Traditionally womens sport has been considered the less popular cousin to mens sport. This has been evident in sporting attendances, tv deals and media coverage going back decades. With the AFL launching its womens competition, and the threat from its financial and support strengths, it seems the latest sporting battlefront is emerging. So who are…
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All data below lifted verbatim from the 2019 AFL Annual Report, pgs 55-57 Overall television industry ratings (free-to-air and subscription television) experienced a year-on-year increase of 2.2 per cent (3.969 million per home and away round, compared with 3.885 million in 2018). This number does not include digital viewership and occurred despite a decline in…
With the Melbourne Storm finally adding a membership tracker to their website (making it 9), we now have data from 12 of the 17 clubs, with Seven clubs reporting record memberships.
The AFL and AFL Players Association (AFLPA) are pleased to announce a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) has been reached for 2022 NAB AFLW Season Seven with average player salaries increasing 94% across the board. The increased pay deal will ensure that the average salary for all 540 players across 18 clubs will rise 94%…
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…
State of Origin 2 was officially sold out at 5pm yesterday, and ended up with a crowd of 82,259, making it the third highest Origin crowd at ANZ since 2003. On Television the game rated 1.046m in Sydney, 330,000 in Melbourne, 762,000 in brisbane, 102,000 in Adelaide and 139,000 in Perth. A further 1.103 million…
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…
Fairfax reports that NRL clubs want their annual grants increased to 130 per cent of the salary cap and changes to the constitution to give them a greater say in the make-up of the ARL Commission.Those are the key points in a list of demands drawn up ahead of a potentially explosive meeting on Wednesday between a delegation…
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…
The AFL is pleased to announce an all-time club membership record of 1,319,687 members. That number surpasses the all-time record of 1,264,952 set last year (+4.3%) with 1 in 20 Australians a member of an AFL Club. Of the total number of members, 241,410 are new members to a club. Three clubs surpassed 100,000 members – Collingwood, Carlton and West Coast…
AFL Sat AFLW – Adelaide v Melbourne – Official attendance: 5,100 at TIO Stadium Sat TV #AFLW 7mate/Seven #AFLWCrowsDees 144k (Syd 7k Mel 50k Bri 9k Ade 61k Per 11k) Sat AFLW – Brisbane v Western Bulldogs – 4,200 at South Pine Sports Complex (Brisbane). Brisbane secure home Grand Final. Sat STV #AFLW #FoxFooty Brisbane…
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…
On December 15th, the AFL announced a series of trials for anyone to come and see if they could play Australian football, with the specified aim of trying to recruit interest from players of other sports. On December 16th, Port Adeliade announced that it had signed Erin Phillips, Australian national basketballer, to be a part…
The Australian reported on the weekend that the NRL is wanting to move at least one game on a Saturday to Free to air television, and Fox apparently wants to take another AFL game from Free to air tv. Fox’s media rights with the AFL are being negotiated by former AFL and FFA executive Ben…
THE CARLTON Football Club is pleased to today announce a net operating profit of $1,282,346 for 2021, up on the operating break-even result achieved in 2020 of $34,639. This operating result has contributed to the Club declaring a statutory net profit position of $20,257,029 for the year ended 31 October 2021 – inclusive of government…
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…
APL appoints JAM TV and EMG/Gravity Media as new Production Partners Wednesday 18 September: The Australian Professional Leagues (APL) has appointed leading sports production company JAM TV and global media services and facilities provider EMG/Gravity Media as the new production partners of the A-Leagues. The appointment follows a three-month tender process, and will see JAM TV…