I think you may be right. Probably will lose a few people at the gate but more will watch as most of the supporters will not be able to get to the games.
With the tv ratings being all important at the moment that is probably a good thing.

Week 49 ratings are out.A-League 2nd,4th and 8th.

1.Cricket One Day Series port Broadcasts Channel Day Time B/cast
Only
B/cast
&
Plus2
Total
STV
Reach
(000s)
1 LIVE: CRICKET: ONE DAY SERIES FOX SPORTS 2 Sun 17:59 86 ‐ 1193 625
2 LIVE: FOOTBALL: A‐LEAGUE MELB V V GC FOX SPORTS 1 Sun 17:00 81 ‐ 1123 289
3 CRICKET: WORLD SERIES CLASSICS FOX SPORTS 2 Sun 17:35 77 ‐ 1152 174
4 LIVE: FOOTBALL: A‐LEAGUE NEWC V MELB V FOX SPORTS 1 Sat 19:30 73 ‐ 1128 249
5 LIVE: INSIDE CRICKET FOX SPORTS 3 Mon 20:30 66 ‐ 1191 142
6 LIVE: FOOTBALL: EPL NEWCASTLE V CHELSEA FOX SPORTS 2 Sat 23:30 64 ‐ 514 164
7 LIVE: CRICKET: ONE DAY SERIES FOX SPORTS 3 Wed 18:00 57 ‐ 1019 463
8 LIVE: FOOTBALL: A‐LEAGUE PERTH V GC FOX SPORTS 1 Sat 21:30 53 ‐ 991 252
9 RUGBY UNION: INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIA V FOX SPORTS 2 Sun 10:00

It's pretty clear MV games are consistently the most popular.Solid 70's to 80's most weeks.SFC games rarely appear.

MVFC should be allowed to sell their own tv rights. MVFC prove without them the league would be dead.

Someone was saying on twitter this morning that the Sydney v Brisbane game yesterday (not included in this list) had an audience of 93k

More interesting facts:To date excluding SFC vs BR yesterday.MV have been involved in eight games out of ten rating more than 70.The other games were AU vs SFC(73) and BR vs P(74).

Enjoy playing with yourself in that league. ;)

Are you the reincarnation of Figjam????:lol:

That would be pretty good, would be nice to have cracked 100k though, probably would have except for SFC playing horribly the last 2 weeks.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Just shows there is nothing to do in Perth but watch the A-League on Fox.

Perth do get surprisingly good tv viewerships actually, considering they're one of the lowest drawing teams in the league come game day. Are there a lot of fans that live outside of Perth that follow the Glory, in places like Mildura and Broome etc? That's the only thing I can conclude.

I think you might have meant Mandurah.

Sorry fox, my bad. Mandurah, you're right :oops: :oops:

Or it may be that Victory and Brisbane are the two sides with the best tv audiences and Perth was just lucky to be be playing them those two weeks.

Domestic one day cricket, which has fuck all interest, outdid Football with a woeful 86K. Perspective.

There are 2 types of figures right? there is the maximum amount of people that have tuned in at some stage even be it 1 second, and there is the average amount of viewers for every minute of that program.

e.g If 100k viewers tuned in 100% of the time, and 100k viewers tuned in 50% of the time, then the average viewers of that 2 hour program is 150k viewers.

I live in Albany, 400kms south from Perth, and I regularly travel to Perth for games.
And I have a few mates here who try to see at least 2 or 3 games a season. There is quite a respectable following here

Very promising to see four football matches in the top ten(one EPL and three A-League) interestingly the Perth versus GCU game featured in the top ten...imo one of the least interesting matcheups...positive signs indeed.

According to the Melbourne Victory thread, maybe skeptic could confirm

Wow, I had no idea Fox Sports FC was rated more highly than some A-league games! I thought it would be down in the 20k if that the way it's run, I had no idea that many people enjoy tuning in! It's a good laugh and pretty inciteful but that blows my mind.

1 LIVE: FOOTBALL: MELB V V LA GALAXY    FOX SPORTS 1    123,000

2 BARGAIN HUNT AUSTRALIA    LifeStyle Channel    108,000

3 CORONATION STREET    UKTV    85,000

4 LIVE: FOOTBALL: FOX SPORTS FC    FOX SPORTS 1    80,000



I've never previously seen fox sportsfc register. The 80k is likely 4/5 times higher than any previous time. Beckham, again.

Friday 9th December

1 JESSIE Disney Channel 78,000
2 THE SIMPSONS FOX8 77,000
3 LIVE: FOOTBALL: A-LEAGUE BRIS V MELB H FOX SPORTS 1 70,000


Saturday 10th December

1 LIVE: FOOTBALL: A-LEAGUE MELB V V ADE FOX SPORTS 1 83,000
2 THE SUITE LIFE ON DECK Disney Channel 76,000
3 WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE Disney Channel 75,000
4 LIVE: FOOTBALL: A-LEAGUE POST GAME SHOW FOX SPORTS 1 75,000


Sunday 11th December

1 THE KING'S SPEECH showtime premiere 113,000
2 I AM NUMBER FOUR MOVIE ONE 98,000
3 SERIAL KILLER SUNDAY Crime & Investigation 77,000
4 BIG TIME RUSH Nickelodeon 70,000
5 THE SIMPSONS FOX8 67,000
6 THE SIMPSONS FOX8 67,000
7 SHAKE IT UP Disney Channel 66,000
8 LIVE: FOOTBALL: A-LEAGUE GC V SYD FC FOX SPORTS 1 65,000

Edited by waggzzz2: 12/12/2011 11:27:24 AM

^^^^^^^Surprising the F3 derby didn't hit 75k isn't it? particularly when the post-game show did :S was on at an awkward time, mind

Did we ever see the ratings for Sydney v Brisbane on December 4th?

Perhaps, the post-game show's ratings is a reflection on the MVFC v AUFC game that followed?

It seems MVFC, SFC & BRI are now consistently getting ratings 65k+, which I think is excellent. Also, having MVFC playing immediately after F3 derby means majority of MVFC fans cannot tune in to the F3 derby b/c we're making our way to the ground.

Shock Victory are the top draw.

I thought the Australia v Japan Asia Cup Final was the most watched?

Most watched in relation to what?

I know Fox and the A-League advertise on the Fox sports channels but have they considered advertising the A-League on other channels that rate well such as Fox 8, the Disney Channel, TV1 and movie channels...it might be worth their while to do so.