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[LESStar58]

Foxtel Risks Losing Top Shows In NRL Standoff



Can anyone point to anywhere that might back up this statement? If anything like that was happening surely we would have heard it by now through the AFL spin machine?

That is an out and out lie!

 

[RoosTah]

From the looks of things the AFL might be in trouble! (piss-take, but a good one):

http://www.thefaultreport.com.au/sp...ultimate-frisbee-australias-new-premium-code/

 

[DiegoNT]

^genius

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

Foxtel Risks Losing Top Shows In NRL Standoff



Can anyone point to anywhere that might back up this statement? If anything like that was happening surely we would have heard it by now through the AFL spin machine?

Its bullshit...

The nrl has actually gone from 77 to 50 under exceptional circumstances (the average ratings have actually improved over the last few years.)

The VFL have only seen growth due to the simalcast of their primetime games (meaning the NRL will probably get back to the high 70s if Fox were to buy all 8)

 

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Was going to ask them myself but someone beat me to it, apparently it's right.

simon bruce ‏@simon900 15h15 hours ago
@RL_Ratings @FinancialReview are those numbers quoted by foxtel about afl for real? They seem odd. Afl numbers are well below NRL on stv

Rugby League Ratings ‏@RL_Ratings 26m26 minutes ago
@simon900 had a look this afternoon, they are correct.

https://twitter.com/RL_Ratings/status/638246034259382273

 

[BuffaloRules]

WTF?

I thought the NRL had 49 of the top 100 this year ( which was unusual year given cricket World Cup)

 

[elbusto]

Must be a twist to this. the AFL's average ratings per game is 170000 against 172000 for our weakest timeslots. Must have something to do with the fact afl has 9 games on fox per week.

 

[BuffaloRules]

Even The Wookie on Big Footy says the NRL has 49 of the Top 100...

They must be counting it on an hourly basis...

 

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Even The Wookie on Big Footy says the NRL has 49 of the Top 100...

They must be counting it on an hourly basis...

that is this year, that fox quote from AFR is talking about last year.

 

[RL The greatest game]

Even The Wookie on Big Footy says the NRL has 49 of the Top 100...

They must be counting it on an hourly basis...

That won't go down well with the fans of the Anglo-Irish game :lol:

 

[BuffaloRules]

that is this year, that fox quote from AFR is talking about last year.

So AFL going backwards so much in 1 year?

There has to be a catch... Maybe the AFL finals are live on Fox?

 

[Haffa]

So AFL going backwards so much in 1 year?

There has to be a catch... Maybe the AFL finals are live on Fox?

Nope. They replay the previous years finals and a number of Victorians still watch those.

 

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So AFL going backwards so much in 1 year?

There has to be a catch... Maybe the AFL finals are live on Fox?

AFL finals are simulcast live, so that's basically 8 games in top 20.

NRL is up this year on fox, including more games over 300k than all of last year, so maybe we just had a bad year last year.

 

[carlosthedwarf]

AFL didn't have simulcasting 5 years ago, so that's why it has increased over the past five years. They're not comparing like for like so of course the NRL is going to decline

 

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wouldn't worry about it, Top 100 doesn't really mean a whole lot in the schemes of things, the NRL has the highest average ratings of any code on foxtel and along with the AFL is basically 80% of fox sports content. The NRL know it, foxtel know it & fox sports know it.

 

[Canard]

He is hardly going to say, we're f**ked without the NRL is he

 

[bobmar28]

Must be a twist to this. the AFL's average ratings per game is 170000 against 172000 for our weakest timeslots. Must have something to do with the fact afl has 9 games on fox per week.

Imagine if they had nine NRL games.

 

[Perth Red]

Imagine if the nrl had a faking clue on how to expand the game!

 

[Haffa]

Imagine if the nrl had a faking clue on how to expand the game!

Yeah perhaps they could just put a team wherever and pump 20 million a year into it with a plan for success in 50 years.

 

[Bronco18]

Not sure if related, but Roy Masters on Offsiders said 2014 was an exceptional year. Foxtel had some coverage of the World Cup, the Commonwealth Games and the Winter Olympics which substantially crowded out the top 100.