Talking Footy

NlolRL wrote: Wed May 08, 2019 10:33 am

AFLcrap1 wrote: Wed May 08, 2019 9:24 am

What Rd last year did the AFL start the big slide with ratings.
& there's a few quotes in there that show how well RL is doing on Fox & streaming.

In another crowded weekend of sport, the first round of A-league finals failed to generate much hype. The AFL had its lowest tv viewership for the season, and the NRL their second lowest.

On the other hand, Supercar racing under lights had a good result for its Friday night racing on Foxtel - rating 131,000 - and this may have slightly impacted the results from other sports.

Friday nights AFL game between Port Adelaide and Collingwood was the most watched game on free to air television with 739,000 viewers – narrowly beating Thursday nights NRL match between South Sydney and Brisbane which reeled in 710,000.

Friday nights NRL game between the Sharks/Storm takes home the chocolates for highest rating Foxtel game of the weekend with 268,000 viewers, as Foxtel ratings continue to be dominated by the NRL – on average 30% higher than AFL fox games.

Likewise, the NRL dominates streaming on Fox with 5 NRL matches making into the Oztam top 10 for the week, while the AFL missed out. We should note that this doesn’t include Kayo or Telstra apps.

Australian Football

In Round 7, the AFL had its lowest viewing week of the year with 3.7 million viewers switching on – the first time this year that the total viewers have dipped below 4 million for the round.
Seven released a video on Twitter earlier in the week where Head of Network Sport, Saul Shtein, stated that total season ratings were up 16% year on year.

With Thursday nights finished for a few weeks, Friday nights Collingwood v Port Adelaide game was the biggest draw with 957,000 viewers watching across the Seven Network and Foxtel.

On Free to air television, the Friday night Pies/Power clash was by far the biggest draw with 739,000 turning their attention to Seven, 7mate and regional affiliates, while Sundays Geelong v Essendon clash saw the highest Melbourne audience for a Sunday game this season as 281,000 took in the game from the comfort of their own homes.

On Foxtel, Friday night also reigned supreme with 218,000 watching Fox Footy, while the Giants/Saints game managed the lowest Foxtel rating this season (although not a record), as only 50,000 people made the choice to switch over to Fox Sports 3.

AFL fox ratings are up 7% on last year, but remain down 7% on the 2017 mark, so plenty of improvement is needed to make up the lost ground last year.

The AFL failed to make an impact on OzTAMs VPM charts this week.

In state football, the VFL attracted 49,000 on Sunday, while Saturdays SANFL and WAFL were watched by 28,000 and 21,000 each in their respective state capitals.

There's no doubt the NRL is rating far better than the AFL on Foxtel. In previous years the AFL consistently rated higher on foxtel for Friday nights, but this trend seems to have reversed this year.

Either many AFL fans have dropped fox for Kayo (like me) or they've dropped fox entirely

Cats_Steve wrote: Wed May 08, 2019 11:49 am

I thought it'd be counted through fox, those would be interesting.
I watch all non-fta games on Kayo, it seems pretty common **** mates.

I assume it's the same up there?

NlolRL wrote: Tue May 07, 2019 9:54 pm

pussycat wrote: Tue May 07, 2019 9:36 pm

NlolRL wrote: Tue May 07, 2019 8:52 pm

Every city rates highest on Thursday and Friday nights, including the NRL. Yet Perth somehow rate far lower on those nights? Any idea why? 7mate

Sydney , Brisbane or any team will rate higher when there team plays - get a new EXCUSE!

Adelaide rate really well on Thursday and Friday nights when an Adelaide team arent playing. It's the best rating times, except for Perth....

pussycat wrote: Wed May 08, 2019 12:04 pm

NlolRL wrote: Tue May 07, 2019 9:54 pm

pussycat wrote: Tue May 07, 2019 9:36 pm

Sydney , Brisbane or any team will rate higher when there team plays - get a new EXCUSE!

Adelaide rate really well on Thursday and Friday nights when an Adelaide team arent playing. It's the best rating times, except for Perth....

They rate about 1/3 better when an Adelaide team plays on either of those nights

pussycat wrote: Wed May 08, 2019 5:57 pm

Was it ever any different?

The_Wookie wrote: Fri May 10, 2019 11:22 am

7AFL Kicking Goals in 2019

Too bad there all own goals.

AFLcrap1 wrote: Sat May 11, 2019 11:02 am

Yep
Can see many dropping Fox for Kayo .
Why keep paying far more for multiple channels ypu will nevertheless watch when you can pay less just for sport .
& sport originally RL is what built STV in this country .