[Media Release] Victoria’s creative industries, major events, sporting calendar and live music scene are world class, attracting millions of visitors, creating thousands of jobs and boosting our state’s economy. It doesn’t happen by chance – that’s why the Allan Labor Government is investing more than $318.6 million in the Victorian Budget 2024/25 to maintain our…
More than 3 million people have now attended AFL matches this season at an average of 38,632 per match. Round 9 was attended by 309,773 at an average of 34,419 per match.
The Australian Financial Review has a report by Mark Di Stefano on Sportsbet and how the bookmaker used a shell company to shield involvement in an NRL Pick’em tipping competition, which skirted advertising regulations and promoted gambling offers. Essentially, Sportsbet created a seperate shelf company to operate the competition which enabled them to get around…
Round 10 of the 2024 NRL season saw the league pass 1.5 million attendees for the season as 117,913 attended matches across the eastern seaboard this weekend, at an average of 14,739 per match (49.8% capacity) This season has seen 1.548m people attend matches this season at an average of 19,358 per match (this slightly…
A quick look at the year so far in Super Rugby TV ratings. And I mean real quick, because there isnt much to work with. Australia Under the current deal live Super Rugby is being shown on the Nine network for the first time. STAN data has never been made available. According to the 2023…
Media Release The Northern Territory is a step closer to having its own AFL team with the release of a strategic business case by the Australian Football League Team Northern Territory Taskforce. The Taskforce have completed a strategic business case, which includes a 10-year plan to establish a Northern Territory (NT) based AFL club. The…
News Limited reports today say Peter Vlandys has plans for Perth to be a big part of the NRLs expansion plans, with the Bears likely to be put forward as the 19th team stationed in the West of the country. The NRL has established an expansion task force, which includes former Chair Peter Beatty, and…
A big Saturday block of AFL matches played up and down the east coast with matches in Launceston, Melbourne, and the Gold Coast. Sevens Saturday night football was a combined ratings affair between the Tigers/Bulldogs and Suns/Roos matches with an average audience of 399,000 watching on free to air television, with a reach of 1.447…
It was a big Saturday of NRL matches played across the Eastern Seaboard, with games in Tamworth, Sydney and Melbourne. The Tigers kicked off the days play against Newcastle in Tamworth where 10,107 saw them take on Newcastle. This is just under what the match recieved last year (10,423) but ahead of the average for…
A rare double header fixture for the AFL on a friday night saw an average audience of 691,000 watch Sevens AFL coverage on free to air television. The combined coverage reached a season high 2.383m viewers. Sevens Friday night coverage has an average audience of 626,000 for the season, while the average reach on a…
The Netball Australia Board is pleased to announce that Stacey West has been appointed Chief Executive Officer. Ms West has been serving as interim CEO since mid-December last year. Ms West became interim CEO in mid-December after four years as the Executive General Manager of Performance for Netball Australia where she was responsible for all…
In the AFL, eighth placed Carltons home match against a fourth placed Melbourne at the MCG, delivered an attendance of 58,472 to the MCG on a wet and rainy night. Carlton now have a home attendance average of 63,494 for the season, while Thursday night AFL attendances average 47,657 for the season and 63,742 at…
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…