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…
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…
90,084 people attended the match at the MCG – the 8th match this season to attract more than 80,000 and the third to attract more than 90,000 (behind AFL ANZAC Day, and Dustin Martins 300th for Richmond). Origin II is now the second highest average rating program for the year, behind Origin I with an…
With the Bye rounds in progress, the round began in Brisbane on Friday night with the Lions taking on the Saints at the Gabba in front of a reasonable crowd of 27,445 – just ahead of their season average of 27,398. The Friday night match was watched by an average FTA viewership of 541,000 with…
Sunday promised to be a big day for the AFL and it delivered some big crowds for the league in Sydney and Melbourne. In Sydney, the Swans faced off against the Cats with a beautiful crowd of 44,714 at the SCG – the Swans 4th highest crowd at the SCG ever. The match was shown…
Despite Origin leading to a shorter round, and the AFL in the middle of its “bye rounds”, it was a jam packed Saturday. Three AFL matches were played on the Saturday, with the Giants travelling to Launceston to face the Hawks in front of a reasonable crowd of 11,568. Later that afternoon West Coast hosted…
Following Origin and the Matildas, we were back into regular programming with both AFL and NRL in action on Friday. In the AFL, the Western Bulldogs faced the Brisbane Lions in front of 31,280 at Marvel Stadium. The match drew 573,000 viewers to the Seven Network including a reach of 1.751 million. Further North and…
It was records all round for womens Rugby League last night as a record crowd AND a record television audience turned up for Game 2 of NRLW Origin 2024. The game was played in front of 25,872 fans at Newcastles McDonald Jones Stadium, breaking the previous record held by Game 1 this year. The talk…
Despite some consternation on Twitter over a send off, State of Origin 1 at Accor Stadium in Sydney rated an average of 3.436 million on the Nine Network, including a record 760,000 for a rugby league match on BVOD. The broadcast reached 5.306 million viewers and is the highest rating Origin or Origin 1 since…
Paul Cully in The Post has reported that Super Rugby audiences on Sky Sport have risen 16% compared to the 2023 season. Sky Sport notes that more than 1.94 million people watched Super Rugby on Sky Sport and its free to air brother in Sky Open and another 215,000 unique viewers on Sky Now/Go. (for…
The Matildas last game on Australian soil prior to the Paris Olympics saw them draw their highest ever crowd of 76,798 at Accor Stadium in Sydney, with a national TV audience of 1.095m on Network 10 (and a reach of 2.62 million) The Matildas have an average Australian attendance of 52,474 since july last year,…
Thursday Night AFL saw an average audience of 608,000 on the Seven Network, with a reach of 1.781 million. So far 8.021 million people have watched the AFL on Thursday night on Seven (cumulative average to date) at an average of 617,000 per match, with an average reach of 1.841 million. Friday Night AFL was…
A quiet day as both the AFL and NRL had shorter rounds, as the NRL head into Origin 1. In the AFL, the Demons took on the Dockers in front of 6,109 at Traeger Park in Alice Springs, and later the Suns faced down the Bombres in front of 21,759 at People First Stadium on…
After a hectic Friday nights sport, Saturday returned to a more regular programming with three AFL games (due to the bye rounds), 2 NRL games (due to Origin next week) and Super Rugby. AFL In Melbourne, the Hawks hosted the Crows in front of of 36,086 at the MCG, while over in the West, 47,526…
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…