2015 TV ratings

[LJC]

Even Australian Rugby fans want Super 15 gone for the most part.

Super rugby is a terrible structure.

So much so that the entire Super 15 tv deal is about 750million over 5 years.

The NRL's TV deal will be more than double that.

Btw The NZ Warriors makes the NRL a international comp also if you had not noticed.

Quality over quantity my friend.

And so it should worth at least double the value of RU! In fact RL should be at the top of media money bar none.
It's clearly the most watched football code in Australia year after year yet has to squabble to gain a decent and just deal. Mind you the game has no "friends in high places" like other codes so its quite an achievement to get the deals from "reluctant" beneficiaries.
Fix the school system access issues (especially private) of RL and you ultimately fix the struggle issues RL has in the big end of town.

 

[BlueandGold]

And so it should worth at least double the value of RU! In fact RL should be at the top of media money bar none.
It's clearly the most watched football code in Australia year after year yet has to squabble to gain a decent and just deal. Mind you the game has no "friends in high places" like other codes so its quite an achievement to get the deals from "reluctant" beneficiaries.
Fix the school system access issues (especially private) of RL and you ultimately fix the struggle issues RL has in the big end of town.

Getting RL into private schools should be the NRL's first point of call.

Just touching on Super rugby expansion, here is how you don't expand.

Plenty of dire predictions have been made before about Super Rugby's future but this time there is genuine concern among New Zealand's franchises they have been thrown a hospital pass with next year's set-up.
It's hard enough as it is - with a glut of much-loved local derbies - for franchises to keep people coming through the turnstiles and sponsorship dollars flowing.
Next year, the battle will be tougher again. Publicly, New Zealand's teams are resigned to toeing the party line - that the addition of a team from Argentina, Japan and another in South Africa is a stroke of genius.

:crazy::crazy:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11409769

Adding huge cost to every Super franchise is the last road the NRL wants to take as seen here with Super Rugby.

Also ruining the quality of the product just for a little more TV money.

Who compensates the Super rugby clubs for there extra travels and less home Derbys?

 

[LJC]

Getting RL into private schools should be the NRL's first point of call.

Just touching on Super rugby expansion, here is how you don't expand.


:crazy::crazy:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11409769

Adding huge cost to every Super franchise is the last road the NRL wants to take as seen here with Super Rugby.

Also ruining the quality of the product just for a little more TV money.

Who compensates the Super rugby clubs for there extra travels and less home Derbys?

Thanks for acknowledging the importance of RL accessing the scholastic system at large. It's the seed by which the struggle for rugby league starts as it hasn't been planted in schools all over the place!

You use the example of RU in their southern hemisphere 'competition'. I find it hard to sell a crap product to any public. And let's face it RU is an outdated form of rugby from the outset.

Its 'friends in high places' have done a great job in propagating it and repressing RL at the same time. Perhaps one day true sports justice may be seen but we need to get aboard the whole scholastic spectrum for this to occur. Here's hoping! In Australia, primarily the private school system as well as bolstering the public/catholic systems. Overseas, basically any school access would be welcomed for the game at large as its very limited or non existent.

 

[carlosthedwarf]

http://www.mediaweek.com.au/mediaweeks-top-30-tv-shows-of-2015-22/

Media week using metro numbers only to fit the narrative of their advertiser

:sarcasm:

 

[no name]

$2.6 million overnight viewers?

 

[Chicken_Hunter]

So it's the top 30 metro only ratings? Anything to suit the AFL loving media agenda I guess.

 

[BuffaloRules]

Hopefully Hawthorn can keep dominating the other Melbourne suburbs...

That will keep the interest up..

 

[RL The greatest game]

So it's the top 30 metro only ratings? Anything to suit the AFL loving media agenda I guess.

So if we take in the regionals we are up by about 750,000 :thumb

 

[Billythekid]

Maybe I'm reading it wrong but the NRL still comes out looking much better even if you only look at regionals. Sure it gives AFL number 1 but we are only just behind and have like 4 of the top 10.

Edit: sorry 4 of the top 6 program's. I'm kind of surprised no prelims for either code made it.

 

[Nerd]

Those figures obviously don't include regionals what a joke. It's like leaving Perth or Adelaide off from the metro figures...

 

[Nerd]

But fresh viewership data shows the NRL has swamped the rival codes in Queensland, leveraging the tidal wave of interest created by the Broncos and Cowboys’ historic grand-final showdown in October.

In a remarkable sign of rugby league’s popularity, almost 49 million fans watched the Broncos, Cowboys and Titans on free-to-air and pay TV broadcasts last season.

Incredibly, the Broncos accounted for half the viewership with a record 24.8 million figure. Their rivals in three other codes — rugby’s Reds, football’s Roar and AFL’s Suns and Lions — totalled 15,234,000 collectively, underlining the pulling power of the Broncos for TV network bosses.

The Broncos’ proliferation of free-to-air games on Channel Nine gives the club a distinct broadcasting advantage.

But their home gates have also soared to an average of 36,097, dwarfing NRL premiers the Cowboys (16,649), while the Reds’ mark has dropped to 21,780, a 36 per cent plunge.

Brisbane chief executive Paul White lauded Brisbane’s viewership strength as the club looks to continue its market dominance by breaking a 10-year title drought next season.

“We’ve set a benchmark and we don’t want to go backwards,” White said.

“Our crowds are getting more and more vocal and embracing game day. I know our players appreciate the support for the club and we want to build on that next year.”

It is a measure of rugby league’s strength in Queensland that even the lowly Titans, a club so strife-torn the NRL took over their licence in February, had greater TV appeal than the Reds.

The Titans attracted 7.7 million viewers, almost six million more than the Reds (1.85m).

In the key Gold Coast market, they out-rated AFL’s Suns by an average 80,273 viewers per game.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...f016dcc9fed6afb7139ee21cf#load-story-comments

An excerpt from a Peter Badel story in the Courier Mail

 

[siv]

Wonder how the Sydney market faired ?

 

[The Voice of Reason!]

It is a measure of rugby league?s strength in Queensland that even the lowly Titans, a club so strife-torn the NRL took over their licence in February, had greater TV appeal than the Reds.

The Titans attracted 7.7 million viewers, almost six million more than the Reds (1.85m).

In the key Gold Coast market, they out-rated AFL?s Suns by an average 80,273 viewers per game.

:lol:

This bit is awesome.

 

[Phil McGrawhan]

:lol:

This bit is awesome.

Someone post that at big stupid .
Their heads will explode .
They are sure that the thuns have taken over

 

[RL The greatest game]

But fresh viewership data shows the NRL has swamped the rival codes in Queensland, leveraging the tidal wave of interest created by the Broncos and Cowboys? historic grand-final showdown in October.

In a remarkable sign of rugby league?s popularity, almost 49 million fans watched the Broncos, Cowboys and Titans on free-to-air and pay TV broadcasts last season.

Incredibly, the Broncos accounted for half the viewership with a record 24.8 million figure. Their rivals in three other codes ? rugby?s Reds, football?s Roar and AFL?s Suns and Lions ? totalled 15,234,000 collectively, underlining the pulling power of the Broncos for TV network bosses.

The Broncos? proliferation of free-to-air games on Channel Nine gives the club a distinct broadcasting advantage.

But their home gates have also soared to an average of 36,097, dwarfing NRL premiers the Cowboys (16,649), while the Reds? mark has dropped to 21,780, a 36 per cent plunge.

Brisbane chief executive Paul White lauded Brisbane?s viewership strength as the club looks to continue its market dominance by breaking a 10-year title drought next season.

?We?ve set a benchmark and we don?t want to go backwards,? White said.

?Our crowds are getting more and more vocal and embracing game day. I know our players appreciate the support for the club and we want to build on that next year.?

It is a measure of rugby league?s strength in Queensland that even the lowly Titans, a club so strife-torn the NRL took over their licence in February, had greater TV appeal than the Reds.

The Titans attracted 7.7 million viewers, almost six million more than the Reds (1.85m).

In the key Gold Coast market, they out-rated AFL?s Suns by an average 80,273 viewers per game.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...f016dcc9fed6afb7139ee21cf#load-story-comments

An excerpt from a Peter Badel story in the Courier Mail

The Anglo-Irish game is in free fall in QLD :lol:
Happy days ahead for Rugby League.

 

[insert.pause]

http://www.mediaweek.com.au/mediaweeks-top-30-tv-shows-of-2015-22/

Media week using metro numbers only to fit the narrative of their advertiser

:sarcasm:

they haven't included Perth ratings for origin because it was on Gem