2025 Streaming and TV Ratings Discussion

[eels4lifee]

Unless it’s a very close game I really don’t see the NRLGF beating that AFL number, I think we will land around 3.7-3.8m.

What r u talking about? NRLW will beat the afl rating on its own

 

[Growthegame]

I dont post for the likes of you.

Okay

 

[cleary89]

Unless it’s a very close game I really don’t see the NRLGF beating that AFL number, I think we will land around 3.7-3.8m.

If that game doesn't break 4m we never will.

 

[Diesel]

Biggest lead was 10 points at HT but was wrestled back quickly in the 2H

 

[Diesel]

If it doesnt beat afl, it’s rigged AF. Any lions coverage in Qld has been drowned out with the broncos this week

 

[Éamonn an Chnoic]

im looking forward to these numbers!

exciting to the last play, you couldnt have written it better

 

[Dark Corner]

ive admitted that Im a lifelong Carlton supporter. If its not a Carlton game, I generally dont watch. Havent seen an AFL Grand Final in years lol.

That has not changed the data i put out for all codes. Not just the AFL or NRL. I dont create the data. I dont do the surveys. I just report them. People have an inordinate fondess for shooting the messenger.

Are you Sports Prothet on League Unlimited ?

 

[eels4lifee]

If that game doesn't break 4m we never will.

In PNG it rated above 8 million alone

 

[eels4lifee]

Are you Sports Prothet on League Unlimited ?

Yes he has his own bible specifically only made for him

 

[cleary89]

Are we expecting numbers at 12.30?

 

[The_Wookie]

oh ye of little faith

 

[Wb1234]

NRL beats AFL as grand final sets TV ratings record

The NRL has smashed the AFL television ratings, setting an all-time sport record with more than four million viewers tuning in to watch the Storm-Broncos classic.

www.theage.com.au

I’m shocked

 

[The_Wookie]

Are we expecting numbers at 12.30?

ratings come out at 11.30 - at least thats when i receive them in my email

 

[Wb1234]

The NRL and Channel Nine are celebrating the best television ratings in the history of the sport, with the Broncos-Storm grand final attracting a record audience of more than 4.4 million viewers.

The NRL grand final smashed the television viewing numbers of the AFL, with an average of 4.18 million viewers tuning in to watch the Brisbane Lions topple Geelong to win the flag a week earlier.

Brisbane are the 2025 NRL champions.
Brisbane are the 2025 NRL champions.CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES
The women’s grand final also had more than a million viewers, passing the numbers of the Bledisloe Cup between the Wallabies and All Blacks (893,000) the night before. It was up 36 per cent on the NRLW grand final the year before.

The NRL grand final was watched by more people than the highest rating Origin fixture of the year, with an average of 3.9 million tuning in for the decider in game three earlier in the year.

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Last year’s NRL grand final between Penrith and Melbourne attracted an average audience of 3.36 million, with this year’s grand final up 33 per cent. The 2023 grand final had an audience of 3.41 million.

The Broncos-Storm grand final was the highest-rated streaming event in the new ratings system’s history, with 1.3 million watching the decider on 9Now alone. Nine is the owner of this masthead.

The 2025 grand final was also the highest-rated television program of the night in each major city bar Adelaide.

NRL beats AFL as grand final sets TV ratings record

The NRL has smashed the AFL television ratings, setting an all-time sport record with more than four million viewers tuning in to watch the Storm-Broncos classic.

www.brisbanetimes.com.au

 

[wittyfan]

I thought the Grand Final would have soared over 7 million in reach but still huge!!!

 

[The_Wookie]

Im pretty sure the #NRL Grand Final is the highest rating program since the Womens World Cup. Smashed the AFL Grand Final this year - beating it for the first time since 2015.

While strictly not comparable due to VOZ system changes - I also believe this is the highest Grand Final rating for the NRL - or AFL - since the Oztam system change in 2001.

People outside the NRL really have spent the year understimating just how much more engaged the NRL fanbase is this year. Its been apparent since Vegas, carried through Magic Round and Origins and then capped off with a stellar finals series.

 

[user_nat]

Well, my negative Nancy self didn't think the GF would see the same boost as the rest of the amazing finals series.

How wrong I was. That's huge.

City breakdown will be interesting. Brisbane might finally give some of those 2010s Origin records a shake.

 

[cleary89]

4.46. f**k

 

[ayatollah_murdoch]

Amazing timing for a record high Australian broadcast rights deal

 

[nko11]

oh ye of little faith

Incredible Ratings! Is that highest GF rating of either code of all time. 2005 AFL was 4.449 Mill, as far as I can see, was that the highest? Consolidation still to come too.

BVOD incredible! And NRLW above 1 Mill. The NRL couldn't have asked for much more.