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Should be big tv numbers reported tomorrow yeah? 300 million expected to be tuning in worldwide apparently. 🤭
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1.3mill watched the season return last night

Massive figure on Fox 355k
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Updated numbers. Getting better and better!!!!!!!

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Big figures all round

Be interesting to see Tonight's clash
South's v Roosters

The crowd noise in telecast did wonders for viewing.
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Reporting that Fox Figure was 401k

The first match of the recommenced 2020 NRL season has set a ratings record.
The combined audience watching on Nine and Fox League across Australia was 1,353,000.

The Parramatta Eel’s 34-6 victory over the Brisbane Broncos last night to re-start the 2020 Telstra NRL Premiership season figures detailed below don’t include live streaming on connected devices.

The breakdown of the audiences:

Metro FTA 619,000
Regional FTA 333,000
Fox League 401,000

The metro splits for the audience watching on Nine:

Sydney 286,000
Brisbane 249,000
Melbourne 49,000
Adelaide 18,000
Perth 17,000

The audience watching on Nine was the biggest regular season game since the season opening match in 2016.

In regional markets the audiences included:

Queensland 124,000
Northern NSW 99,000
Southern NSW 80,000
Victoria 19,000
Tasmania 7,000
Western Australia 4,000

The Fox League figure of 401,000 was the most watched regular season simulcast game ever and the number one game of the 2020 season.
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Wow!
Rugby League, the dominant force in Australian sport! :cheers:

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Substantial decline in viewers from Thursday night to Friday night.


THURSDAY NIGHT NRL LIVE -PRE MATCH Nine 399,000 210,000 0 189,000 0 0

THURSDAY NIGHT NRL LIVE Nine 535,000 286,000 0 249,000 0 0

https://tvtonight.com.au/2020/05/thursd ... -2020.html


FRIDAY NIGHT NRL LIVE -PRE MATCH Channel 9 311,000 168,000 16,000 110,000 11,000 6,000

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

https://tvtonight.com.au/2020/05/friday ... -2020.html

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Friday FTA NRL Nine

Roosters v Souths
768,000 (Metro 493,000 Regional 275,000)
FOX NRL Roosters v Souths
342,000

= 1.110mill

Friday STV NRL Fox League

Cowboys v Titans
289,000
6pm game

Remember 2 games Friday nights
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Excellent figures continue.

350k for Raiders v Storm
Terrific


Be good to get a close game this round....
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What were the figures for melbourne. Had a few mates watching it down there so given the lack of sport and spurts mad melvourne I am guessing ratings were up on averages?
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Game was only on FOX so no cities / metro or regional figures..

Storm do rate well on FOX
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Well I’m guessing it would have rated well or better at least on Melbourne .
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NRL on Channel 9 does not appear to have made the Top 20 for FTA on Sunday. Perhaps Wookie can shed some light? Meanwhile on Foxtel.


LIVE: NRL: PANTHERS V KNIGHTS FOX LEAGUE 242,000
LIVE: NRL: SEA EAGLES V BULLDOGS FOX LEAGUE 190,000

https://tvtonight.com.au/2020/06/sunday ... -2020.html
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Ratings through the roof: NRL draws 4.5 million TV audience

With rugby league resuming in round three, Fox Sports attracted approximately 2,276,000 sets of eyeballs as it broadcast the entire week's action.

Channel Nine's three free-to-air matches drew a combined audience of 2,214,336.

Thursday's Broncos-Eels game remarkably also set viewership records in New Zealand despite not kicking off until around 10pm in the Kiwi time zone

https://www.nrl.com/news/2020/06/01/rat ... -audience/
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