ParraEelsNRL wrote:sydneyfc wrote:ParraEelsNRL wrote:31k, fair dinkum that is bad, if they want a bigger slice of the TV pie, I can't see how any station could justify doubling or whatever their TV contract money wise, it just doesn't add up.
Heck even the Union out here is rating more and everyone laughs at them. Yet when it comes to sokka, it's, lets not be mean to them or tell the truth, they might riot and start stabbing random people.
union isn't rating more - hence why their domestic deal is lower than ours
for every bad rating team in the a-league like your newcastle's and mariners, there are good ones like sfc and victory. same can be said for teams like the raiders and panthers vs parra/souths
your tv deal is worth what your average is across the board, not what your lowest draw is
we get games that rate 30-40k every year in the a-league. im surprised it took us till rd 9 to get one this season though. we also don't get games that draw 188k on fox too often, if at all, but achieved that this season too.
Union is rating more and even their old school abc matches give the a league a good run for their money when you compare fox vs abc.
I have no idea how you can say Union doesn't rate better, some S15 grand final ratings have been around the 700k on pay tv only. Before the NRL season starts, the S15 rates well over 200k for the big Aussie games, it's only the other two lot esp the south african mob that rate like a brick, and why wouldn't they when they are played early mornings?
I reckon if you took the s15 ratings only for the aus sides, they'd probably belt the a league on average by a fair whack, and I'm not known for sticking up for Union.
what utter tripe
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6874865294
avg a-league audience in 2013 was 81k
avg SR audience in 2013 was 65k(nz and aus sides only, 88k) some belting!
the a-league season has more games in australia 120 when you don't include the phoenix while SR only has ~80 when SA clubs are not included, and runs for longer
the highest rated match between 2 australian SR clubs in the reg season was ~120k - the highest rated a-league game this season was 188k for the 1st sydney derby
the grand final ratings for the warratahs was 375k on fox, while the a-league grand final drew 334k on fox, and 358k on sbs(1 hour delay)
the socceroos averaged 1.17m in 2013, the wallabies 1.19m
the rating averages for both sports are very similar with 1 blazing outlier - there are 9 australian a-league clubs, who play more games than the rugby while there are only 5 SR rugby clubs + you throw in the fact that the NRC got it's arse whooped by the FFA cup will only boost this, but then again you can say that since the nrc televised more games than the ffa cup then it evens itself out...well not if none of nrc matches were even averaging half of the ffa cup and already have rumours thrown around about it being folded
the a-league domestic tv deal is worth $40m a year - $30m from fox, and $10m from sbs - the new ARU tv deal was worth only $25m a yr to fox(no improvement from it's old tv deal) with an extra $15m coming in from south african and NZ broadcasters, domestic rugby as a tv sport is not seen as good as an investment as the a-league, that's a fact. Shute shield on ABC? The W-League - a womens sport has been running it close all year on abc, not to mention the NRC got absolutely smashed by the FFA Cup on fox. Throw in the extra $1m that ABC put up for FTA rights of the asian cup, one sport is moving forward domestically on tv(slowly, but still forward), the other isn't
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6874865294
http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/a- ... 6906007616
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union ... 01qlp.html
TLDR version :
HAL reg season vs SR reg season - HAL wins comfortably for all games via average and total viewership, slight win to SR when only AU and NZ games taken into account albeit the a-league will televise some 120 domestic games, vs just ~80 SR games
Socceroos vs Wallabies - slight win to the Wallabies in 2013, but mauling in favor of the Socceroos for 2014(World Cup)
FFA Cup vs NRC - FFA Cup mauls the NRC via average, even for amateur vs amateur teams, NRC broadcasts more games though.
Shute Shield vs W-League - comfortable win for Shute Shield, but neither rate as good as the HAL does on FTA and the W-League is a womens comp.
HAL finals vs SR finals - very even with a slight win on Paytv to SR for the grand final, but no FTA broadcast, whereas the HAL GF was watched by 700k people on both FTA and Fox
There is a reason why Fox pays the FFA $30m a yr for football, while only $25m to the ARU for Rugby. The ratings are similar with one code dominating the other in certain facets and vice versa, but football offers more games which equals more viewers, and more money