NRL Rugby league ratings, crowd and the media discussion

[Aucklander]

 

[Aucklander]

7,912 in Cronulla
4,189 in Manly
30,578 in Brisbane
14,067 on the GC
8,730 in Bathurst
11,968 in Darwin

 

[Aucklander]

 

[Aucklander]

 

[Aucklander]

 

[Aucklander]

 

[Aucklander]

 

[Milang_Panthers]

Kudos to those who stood on the hill all match at manly the other day. Hard core fans those.

 

[Aucklander]

24,083 at ANZ

 

[Aucklander]

 

[The_Wookie]

Kudos to those who stood on the hill all match at manly the other day. Hard core fans those.

 

[Aucklander]

Bloody hell.

 

[The_Wookie]

The NRL rated 3.815m for the round (in Australia, with an estimated extra ~200,000 in NZ) with 1.251m metro, 785,000 regional and 1.779m Foxleague viewers. 3 of 8 games for the round were broadcast nationally on FTA.

The highest rating NRL game on free to air television this round was the Friday night match between Brisbane and South Sydney with 757,000 viewers, including 477,000 metro and 280,000 in the regions. Thursday night fell just short of 700,000 at 698k, and Sunday afternoon came in at 581,000.

On Foxtel, Foxleague was rated number 1 STV channel by ASTRA, its first win in more than 2 months, and its third win since Foxleague debuted. The highest rating Foxleague game was Saturday nights Parramatta v North Queensland game with 255,000, with Penrith/Canberra behind in the narrowest of margins on 254k.

For the season, the NRL have topped 52.4 million (26 million on FTA). Metro (5 city) ratings are down 10% to an average of 390,000, mostly due to Sydney ratings being down -25% to an average of 195,000, up north Brisbane ratings are up 2% to 156,000. There is insufficient data for an accurate year to year comparison in each of the minor NRL capitals, but GEM ratings average 39,000 in 2017 across Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.

Regional audiences are down -14% to 254,000 on average.

On Foxleague, the average audience is down -1.51% to an average of 233,000. Sydney audiences rate an average of 92,000, Melbourne 14,000, Brisbane 45,000, Adelaide 2,000 and Perth 6,000. Metro audiences average 158,000, with regionals averaging 74,000. As mentioned above, we are heavily indebted to Mediaweek for the above figures.

 

[The_Wookie]

 

[Aucklander]

Surely these weren't the real prices?

 

[Gigantic]

Some kid got hit by a train and they stopped operating a few train routes for a few hours. I suspect this had a huge impact on crowd figures as many commuters were stuck

 

[Gigantic]

Surely these weren't the real prices?

Just looked at Souths vs Penrith game in a few weeks and it actually seems like thereabouts

It's strange because I remember 2 years ago ticket prices being significantly less, like nearly half those prices

 

[Aucklander]

 

[Aucklander]

 

[Aucklander]

I did read over 17k at the Storm game last night which would be fantastic given how many are out.

 

[Milang_Panthers]

I did read over 17k at the Storm game last night which would be fantastic given how many are out.

Looked pretty good so wouldn't surprise me.

 

[Aucklander]

 

[The_Wookie]

 

[SwampCreature]

Haven't been keeping up this year, what's the gist of the numbers?

Getting NRL crows down & ratings same/downish?

Compared to AFL crowds downish, ratings even?

 

[Greenstar5]

Why do the NRL continue to schedule the Broncos and Titans home games on the same weekend.

Round 14 Broncos Friday night at Lang Park and Titans Sat afternoon at Robina.

Round 15 no games in SEQ.

Round 16 no games in SEQ.

Round 17 Titans at Robina 6pm Friday night, Broncos at Lang Park 8pm Friday night.

Surley you would split it up each weekend. Same as the AFL. That way you allow league fans to attend a game each weekend in SEQ.