2026 TV and Streaming Ratings thread

[Barney Stubble]

It's nothing to do with the NRL, it's about giving local teams maximum FTA exposure in their local markets.
The NRL would be wise to do the same with all Perth Bears games live on FTA into WA to give them exposure to the biggest possible audience.

but but but

 

[Barney Stubble]

Also look at the breakdown, is AFL really 'taking over' QLD when the Lions only get 36k in Brisbane, but Eels v Bulldogs sydney teams NRL game gets 109k in Brisbane.

Data below from Wookie.

Sunday #AuSport breakdown
#AFL 7 Mel 149k 7mate Syd 15k 7mate Bris 36k 7 Adl 38k 7 Per 160k
#NRL 9 Syd 186k 9 Bri 109k

So even with a brisbane team is playing, btw the premiership winning top of the table Brisbane team, the AFL can't even get a third of the viewers in Brisbane than a NRL game featuring no Brisbane team.

3 GFs in a row
winning the last 2

The Paddle pop wions still can't out rate the ABC gardening show in Brisbane

 

[storm1999]

Sunday #AuSport breakdown
#AFL 7 Mel 149k 7mate Syd 15k 7mate Bris 36k 7 Adl 38k 7 Per 160k
#NRL 9 Syd 186k 9 Bri 109k

So the NRL was so low in Mel, Adl, Per it didn't register on the ratings report?

The WA Derby had 160k, the Perth Bears will be lucky to get 16k especially if the NRL doesn't even want to guarantee local FTA coverage.

 

[Barney Stubble]

So the NRL was so low in Mel, Adl, Per it didn't register on the ratings report?

The WA Derby had 160k, the Perth Bears will be lucky to get 16k especially if the NRL doesn't even want to guarantee local FTA coverage.

were the storm playing dopey ?

the 3 GFs in a row , back to back derpball premier wions....
less popular then the Broncos womens team

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

Also look at the breakdown, is AFL really 'taking over' QLD when the Lions only get 36k in Brisbane, but Eels v Bulldogs sydney teams NRL game gets 109k in Brisbane.

Data below from Wookie.

Sunday #AuSport breakdown
#AFL 7 Mel 149k 7mate Syd 15k 7mate Bris 36k 7 Adl 38k 7 Per 160k
#NRL 9 Syd 186k 9 Bri 109k

So even with a brisbane team is playing, btw the premiership winning top of the table Brisbane team, the AFL can't even get a third of the viewers in Brisbane than a NRL game featuring no Brisbane team.

Is that Brissy figure from a recent fumbles game mate, cause that`s a shocker, and good call about how the showing of two games simultaneously on Friday`s leaves one less for live tv over the weekend.

 

[i0Nic]

It's nothing to do with the NRL, it's about giving local teams maximum FTA exposure in their local markets.
The NRL would be wise to do the same with all Perth Bears games live on FTA into WA to give them exposure to the biggest possible audience.

NRL don't need to squash viewing numbers by running double headers anymore because we get more viewers for 1 game than the AFL gets for 2.

 

[i0Nic]

So the NRL was so low in Mel, Adl, Per it didn't register on the ratings report?

The WA Derby had 160k, the Perth Bears will be lucky to get 16k especially if the NRL doesn't even want to guarantee local FTA coverage.

And yet it still rated about the same as the NRL overall - what does that tell you about the importance of those smaller markets like Adelaide and Perth dummy?

Remember as well - 1 game vs 2 games to get to the same outcome.

Btw once NRL establishes itself in WA like it has in VIC, which will be easier and quicker given the demographics and existing pathways that VIC never had, and NRL is regularly getting even just 20-25k viewers there - it will make it that much harder for AFL to win any game at all - double stacked or not.

 

[Barney Stubble]

And yet it still rated about the same as the NRL overall - what does that tell you about the importance of those smaller markets like Adelaide and Perth dummy?

Remember as well - 1 game vs 2 games to get to the same outcome.

And
how far the fumbling clown show has come in 44 years of trying to convert people in NSW & QLD to their crap sport

answer

not very far

 

[i0Nic]

44 years, billions of dollars later, for 97 players in western sydney and 30k ratings in Sydney / Brisbane only if featuring a sydney or brisbane team.

Awesome ROI on that one! I hope the AFL decide to accelerate their spending there.

 

[storm1999]

Remember as well - 1 game vs 2 games to get to the same outcome.

So PVL would rather broadcast Bulldogs v Eels on FTA into Perth and get 5k viewers instead of a Bears game which might get 25k? Seems like a sound business model there.

 

[storm1999]

44 years, billions of dollars later

Every dollar spent has been more than recouped through broadcast rights venue, corporate sponsorship, membership and match day revenue, merchandising and investment in junior football. The game has grown from a Victorian state league to a the country's premier national football league, and the only one with a true national footprint.

 

[Barney Stubble]

So PVL would rather broadcast Bulldogs v Eels on FTA into Perth and get 5k viewers instead of a Bears game which might get 25k? Seems like a sound business model there.

Has it got singletball anywhere in growing their vewiership in NSW & QLD dopey ?

 

[i0Nic]

Nope - not national.

It's not national when there's f**k all interest in the sport in half the country - as evidenced by these numbers above, and the same results week in week out for the last 40 years.

Just because you stick a couple teams in Sydney and Brisbane doesn't make you a national comp. It's not supported in any numbers.

To have a national competition you actually need some interest nationally - not 30k viewers for your back to back premiership winning Brisbane team in it's home state.

You can't even use the 'but the crowd was big' excuse because it wasnt a home game - where are all the fans?? Do they not care enough to watch their team? Don't the Lions have like 100k members?

 

[storm1999]

Btw once NRL establishes itself in WA like it has in VIC, which will be easier and quicker given the demographics and existing pathways that VIC never had

Due to the Sydney-centric NRL's refusal to invest into Victorian Rugby League.

 

[Barney Stubble]

Every dollar spent has been more than recouped through broadcast rights venue, corporate sponsorship, membership and match day revenue, merchandising and investment in junior football. The game has grown from a Victorian state league to a the country's premier national football league, and the only one with a true national footprint.

The NRL hasn't spent a 10th on growing its game outside NSW & QLD & yet..
& we're going to sail past the fumblers record TV deal

 

[Barney Stubble]

Due to the Sydney-centric NRL's refusal to invest into Victorian Rugby League.

you mean not pissing it up against the wall on some deluded dream like skinnywhiteflogball has had in NSW & QLD ?

& our numbers in Vic are booming
while bumbleballs got 97 in western sydney

 

[storm1999]

Nope - not national.

It's not national when there's f**k all interest in the sport in half the country

At the end of the day it doesn't matter what you or I think.
The CEOs and boards of Toyota, AAMI, Carlton and United Breweries, Coles, Telstra, NAB, McDonald's and Virgin Australia understand it's a national game.

 

[i0Nic]

At the end of the day it doesn't matter what you or I think.
The CEOs and boards of Toyota, AAMI, Carlton and United Breweries, Coles, Telstra, NAB, McDonald's and Virgin Australia understand it's a national game.

Is it? Did you ask them? Didn't know you were so well connected with CEOs.

it doesn't matter what facts say when you can live in your own little fantasy thought bubble of the 'national game' fumblethon being loved nation-wide.

 

[storm1999]

skinnywhiteflogball

Racism, classy move.

 

[comeinpeace]

Nope - not national.

It's not national when there's f**k all interest in the sport in half the country - as evidenced by these numbers above, and the same results week in week out for the last 40 years.

Just because you stick a couple teams in Sydney and Brisbane doesn't make you a national comp. It's not supported in any numbers.

To have a national competition you actually need some interest nationally - not 30k viewers for your back to back premiership winning Brisbane team in it's home state.

You can't even use the 'but the crowd was big' excuse because it wasnt a home game - where are all the fans?? Do they not care enough to watch their team? Don't the Lions have like 100k members?

But you miss the point that media revenue isn't the only thing that matters.

The AFL might get 30k TV viewers in Brisbane, to Brisbane Lions games. But say they got 100k instead. What benefit is that to the AFL? They might be able to sell media rights for a few million more a year.

But Brisbane Lions get 300,000 attendees to their home games a year. 10 years ago, when they were bad, they were only getting 200,000 a year. The benefit of that 100,000, via memberships and ticket purchases (and more minor things like merchandising) is worth a lot. If we use a rule of thumb that they benefit $30 from each additional attendee, that's another $3 million.

What does the AFL spend this additional 3 million on? Subsidising Auskick in Queensland. It is cheaper to do Auskick if you live in Brisbane or Gold Coast than mod league. Which is why AFL don't just care about how many people in Brisbane watch a Brisbane Lions game on TV, they care about participation numbers.

Now, the AFL are not doing this out of their goodness of their heart because they love the idea of little Johnnie running around kicking a sherrin over a steeden. They would hope that, in 20 years' time, as little Johnnie becomes big Johnnie and he moves to Sydney to become a bigwig at a bank and is too busy to care about sport, NRL or AFL otherwise, he holds a more positive view of the AFL having played it as a tacker, and therefore will convince his bank to sponsor the AFL instead of the NRL.

There's more to the AFL and NRL strategies than discussed here. It's complex.