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@jasonlassey
Explanation of Current TV Ratings metrics
thanks to
@TV_Blackbox
Note: We are still getting Fox streaming reports on Tuesdays, and there is some select Foxtel Set top Box data coming from other places.
My understanding of The Voice is that its an indigenous elected body designed to advise Parliament on matters pertaining to the indigenous people. It gains no legal powers of its own. The referendum is to enshrine it in the constitution so it cant be disposed of by the next Gov
If you are playing at home, Matildas last night outrated:
Every NRL Grand Final and every Origin since 2016
The 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017 AFL Grand FInal (but not 2021, 2020)
The viewing figures eclipse any television broadcast of the past two decades, including AFL and NRL grand finals, Ash Barty’s AO win in 2022 (viewed by 4.1m), Australia’s 2003 Rugby WC win , and Lleyton Hewitt’s 2005 AO final loss.
Beware the hyperbole. Mabo was coming for all of our homes and land - didnt happen. Sorry was supposed to lead to untold amounts of compensation, didnt happen. The Voice is not going to lead to the First Indigenous Empire.
At the previous FIFA Women’s World Cup in France, ten matches across the entire tournament attracted over 25,000 spectators. By comparison, this year’s Group Stage has already seen twenty-one matches surpass the 25,000 mark.
Data: FIFA
Getting some hostility towards this post, but if you dont think this comparison was going to be made elsewhere or requested along the line then you are either new around here or as ignorant as your responses are making out.
Oh and this is my most liked tweet ever by miles.
The Matilda's have generated a $7.6 billion economic boost for retail and travel industries across Australia, with expectations a win tonight could further increase figures.
The Matildas’ remarkable campaign for FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ glory came to an end last night, with their Semi Final against England reaching an extraordinary 11.15 million Australians nationally.
The Matildas v France game’s adjusted average audience of 4.17m included a national broadcast audience of 3.69m plus 472,000 on 7plus.
The 472,000 viewers on 7plus makes the Matildas v France game the biggest streaming event ever seen in Australia.
The Matildas’ 2-0 victory reached 6.54 million people on Seven and 7plus, with an average audience during the game of 3.56 million, making it the
#1
show of the year.
Data: 7PR
That 5 million that 7 are paying for 16 world cup games including all Matildas matches...is half what Seven/Fox were rumoured to have proposed to pay per Origin match last month.
With the Denmark game, and tonights game ecclipsing recent Origin ratings...Seven have got a bargain
Wed
#WWC2023
Semi FInal
Australia v England
Seven National 7.13m
Metro 4.495m
Regional 1.678m
BVOD 957,000
most watched TV program since the OzTAM audience measurement system started in 2001. (OzTAM does not capture out-of-home viewing at live sites, pubs, clubs.)
Data: 7PR
The 2023 Womens World Cup has been attended by 901,311 people at an average of 26,509 per match, using 83.93% of available capacity.
Crowds total 500,403 in Australia (ave 31,275 & cap% of 94.37%) while 400,908 have attended games in NZ (ave 22,273 & cap% of 73.75%)
The Matildas have an average Australian attendance of 52,474 since july last year, and an average attendance of 46,811 since the end of the World Cup.
they average a 97% capacity since July (the pre World Cup friendly at Marvel), and 96% since the World Cup ended.
Note last
@simonsbargains
Essentially its like comparing the book version of the Hobbit with the Movie version.
The Yes proposal is simple - it is literally a single page.
The No side is reaching into myths, legends, notes, scribbles, rumours, vaguely recalled speeches and compiling an abomination.
Heres some fun.
Since the 2023 WWC began -
Total AFL Crowds 653,870 (18)
Total NRL Crowds 249334 (16)
Total 903,204 @ 26,564 (34)
WWC Crowds
Total 901,311 @ 26,509 (34)
See room for everyone.
The Matildas’ opening match against Ireland in the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ was an out-of-the-park hit with viewers, reaching 4.88 million people across the screens of the Seven Network.
Source: 7PR
Matildas average TV rating last night is the highest non world cup tv rating theyve had in the last 12 months
Friendly v France 472,000 (10bold)
Oly Qual v Iran 525,000
Oly Qual v Phillipines 797,000
Oly Qual v Taiwan 672,000
Oly Qual v Uzbekistan 666,000
Oly Qual v Uzbekistan
Football Australia will attempt to leverage the on-field success of the Matildas and their history-making television ratings to secure a new multimillion-dollar broadcast deal for the national soccer teams.
Ive spoken at length to my brother in law about this (he is an indigenous dude and very passionate about this). It also serves the purpose of formally recognising the people in the constitution and gives them a say in their own welfare - something the Gov has somewhat failed at
Im not sure that drawing attention to the Grand Final venue also being your home ground is the greatest strategy when the contract is deeply unpopular outside Victoria
The AFL and NRL, the two sides of Australia’s footballing duopoly, have been dreading the moment when soccer holds the nation’s attention. Now that moment is here, it has been fascinating to observe the AFL willingly stand aside for the Matildas’ run.
Union attendance at domestic matches in NZ is in decline as the country re-energises its love of rugby league, with the first four home games the Warriors’ played in 2023 attracting an average attendance surpassed only by their inaugural season.
Here me out here.
What if we just had an Australia Games. Think of it as State of Origin - for all states and territories - in every sport and discipline - ever 4 years - rotating around the country
For the folks wanting the AFL moved to a night slot - the AFL Grand Final on Saturday afternoon rated 2.465m in the 5 city areas, the NRL Grand Final on Sunday night rated 2.045m.
Yes there were 50,000 at the AFLW grand final. Yes its an AFLW record. Yes its free entry. People still had to go to be counted. I doubt anyone went who wasnt interested in the game unless thousands of womens footy haters turned up for no reason at all.
Look, normally I come down on the side of "get more spectators in if you can" where football is concerned, but this take is wildly off.
The Aleague desperately needs to find ways to connect with its fans, and less with its corporates, and scenes like last night are exactly that.
First day crowd at the MCG just 38 folks short of the full capacity of Optus Stadium (61,266) and 2,103 greater than the entire Perth test attendance (59,125)
Sure, Cricket Australia will hand over Boxing day to the Sandgropers one day though.
Newcastles home crowd today of 24,662 gives them a season home attendance total of 227,682 at an average of 18,974. This is the second best average in the NRL, and the best outside Brisbane. This average is up 21.48% on last year.
As far as I can tell Frydenberg has almost no qualifications for the CEO job, is on the wrong side of the federal and victorian political fences to be of any use to the AFL, and is about as popular with the Victrorian public as the plague
Swans crowd at Henson Park today is 5,722. Highest of the season. Swans’ average will end up about 4,500 for the season, almost certainly highest in the competition. Article from Friday…
For perspective, the Matildas reached 4.88m on Seven - last years AFL Grand Final reached 4.74m
However the average audience - what we use for ratings - was 1.93m compared to more than 3m for the Grand Final.
The second funniest thing is people whinging that the Crows and Power get an unfair advantage by having an extra home game.
Generally from people whose clubs have 16-17 games a year in Melbourne at that.
Monday
#Matildas
Australia v China PR
Attendance: 76,798
Ten Network
Average 1.095 million
Reach 2.62 million
This is a higher reach and rating than any AFL/NRL or NRLW Origin rating so far this year. (will last until Wednesday but yeah!)
The NRL’s historic double header in Las Vegas will be screened live on prime-time American television in one of the biggest broadcasting coups in the code’s 115-year history.
Abdo confirmed a live feed of the NRL double header at the 65,000-capacity Allegiant Stadium on
The Storm have again topped the ladder as the most widely supported NRL club in 2023 with 1.197m supporters, an increase of 34,000 (+2.9%) on a year ago to just edge out a resurgent Brisbane Broncos in second place with 1.15m supporters, up 94,000 (+8.9%)
It is understood Perth will not be admitted to the NRL as a stand-alone club, and nor would the Bears.
The NRL’s preference is for a Perth Bears joint-venture relocation model operating under a motto of ‘Two Histories, One Future’ – ostensibly becoming the Sydney Swans of the
The NRL’s venture into Las Vegas turned into a television ratings bonanza for Fox League with the season-opening Sea Eagles-Rabbitohs and Roosters-Broncos matches at Allegiant Stadium the most-watched games on Fox League to date.
South Sydney’s 36-24 win over Manly pulled in a
AFL Revenue 2022 - 870m
NRL Revenue 2022 - 593m
Revenue Gap 2022 - 277m
Total Gap since 2012 - 2.54b
Furthest apart the two codes have been since 2017, furthest apart in a year without starting a new broadcast deal, second furthest apart theyve been since the ARLC was formed.
Lets face it, in 40 years of actively following sport, Ive never seen anything like the momentum and build the Matildas had this year. The TV audiences, the crowds, the people at live sites, the media coverage, the merchandise sales, these were all quite unprecedented.
Guys, thanks for the endless feedback, but the worst people on my twitter at the moment are the "its not AFL, its Australian Rules Football" types.
When working with a limited character medium, Im always going to use AFL for the league and the sport.
Based on AFL club reports, the Broncos report and Nine print media reports today.
AFL and NRL club commercial revenues. Does not include league grants, or afl club pokie venues.
The world game is winning the war for the word ‘football’ in Australia, according to new data which Football Australia says is evidence of the code’s growing status among younger generations.
The A-League is setting digital viewing records. Viewing on 10 Play of the Liberty A-League Women is up 169% on the 2021/22 season average to record highs, and the Isuzu UTE A-League Men is up 23% on the 2021/22 season average. The A-League has reached 5.4 million Australians on
On AFL Opening Round - so far I rate this is a D+. Its close to a pass, but I dont think it warrants the opening round to itself on results.
Attendance was good - but not really better than expected at any other time of the year given the teams that went north to play - The
As a lifelong Carlton supporter, I cant believe I have to do this.
The 15m grant everyone keeps throwing out there was part of a wider 70m Vicsport development. This was granted to Collingwood in a joint program with Monash in 2019, and completed in September 2023.
South Australia has claimed the biggest television broadcast so far in the FIFA Women’s World Cup
The China v England match reached 53.9m viewers – making it a WWC record-high that is almost 4x the next most watched match at the halfway mark of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023.
Aussies tweeted more about the NRL than they did about the AFL in 2021, according to data released by Twitter.
#NRL
finished second only to
#Tokyo2020
,
#AFL
came in third, while
#F1
finished fourth.
Matildas defender Ellie Carpenter has called on the A-Leagues to start taking the women’s competition seriously so the players can focus 100 per cent on football.
It is not uncommon in the A-League women’s competition for players to have a job outside football, especially
Im just trying to wrap my head around a $1.6b temporary venue + $400m transport improvements.
be like building Perth Stadium (similar cost wise, with 2/3rds the capacity) for a 3 week event, then reducing it to the size of the WACA.
Top 10 most popular sporting club activities
1. Football (soccer)
2. Gold
3. Australian Football
4. Tennis
5. Netball
6. Basketball
7. Cricket
8. Swimming
9. Touch Football
10. Athletics
The Matildas and Socceroos have sought to demonstrate their commitment to addressing the climate crisis by purchasing carbon offsets covering their flights at the recent world cups in Qatar and Australia.
Football Australia has begun “exploratory conversations” with FIFA and the Australian government over bids for more tournaments after the Women’s World Cup disproved one of the most pervasive myths about global television ratings.
the NRLs continued inability to extract more for media rights when compared to the AFL, while dominating them in ratings, arguably can only be viewed as a complete failure of administration
What the Matildas have achieved, and the Socceroos a year earlier in reaching the round of 16 at their 2022 World Cup, begs the question: Is football, or soccer to some, now our national sport?
Ok now that
#BasilGate
proved to be nothing, can we all get back to the things that matter.
Only 7,000 people needed to attend today in Brisbane to pass the entire Perth test attendance, cementing Perths place in the test attendance hierarchy as dead last for the summer
The Rabbitohs have formally announced a decision to quit Accor Stadium at Sydney Olympic Park after 16 years for a historic return to the rebuilt Allianz Stadium, located in the club’s geographic heartland.The NSW Gov is refusing to approve the move.
1 January 1901. The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federated to become the Commonwealth of Australia. Edmund Barton (pictured), was appointed as the first Prime Minister.
The Official crowd for the
#NRLVegas
matches of 40,746 is double the previous USA record highest rugby league attendance of 19,320 spectators set in 2018 by a New Zealand and England Test match in Denver, Colorado, at Mile High Stadium.
It is more than double the previous
My dad at 18, day before he left for Kapooka, following in the footsteps of his older brother and father.
He was a great dad.
He passed away yesterday, aged 64.
The Walt Disney Company Africa has announced that it will be broadcasting Australia's top-level domestic men's rugby league to audiences across the continent, on its ESPN channels.
On Foxtel its likely that even with the new estimated streaming information that the Broncos were the most watched AFL/NRL club in 2023.
Broncos
Souths
Storm
Cowboys
Panthers
Eels
- AFL Magpies -
Dolphins
SEagles
Raiders
next AFL club is at
#18
(Carlton)
The
#Matildas
last 14 games have brought in an average viewer aggregate of more than 28 million, without Paramount + data
The last 6 Non World Cup games have totalled 4.105m at an average of 680,000 per game, again without Paramount+ figures
Which isnt bad given that this
Fox Sports and Kayo have recorded their highest TV ratings in history in a blockbuster start to the NRL season over the weekend.
Television figures were up 17 per cent over the first weekend compared to the first round of last season
Todays Eels/Dogs attendance of 45,496 is the highest non finals Sydney
#NRL
crowd since Eels/Tigers in 2014 at Accor Stadium drew 50,668 in Round 7 on Easter Monday