including the increase due to foxtel. =D>

How do you work that out ? No significant increase anywhere but Sydney. I would put that down to the Swans involvement. Down 4 years straight in Melbourne.

because the Foxtel ratings only add 200-500k extra viewers over the entire country, which includes metro and regional. So some of those will be in spread over the metro figures, and some over the regionals. So each city may only be 30-40k more.

Of course Melbourne is down. Theres been 2 Melbourne teams in each of the last 4 GFs and Collingwood or Hawthorn have been in a number.

pussycat wrote:

Xman wrote:

pussycat wrote:

How do you work that out ? No significant increase anywhere but Sydney. I would put that down to the Swans involvement. Down 4 years straight in Melbourne.

because the Foxtel ratings only add 200-500k extra viewers over the entire country, which includes metro and regional. So some of those will be in spread over the metro figures, and some over the regionals. So each city may only be 30-40k more.

Of course Melbourne is down. Theres been 2 Melbourne teams in each of the last 4 GFs and Collingwood or Hawthorn have been in a number.

On AFL's best weeks on Fox, ie 400k + viewers, rural viewers would'nt be anymire than 100K.

And as my quote says, Melbourne have been down 4 years straight.

Xman wrote:

pussycat wrote:

Xman wrote:

because the Foxtel ratings only add 200-500k extra viewers over the entire country, which includes metro and regional. So some of those will be in spread over the metro figures, and some over the regionals. So each city may only be 30-40k more.

Of course Melbourne is down. Theres been 2 Melbourne teams in each of the last 4 GFs and Collingwood or Hawthorn have been in a number.

On AFL's best weeks on Fox, ie 400k + viewers, rural viewers would'nt be anymire than 100K.

And as my quote says, Melbourne have been down 4 years straight.

Whats your point? The NRL has been down in Sydney every year for the last 3 years as well

QueenslandISAFL wrote:

I doubt the 2005 grand final ever got a 6million peak

piesman2011 wrote:

QueenslandISAFL wrote:

I doubt the 2005 grand final ever got a 6million peak

Peaked at 5 million had a total of 6 million viewers but never had 6 million watching it at one time.

Full Numbers
SEVEN’S AFL: GRAND FINAL: PRESENTATIONS 4,257,000
SEVEN’S AFL: GRAND FINAL: HAWTHORN V SYDNEY 4,053,000
SEVEN’S AFL: GRAND FINAL: ON THE GROUND 2,559,000
SEVEN’S AFL: GRAND FINAL: POST-MATCH 3,172,000
SEVEN’S AFL: GRAND FINAL: PREVIEW 1,913,000
SEVEN’S AFL: GRAND FINAL: PRE-MATCH ENTERTAINMENT 873,000

SATURDAY'S AFL grand final television ratings were the highest since West Coast's win over Sydney in 2006.

The national audience of 4.05 million pushed the four-week finals series to a record of almost 18.1 million viewers.

The game was the highest-rating television program in Melbourne for the year and rated well in Sydney, where it had an average audience of 610,000.

AFL chief operating officer Gillon McLachlan described the Sydney figures as "a huge number" that equated to a prime-time rating. "Our ratings and attendance figures for the finals series have been spectacular, up 20 per cent in each category from last year," McLachlan said.

That follows a home-and-away increase in ratings of 12 per cent. "I think it's a tribute to our broadcasters for their quality of coverage, particularly in the first year of games being telecast live against the gate," McLachlan said.


The grand final drew 2.95 million metropolitan viewers nationally and a regional audience of 1.1 million.

It was the third most watched metropolitan television program for the year.

This year's figure bettered last year's grand final by 450,000, and was just behind the most watched best recent final _ 4.2 million in 2006 _ the Swans' previous grand final appearance.

In Melbourne, the match attracted 1.33 million and 1.4 million watched the post-game presentations. The coverage received a further 73,000 viewers on pay-TV for its 6.30pm replay.

The first week of the AFL finals series drew 5.949 million viewers across four games featuring clubs from four states, which was up almost one million on the corresponding four games in the first weekend of NRL finals, which involved clubs from three states.

The two AFL semi-finals attracted a national audience of 3.799 million, compared with the NRL's 2.92 million. In the second week of the AFL finals, Collingwood-West Coast drew 1.98 million viewers and Adelaide-Fremantle drew 1.8 million.

The national figure for the AFL's preliminary finals was 4.23 million, compared with the NRL's total of 3.3 million.

The Sydney-Collingwood preliminary final drew 2.23 million national viewers and the Hawthorn-Adelaide preliminary final attracted 2.06 million. The Swans' preliminary final win over the Magpies was the highest-rating match of the season at that stage, higher than every match of the 2011 season, except the grand final.

On the same weekend in the NRL, the Storm-Sea Eagles preliminary final pulled 1.78 million viewers, and 1.5 million watched the Bulldogs-Rabbitohs clash.

Prior to last night's NRL grand final, the first eight NRL finals drew a combined national audience of 11.21 million.