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2026 TV and Streaming Ratings thread

The_Wookie

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I’m commenting on the fact that any mention of good nrl tv ratings is always followed up by some fumble nuftie going on about crowds. Can see it in this tv ratings thread just one page back. Can see it all over X too. The copium is hilarious.

yeah thats true. The crowd numbers have never made up for the Tv numbers. My only observation on that is that crowds are hard data, not survey data.
 

storm1999

Juniors
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Friday night
Nrl - 753, 28k
Afl - 660, 49k
They run for different lengths so not directly comparable. For example, I watched the NRL in its entirety but switched to the AFL for the half time break and after the NRL had finished so ended up watching around 45 minutes of the Crows game in addition to the full Storm game.
 

i0Nic

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Both the NRL and AFL last night were close, highly entertaining matches between genuine premiership contenders. The only lowlight was the referee bias towards the Broncos in awarding the visitors soft penalties at cruicial moments.
Who gaf about the afl here we don’t care about that stop posting that shit
 

i0Nic

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They run for different lengths so not directly comparable. For example, I watched the NRL in its entirety but switched to the AFL for the half time break and after the NRL had finished so ended up watching around 45 minutes of the Crows game in addition to the full Storm game.
You can post this shit to Bigfooty piss off with this copium nonsense from here
 

i0Nic

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Its not that black and white. I think the Roy Morgan data for leagues where there is 1 or 2 teams is pointless, but I also think that when you have 20 years of data that asks the same question, it provides a sometimes useful insight into the growth of that support.




Posting news and content on a news sharing feed does not equal endorsement and never has. I generally prefer to post the content, and then quote tweet it with thoughts if needed. Im doing something different now that should make that clearer because far too often people assume the comment made with the post is mine instead of it being verbatim from the article.



Its worth noting they Are BOTH surveys, Oztam surveys 12,000 people, Roy Morgan surveys 50,000+. I do think the results of both are less than definitive. I also note - As you posted the screenshot - Oztam is owned by broadcasters with a vested interest in the data, Roy Morgan does not have such a conflict.

Oztam ratings are considered the bible by league fans....unless its anything they dont like. Like Reach data which Oztam made the standard in 2023. No one knows wtf Fox is doing to measure ratings any more.
So is roy Morgan useless or awesome which is it? This smells like a whole lot of grey area which is where you love to be as you can use the data and source whichever way suits what you’re trying to say.

and I’ll take OzTAM ratings, ie actual tracked usage from devices and the industry standard, over a survey which asks people after the fact “did you watch any afl the last three months? Tick yes or no”. It’s those same shitty methodologies that have recently voted Melbourne as the best city in the world - which is currently a machete woke leftist shithole. Always been a shithole but now with extra machetes, crime and woke agendas. Yeah I’m not even going to wipe my ass with those survey results thanks.
 
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i0Nic

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So you're only allowed to talk about AFL if you're saying its crap or bagging its ratings? Insecure much?
Are you thick or something? We’re talking about ratings in this thread. If you want to talk about ratings here’s the thread to do it. If you want to bring up afl ratings as a point of comparison sure. It’s not for talking about how entertaining the great game of Fumble was yesterday. It’s not for talking about how much bigger afl crowds are. We don’t care and we can see what it is you’re doing by bringing up Fumble in every discussion.
 

insert.pause

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Both the NRL and AFL last night were close, highly entertaining matches between genuine premiership contenders. The only lowlight was the referee bias towards the Broncos in awarding the visitors soft penalties at cruicial moments.
I’m sure you can name the crucial moments because you totally watched it…
 

i0Nic

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Yeah I saw, a record low number last year and African 🤣🤣🤣🤣 you`re so fumble, a couple of tokens and "we`ve got plenty of Africans".
A game played by skinny white dudes and annoying midgets.
Fumble is about as multicultural as a ku klux klan meeting.

Record low indigenous playing Australia’s “indigenous game” 😂😂😂 They’re deserting the game like the plague. Who can blame them following years of being hurled racist abuse from fans, players, commentators alike.

there’s probably a max of 10 total players in fumble of African descent if we’re being super generous 😂😂

You can’t even with these people.
 
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Wb1234

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yeah thats true. The crowd numbers have never made up for the Tv numbers. My only observation on that is that crowds are hard data, not survey data.
Only you could post this then spend 20 years analysing said ratings data

And let’s be real how many of those crowd figures are accurate
 

Colk

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Nonsense, I`ve been loving the League, what is shitting me though is Kayo, f**king awful dropping out all the time, really, really shitting me.

Your opinion. The competition is at the lowest ebb it has ever been (maybe 2021 would give it a run) Everybody already knows who is going to win the thing and most games are a f****** bore. I just switched over and it is 30-6 - another cracking game.
 
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Fumble is about as multicultural as a ku klux klan meeting.

Record low indigenous playing Australia’s “indigenous game” 😂😂😂 They’re deserting the game like the plague. Who can blame them following years of being hurled racist abuse from fans, players, commentators alike.

there’s probably a max of 10 total players in fumble of African descent if we’re being super generous 😂😂

You can’t even with these people.
Cause my Kayo was playing up and I was forced to watch FTA last night I flicked over to the fumbles after the game hoping to see if they`d had a massacre or whatever, that f**king idiot `roaming brian` was on and he was cracking jokes about the expression LGBQTI or whatever it is, I don`t give a rats about that stuff but you don`t crack jokes about it on national Tv, I was stunned, I mean haven`t they learnt a thing, it was borderline ridicule. What planet are they on.
 
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