All Victorian AFL clubs have now reported for the year. Revenues dropped 28% to 451m across all 10 clubs, which made a combined operating loss of -2.59m, but a combined operating profit of 9.75m for 2020 Victorian clubs took a hit to membership and gate revenues of 35.64% down to 111.04m for 2020. St Kilda…
The AFL has signed a 2 year extension with Foxtel and Telstra which will see the league recieved $946 million over the final two years, when combined with the previous Seven Network extension. Asked if the deal was an increase on what the AFL was receiving in the pre-COVID-adjusted arrangement, AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan said…
State of Origin This years state of Origin series rated a total of 7.54m viewers, down 15.12% (1.344m) on the 2019 Origin series. Ratings were up in Adelaide (12%), but down in every other FTA segment with Sydney down 15.98%, Brisbane down 18% and Perth down 48% on last years series. Origin 1 National peak…
Basketball Australia (BA) has announced new broadcast arrangements for the 2020 Chemist Warehouse WNBL season, providing the league with more visibility than ever before. The agreement with partners the Foxtel Group and the ABC will see all 60 games of the 2020 season available LIVE across Australia. Fox Sports will broadcast LIVE four games per…
AFL 2020 AFL Grand Final National 3.812m Metro 2.979m Regional 833k) Metro – Syd 413k, Melb 1,583m, Bris 383k, Adel 265k Perth 335k Reg – QLD 141k, NNSW 131k, SNSW 120k, Vic 260k, Tas 98k, WA 82k OZtam Prelim Overnight Data AFl Grand Final Ratings up 29% on last year. Metro audience of 2.979m outrated…
https://twitter.com/footyindustryAU/status/1237512153604603904https://twitter.com/footyindustryAU/status/1249650835211956229Ive been asked to do this a few times, so here we go. In fact, the Melbourne Storm had the best Foxtel viewing average of both the NRL and AFL. NRL sides with the 9 best average results, Collingwood with the top AFL average in at #10. pic.twitter.com/2t6aOkYiv4 — sportsindustry (@footyindustryAU) September 29, 2020 …
With the penalties handed down to Parramatta in the National Rugby League yesterday, Ive laid out a ranking of the top penalties for salary cap breaches in Australian sport. 1. The Melbourne Storm (NRL 2010) Unquestionably the king of salary cap penalties, the Melbourne Storm were heavily penalised after the National Rugby League uncovered breaches estimated…
Nine’s broadcast of the Grand Final reached more than 930,000 people nationwide, making it the highest rating match of the 2020 season, with viewership within all key demographics up on the 2019 Grand Final. The Super Netball grand final had a peak audience of 448,000. The average audience throughout the match was 303,659. The broadcast…
The 2020 NRL season totaled 70.2 million viewers across the Nine Network and Foxleague, up 0.35% on the first 20 rounds of 2019, but down 20.4% on the 2019 total. More matches were played compared to the first 20 rounds of last year, leading to an average of 439,000, down 4.6% on the first 20…
2020 @NRL Supporter Ladder: @brisbanebroncos again on top but 2019 NRL Grand Finalists @sydneyroosters & @RaidersCanberra have big increases. The latest data from Roy Morgan shows the total NRL supporter base is up by 1.2% to over 5.4mn… @footyindustryAU https://t.co/rilMuAGont pic.twitter.com/hMdGp91FD7 — Gary Morgan (@garycmorgan) September 23, 2020 #AFL2020 @AFL support increases for 2019 Premiers…
2020 AFL Home and Away season total ratings finish at 75.7m, up 4.3% on the first 18 rounds of 2019, down 15% on the 2019 season overall. The AFL averaged 4.2m viewers per round this season, up from 4.03m viewers in the first 18 rounds of 2019, and up from 3.88m viewers over the full 2019…
The Test produced by Amazon Prime was heralded as a huge success by audiences and critics for its fly-on-the-wall documentary about the Australian cricket team. The production was handed an all-access pass to film the trials and tribulations of the outfit over a calendar year, which included the 2019 World Cup and Ashes series in…
Total AFL Club earnings in 2019 were $1.109 billion. This includes AFL distributions of $314.6m. In total across the AFL and its clubs, consolidated revenue was $1.547 billion for 2019. The top earning AFL club in 2019 was the West Coast Eagles with 102m. Richmond came in second with $92 million. Three clubs failed to…
The A-League season made its long-awaited return in mid-July, and despite plenty of excitement amongst top flight soccer supporters, the audience ratings have been largely disappointing so far. Unfortunately, it was a far from triumphant return, with just 12,000 viewers tuning in to catch Sydney FC’s 3-1 victory over Wellington Phoenix. According to OzTam, even fewer soccer fans…
FOXTEL HAS RELEASED NEW VIEWER DATA HIGHLIGHTING THE SUCCESS OF THE AFL’S RECENT FESTIVAL OF FOOTY AND MID-YEAR NRL SEASON. Sources TV_Blackbox TV-Tonight The Age Fox Footy live audiences for AFL Rounds 9 to 12 were up 14% compared with the previous eight rounds. The festival of footy, which featured 33 matches over 20-days, was up 59% compared…
It was another big weekend on our sporting televisions with the A-league having a fairly quiet return, while the AFL had its second biggest weekend for the year, and the NRL its lowest. The highest rating fixture of the weekend was the Thursday night clash between Geelong and Collingwood which totaled in at 1.137m. It…
AS COVID CONTINUES TO CAUSE HAVOC WITH SPORT ACROSS THE NATION, IT WAS A BIG WEEKEND IN SPORT WITH THE AFL, NRL AND RUGBY UNION ALL FEATURING ACROSS A BUSY WEEKEND, AS THE A-LEAGUE PREPARES TO RESTART THIS THURSDAY. As first posted to: SPORT RATINGS | Viewers love the Footy during COVID lockdown weekend https://t.co/8RLm8PlLXL…
Work in progress, Ill add to this as I get time. 1952. The Australian RugbyLeague team refuses to allow the BBC to broadcasts its tour matches against England for fear of hurting gate attendances. 1969 -1970. Channel 9 has exclusive NRL rights. 1971. Seven offers $160,000 and Nine $150,000 for exclusive rights to the NSWRL…
In Mondays wrap, the details in Rugby Australias financials are revealed, the NRL is due to sign a bumper tv deal over 7 years and Victoria announces an exemption to allow professional sports teams to train together. General Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has declared his state is ready for footy to be back, announcing special…