2024 TV and Streaming Ratings Discussion

[Vlad59]

Test match cricket will be next, millennials have no interest in siting around for hours watching the sporting equivalent of paint dry, and that`s coming from someone who used to spend hours watching cricket.

Same here. I’ve stopped watching any of it. Its best chance of survival here is immigration from the sub continent.

 

[The_Wookie]

Test match cricket will be next, millennials have no interest in siting around for hours watching the sporting equivalent of paint dry, and that`s coming from someone who used to spend hours watching cricket.

Depends who we are playing. India is rating pretty well atm and the Ashes will rate through the roof.

 

[Vlad59]

Depends who we are playing. India is rating pretty well atm and the Ashes will rate through the roof.

Yeah but if Australia isn’t playing them then who cares? The ratings for tests other than those two sides are poor, tests rarely last 4 let alone 5 days anymore, one day cricket is basically dead and the 20/20 comp is full of wannabe IPL players. The player base has diminished and is propped up by immigrants from the sub continent. That’s not a bad thing at all but there’s no doubt Australian love of cricket is in decline.

 

[The_Wookie]

Yeah but if Australia isn’t playing them then who cares? The ratings for tests other than those two sides are poor, tests rarely last 4 let alone 5 days anymore, one day cricket is basically dead and the 20/20 comp is full of wannabe IPL players. The player base has diminished and is propped up by immigrants from the sub continent. That’s not a bad thing at all but there’s no doubt Australian love of cricket is in decline.

an average of 430,000 people per Test playing session watched nothing but rain and general cricket commentary on Saturday.


The FTA audience average was over 1 million yesterday per playing session.

 

[The_Wookie]

 

[Billythekid]

Oh I thought cricket was dying? The savants on here leading me astray again.

 

[Vlad59]

Oh I thought cricket was dying? The savants on here leading me astray again.

Instead of being a smart ass I’d suggest you look at the decline in cricket participation and the overall drop off viewership and crowds since the inception of the BBL comp. By the way tonight’s BBL crowd was bloody awful. What will save cricket in this country is sub continent immigration. Just check local ovals on saturdays for evidence. You used to be a good poster. You’ve turned into a big dickhead.