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 @NRL Supporter Ladder: @brisbanebroncos again on top but 2019 NRL Grand Finalists @sydneyroosters & @RaidersCanberra have big increases. The latest data from Roy Morgan shows the total NRL supporter base is up by 1.2% to over 5.4mn… @footyindustryAU https://t.co/rilMuAGont pic.twitter.com/hMdGp91FD7 — Gary Morgan (@garycmorgan) September 23, 2020 #AFL2020 @AFL support increases for 2019 Premiers…
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 Test produced by Amazon Prime was heralded as a huge success by audiences and critics for its fly-on-the-wall documentary about the Australian cricket team. The production was handed an all-access pass to film the trials and tribulations of the outfit over a calendar year, which included the 2019 World Cup and Ashes series in…
Total AFL Club earnings in 2019 were $1.109 billion. This includes AFL distributions of $314.6m. In total across the AFL and its clubs, consolidated revenue was $1.547 billion for 2019. The top earning AFL club in 2019 was the West Coast Eagles with 102m. Richmond came in second with $92 million. Three clubs failed to…
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…
It was another big weekend on our sporting televisions with the A-league having a fairly quiet return, while the AFL had its second biggest weekend for the year, and the NRL its lowest. The highest rating fixture of the weekend was the Thursday night clash between Geelong and Collingwood which totaled in at 1.137m. It…
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…
Work in progress, Ill add to this as I get time. 1952. The Australian RugbyLeague team refuses to allow the BBC to broadcasts its tour matches against England for fear of hurting gate attendances. 1969 -1970. Channel 9 has exclusive NRL rights. 1971. Seven offers $160,000 and Nine $150,000 for exclusive rights to the NSWRL…
In Mondays wrap, the details in Rugby Australias financials are revealed, the NRL is due to sign a bumper tv deal over 7 years and Victoria announces an exemption to allow professional sports teams to train together. General Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has declared his state is ready for footy to be back, announcing special…
ARU and Rugby Union Rugby Australia is forging ahead with a domestic competition restart in July that will include the Western Force. Broadcasting Rugby faces financial collapse as Optus and Fox Sports turn their back on the struggling code, leaving the game with few if any options for broadcasting beyond 2020. The big question doing…
In another big news day, the WA AFL clubs wont get home games early on, questions over Rugbys solvency, India still planning to tour Australia, Kayo subscriptions take a 30% dive and the NRL clubs ask the NRL for $100m. General Some young athletes will never return to their sports even after coronavirus restrictions are…
Despite several leagues now flagging restarts in coming weeks and months, theres still not a lot of live sport on offer on our televisions. With that in mind, heres how the weekend ratings went for the AFL replays, NRL highlights and last nighte Supercars E-Series. Note this article written for TV Blackbox and posted here….
According to its 3rd Quarter Financial Press Release Subscription Video Services Revenues in the quarter decreased $77 million, or 14%, compared with the prior year, of which $38 million, or 7%, was due to the negative impact from foreign currency fluctuations. Adjusted Revenues for the segment decreased 7% compared to the prior year. The remainder…
Another big day in Sports Industry news, with a new interim CEO at Rugby Australia, Vlandys says Nines talk is just noise and a deal is expected within the fortnight, and Optus nabs the rights to the K-league. A-league and Football Clubs are planning to train in July before a competition return in August, though…
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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…