2025 Streaming and TV Ratings Discussion

[Wb1234]

Overall the NRL is in the lead by close to 15 million and that's all that matters

Footy’s ‘code wars’ are back, but which is actually the No. 1 Australian sport: the NRL or AFL?

The AFL and NRL constantly claim to be the country’s premier sport – so what do the figures say in terms of profit, participation, attendance and TV audience?

theconversation.com

Pretty fair comparison

Except

Tv doesn’t include origin other rep games pacific cup nz

Total gap last year was around 55 million in our favour

Once png ratings are included we will be ahead by 100 million viewers or close to double theirs

 

[Canard]

Footy’s ‘code wars’ are back, but which is actually the No. 1 Australian sport: the NRL or AFL?

The AFL and NRL constantly claim to be the country’s premier sport – so what do the figures say in terms of profit, participation, attendance and TV audience?

theconversation.com

Pretty fair comparison

Except

Tv doesn’t include origin other rep games pacific cup nz

Total gap last year was around 55 million in our favour

Once png ratings are included we will be ahead by 100 million viewers or close to double theirs

TV views is only worth something if it can be monetised.

PNG viewership is worth nothing to Australian TV.

 

[Perth Red]

Footy’s ‘code wars’ are back, but which is actually the No. 1 Australian sport: the NRL or AFL?

The AFL and NRL constantly claim to be the country’s premier sport – so what do the figures say in terms of profit, participation, attendance and TV audience?

theconversation.com

Pretty fair comparison

Except

Tv doesn’t include origin other rep games pacific cup nz

Total gap last year was around 55 million in our favour

Once png ratings are included we will be ahead by 100 million viewers or close to double theirs

I’d rather have more revenue than more viewers, only helpful if it turns into more mOney!

 

[Wb1234]

I’d rather have more revenue than more viewers, only helpful if it turns into more mOney!

Let’s hope everything you’ve been saying for 20 years about the value a Perth team brings to the nrl wasn’t just bs

 

[Canard]

There is absolutely no dispute that Perth is worth more to Australian TV channels than PNG.

 

[The_Wookie]

Its Eddie McGuire so take it with a grain of salt

McGuire: There is still nobody on the AFL Commission and nobody really on the AFL administration who has ever had to sell a ticket to fill a seat or to get a ratings point.

And the two biggest areas of our game are television -and going forward even more so because, you know, DAZN are lining up already to try and cut the AFL contract - I can give you that as an exclusive right now. They are already going "hang on paid too much for this" - and filling stadiums.

On the Eddie and Jimmy Podcast

 

[Billythekid]

Wait on, when I suggested 750k is a good result for a third rate sport like Union, people went off on me in this thread.

Turns out I was right, again.

Ehhh not sure anyone ‘went off at you’ though I may be misremembering. I asked if anyone could provide any data to actually make a real analysis.

With this data I’m still not sure how good of a result it is. I think the games have rated higher than most of us may have expected but it feels like a situation of lowered expectations in general.
It rated higher than recent Wallabies games but for the most part those have been rating like absolute dogshit.

Also whilst the comparison is hard to make due to the general trajectory of TV it looked like this series is something like 30-40% down on the last time the lions toured. So not exactly a smashing result. Outside of a World Cup this is basically the pinnacle for the wallabies and it doesn’t happen often.

So I’d say it’s a decent result but whether or not you’d say it’s good depends on your perspective. It seems you’re coming at this from the angle that union is basically an also ran sport in this country but they’re still very much trying to compete to be a major code here so I’m not sure that’s fair.