By anyones standard this has been an outstanding weekend of league. There was a general air of expectation and excitement over the beginning of the season, and by its end we were introduced to that rarest of rugby league scenarios….a fairly contented audience. The weather held out, and most of the matches were close fought,…
NBL owner Larry Kestelman believes exploding broadcast ratings and audience numbers back up the feeling at headquarters that the league is finally a legitimate contender in the Australian sporting landscape’s “media wars”. NBL23 has delivered a near-50% spike on last season’s audience on broadcasters ESPN/Kayo. Live telecasts are up 46%, and NBL games outrate most…
Supercars has thanked its fans, who braved some of the worst conditions ever faced at Mount Panorama to support this year’s Repco Bathurst 1000. A crowd of 195,578 attended this year’s event, the first since COVID restrictions were placed on the 2020 and 2021 events. Despite the heavy rain, campers filled over 7000 campsites on…
Cricket Australia have reported a deficit of 5.5m for 2021-2022, and a comprehensive loss of 10.655m on revenue of $391.004m. Notably there was a $51m drop in the media, broadcasting and marketing sector, while match income rose 25m. Sponsorship was up slightly to 69m. The BBL averaged 500,000 viewers per fixture, streaming not included. 44…
Bathurst 1000 takes pole position Reaches 4.82 million TV, 299,000 on 7plus Audience up year-on-year, live streaming up 167% The Seven Network’s coverage of the Repco Bathurst 1000 from Mount Panorama was a hit with television and BVOD audiences yesterday, with over 4.82 million people watching the live racing action on Channel 7 and 7mate,…
TV Blackbox reports Channel 10 has negotiated a new multi-year agreement with the Foxtel Group that will see the network continue as the free-to-air home of the Australian Formula One Grand Prix and the Australian MotoGP races. While Foxtel had negotiated exclusive rights to both series, Australian antisphoning law requires the Australian Grand Prix in both categories to be offered to Free to air television. Formula…
The 2022 AFL Grand Final rated a total of 3.183m – picking up an additional 115,000 viewers – inc 86,000 regional viewers. Seven 3.183m Metro 2.186m Regional 867,000 BVOD 95,000 Presentations 2.657m On the Ground 2.440m NRL Prelim Weekend VOZ Nine Cowboys/Eels 1.346m (+46k) Panthers/Rabbitohs 1.359m (+38k) Total est Cowboys/Eels 2.144m Panthers/Rabbitohs 2.107m Data: Oztam…
NRLW (1) In 2022, the average audience on Channel Nine has eclipsed the combined average for both broadcasters in 2020. About 150,000 people have tuned in to watch NRLW matches on Channel Nine in metropolitan and regional markets. The 53 per cent increase in viewers on Nine is reflected in a similar rise on Foxtel,…
Sorry its been a while, had some work and family stuff going on. AFL Up to the close of Rd 13 of the AFL season, the season had been viewed by about ~62m viewers over Seven and Fox at an average of 563,000 per game. The 7 Network is averaging 297,000 per match (all matches),…
The biggest WBBL standalone crowd ever of 15,511 and the competition’s largest ever average broadcast audience of 535,000 witnessed a clinical performance as the Scorchers defeated the Adelaide Strikers by 12 runs in the Weber WBBL|07 Final. RATINGS The Weber WBBL|07 Final was the most-watched game in League history, with a combined average audience of 535,000…
NFL ESPN Cowboys/Raiders 30,000 Saints/Bills 23,000 WBBL Final – Scorchers v Strikers The 15,511 crowd at @OptusStadium for the @WBBL Final was the: – Biggest crowd at a standalone #WBBL match (prev 5650) Biggest crowd at a WBBL Finals match (prev 10,069) Fifth highest crowd in WBBL history Television 7mate 378,000 (+17% on 2020) Metro 228,000…
Nine’s broadcast of the Grand Final reached more than 930,000 people nationwide, making it the highest rating match of the 2020 season, with viewership within all key demographics up on the 2019 Grand Final. The Super Netball grand final had a peak audience of 448,000. The average audience throughout the match was 303,659. The broadcast…
The 2020 NRL season totaled 70.2 million viewers across the Nine Network and Foxleague, up 0.35% on the first 20 rounds of 2019, but down 20.4% on the 2019 total. More matches were played compared to the first 20 rounds of last year, leading to an average of 439,000, down 4.6% on the first 20…
2020 AFL Home and Away season total ratings finish at 75.7m, up 4.3% on the first 18 rounds of 2019, down 15% on the 2019 season overall. The AFL averaged 4.2m viewers per round this season, up from 4.03m viewers in the first 18 rounds of 2019, and up from 3.88m viewers over the full 2019…
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…
FOXTEL HAS RELEASED NEW VIEWER DATA HIGHLIGHTING THE SUCCESS OF THE AFL’S RECENT FESTIVAL OF FOOTY AND MID-YEAR NRL SEASON. Sources TV_Blackbox TV-Tonight The Age Fox Footy live audiences for AFL Rounds 9 to 12 were up 14% compared with the previous eight rounds. The festival of footy, which featured 33 matches over 20-days, was up 59% compared…
AS COVID CONTINUES TO CAUSE HAVOC WITH SPORT ACROSS THE NATION, IT WAS A BIG WEEKEND IN SPORT WITH THE AFL, NRL AND RUGBY UNION ALL FEATURING ACROSS A BUSY WEEKEND, AS THE A-LEAGUE PREPARES TO RESTART THIS THURSDAY. As first posted to: SPORT RATINGS | Viewers love the Footy during COVID lockdown weekend https://t.co/8RLm8PlLXL…
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…
This article was originally on TV Blackbox. Updated with information from ESPNCricinfo. It was another big weekend of sport with Kyrgios and Barty featuring at the Australian Open and Tennis dominating the weekend ratings. In addition, the final matches of the Big Bash home and away season were played out. The Australian Open Nine must…
Kayo Fox announced they had 402,000 paying subcribers as of November 2019, up from 382,000 in June 2019. Time spent on Kayo reached approximately 8.5 hours of weekly user viewing in June driven by the Cricket World Cup with the average customer watching 6 of the 50 different sports available on Kayo each week. The…