The bias of Crikey against RL

[iggy plop]

http://www.crikey.com.au/media/2004/09/20-0003.html

The irrational views of this mob and AFL sympathisers in general in the media is enormous as can be seen in this article.

In contrast the Saturday night NRL final between North Queensland and Brisbane was the 36th most watched program with a national audience of 1.165 million people, because outside of Brisbane and Sydney League was ignored by viewers.

This quote riles me because this clown fails to point out that the Broncos v Cowboys match was not shown in Melbourne, Adelaide and perth until some ungodly hour of the morning.

With Sydney as the biggest and richest media market in the country, it's the one the AFL needs to conquer and where Ten needs to take more programming gambles next year to try and rest some greater share away from the NRL.

But with Ten failing to exploit the AFL games it had at its disposal on the weekend, you can wonder about just how confident Ten is about tackling the NRL head on in Sydney. On Saturday night the AFL was on delay in Sydney, as it was on Friday, when there was no rugby league being played

This clown seems to think by putting on a AFL game up against a league game in Sydney that market share for league will be taken away. What a lot of rot!! Channel 10 wont show AFL because it doesn't rate at all. It gets spanked by all sorts of things, not just rival sport.

In Sydney on Saturday night Nine won easily, thanks to the League semi-final with a huge 47% share, compared to 12.1% on Ten and 18.4% on Seven. The delayed broadcast of the Brisbane-Geelong game attracted only just over 105,000 viewers from 9.45pm onwards, a missed opportunity.

A missed opportunity for what??? To get even lower numbers. If anything the AFL would have suffered even further had it gone up against the league semi in Sydney. Remember the wonderful 89,000 average for the Swans v Lions game earlier in the year up against the Wallabies?

But the League was all but unwatched outside of Brisbane and Sydney. Just over 48,400 people watched in Melbourne, 11,000 or so in Adelaide and 15,954 in Perth. Nationally it was no contest

I wonder why?? :roll: This guy makes a massive noise about how the AFL semis were not shown until 9.40pm in Sydney, then has the hide to dismiss league figures in Melb, Adelaide and Perth when those games were shown after 12am.

So just imagine if Ten programmers had had the courage to program both Friday and Saturday night games live into Sydney. They would have trimmed Nine's audience and probably pulled more people in Sydney on Saturday night and in Brisbane.

What rubbish. So many of these supposed national sporting commentators view things through AFL eyes and nothing else.

AFL ratings have been shocking all year in Sydney yet these AFL types still think it's their god given right to have prime time coverage.

The Melbourne Storm get one game live in Melbourne and its ratings compare well with that of the Swans - yet those figures are dismissed as crap and a reason why Storm should never get their games shown in a decent timelsot down there.

But the Swans and AFL can rate pathetically in Sydney and that doesn't seem to matter.

This AFL mob think its their god given right to be shown all over the country. It annoys me big time.

Well done rugby league on your great ratings last weekend! By far the number one code in biggest city in the country. Some people just can't seem to take it.

 

[DIEHARD]

Love your work Iggy. Couldn't have typed it better myself.

You systematically nailed and exposed him for being the AFL sympathiser he is.

What is with the media today? You need a bias to get a gig?

 

[dimitri]

i agree

great work iggy once again


afl is a load of crap

 

[Grantwhy]

Iggy, i'd suggest taking a little bit of emotion out of that and then send it off to Crikey.

You never know, they might take notice :shock:

 

[iggy plop]

Iggy, i'd suggest taking a little bit of emotion out of that and then send it off to Crikey.

You never know, they might take notice :shock:

No way they'd take notice.

 

[bartman]

Another examples of knobs in the media, using whatever power they can to push their own agendas. And aren't these Crikey guys are self-employed, which means they're less likely to listen?

 

[gaterooze]

"So just imagine if Ten programmers had had the courage to program both Friday and Saturday night games live into Sydney. They would have trimmed Nine's audience and probably pulled more people in Sydney on Saturday night and in Brisbane."

Doesn't he realize that they DID put AFL up against NRL this weekend in Brisbane? And they were spanked, of course.

And in Sydney, AFL can't even rate when League ISN'T on -- it would only be worse against sporting competition!

What tools. Thanks for pointing that article out, Iggy - I used to like Crikey before I realized what biased, hypocritical AFL nuts they were.

Oh, they also neglected to mention that more people watched the Sunday NRL game in Melbourne than Sydney people watched the AFL at any time!

 

[JW]

It's Crickey, enough said.

Imagine all the mutual wanking that goes on in that workplace :|

Good points though Iggy.

Cheers.

 

[unbiasobserver2005]

AFL would have scared the NRL and Nine in Brisbane over the weekend. Both were quite cocky about the no challenge they expected, yet AFL dished it up.

Both AFL games rated the roof off, to get as close to the very hyped and talked about Bris/Nth Qld game as the Lions did is most impressive.

Sydney is another matter - the Swans need continued success to build a bigger hardcore base, but I think they are healthy for a niche sport.

 

[unbiasobserver2005]

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Doesn't he realize that they DID put AFL up against NRL this weekend in Brisbane? And they were spanked, of course.

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The Lions game actually peaked higher than the Broncos, with 548,000 having a look at the AFL and 492,000 at the NRL.

The average for the League was higher throughout the night, but get your facts right.

AFL has made massive leaps and bounds in QLD.

 

[BuffaloRules]

AFL would have scared the NRL and Nine in Brisbane over the weekend. Both were quite cocky about the no challenge they expected, yet AFL dished it up.

Both AFL games rated the roof off, to get as close to the very hyped and talked about Bris/Nth Qld game as the Lions did is most impressive.

Sydney is another matter - the Swans need continued success to build a bigger hardcore base, but I think they are healthy for a niche sport.

The AFL results were good in Brisbane, but surely this is a high water mark for AFL support in Brisbane - they have the best AFL side ever
playing for them.

The real test will come when inevitably the Lions are missing the semi's in a few years time...

The Swans have been in Sydney for 22 years, and have had considerable success in that time and wall to wall live games and promotion by Channel 10 and the AFL....

Maybe in another 22 years time they will have 300,000 watching their big semi final games, instead of the 170,000 watching them now...

 

[Bastard Squad]

The Lions game actually peaked higher than the Broncos, with 548,000 having a look at the AFL and 492,000 at the NRL.

The average for the League was higher throughout the night, but get your facts right.

You neglect to mention that the Lions peak was just after the completion of the NRL, ie. sports fans changing channels to see how the other mob go. The fact that the AFL peak was only brief shows that these viewers quickly switched to The Sound Of Music because it wasn't as limp wristed.

 

[unbiasobserver2005]

The Lions game actually peaked higher than the Broncos, with 548,000 having a look at the AFL and 492,000 at the NRL.

The average for the League was higher throughout the night, but get your facts right.

You neglect to mention that the Lions peak was just after the completion of the NRL, ie. sports fans changing channels to see how the other mob go. The fact that the AFL peak was only brief shows that these viewers quickly switched to The Sound Of Music because it wasn't as limp wristed.

What a witty reply - but it doesn't change the facts. AFL is coming up pretty fast in S/E Qld.

Problem is that the NRL are too busy with their head up bums (possibly in a NRL scrum??) to think that they could possibly ever have problems in a key market.

The mismanagement of your code plus the lack of passion for supporters who see it as a fun time filler is a big bonus for lovers of real Australian sport.

 

[JW]

Bearthur, you're banned. Piss off.

:lol:

Cheers.

 

[pcpp]

Bearthur, you're banned. Piss off.

:lol:

Cheers.

- does sound remarkably like bearthur when you think about it

NRL rated 150,000 higher than the AFL in Brisbane. Deal with it. AFL may be growing with their $600,000 salary cap concessions to help with crappy teams, but once they start losing they will be back to their 10,000 crowds and non-existentent TV ratings.

 

[hrundi99]

Problem is that the NRL are too busy with their head up bums (possibly in a NRL scrum??) to think that they could possibly ever have problems in a key market.

The mismanagement of your code plus the lack of passion for supporters who see it as a fun time filler is a big bonus for lovers of real Australian sport.

You've stuffed up with your username there dude.

It should be unbiasedobserver2005.

Also it's plainly obvious that you are biased, so it's kind of wrong all over.

 

[unbiasobserver2005]

Think we all now which code is focused with growth and the code that is focused with taunts and jabs.

AFL is in safe hands and is doing very well.

 

[pcpp]

Think we all now which code is focused with growth and the code that is focused with taunts and jabs.

AFL is in safe hands and is doing very well.

When you mean growth, you mean giving teams $600,000 salary cap concessions, yes, I agree.

When the Lions don't win their 215423631462326247254624727383939348484846949th premiership in a row, then the growth will sotp.

 

[DIEHARD]

Gee with an extra $600,000 the Brisbane Broncos or Melbourne Storm could go BACK to BACK to BACK as well.

Next please. :lol:

 

[JW]

Good job Beatrice :lol: