I realised that, but the point I was making was JON promoted and sold the 2005 game to the entire country and the match rated 6.5 million and please compare that to previous Socceroo ratings.

This match we have not heard a single word.... 

At least we have clean fresh air tonight!

Interesting. I am a bit fascinated by this farcical attempt at internationalizing the game.

@MediaweekAUS Wed TV #AUSvHON #WorldCup #Socceroos #WWOS #Nine 1.52m (Metro 1.16m Regional 360k)

Will be 2m with Foxtel's numbers.

1. 1. Live: Football: WCQ: Socceroos v Hon 2 FOX SPORTS 501 1 328,000
   
   

Nine

A Current Affair was on 600,000, but because of the football it didn’t air in Brisbane.Nine was originally thinking about running the Socceroos v Honduras match on 9GO! but because of the importance of the game it switched to the primary channel with impressive results.The pre-game in Sydney and Melbourne did 443,000 before the game then pulled a metro audience of 1.16m. The combined national audience was 1.52m with 360,000 in regional markets.The match coverage on 9Now set a new streaming record for the platform with 82,678 live stream starts between 8pm and 10pm.

https://www.mediaweek.com.au/morning-report-november-16

So is that 2,848,000? 2.8 million?

Not sure.  I'm waiting to see TV Tonights STV figures to confirm the Fox rating.

Edit:

1	LIVE: FOOTBALL: WCQ: SOCCEROOS V HON G2	FOX SPORTS 501	328,000
2	LIVE: FOOTBALL: WCQ POST GAME	FOX SPORTS 501	219,000

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LIVE: FOOTBALL: WCQ PRE GAME

FOX SPORTS 501

119,000

Let us know as soon as possible. Will be huge for the clean air debate.

STV only 328k.

On the clean air debate the Kangaroos in the first game on a Friday night against England on 7 rated slightly lower than the Socceroos last night on 9.  :)

Including the streaming do we make it over 3mill?

No, just under 2m but that includes 0k rating for Perth on 9.  I think they must have had it on a minor channel so we don't have ratings for it.

That's frustrating. Very disappointing to get to get so close to 3 and only have it ruined by TV execs in the west.

mate, grab a calculator, it's nowhere near 3 million!  

Chill. I meant 2.

Slightly off topic and speculative but I was browsing through the match times for the tournament next year and saw that the opening game for Group C apparently kicks off at 8pm AEST. Let's hope random chance gets us that slot, imagine us featuring in a world cup game during primetime hours back home in Australia!
There's also a few 10/11pm kickoffs which we're almost certain to get at least once in our group wherever we get drawn. Compared to the godawful match times from previous tournaments there's a lot of promise for more exposure to the rest of Australia.

We need as many 8pm kick off games as possible

I don't recall world cup games featuring Australia reaching 1.5m due to the early morning hours the games are being played. I think in 2006 they were about 1.1m but too long ago to remember with any kind of accuracy

8pm kick off for the first group game against a good opponent (ie- an England) could be pushing AFL / NRL grand final ratings.

i know the 2 games I have tickets for in Moscow kickoff at 3pm local time... Moscow is 8 hours behind us right now (but we are currently on daylight saving time). 

Completely agree.
I think the best timeslot we ever had was against Japan in 2006 which was 11pm if I recall correctly. The game against Brazil was something horrible like 3am and the game against Croatia was 5am. In 2010 all our games were between midnight and 4am, and in 2014 we had 2am (vs Netherlands), 5am (vs Spain) and 8am (vs Chile) if I remember correctly. It's fair to say we haven't had good timeslots. It's much better to stay up late (at a viewing party or pub) than get up early all groggy near dawn. Thankfully this world cup will be great for the late night viewing parties and shows at pubs.

Hopefully we get that Group C 8pm timeslot. Pretty much any game would be guaranteed to have ratings on par with last night's game, if not better, seeing as it would be our opening world cup game on the opening weekend. Get a powerhouse like Germany and it will easily be the most viewed football match ever in Australia, I have no doubt. But regardless of whether that happens or not, we have lots to look forward to and be hopeful in the draw because the 10pm/11pm timeslots are pretty appealing too, since it would be easy to stay up and have plenty of pre-game coverage starting at 9pm. Presumably SBS will show all the early kick-off games because they will be very accessible. Also worth mentioning that the third place playoff and world cup final are both going to be on at 11pm, which is the best we've had since 2002. This is looking like the most TV viewer friendly world cup we've ever played in.

Yep, most matchdays seem to be starting about 2pm/3pm local time which is 10pm/11pm for us. With the extra hour of pre-game to tack on beforehand, we'll be getting world cup coverage here starting at 9pm. Very friendly compared to 2014 (matchdays starting at 2am), 2010 (matchdays starting at 10:30pm), and 2006 (matchdays starting at midnight). 

^^^
HB

Thanks for all that kick off time stuff ... sounds excellent... 

Slightly off topic, but another interesting metric is Wikipedia page views...

For Mile Jedinak the "background" over the last 90 days is about 2 to 4 hundred page views a day. On 16 November this jumped to 69.2k.

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LIVE: FOOTBALL: A-LEAGUE C COAST V ADEL

FOX SPORTS 501

39,000

lol.. that's as bad as it gets

Honestly had no idea it was even on. Was flicking through the channels and there was a live game. 

How did you obtain this info?

OH. MY GOD.

Same teams had a 25k last season.