TV Ratings for the Grand Final

[thommo4pm]

Description Total Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 RUGBY LEAGUE GRAND FINAL Nine 2,416,000 1,119,000 650,000 535,000 47,000 65,000
2 NINE NEWS SUNDAY Nine 1,845,000 422,000 730,000 425,000 124,000 144,000
3 RUGBY LEAGUE GRAND FINAL PRESENTATION Nine 1,657,000 1,028,000 573,000 57,000
4 60 MINUTES Nine 1,403,000 415,000 465,000 273,000 133,000 118,000
5 MIDSOMER MURDERS-SU ABC1 1,354,000 443,000 487,000 214,000 210,000
6 SEVEN NEWS - SUN Seven 1,269,000 204,000 454,000 214,000 164,000 233,000
7 RUGBY LEAGUE GRAND FINAL ENTERTAINMENT Nine 1,227,000 617,000 256,000 301,000 19,000 34,000
8 YELLOWSTONE ABC1 1,172,000 342,000 341,000 237,000 102,000 150,000
10 RESCUE SPECIAL OPS Nine 956,000 238,000 364,000 179,000 99,000 77,000
11 AUSTRALIAN IDOL Ten 926,000 271,000 267,000 195,000 90,000 103,000
17 TALKIN' 'BOUT YOUR GENERATION SUN RPT Ten 559,000 96,000 191,000 136,000 63,000 73,000
22 RUGBY LEAGUE GRAND FINAL 1ST DIVISION Nine 443,000 308,000 135,000
25 WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? SBS ONE 402,000 100,000 141,000 81,000 27,000 53,000
28 M-THE SOUND OF MUSIC Seven 313,000 121,000 103,000 51,000 37,000
49 WIPEOUT GO! 164,000 12,000 48,000 33,000 31,000 39,000
65 THE BIG BANG THEORY GO! 125,000 32,000 27,000 21,000 26,000 19,000
70 HORNBLOWER ABC2 115,000 40,000 27,000 25,000 6,000 16,000

http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/whoweare/

 

[Tiger_Tim]

By the way, the first figure for each is the total national figure, then individual figures for Sydney-Melbourne-Brisbane-Adelaide-Perth

 

[thommo4pm]

yeah, sorry I probably should have just put in the NRL game and not the other shows.

Brisbane's ratings seem low.
Good strong ratings in Sydney and Melbourne though.

With regional ratings added in the NRL will out rate the AFL GF.

 

[HAL]

should be interesting with the regionals added,overall good ratings considering the timeslot imo.

 

[Tiger_Tim]

730,000 for the News in Melbourne (a MASSIVE figure), indicating there would have been about this many watching the latter stages of the game, as that rating would have been for 7.00-7.30 (the time the news was scheduled to air)

 

[Brutus]

730,000 for the News in Melbourne (a MASSIVE figure), indicating there would have been about this many watching the latter stages of the game, as that rating would have been for 7.00-7.30 (the time the news was scheduled to air)

Yep. There is no doubt the audience for the GF in Melbourne was peaking at the conclusion of the game and would have stayed high for the preso.

Nine News benefitted from this, leaving many fans pissed off.

SEN radio has been bagging Ch 9 all morning. Even Fat Pat Smith has stuck the boot in to that cretin of a station.

 

[Brutus]

I'll be very disappointed if the NRL do not include regionals in their press release for the ratings.

With regionals it should beat the AFL GF. Why they refuse to make known the best figures possible is beyond me.

 

[Chook Norris]

In comparison to last year's GF Manly vs Melbourne
Description Total Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 RUGBY LEAGUE GRAND FINAL Nine 2,074,000 942,000 492,000 503,000 57,000 81,000

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all up apart from perth..

 

[backdoor]

Listening to the game on the radio is a more attractive option than having to listen to the knob gobblers on Nein.

 

[Balmain Bug]

I'll be very disappointed if the NRL do not include regionals in their press release for the ratings.

With regionals it should beat the AFL GF. Why they refuse to make known the best figures possible is beyond me.

Very Very true. Regional centres are not included in these figures.

 

[NRLMad]

Listening to the game on the radio is a more attractive option than having to listen to the knob gobblers on Nein.

That's right - they must include regionals to show the full picture.. AFL is televised on all major channels and hence has the full ratings of the top 5 cities. In contrast; the largest regionals (where we are exceptionally strong) are neglected.

Does anyone have the regional results?
Do the regioanls include WIN and NBN?


The 2009 NRL Grand Final topped 2.41m last night pushing Nine to a big win for Sunday. The match was significantly higher than the 2008 final of 2.07m. In Sydney 1.11m viewers watched on, while Melbourne had 650,000 -more than Brisbane’s 535,000.

But in Melbourne, talkback callers today were angry over Nine’s switch to Nine News before the Presentation to the Storm team. In reality, the Presentation was never scheduled in that city. But at a time when the Anti-Siphoning List is being reviewed, it furthers the arguments in the Pay TV camp to give sports more comprehensive coverage.

 

[Perth Red]

It's all rubbish anyway. I was in a pub in Perth with about 250 other people watching the game. I am sure there were many many more pubs the same. The figures are at best guesstimates.

 

[joanne]

Some updated numbers from http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...a-ratings-winner/story-e6freuz0-1225782913052

MORE than 2.5 million Australians tuned it to see Melbourne's premiership triumph over Parramatta - making it the most watched NRL grand final in three years.
An average national audience of 2.523 watched the the Storm's 23-16 win yesterday, with the audience peaking at 3.095 million, according to figures from the Nine Network.
The audience was up about half a million viewers on last year's decider, and it was the highest rating NRL grand final since Brisbane's triumph over Melbourne in 2006 when 2.533 million watched.
The largest audiences for the Storm and Eels showdown were in Sydney, where just over 1.16 million watched, followed by Melbourne (682,000) and Brisbane (563,000).

It came short of last month's AFL grand final, which is the highest rating sports event of the year, with an average of about 2.8 million viewers.

 

[Hanscholo]

Die reality TV...just f**ken die. It hasnt been owned like that in ratings for many years, hopefully we will start to get some decent TV now.

 

[joanne]

Description Total Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 RUGBY LEAGUE GRAND FINAL Nine 2,416,000 1,119,000 650,000 535,000 47,000 65,000
2 NINE NEWS SUNDAY Nine 1,845,000 422,000 730,000 425,000 124,000 144,000
3 RUGBY LEAGUE GRAND FINAL PRESENTATION Nine 1,657,000 1,028,000 573,000 57,000
4 60 MINUTES Nine 1,403,000 415,000 465,000 273,000 133,000 118,000
5 MIDSOMER MURDERS-SU ABC1 1,354,000 443,000 487,000 214,000 210,000
6 SEVEN NEWS - SUN Seven 1,269,000 204,000 454,000 214,000 164,000 233,000
7 RUGBY LEAGUE GRAND FINAL ENTERTAINMENT Nine 1,227,000 617,000 256,000 301,000 19,000 34,000
8 YELLOWSTONE ABC1 1,172,000 342,000 341,000 237,000 102,000 150,000
10 RESCUE SPECIAL OPS Nine 956,000 238,000 364,000 179,000 99,000 77,000
11 AUSTRALIAN IDOL Ten 926,000 271,000 267,000 195,000 90,000 103,000
17 TALKIN' 'BOUT YOUR GENERATION SUN RPT Ten 559,000 96,000 191,000 136,000 63,000 73,000
22 RUGBY LEAGUE GRAND FINAL 1ST DIVISION Nine 443,000 308,000 135,000
25 WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? SBS ONE 402,000 100,000 141,000 81,000 27,000 53,000
28 M-THE SOUND OF MUSIC Seven 313,000 121,000 103,000 51,000 37,000
49 WIPEOUT GO! 164,000 12,000 48,000 33,000 31,000 39,000
65 THE BIG BANG THEORY GO! 125,000 32,000 27,000 21,000 26,000 19,000
70 HORNBLOWER ABC2 115,000 40,000 27,000 25,000 6,000 16,000

http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/whoweare/

1st Division???

 

[trudge]

The AFL Grand Final rated 309,000 in Sydney.

 

[meltiger]

In comparison to last year's GF Manly vs Melbourne
Description Total Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 RUGBY LEAGUE GRAND FINAL Nine 2,074,000 942,000 492,000 503,000 57,000 81,000

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all up apart from perth..

Yup Melbourne's increase on the back of last years spanking is excellent too. 150k average higher than last years average.

Excellent stuff Melbourne.

 

[wittyfan]

Interesting, but it probably isn't a fair comparison considering Melbourne had a local team competing. Anyone know the ratings in Sydney for the '05 and '06 AFL GFs?

991,000 in 2005 and 750,000 in 2006.

1996 was the highest with 1.01 million.

 

[Chook Norris]

991,000 in 2005 and 750,000 in 2006.

1996 was the highest with 1.01 million.

we won't get the same figures until RL is shown, regularly, on FTA in Melb before midnight..

 

[TimmyB]

Those figures actually compare pretty well considering the population differences of Sydney and Melbourne.

EDIT: Wrong. I've always thought Sydney was much bigger than Melbourne, weird.