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Marcus said:El Duque said:Marcus said:When I hear the ratings on the radio, there is always one program that tops it, 'National Nine News'.
I started to think, "now why is that?". Then it dawned on me. The people who participate in these ratings things, are the same people that participate week in and week out, for who knows how long - a year maybe?
Considering how people are creatures of habit, how much variation is their viewing patterns going to change from week to week? Very little I would think. If your set in your ways and you love sitting down on the couch at 6pm to watch NNN, then NNN is going to win everytime you sit down at 6pm.
TV ratings are only as good as the amount of people that is surveyed. Same goes for polls and any other survey that research companies carry out.
Excuses. There's no AFL or NRL on Friday nights yet the RUWC doesn't seem to be attracting those viewers and their normal habit on a Friday is to watch footy.
Unlike the Union spin doctors would have some believe, Australia has not "embraced" Union. sh*t, more people would rather watch a 20 year old movie on a Sunday night that has already been shown 1,000 times.
Over 1 million have already attended games, average works out to be 33k. It will get higher as we play in bigger stadiums. These are PAYING customers not some channel-flicker.
Now you go off on another tangent. This topic is about ratings, not attendance figures.
You said people are "creatures of habit" and the habit for AFL and NRL fans on a Friday night is to watch footy yet Union can't get near the numbers of either code. What are these "creatures of habit" doing, Marcus?