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    NRL 2017 TV RATINGS!

    It wont be worth that during this rights cycle, but it puts the NRL in the box seat to make the transition to producing their own content in the next deal. The AFL website is also far more popular and therefore more valuable to Telstra. The NRL website is currently underutilised, there's a...
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    Offsiders

    This was their designated NRL "expert" on the last episode.
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    NRL 2017 TV RATINGS!

    The NRL will own its online properties outright, with all its ad revenue. No Telstra branding or advertising. The AFL website is a JV with Telstra.
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    Offsiders

    "We see in the NRL too with Tim Simona making shocking allegations about the drug culture at the Wests Tigers..." They can't have a scandal that isn't linked in some fashion to the NRL as an attempt to minimise their own.
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    NRL 2017 TV RATINGS!

    There was no announcement, no press release, nothing. They announced it in previous deals.
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    NRL 2017 TV RATINGS!

    Murdoch wanted to make a statement, there was nothing subtle about it.
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    Offsiders

    Essendon gatto allegations, ignored. West Coast drug cover up, ignored. Cousins, ...?
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    NRL 2017 TV RATINGS!

    Smith, perhaps naively, made the negotiations particularly adversarial when it may not have been needed, despite how good it felt to give the old turd the finger.
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    Offsiders

    Someone made a petition. https://www.change.org/p/abc-australian-broadcasting-corporation-stop-the-afl-bias-on-abc-offsiders?source_location=minibar
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    NRL 2017 TV RATINGS!

    they didn't even announce the nz deal. Too many hands in the pot, with club funding & rlpa.
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    NRL 2017 TV RATINGS!

    you don't reckon how quickly the AFL deal came together had anything to do with Murdoch getting retribution against Dave Smith for cutting newscorp out of the Nine deal and announcing it on the day Murdoch landed in Australia? Smith made the negotiations unnecessarily adversarial and handed the...
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    NRL 2017 TV RATINGS!

    2 games - one of which was the 'queer clash', rating 74k! oh, and a whopping 49k on FTA!
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    2017 Crowd Watch

    They could do it, but the game lost its courage in super league.
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    2017 Crowd Watch

    they also lost about 500,000 viewers on fox alone, with stv down -24% on opening round last year.
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    NRL 2017 TV RATINGS!

    AFL STV ratings down -24% on same time last year. Round 1 last year had 6 games rate above 200k on fox, this year they only had 2. They also had 3/4 expansion sides in the Swans, lions & suns rating for a combined total of only 174k on fox.
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    2017 Crowd Watch

    Out of interest, how many games have been rain affected so far this season? Would have to be at least a third?
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    NRL 2017 TV RATINGS!

    Seven are now combining 7mate ratings with primary channel ratings in top20 oztam reports so AFL appears higher up the rankings, while Gem ratings aren't for NRL.
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    NRL 2017 TV RATINGS!

    ADE vs GWS, the seasons first Melbourne FTA game featuring two sides outside of Melbourne rated only 112k..
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    2017 Crowd Watch

    The argument from clubs around club funding is that because they have never been properly funded they haven't been able to invest in promotion and game day experience. Let's see what properly funded clubs can do next year to increase attendance.
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    NRL 2017 TV RATINGS!

    Fox was shorthand for foxsports. Fair point on the HD, but I wouldn't overstate it.
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