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I'm not sure if this made it on here anywhere.
Last Sat night, the A-League rated 56k.
That's the lowest rating so far this season (that's on Ten's main channel).
That's obviously an abysmal figure for the main channel on prime time (there was a time when an A-League game would get that much on Fox alone).
But that's not the worst part of the story.
For the first time, Ten decided to simulcast the two games to specific local markets, and as it happens, the four teams involved were from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide. Maximum bang for you buck...you would have thought.
Whatever descriptor we can use that is below "abysmal", that's really the word we're looking for.
For the 6th week in the row (at least, sort of lost count now), SBS main channel defeated Ten's main channel for the whole evening.
All of the top 20 on the multis rated higher than the A-League, and by a huge margin too, even the 20th show.
Even an U19 cricket game on Fox rated 50% higher.
And don't forget, the A-League is on Ten's main channel, and two games were simulcast into local markets.
Things really don't get any worse than that for a main FTA channel in prime time.
We're not actually sure that the ratings for the A-league game are for both matches shown.