Impressive TV Ratings for NRL This year
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:54 pm
Good to see....
Also interesting to note how the NRL dominates Pay TV....( 78 0f the top 100 shows in 2006 were NRL matches...)
No wonder foxtel are baulking at shelling out dollars for the AFL coverage next year...
http://www.arldevelopment.com.au/index. ... 2c3308c8e6
Also interesting to note how the NRL dominates Pay TV....( 78 0f the top 100 shows in 2006 were NRL matches...)
No wonder foxtel are baulking at shelling out dollars for the AFL coverage next year...
http://www.arldevelopment.com.au/index. ... 2c3308c8e6
Rugby League continues to rate as one of the premier sports on Australian Television, with the code increasing viewing figures in all the key performance indicators.
On Free to Air Television Friday Night Football increased by 3% in 2006 to bring its average up to 600,000 viewers across Sydney and Brisbane, whilst Sunday football rose by 7% to average 517,000 across Sydney and Brisbane. Viewing figures for regional NSW and Queensland also enjoyed significant increases throughout the regular season on the WIN and NBN networks.
In Sydney, the game surpassed both the World Cup and Commonwealth Games in terms of the most program to date, and has filled two of the top five most watched events in the city, whilst in Brisbane, league holds the top three.
On Pay TV Rugby League continued to be the most watched program on the available networks in 2006, taking out six of the top seven spots in the highest rating programs. The true dominance of the code on Pay TV is only heightened by Rugby League taking out 78 of the top 100 shows for the entire year so far.
The most watched game on Fox Sports was Melbourne Storm v Sydney Roosters at Olympic Park in Round 13. More than 3.6 million individual viewers watched matches on the medium, with each watching an average of 19 live games a year.
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