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Friday Crowds and Ratings – AFL, NRL, Matildas, Super Rugby – May 31, 2024
Big night for sports fans across the country, no matter your code of choice with AFL, NRL, Super Rugby, the Matildas and Series A teams all in action on Australian soil and on prime time TV. In the AFL, the Pies hosted the Bulldogs in a rare home game at Marvel Stadium in front of…
Weekend Attendances – March 20-26th, 2024
A-league (Women) AFL Round 2 of the 2024 AFL Season was attended by 293,185 at an average of 36,648 per match. (55% capacity). This is down 21% on Round 2 last year. The first three rounds of the 2024 season have been attended by 823,290 at am average of 39,204 (65% capacity). This is down…
Thursday TV Ratings – March 21, 2024
With AFL, NRL and national football all on free to air last night, it was the AFL that emerged triumphant on the free to air waves. Please note that FoxSTB data is not currently available, while Streaming ratings will not be available until the following week. Unless noted otherwise all ratings come from VOZ. Sevens…
Seven secures free-to-air rights to FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023
The Matildas take on the best in the world on Seven and 7plus The Seven Network is proud to announce it has acquired the Australian free-to-air rights to the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023™ (FWWC23), which will take place in Australia and New Zealand from 20 July to 20 August next…
Weekend Attendances – RLWC, T20 World Cup, AFLW, ALM and NBL
Its been a big weekend in sport. A-league Men Round 3 of the 2022-23 A-league Mens season saw 64,948 people attend at an average of 10,825, (36% of capacity) This is the highest drawing round, and the Melb derby is the highest crowd of the season to date. Season so far has seen 166,844 people…
Will Other A-League Clubs Follow Sydney FC’s Innovative Approach to Matchday Coverage?
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…
Wednesday, May 6th | News Wrap | Nine Media War with the NRL continues, Storm have Albury troubles, Rugby board member resigns and more news
Its a little later in the day than normal but lets dive in to todays news as Nine conducts negotations with the NRL via its Media arms as Foxtel watches on. The Storm have a minor hiccup on Albury, the AFL gets a new sponsor and a Rugby Australia board member resigns – and plenty…
News Wrap | Monday, May 4th | Vlandys tells broadcasters to pay up, Sport expected to lose $200m, New World Rugby Chairman, CA gets a loan
Plenty of news for followers of all codes today as Peter Vlandys takes on his broadcasters, even as sport nationwide stands to lose $200m. Racing declines to take a back seat to the AFL, and what can a new World Rugby chairman do? A-league and football THE light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel…
Sunday, May 3rd | News Wrap | NRL scraps Ad campaign, Storm wait on Exemptions, and could the EPL come to Perth?
In Sunday news the NRL is scrapping its Simply the best campaign while the Storm are yet to be given training exemptions by the Victorian Government plus theres a proposal for the EPL to finish the season in Perth. All that and plenty more in todays wrap. AFL The Age reports that the AFL could…
Weekly News Wrap | Rugby broadcast rights concerns, A-league sponsorship woes, and more
A-league and Soccer Rd 17 of the 2019-20 A-league season saw 45k people watch the ABC metro coverage on Saturday, with a season average of 49k. Fox coverage was watched by 91k, with an estimated season average of 28k. Rd 17 of the 2019-20 A-league season was attended by 37,738 people – the lowest 5…
SPORTS RATINGS WRAP | Epic night of CRICKET and TENNIS Finals keeps viewers captivated
SPORTS RATINGS WRAP | Epic night of CRICKET and TENNIS Finals keeps viewers captivatedhttps://t.co/IYRT7o1gg1 — sportsindustry (@footyindustryAU) July 17, 2019
State of Origin and World Cup Cricket deliver big audiences for NINE
https://t.co/KqEA3lv2qh — sportsindustry (@footyindustryAU) June 27, 2019
Weekend Sports Ratings: Darwin goes large with Supercars, the AFL v the NRL, and the Aussies are still in the World Cup Cricket
https://t.co/W09tHODQ3a — sportsindustry (@footyindustryAU) June 19, 2019
Weekend Sports TV Ratings, State of Origin
Weekend Sports TV Ratings Wrap, thanks to @TV_Blackbox https://t.co/P5bP0nGI9q — sportsindustry (@footyindustryAU) June 12, 2019 https://t.co/TVfdelRvrv — sportsindustry (@footyindustryAU) June 6, 2019
Sports Industry News – Wed, Jan 30th
Crowds – January 29th BBL: Sydney Sixers d Adelaide Strikers. Crowd: 8,083 @ Sydney Cricket Ground BBL: Hobart Hurricanes d Brisbane Heat. Crowd: TBA @ Blundstone Arena Crowd figures from Austadiums twitter (@au_sport) TV Ratings – January 29th BBL: Sydney Sixers d Adelaide Strikers – Fox (Exclusive) 188,000 & 207,000 BBL: Hobart Hurricanes d Brisbane…
News you might have missed: This week in Footy Industry
General To coincide with the end of the AFL and NRL seasons, Nielsen has compiled data forMediaweek that ranks all the AFL and NRL clubs. Association Football AUSTRALIAN football will embark on a bright new dawn after the successful adoption of wide-ranging governance reforms finally ended the civil war crippling the game. Steven Lowy said while the FFA board is…
Why are we worried about attendances?
Periodically we see some concern over the state of certain attendance figures in Australia’s various football codes, and its time some of these critics had a good look at the figures and their place in the big picture. Here in Australia we are blessed with four codes of football, two major and two minor players…
Sat Crowds and Ratings – NRL R19, Super Rugby, Arsenal v WSW
Sat NRL – Knights v Broncos – Crowd: 13,773 at McDonald Jones Stadium https://t.co/IVUdg7qYua — sportsindustry (@footyindustryAU) July 15, 2017 CROWD: 14,333. Thank you to all that showed up in the wet conditions #NRLTitansSharks #thrunthru — Gold Coast Titans (@GCTitans) July 15, 2017 Seriously getting dangerous #NRLTitansSharks pic.twitter.com/Xaw5OgPPTs — BUZZ ROTHFIELD (@BuzzRothfield) July 15, 2017…
Industry News Update – Friday, July 7th 2017
AFL and Australian Football A RESURGENT Richmond is leading a booming season of AFL attendances — without a single Friday night fixture. The Tigers have pulled crowds of 705,459 to 14 matches, ahead of Collingwood on 696,944. Richmond’s home game average of 60,920 is the highest in the club’s history — up 48 per cent…