Record TV ratings for Queensland Cup final

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Great stuff from the Qld Cup...


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The rain may have kept some fans at bay. However those that missed Saturday’s Queensland Wizard Cup grand final still found a way to tune in, with a slot-winning audience of 167,000 watching ABC TV’s live coverage.

In the metropolitan region alone, a whopping 120,000 fans watched the 2006 State League decider – 23,000 more than watched the grand final in 2005.

Such was the Queensland Wizard Cup’s drawing power it easily won its slot from 2pm in the metropolitan area.

At an average of 90,000 metro viewers, the gritty decider between Redcliffe and Toowoomba was second only in Saturday sports programs to the Brisbane Broncos v Newcastle Knights match.

Combined, the NRL and QRL fans drew an average 440,000 metro viewers on Saturday.

ABC’s Australian Indoor Bowls Championship averaged 68,000 viewers in the same region, while the AFL semi final between West Coast and the Bulldogs only just averaged 61,000 statewide. :p

Day 1 of the 2006 Phillip Island Grand Prix failed to register in the top 50 programs listed on Saturday.

A particularly pleasing aspect of the ratings was the large percentage of fans in the 25-54 age category, making it the 14th highest non-news program in this bracket on Saturday.
 

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Great stuff... Rugby League in Brisbane is picking up again and with the Gold Coast it should get bigger and better.
 

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The game of rugby league is still the number one sport in queensland and nsw with a conbined population of i think about 11 million people more than half the population of australia ,still i think the figures could be higher than that! they never count the people in pubs and clubs do they.
 

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The game of rugby league is still the number one sport in queensland and nsw with a conbined population of i think about 11 million people more than half the population of australia ,
You can go broader than that and say NRL is #1 football code overall across all the markets in which it chooses to compete; ie NSW QLD ACT VIC NZ.

still i think the figures could be higher than that! they never count the people in pubs and clubs do they.
yeah.
 

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Great stuff... Rugby League in Brisbane is picking up again and with the Gold Coast it should get bigger and better.
It's a shame it rained for the Wizard Cup Grand Final, kept the crowd down by a few thousand.

I think it's also a shame that ABC tv broadcast the game from the Castlemaine Stand where the usual 10,000 crowd are seated, meaning the old Ron McAullife side of the ground is always empty for the GF and televised state-wide.
 

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I think it's also a shame that ABC tv broadcast the game from the Castlemaine Stand where the usual 10,000 crowd are seated, meaning the old Ron McAullife side of the ground is always empty for the GF and televised state-wide.
Yeah, it's the same every time they have the final at Lang Park. You can hear all this cheering, but all you can see is an empty grandstand. Every now and then they turn the cameras around and show the crowd, but 90% of the coverage is of the players playing in front of basically nobody.
 

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Yeah, it's the same every time they have the final at Lang Park. You can hear all this cheering, but all you can see is an empty grandstand. Every now and then they turn the cameras around and show the crowd, but 90% of the coverage is of the players playing in front of basically nobody.
That's the funny thing about watching the Qld cup.... you hear the crowd but can't see them.
 
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