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…
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…
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…
Warning. This article may or may not be satirical in nature. Any 20th AFL team has limited options – here we explore some of them in a very shallow dive 1. Canberra – get GWS to finally focus in their own Sydney market. Even then an ACT team is going to rely heavily on the…
AFL THE AFL has shut down plans for immediate expansion of its national women’s league, but has foreshadowed at least two teams will be added in 2019. The five clubs who unsuccessfully sought a licence last year will receive “priority weighting” when the AFL considers additions to the foundation eight-team competition. But the door has…
Foxsports is reporting that Victory have signed a 10 year deal to play games at both Etihad and Aami Park. The A-League powerhouse has played five regular season games a year at the Docklands ground since 2010-11 and that will continue under the terms set in new 10-year deals signed with both of its grounds…
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…
Its been another big year for Rugby League in 2019 as 113.5 million people tuned in to see the preseason, home and away season, NRLW, Origin, Representative footy and finals. However, while this figure was enough to get it over the AFL again in 2019, it was down more than 6% on the…
For the eighth time in nine years, North Melbourne has recorded a profit. The club recorded a net operating profit of $470,046, while again reducing the club’s overall debt by a further $400,000 in the last financial year. Managing Director and CEO Carl Dilena said North Melbourne was in a strong financial position. “We are…
Forumula One reigns supreme over the free to air broadcast waves on Sunday. Sunday VOZ#AustralianGPTen NetworkRace – Reach 1.552m/Ave 806,000Pre – Reach 927,000/Ave 480,000Morning – Reach 899,000/Ave 180,000Pitlane – Reach 688,000/Ave 361,000 Sunday #NRL Reach 976,000/Ave 415,000Sunday #AFLReach 735,000/Ave 232,000#WWOSReach 506,000/Ave 185,000 Note: Sundays AFL broadcast is a mix of 3 different matches broadcast into 4 mainland capitals…
News Limited reports that clubs, concerned about the finances and how little say they appear to have in the running of the NRL, ten clubs are reported to be meeting ahead of the Chairmans meeting i June after Origin 2.
Source: The Age] [The AFL] A group of St Kilda supporters are working under the slogan of “Bring em home” to return St Kilda to a redeveloped Junction Oval, where the team was based until 1964 when they moved to Moorabin. The proposed redevelopment will be a new home for Cricket Victoria. The AFL have…
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…
AFL Carlton have set a record, and the Giants have also broken their record for members. NRL Several clubs have broken records including the Broncos, Sharks, Knights and Panthers
Saturday AFL Saturday Night AFL rated 388,000 on Seven in 4 out of the 5 capitals, with Perth not taking the broadcast. This was across two matches, with Essendon v Richmond doing 232,000 viewers in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, while the final Showdown for the year rated 156,000 in Adelaide. Bombers/Tigers Crowd: 58,366 at the…
On December 18th, Adelaide and AFL Northern Territory were reported to have submitted a joint application for a womens side, with the team to split its home games between Adelaide and Darwin. Both parties have submitted written submissions to the league. “For the Northern Territory, who’s probably never going to have an AFL male team…
Fairfax is reporting that Foxsports Now is available on Apple TV, but Foxfooty is absent from its lineup. AFL is conspicuously absent from Foxtel Sports Now, which is an instant deal-breaker for many sports fans. Even if you follow the other codes, handing over $20 per month seems steep when you can’t watch live matches….