The TV rights thread part II

[Goddo]

I wonder how that game last night rated relative to the Onion WC.

 

[carlosthedwarf]

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2011/09/week-38-3.html

2 Ten’s AFL Finals 2011: 1st Semi Final West Coast V Carlton Ten 993,000 17,000 496,000 46,000 155,000 278,000

4 Rugby League Final Series Sf2 Nine 878,000 512,000 11,000 345,000 *** 9,000

6 Nine’s Rugby: World Cup: Australia Vs. Ireland Nine 607,000 352,000 19,000 189,000 5,000 42,000

What time was the Yawnion on in Melbourne? 19,000 is pathetic. Yet they consistently give it better coverage than the Storm.

edit: forgot the Union was live on Gem in Melbourne at 6pm, probably impacted it slightly. Can't imagine it got anywhere near the 86k the Storm got last weekend.

 

[CC_Roosters]

NITV is no longer on FTA so I didn't see it but it is obvious to me that all the networks would want a 4th QLD team.

And yet the bids are shells with no members or grassroots work over many years. They have a badge and colours at the moment and promises of big name signings.

If their bid isnt good enough they wont get in ahead of the Bears. Even the NRL aren't stupid enough to put a half assed bid into the comp in 2014/15 if it is weak.

Haven't seen any results for Friday nights final. How did it rate??

 

[Perth Red]

Ten’s AFL Finals 2011: 1st Semi Final West Coast V Carlton Ten 993,000
Rugby League Final Series Sf2 Nine 878,000

You can see why Ch9 don't want to add an extra 200k by showing the game live into Vic, SA and WA. What would be there excuse for another p1ss weak TV offer if we were metro nationally better than AFL?

 

[NRLMad]

Ten’s AFL Finals 2011: 1st Semi Final West Coast V Carlton Ten 993,000
Rugby League Final Series Sf2 Nine 878,000

You can see why Ch9 don't want to add an extra 200k by showing the game live into Vic, SA and WA. What would be there excuse for another p1ss weak TV offer if we were metro nationally better than AFL?

Agree there - the best source though is the thinktv site. It includes regional viewers. The latest THINKTV report for this week is not out, but you'd expect that we'd beat them again when regionals are included.

http://www.thinktv.com.au/content_common/pg-ratings-reports.seo

http://www.thinktv.com.au/SiteMedia/w3svc371/Uploads/Documents/Weekly%20Ratings%20Report%20-%20Week%2036%20&%20Week%2037%202011.pdf

Top 40 FTA Programs - Regional + Metro - 4 September to 10 September 2011
15 RUGBY LEAGUE FINAL SERIES QF1 1,606
24 RUGBY LEAGUE FINAL SERIES QF2 1,365
25 AFL:QUAL FINAL 2:GEELONG V HAWTHORN 1,313
30 RUGBY LEAGUE FINAL SERIES QF3 1,190
34 SUNDAY FOOTBALL 1,062
38 AFL:1ST QUAL FINAL CLGWOOD V WEST CST 1,045

Slaughtered... the other AFL games didn't even make the top 40.

 

[Lego_Man]

Unfortunately this weekend's Storm v Warriors game is clashing with the All Wanks vs France Vichyball clash. Be interesting to see how that goes...

 

[beave]

Are you taking into account the time difference though??

 

[Billythekid]

Ten’s AFL Finals 2011: 1st Semi Final West Coast V Carlton Ten 993,000
Rugby League Final Series Sf2 Nine 878,000

You can see why Ch9 don't want to add an extra 200k by showing the game live into Vic, SA and WA. What would be there excuse for another p1ss weak TV offer if we were metro nationally better than AFL?

Most of the year we have been beating them in the metros anyway. Getting coverage into Perth and Melbourne will just be icing on the cake.

 

[smithie]

Are you taking into account the time difference though??

All Blacks vs. France - 5:30pm AEST
Warriors vs. Storm - 7:30pm (7:45pm kickoff) AEST

 

[bobmar28]

All Blacks vs. France - 5:30pm AEST
Warriors vs. Storm - 7:30pm (7:45pm kickoff) AEST

Not a clash after all. Should go ok in NZ.

 

[BuffaloRules]

NZ v France is on at 6.30pm AEST so there will be a clash for part of the Warriors game

 

[russ13]

http://www.thinktv.com.au/SiteMedia...y_Ratings_Report_-_Week_37_&_Week_38_2011.pdf


Top 40 Australia-wide (except for -see Edwardu posts)

NRL SF2 1.548M 15th
NRL SF1 1382M 24th
AFL SF2 1.310M 27th
NRL QF4 1.236M 28th
AFL Elim.F 1.217M (WC v Carlton) 30th
AFL Elim.F 1.126M (Carlton v Ess.) 35th


Regionals
Top 40

NRL SF2 670K 5th
NRL SF1 583K 10th
NRL QF 488K 19th
Union 305K (Aust v Ireland) 34th

 

[Brutus]

Not a clash after all. Should go ok in NZ.

9.45pm kick off in nz for the warriors. Will be a late one.

 

[NRLMad]

With the regional results, we should slaughter the AFL again. Sydney and Brisbane just don't give a toss about AFL. How they can afford to run it up against the NRL in NSW/QLD week after week no-one knows. I guess Channel 10 have realised the folly of their last bid! Our results are skewed as we only have Sydney and Brisbane in the first game live on tv & 3 cities for the 2nd game.

Friday night:
1 Seven’s AFL: Preliminary Final 1: Collingwood Vs Hawthorn Seven 1,318,000 24,000 807,000 17,000 215,000 255,000
3 Rugby League Final Series Pf1 Nine 1,023,000 590,000 12,000 412,000 1,000 8,000

Saturday night (274K in Melbourne!)
2 Rugby League Final Series Pf2 Nine1,174,000 619,000 274,000 274,000 4,000 2,000
3 Ten’s AFL Finals 2011: 2nd Prelim. Final Geelong V West Coast Ten 1,095,000 57,000 556,000 79,000 118,000 284,000

 

[Stormarekings]

The Game (league) in Melbourne was a good game despite the result. Is that the best 5 city ratings for league this year (apart from SOO)? To be fair to the AFL though the ratings in Sydney and Brisbane for Friday night dont show the ratings on 7mate which were 39000 (syd) and 50000 (bris). (source TV tonight).

 

[russ13]

http://www.thinktv.com.au/SiteMedia...y_Ratings_Report_-_Week_38_&_Week_39_2011.pdf



Top 40 (Think TV Ratings-note Tasmania & a couple of other minor areas not included)


COMBINED Metro & Regionals FTA

NRL PF2 1.807M 11th (Storm v Warriors)
NRL PF1 1.668M 14th (Manly v Brisbane)
AFL PF 1 1.571M 18th( Coll. v Haw)
AFL PF 2 1.095M -see below. (Geelong v WC)
No union

The AFL PF 2 was not listed in the combined table. However, it got 1.095M in the Metro areas & the cutoff for the combined list was 1.053 so obviouly they have made an error. The other AFL PF got 253K( 1.571M - 1.318 M) in the regionals so in all probality AFL PF 2 would have got about 20K to 30 K less is my guess. Cutoff for the Top 40 regionals as 291K.

REGIONALS
TOP 40 FTA

NRL PF1 651K 3rd (Manly v Brisbane)
NRL PF2 633K 4th (Storm v Warriors)

No AFL or union.

 

[The Elephant In The room]

The reality is that if the AFL didn't out-rate the NRL for this weekends semi's, they never will. Collingwood and Hawthorn have the two highest memberships in the AFL and are widely considered some of the best supported teams in Australia, West Coast obviously have a fanatical AFL state behind them, and even Geelong have 40k odd members.

Compare this to: Melbourne - who are new on the scene in a hostile market; Manly - who everyone hates (except for the actual Manly fans themselves); The warriors - whose core base of fans isn't even captured by the ratings surveys; and Brisbane - who obviousy draw well noth of the boarder.

So the AFL have almost the best potential TV drawing teams playing, and the NRL have some of the worst (the Broncs excluded). Should have been a landslide vitory to the Mexicans, but by some of the resports here the NRl at least matched them with the regionals included. Top effort

 

[El Diablo]

http://www.nrl.com/nrl-finals-prove-a-ratings-winner/tabid/10874/newsid/64993/default.aspx

NRL Finals prove a ratings winner

NRL Mon, Sep 26, 2011 - 3:17 PM

As national ratings figures for the 2011 Telstra Premiership Finals series climb 14% above 2010, Storm players have gone out winners with Melbourne television audiences.

Nine’s decision to go live with the Storm v Warriors match paid huge dividends for GTV, which collected the city’s biggest audience share of the night of 22.8% as the telecast won all but one quarter hour in Melbourne, attracting a peak of 390,000 viewers and an average of 274,451.

The match drew 1,835,791 viewers across all Australian markets, reaching 618,768 in Sydney, 274,313 in Brisbane and a further 662,869 on the WIN and NBN networks.

It also recorded a further 200,000 viewers in New Zealand.

After three weeks of the 2011 Telstra Premiership Finals Series, the overall audience increase has reached 14% with an overall average of 1,492,761 per game.

“It’s another reminder of how much Rugby League is a part of people’s lives and of its value to broadcasters,” NRL Chief Executive, Mr David Gallop, said today.

“This has been a gripping Telstra Premiership Finals Series and the prospect of Manly against the Warriors has excited sports fans across Australia and New Zealand.”

Friday night’s Telstra Premiership Preliminary Final between Manly and Broncos drew 1,682,619 viewers with 589,908 in Sydney, 412,029 in Brisbane and 664,413 across WIN and NBN.

 

[carlosthedwarf]

Peak of 400k in Melbourne? Wow.

 

[Perth Red]

Who'd of thought we would get bigger RL audiences in melbourne than in Brisbane? I'd like to hear the excuses of Ch9 now for not showing NRL!

and where's Gallop shouting this from the rooftops and putting the pressure on Ch9 to keep showing NRL live next season?