It was opening night the the 2024 NRL season and Thursday night NRL was unopposed in local sport, resulting in 383,000 viewers on Nine with 41,000 watching on 9NOW. The match reached 1.503 million viewers nationally, with Fox viewing still to come. 3,921 attended the game at McDonald Jones Stadium. (image credit – @JohnCMoriarty) Olympic…
The NRL is set to use the next three years to accelerate the growth of the women’s competition as they map out a path to NRLW expansion. Women’s rugby league is on the up, thanks to record State of Origin ratings, packed crowds and the addition of two fresh franchises in 2025. But on the…
The Miles government plans to spend $1.6 billion upgrading QSAC, but it has emerged more money will be needed for the stadium to host athletics at the Games. Brisbane 2032 president Andrew Liveris has for the first time revealed Steven Miles’ proposed 40,000-seat no-frills Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre stadium would leave a hole in…
The NRLW competition will be a key selling point for the National Rugby League’s next media rights deal, according to chief executive Andrew Abdo, following the success of the 2024 women’s State of Origin series which drew more than three million viewers across the three games. The APL has claimed that the competitions have seen…
STV Services: FOXTEL Now/Go, Kayo. The report includes BVOD live minutes only and is not restricted to the five metropolitan cities. Secondary Description BVOD Audience Minutes BVOD ReachHAWTHORN V COLLINGWOOD 419,000 69,167,000 793,000KNIGHTS V BRONCOS 377,000 40,757,000 611,000STORM V ROOSTERS 355,000 40,500,000 596,000ESSENDON V ADELAIDE 270,000 44,870,000 559,000RABBITOHS V WESTS TIGERS 233,000 26,766,000 454,000WEST COAST V…
It was a massive week in sport as the final Origin for 2024 kicked off with a big crowd and its biggest tv audience in years. Television Attendance #AFL Bombres/Crows 36,020 at Marvel StadiumSaints/Eagles 18,251 at Marvel Stadium Giants/Suns 8,013 at Engie Stadium Hawks/Pies 74,171 at the MCG Power/Tigers 27,704 at Adelaide Oval Cats/Dogs 27,967…
The Supernetball season reached a record 331,841 attendance record – up 25% – and making it the best attended domestic womens sporting competition in the country – including AFLW, Aleague Women, the WNBL and WBBL. The round attendance record was broken 4 times during the season, in Round 1, 6, 12 and the final 34,726…
Nine Media reports indicate that the NRL is preparing to go to tender early on its broadcast rights, leveraging expansion, its popular womens competitions and improved ratings as well as the changes to anti siphoning legislation. Its current deal with Nine and Fox ends in 2027. Howeverr, anticipated expansion into Perth, PNG and even NZ,…
#Sportstv on FTA TV over the last 12 months (3m ratings ave or higher), The list is dominated by Matildas games and Origin matches. All data is from Oztams VOZ in 2023 and 2024. This does not include streaming for the Matildas.
State of Origin III rated 3.652m according to Oztams VOZ and Nine, with a record BVOD audience of 864,000 and a national tv reach of 5.426 million. In the metro 5 city catchment, ratings totaled 2,373,000 – this included 1,750,000 broadcast and 623,000 BVOD viewers. The NRLs late day release says the game rated 3.829m….
It was a big weekend in sport with something for everyone, including record breaking crowds in Supernetball, and record 14th 70k+ crowd in a single home and away season for the AFL Australian Football League Attendance Total: 327,101 (ave 36,345) TV – Seven National Rugby League Attendance Total: 89,127 (ave 17,825) TV – Nine Rugby…
Sevens top 25 programs of the week saw the AFL beaten by the News and Dancing with the Stars.
263,369 people were reported attending professional sport on Saturday at an average of 29,263 per match Five matches were played across the AFL on Saturday Saturday night coverage on Seven was split between Adelaide and the rest of the country, with the national game being the Dees and Bombres, while SA took the Crows/Saints feed….
In the AFL, the Pies pulled a respectable 73,435 to the MCG for their clash against the Cats. The match was watched by a great average audience of 776,000 on Seven – the second highest for the season – with a reach of 1.954 million. In the NRL the Sharks and Tigers played off in…
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Here we update a top 10 list of everything! Top 10 Average Broadcasts on FTA in 2024 The Third Womens Origin came in 13th, AFL ANZAC Day came in at 25 while the BBL final came in at 35. Tennis occupies 11 of the top 25 places, Test Cricket occupes 6. The Top 10 streaming…
Round 18 of the 2024 NRL Season was attended by 157,309 at an average of 19,664 – just below the season average of 19,898. The Round kicked off on Thursday with the Eels facing the Rabbitohs in front of 13,941 at Commbank Stadium. The Eels now have a season home average of 18,527. Thursday Night…
Another big week in the AFL with both the top teams going down, and the race remaining wide open down to 13th spot. Round 17 was attended by 311,340 people at an average of 34,593 people for the season. Round 17 commenced with Friday nights Pies/Bombres return match in front of 81,711 people for the…
With the Melbourne Storm finally adding a membership tracker to their website (making it 9), we now have data from 12 of the 17 clubs, with Seven clubs reporting record memberships.
The Bulldogs have become the latest AFL club to break a record, the 9th club this year to break through. Sixteen AFL clubs have supplied data at some point this season.