Talking Footy

leeroy*NRL* wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 8:12 pm

News been out for a few days now.

Reported by news limited
2.3billion New / extended NRL deal
Includes mass reduction in season 2020
Looks to not include digital or Sky
7 years
$330 mill per season with reduction added in

Appartently fox is a lock
Ch9 are wanting it cheaper.

Still waiting
To confirm full details..

pussycat wrote: Sat May 30, 2020 11:35 am

FRIDAY NIGHT NRL LIVE Channel 9 493,000 268,000 39,000 154,000 13,000 18,000

Regional; 275

Easts v Souths = 768kt

AFL delivers bumper Seven share
June 12th, 2020
By David Knox


A nail-biting Collingwood v Richmond match cracked the magic million last night at 1.00m viewers across Seven and 7mate. In Melbourne alone there were 668,000 viewers.

Seven cites this as the biggest regular primetime match in a decade. It topped the demos and ensured a huge network share. The game began with a bending of the knee for the Black Lives Matter movement, featured fake crowd noise and cardboard cutout fans, ending in a draw -the first between the clubs since 1917.

By comparison NRL drew 372,000 in 2 cities on Nine. It should be noted another 16,000 watched on 9GEM which Nine still codes separately. Why?

https://tvtonight.com.au/2020/06/AFL-de ... share.html

Footy roars back on Seven with biggest Thursday Night ever

Largest prime-time home and away audience for 10 years

A record number of fans flocked to Seven last night to celebrate the AFL’s return, with the Collingwood-Richmond blockbuster drawing the biggest ever LIVE and FREE audience for Thursday Night Football.

As the Magpies and Tigers restarted the 2020 season with a thrilling draw, an average audience of 1.275 million tuned in nationally to Seven.

It was the biggest prime-time audience for a home and away game for 10 years and topped the last seven Anzac Day blockbusters between Collingwood and Essendon.

Seven’s average metro audience of 1.02 million was more than 150 cent up on the NRL’s free-to-air metro audience of 394,000. And more people watched Seven’s AFL broadcast in Melbourne alone (668,000) than the NRL’s free-to-air coverage across the whole of Australia (619,000).

Managing Director Seven Melbourne and Head of Network Sport Lewis Martin commented:

“Last night just underlines how much Aussies love their footy and how glad we all are to finally have it back. We’ve worked tirelessly for the past three months on some exciting technical innovations and on-air initiatives to further enhance our broadcast for fans at home. But the footy will always be at the core of everything we do and we can’t wait to bring fans what shapes as a compelling season.”

Seven’s metro audience last night was also 25 per cent up on 2020’s round one season-opener between Richmond and Carlton, 58 per cent up on Richmond and Collingwood’s 2019 round two clash and a whopping 70 per cent up on last season’s Thursday Night Football average audience.

Melbourne’s average audience was 23 per cent up on 2020’s season opener, 58 per cent up on Richmond-Collingwood 2019 round two, and 93 per cent up on last season’s Thursday Night Football average.

Fans in Sydney and Brisbane also warmly welcomed the footy back on Seven, with Sydney’s average audience of 52,000 representing a 105 per cent increase on round two last year, while Brisbane’s audience of 41,000 was 77 per cent up on last year.

https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/seven-AFL ... e/376/4590