The National Basketball League will be accessible to more sports fans after the League extended its partnership with ESPN, secured a new free-to-air broadcast deal with Network 10, with games to be played on its main channel, in High Definition (HD) and renewed its deal with News Corp Australia (NCA) to deliver deeper basketball coverage…
The Aleagues report that attendance in the season had reached 312,199 making it the best attendance aggregate for any Australian womens competition ever – and up 127% compared to the previous season.
The owners of the Melbourne based WNBL club – the Deakin Melbourne Boomers – have announced they will transfer their WNBL license to a Geelong based consortium. Speaking on behalf of the current ownership group, who assumed control of the license in 2016 from the Bullen and Templestowe Basketball Association (after it faced closure), the…
As of March 31, 2024, Foxtel’s total closing paid subscribers were over 4.5 million, a 1% decrease compared to the prior year, driven by fewer residential broadcast subscribers and lower BINGE subscribers partly offset by strong growth in Kayo subscribers. Broadcast subscriber churn in the quarter was 13.3% compared to 12.3% in the prior year…
After 10 rounds, nearly 1.67 million New Zealanders watched games on SKY Sport and free-to-air on SKY Open, an increase of 11 per cent compared to last year. Games were streamed over 3.36 million times to 186,000 unique viewers on SKY Sport Now and SKY Go. Until round 10, the Chiefs vs. Crusaders game on…
Suncorp Super Netball has had its biggest start to the season yet, breaking viewership and attendance records. Significant audience increases have been recorded on Kayo Sports, Foxtel Go and Foxtel Now across Rounds 1 and 2, marking the highest streamed start to the season since the landmark broadcast partnership with the Foxtel Group began in…
More than 135,000 people attended the NRL in Round 9, with the average staying well clear of 20,000 for the season. South Sydney/Penrith Manly/Canberra Brisbane/Sydney Canterbury/Wests Tigers Gold Coast/Melbourne North Queensland/Dolphins Newcastle/Warriors Cronulla/St George All data sourced from Oztam, VOZ, Mediaspy, NRL.com and League Unlimited. FoxSTB = set top boxes, and these estimates are based…
Round 8 was attended by over 403,000 people – the third time this season that attendance has passed 400,000 and the fourth time ever. It is the third highest aggregate round crowd of all time. Crows/Power Carlton/Collingwood Sydney/GWS St Kilda/North Melbourne Saturday Night AFL Melbourne/Geelong West Coast/Essendon Richmond/Frematle Western Bulldogs/Hawthorn Brisbane/Gold Coast Note: all data…
It was a record attendance for the NRL this week with 179,337 attending at an average of22,417. The season average remains over 20,000 as the league sets its sights on breaking last yearws record with attendances up nearly 10% on the same time last year. ANZAC Day had three fixtures this year, instead of two…
THE AFL is thrilled to announce that fans have come together to recognise and celebrate the Anzac spirit across Round 7, registering the second highest ever attended round in history with 408,433 fans attending matches. This milestone marks only the third time in history a round has surpassed 400,000 attendees, alongside Round 1, 2024 (413,405)…
As we will have all noticed by now, Oztam has moved to a new standard which promotes Reach ahead of Average ratings. Is this a good or bad thing? For folks who study the data, the loss of metro/regional breakdowns, not to mention Foxtel ratings is a backward step in the disemination of information and…
ANZAC Day is a big day for all teams and leagues concerned, the modern AFL event between Collingwood and Essendon dates back to 1995, while the NRLs variant between Sydney and St George dates to 2002. Recently it was announced that Rugby Australia was keen to explore the idea of a Bledisloe Cup on the…
AFL Carlton have set a record, and the Giants have also broken their record for members. NRL Several clubs have broken records including the Broncos, Sharks, Knights and Panthers
On Seven, the AFL has had more than 13.183m viewers for the season, this is down from the 15.061m who watched the first 6 rounds of 2023. Even allowing for gaps in the data (mostly low flying single city broadcasts), there are not enough ratings to come anywhere near this. The highest rating average audience…
National Rugby League On Nine the NRL are having an outstanding season with an aggregate of 12.3 million viewers watching Free to air and BVOD coverage at an average of 535,000 per match, including 1.339m on 9NOW at an average of 58,000 per match. This is slightly ahead – up 2.5% on the 11.993m who…
A-league Men A-league Women AFL NBL NRL Sunday NRL on Nine reached 829,000 with an average of 352,000.
A-league (Men) FTA ratings for SFC/Mariners on Ten Bold unavailable. Paramount data also unavailable. A-league (Women) Paramount and TenPlay data also unavailable. AFL Power/Dees was the only game broadcast on FTA. Fox Set top box data likely unavailable. Streaming data released Tuesday via Oztam. Sevens #AFL Saturday Night NRL Both games were Fox Exclusive. Unlikely…
The NRL took the night on TV largely unopposed by the AFL which showed the Dockers/Crows match in SA and WA only. The Afternoon was a little more balanced wtih the NRL still taking the chocolates up against an AFL game broadcast to Vic/QLD and Tasmania only. Friday Night #NRL Live Friday Night NRL has…
Thursday Night #NRL #NRLRoostersPanthers NRL was number 1 in the 16-39 demographic. This is the lowest Thursday night reach for the season, but the second lowest average behind round 1 (505k). Last years Pre-Easter Thursday rated 512k on Nine (pre VOZ) and attracted 16,323 to Aami Park for Storm/Roosters. Last year these two sides met…
In the NRL Cronulla announce their highest membership since 2018 and set a new record of 16,000 members, while over in the AFL the Bulldogs announce theyve achived 50,000 members in a record period of time. The Blues appear to be headed toward a record number, while the Crows are reportedly on track to break…