Talking Footy

pussycat wrote: ↑Mon Jun 29, 2020 2:14 pm

Fred wrote: ↑Mon Jun 29, 2020 1:42 pm

Well if I only have fta and can’t watch my team cause the suns and Brisbane are playing I’m wouldn’t watch. I would watch on my afl app... Telstra streaming. There are a lot of afl people up here however many have an afl team other than suns and lions you see. So I certainly think if you had collingwood v Essendon on fta you’d get much higher ratings than say suns v giants if they were in competeting time slots. Me personally, I’d prefer to watch my Pies and also watch the suns... which I do... but if concurrent and has only the one choice would watch the pies.

If everybody could watch whatever match they wanted to watch on FTA then Fox woudn't be paying squillions for TV rights.

Terry wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:35 am

Last night's overall TV ratings show the discrepancy of viewing between Sydney and Melbourne that has been evident for many years. The top rating programs were 7 News and 9 News. The numbers for each city were:

Melbourne 7 - 369K Sydney 7 - 243k
Melbourne 9 - 408k Sydney 9 - 285k

Both news programs air between 6pm to 7pm. Melbourne had a combined 249K more people watching than in Sydney. That's a 1/4 million people although Sydney has 350k more people living there. Every program in the top 15 had similar difference between cities.

Apparently each city has the same number of tv rating boxes. Sydney strangely appears to have a huge number of people who have TV's but don't turn 'em on. Fox has low numbers bet 6pm - 7pm so that's not the difference.

Sydney has many more pubs and clubs so more groups of people could be watching there. However the difference is the same every night so I doubt that's the whole answer.

Some people have suggested there is something wrong with the ratings system and how the numbers are collated. I haven't seen any evidence for this so it's hard to tell.

Anyone got any answer's to this?

pussycat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 2:35 pm

It could be to do with the Victorian Education System.
Inadequate reading skills taught in there earlier years has led to a much heavier reliance on the 'box' and less on the printed media.

pussycat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 2:35 pm

It could be to do with the Victorian Education System.
Inadequate reading skills taught in there earlier years has led to a much heavier reliance on the 'box' and less on the printed media.

NlolRL wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 12:28 pm

The number of boxes isn't as relevant as you think.

Eg. 5mil people in Sydney may be covered by 50 boxes. If 5 boxes are watching ch9 that's 1 in 10. 1/10th of 5 mil is 500k.

If 4.5mil in Melbourne are covered by 100 boxes and 10 boxes watch ch9 thats 1 in 10. 1/10th of 4.5mil is 450k.

The networks are paid millions based on this data. I'm sure they wouldn't do so without knowing the data was fairly calculated

pussycat wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2020 11:13 am

Tigers v Panthers 284,000
Warriors v Broncos 256,000
Titans v Sharks 159,000

(AFL)

AFLcrap1 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2020 1:03 pm

oh dear .
Comparing FTA v STV .
The act of a desperate man .