Beatup, you might want to speak to your dear friend Sookie about reach. After defending it early on he had a road to Damascus moment and stated the truth - its BS. No one in the media or broadcasting takes it seriously.Beaussie wrote: Thu Feb 19, 2026 8:45 amTerry, you may not like reach as a measurement of tv ratings, but the fact remains the broadcasters look closely at reach, as well as average, and regularly boast about reach figures in media releases. Add to that the AFL State of Origin was also broadcast on Foxtel and Kayo to which we have currently no viewer numbers, yet we can be confident the audience was massive based on trends we saw reported last season.
And yes, Foxtel numbers will get the avg ratings up toward 1.5Mish. Once again ok but nothing like the 'massive' audience you proclaim. I'll tell ya what's massive pal - average ratings of 3.75M, 3.76M and 3.9M - thats MASSIVE. And yep, thats RL SOO avg ratings 2025.
Get back to me when fumbling SOO gets anywhere near that. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!