http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/sbs-kicking-it-in-the-television-ratings/story-e6freuyi-1225883286503

MILLIONS of Aussies are dragging themselves out of warms beds to tune into SBS for live FIFA World Cup matches, boosting the network's ratings by 8 million people.

SBS's TV coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup has peaked to 8.4 million viewers across the country since the tournament kicked off, while its website has had one million unique browsers and 732,000 video views.

Last night saw plenty of us staying up to watch the live match between Mexico and Uruguay.

It drew the biggest audience for the night on SBS One, racking in a national average audience of 219,000 and a total reach of 454,000 viewers.

The live match between France and South Africa on SBS Two had a national average audience of 52,000 and a total reach of 131,000 viewers.

It was the first time simultaneous matches aired across SBS ONE and SBS TWO at midnight.

I lay on my couch switching between the two of them. Needless to say I'm ready to the Group D games tomorrow morning.

I was watching both at the same time side-by-side.

Get a better TV ;)

Good to hear, the coverage has been great so far. Like notorganic I had the two tv's going and a bit of money on the games so it was quite ineteresting!

Glad to see quality coverage being rewarded.

its great plus i assume it doesnt include all the people that cram into live sites arond the country.

+1.

now just add a noise cancelling program for the vuvuzelas and were set (no i will not turn the volume down) lol


I don't think any of the other commercial networks could do it better. they'd be putting in ads during goal kicks ;)

Good to see. BE interesting to see the ratings for this week, especially for tonight's game.

boo yah split screen

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The weeks top 100 ratings indicating the position of WC matches including the Socceroo/Ghana match at a more user friendly time than the 1st round.

# 16 - 2010 FIFA World Cup: Gha V Aus Live SBS ONE 1,392,000
# 43 - 2010 FIFA World Cup: Ger V Aus Live SBS ONE 1,048,000
# 47 - 2010 FIFA World Cup: Gha V Aus Pre-Game SBS ONE 992,000
# 85 - 2010 FIFA World Cup: Ger V Srb Live SBS ONE 647,000
# 88 - 2010 FIFA World Cup: Ned V Jpn Live SBS ONE 621,000
# 95 - 2010 FIFA World Cup: Arg V Kor Live SBS ONE 595,000

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2010/06/ratings-rumble-in-week-25-but-nine-wins.html

The 3 matches in Germany 2006

WORLD CUP 2006: AUSTRALIA V ITALY 27/06/06 1:00 2,297,000
WORLD CUP 2006: AUSTRALIA V JAPAN 12/06/06 22:49 2,166,000
WORLD CUP 2006: AUSTRALIA V CROATIA 23/06/06 4:58 2,003,000


   
Yesterday's match (Source OzTam/TV Tonight/Media Spy)

#16 SBS ONE 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP: AUS V SRB LIVE 728,000

Socceroo matches
2006 - 6,466,000
2010 - 3,168,000