Talking Footy

Topper wrote:

If you mean the NRL, they are on the nose because their crowd numbers are well below that of the AFL as are the membership numbers. If they weren't, the last NRL TV deal would have attracted a lot more than it did.

what the HELL has TV got to do with crowds

its the people that " aren't " at games that TV exces are interested in
not those that are you dipshit

big big $$$ for this unstoppable juggernaut that is the NRL

TV has always been about promoting the game in order to increase attendances.

Has it, what did they do to promote the game before TV?


LOL.

Radio.

And before Radio?


Bahahahahaha, moron.

Funniest thing I've read today, well done.

Topper wrote:

TV has always been about promoting the game in order to increase attendances.

TV is about people sitting at home ... watching the ads that are put on during sporting telecasts & buying that merchandise
therefore adding value to that broadcast & the sport in the broadcast
more veiwers ... more merchandise moved ... more $$$$

K

Raiderdave wrote:

Topper wrote:

TV has always been about promoting the game in order to increase attendances.

TV is about people sitting at home ... watching the ads that are put on during sporting telecasts & buying that merchandise
therefore adding value to that broadcast & the sport in the broadcast
more veiwers ... more merchandise moved ... more $$$$

K

And yet we get more than double the tv $$$ you lot can attract along with better tv ratings. More viewers, more merchandise moved, more memberships sold and bigger crowds and sponsorship deals. You lot could learn alot from us.

Beaussie wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

Topper wrote:

TV has always been about promoting the game in order to increase attendances.

TV is about people sitting at home ... watching the ads that are put on during sporting telecasts & buying that merchandise
therefore adding value to that broadcast & the sport in the broadcast
more veiwers ... more merchandise moved ... more $$$$

K

And yet we get more than double the tv $$$ you lot can attract along with better tv ratings. More viewers, more merchandise moved, more memberships sold and bigger crowds and sponsorship deals. You lot could learn alot from us.

ah.... we haven't done our next deal
you attract considerablly less veiwers ... less merchandised moved .. or it has less value.. because more then 60% of advertising is written in NSW & QLD where feebleball does not rate
your memberships are cheap n nasty ( refer to GWS)
your crowds are off the back of said cheap memberships .. & even cheaper ticket prices

smoke n mirrors

eels fan wrote:

And before Radio?


Bahahahahaha, moron.

Funniest thing I've read today, well done.

Newspapers.

You need to refresh your history. Back in the day, everyone regarded the radio as the ultimate entertainment and communications machine. Before TV came along. It was the promotion machine of the day. Growth in all codes occurred when radio came along, overcoming the limitations of printed word and word of mouth.

Really?

When did Radio come about Einstein and why did sports like RL, RU, Soccer, VFL, Boxing and just about any other sport get big crowds before then?



Pissing myself laughing here.

They didn't get big crowds. Why do you think records were broken after radio, and then smashed after TV? Radio was already around when Einstein made his name just BTW.

They didn't get big crowds before Radio?

Bloody hell, you're the most entertaining person I've come across in years =D>

Loopy, but entertaining none the less.

No they didn't. Certainly not the sizes they get now. Point me to an RL grand final pre radio that drew the numbers that they have drawn recently to ANZ Stadium.

Wasn't a stadium big enough you idiot, our GF's used to be played at the SCG, and guess what sport holds all the records there for crowds?

Btw, the biggest Super 15 crowd in Australia was this year, it took over 100 years for a state based Union side to beat the old record, so there goes your theory.

You really are a dumbarse.

No it doesn't go anywhere. The record crowds for the SCG until TV was cricket, not RL. It was TV that got RL those records.