Fox:
wsw v ccm 27k
city vs adl 37k

End of season big figures are coming in!!!!!!111111

fox tv catchup:
bri v syd 42k
mvc v per 56k
w league pre game 68k ( due to delayed kick off this was last 20 minutes of a-league per v mvc game)

good ratings

if people wanna make the comparison with AFLW: bulldogs v geelong on saturday 37k (plus 128k on FTA), collingwood v melbourne on saturday 23k. 

TSF
Would value your input on the following.
Most want as close as we can get to a full FIFA type model. The fore’s and against principally centre around the business case and timing.
Those against, saying the Football market is still not big enough, that we need to develop Football to a higher level.
Those fore, saying once in place money will come as will many smart business folks not currently engaged.
From my limited attendance at NPL matches, mostly Blacktown when I am in Sydney and they are playing. But a successful little club with its own club house again small. I don’t see a fan base of enough size to be a major club.
But you are much closer to the NPL matches, and club talk and chat. What’s your thought’s on the lower tire Football market / fan base.  

Oooft the way you wrote fore, made my heart skip a beat. Elegant. Beautiful.

I think the problem with saying the football market is still not big enough have a point but only because the growth has been severely stifled by the current model. these clubs own their own grounds or only pay council fees, they have a complete club from juniours, to womens to seniors.

My thoughts are this: The sooner we rip off the band aid and expose football to the global model the less painful the transfer will be. It will only be a success when it is coupled with transfer fees and no cap.

Dont you wish the HAL had this problem? I heard NatBas was blaming the Freeview streaming ap .......

Network 10 bumps Changing Rooms after ratings disaster

"A worrying sign for 10 is the fact Changing Rooms reached almost 500,000 people in the major metropolitan areas – yet its average audience, across the entire program, was only 204,000 in those cities."

https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/network-10-bumps-changing-rooms-after-ratings-disaster-20190214-p50xra.html

Fark.

This puts things into perspective doesn’t it.

But dey streaaaaaaaaam

yeah right. 204k for any show in prime time on a primary channel is garbage. 

Super Rugby in even bigger trouble than HAL

Super Rugby metro ratings fall below A-League levels in 2018

Rugby fans appeared to move past the axing of the Western Force and switch back on to Super Rugby last year with a nine per cent uplift in average audience across Australia.

But with the move from five franchises to four the competition's pay television audience in the big cities languished just below the A-League, providing further impetus, on the eve of the new season, for Australia to push for change in the next broadcast cycle.

The five-nation provincial competition, which was once considered the jewel in the crown of Fox Sports, also continued to fall well below its winter rivals the AFL and NRL, attracting less than a third of their audiences on the pay broadcaster.

Rugby Australia figures showed Super Rugby matches played in Australia attracted an average audience of 71,000 last year, up nine per cent on 2017, a season that was dogged by speculation over which Australian team would be cut from the competition and by a record poor performance from the NSW Waratahs, the team representing Australia's largest fan base.

But further Oztam ratings obtained by the Herald showed that figure plummeted in the five metropolitan cities, attracting an average pay television audience of just 50,000, which was less than the A-League's 51,000 and a fraction of the NRL's 164,000 and AFL's 167,000. Super Rugby went from five franchises in 2017 to four in 2018 after the Force's axing.

The NRL and AFL surged past 300,000 on free to air television, while the A-League registered an average audience of 50,000 on free to air, via its one match a week broadcast on Channel 10.

The Super Rugby picture was worse when the competition's overseas games were factored in, falling to an average audience across of 23,000 across the five metropolitan cities.

The overall picture in the context of the Australian market would trouble the game's administrators as they enter a year of negotiations over the shape of Super Rugby from 2021 onwards.

It also provides some explanation for Australian administrators' cautious but strong enthusiasm for the World League concept, which would involve selling a global Test-level competition to broadcasters for a higher price than any individual union could negotiate on their own or in their southern and northern hemisphere blocs.

The next World Rugby meeting to discuss the concept is slated for March, with each of the nations using the time since their recent Dublin meeting to take an initial concept and broadcast estimate back to their unions and boards.

The numbers appear to stack up, with Australian sources confirming an English news report that the early broadcast talks returned a figure that stood to boost each country's coffers by about $18 million a year, over and above what they could negotiate for their provincial and domestic competitions.

But there remain considerable hurdles, not least of which are fears the concept could dilute the World Cup. Also worrying all unions is how large a revenue share would be taken off the top by World Rugby, who are brokering the talks.

At home, the arrival of Fox Sports' streaming service Kayo Sports will add another layer to Super Rugby discussions, with the new entrant boasting 115,000 subscribers. Kayo shows all rugby games live and provide a split-screen feature that will allow subscribers to watch, for example, an NRL and a Super Rugby game at the same time.

At home, RA announced a new agreement with entertainment group Crocmedia that, along with their existing arrangement with ABC Grandstand, will provide live radio coverage of every Super Rugby match played in Australia.

All Waratahs and Rebels home games will also be broadcast on 2SM in Sydney and SEN in Melbourne.

In Canberra veteran caller Tim Gavel announced his return to the airwaves to call all Brumbies home matches in 2019 on ABC Radio, while Quentin Hull will once again be the voice of Reds home matches and Andrew Moore will lead the commentary team for Waratahs home games.

ABC Grandstand also renewed its partnership with RUGBY.com.au for the 2019 season, which enables all Australian home matches to be broadcast on RUGBY.com.au Radio. This coverage is also be available on the new Rugby Xplorer app.

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-union/super-rugby-metro-ratings-fall-below-a-league-levels-in-2018-20190214-p50xw7.html

It's no surprise that the two sports that have excellent overseas competition (football and rugby union) are two sports that Australians are not interested in. Maybe we really are a nation of fairweather fans?

Rugby Union is a poor example. It's such a terrible sport, I can't even begin comprehend how they have any fans whatsoever.

Some truth in this, but in my experience growing up in Melbourne I have literally never met a single person under 50 who gives a fuck about Union. It's seen as a pretentious sport for private-school elite old boys.

It's better than League lol.

I'd genuinely like someone to explain to me why anyone would watch it. If you want to watch people injure themselves go watch Boxing or UFC.

Putting aside the sport of Rugby itself (which i admit i don't understand the rules), Super Rugby is just a garbage competition. there are too many countries involved in various timeslots. And the strange fixture dicates that there are some teams that don't play each other at all over the course of the season. Its set up to fail. And even if you compacted the league to just include Oz and NZ teams, that will fail too because the NZ teams will destroy the OZ teams every year (much like how the Oz teams destroyed the NZ teams in the recently defunct ANZ Netball comp). 

The FFA need to be careful in this regard with talk about possible expansion into SE Asia one day. 

At least we know the A League is the benchmark for failure now.

It's just like 80 minutes of dickheads stomping people on the ground for kicks.

You gotta love the irony of the supporters of one massive global sport with woeful tv ratings bagging another massive global sport with woeful tv ratings.

Scrapping it out for who is the actual worst.

Sheesh — did we ever think it would be like this 5 years ago?

Yes

wel v mvc 31k
new v mcy 18k 

season opener for super rugby got 56k brumbies vs rebels

Laughing out loud 

😂Lol, look how far we've come

Bad news on the ratings?

didn't even know this was starting. 

#TVratings Saturday STV #ALeague #FoxSports#PERvBRI 31k

#TVratings Saturday STV #ALeague #FoxSports#ADLvWSW 29k

#TVratings Saturday STV #WLeagueGF #FoxSports#SydneyIsSkyBlue 22k

#TVratings Saturday STV #ALFW #FoxFooty#AFLWGIANTSBlues 30k

#TVratings Saturday STV #AFLW #FoxFooty#AFLWFreoPies 42k

#TVratings Saturday STV #SuperRugby #FoxSports#WARvHUR 106k

GWS womens team outrated WSW mens team.

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