Play Nice 2024 AFL TV Ratings

[The_Wookie]

Internal trials starting this weekend.

Will be keeping the ratings thread separate to the attendance thread this year.


Notes

Oztam have now moved completely to VOZ. At present this means no Fox or Kayo streams seem to be appearing on the oztam lists. Reach is now the focus of the Oztam reporting although an average for Linear is still being reported.

* NOTE: NEW METRICS AND REPORTS *​

• Total TV Overnight Top 30 and Consolidated 7 Top 30 reach is calculated using cumulative unique audiences watching 1 min of broadcast TV and 15 sec of BVOD.
• Total TV National audience is calculated using the audience average for the program as time-coded by the Network across 5CM and all regional markets nationally watching on broadcast TV.
• BVOD national audience is calculated using the total number of minutes watched (multiplied by co-viewing factor) divided by the length of the program.

Will attempt to get as much data as possible, but Oztam not making it easy any more.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The_Wookie do you have any Olympics or Paralympics figures for some sort of comparison, that you have posted on here or on your website or tweeted??

If so, what sort of impact has it had on ratings of AFL, NRL etc.

Or if you don't, where is the best place to dig them up from. usually the network would pump up its figures but I haven't seen anything?? just Dylan Allcot telling me millions of Australians have been watching the Paras.

 

[Bjo187]

Home	Away	Sydney	Melbourne	Brisbane	Adelaide	Perth	Metro	Regiional	VOZ Total	VOZ Reach
Port Adelaide	Geelong	35,000	294,000	34,000	142,000	39,000	544,000	229,000	773,000	2,601,000
Western Bulldogs	Hawthorn	41,000	426,000	41,000	88,000	71,000	667,000	287,000	954,000	2,434,000
Sydney	GWS	99,000	207,000	35,000	58,000	43,000	442,000	241,000	683,000	1,852,000
Brisbane	Carlton	48,000	336,000	90,000	90,000	52,000	616,000	239,000	855,000	2,383,000

Perth's ratings are disgraceful. Less than NSW and basically equal to Queensland, for a fully fledged footy state. They need to get the games on 7 main, move the news to accommodate as their ratings have been very poor for a while now. Everywhere else seems ok.

I'd love to see reach by city, but I don't know if that's offered, also, would love to see the foxtel and kayo ratings, but I couldn't find them when I looked yesterday.

 

[The_Wookie]

Perth's ratings are disgraceful. Less than NSW and basically equal to Queensland, for a fully fledged footy state. They need to get the games on 7 main, move the news to accommodate as their ratings have been very poor for a while now. Everywhere else seems ok.

I'd love to see reach by city, but I don't know if that's offered, also, would love to see the foxtel and kayo ratings, but I couldn't find them when I looked yesterday.

Not likely to get Fox, Kayo should be available tomorrow. We dont get reach city by city

 

[The_Wookie]

The_Wookie do you have any Olympics or Paralympics figures for some sort of comparison, that you have posted on here or on your website or tweeted??

Olympics I tweeted all the way through, Paralympics i havent bothered.

If so, what sort of impact has it had on ratings of AFL, NRL etc.

Or if you don't, where is the best place to dig them up from. usually the network would pump up its figures but I haven't seen anything?? just Dylan Allcot telling me millions of Australians have been watching the Paras.

 

[kranger]

Happy to be corrected, but I imagine Channel 7, Foxtel and the AFL would be hoping for a Sydney vs Brisbane GF for tv ratings?

I seem to recall Victoria, SA, WA and Tas will get similar ratings for the grand final regardless of who is playing. Perhaps a sight increase in viewers if there is a local team playing.

But for NSW and QLD there is a massive increase if there is a local team playing in the grand final.

So surely a Swans vs Lions grand final would get the largest ratings ever… and be a dream come true for the broadcasters.

 

[Bjo187]

Yes Sydney v Brisbane would rate massively.

Last night's game rated superbly. A million more than the nrl on free to air and theirs was a first final of their finals series.

It's funny I still see nrl fans online claiming more tv viewers than the afl this year though, selectively using the average metric and not realising overlapping games and non Thursday night games all year in afl plays a part. I'd like to see the overall reach figure for the year, it would be an absolute thrashing I'm sure.

 

[The_Wookie]

Saturday #AuSportTV
Saturday Night #AFL finals

Giants/Lions
Average 912,000
Reach 2.601 million

#NRL Live Final Series EF1
Average 718,000
Reach 1.530m

#NRL Live Final Series QF2
Average 567,000
Reach 1.377m

Data: VOZ


Week 1 #AFL Finals (Consolidated FTA)
Power/Cats 832,000 (rch 2.493m)
Dogs/Hawks 972,000 (2.426m)
Swans/Giants 718,000 (2.092m)
Lions/Blues 887,000 (2.342m)

 

[The_Wookie]

Melbourne only

WOMEN’S AFL: SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOOTBALL - GAME2 SEVEN 48,000
WOMEN’S AFL: SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOOTBALL SEVEN 39,000

 

[The Educator]

Massive finals numbers for the AFL on kayo

Reach of almost 800K for both matches

https://reports.oztam.com.au/?type=live

 

[Bjo187]

Honestly look at the reach and minutes difference between the afl and nrl, that doesn't even include the 1 million more on fta for the Friday night game.

It is absolutely disgraceful that nrl fans are still being lead to believe and posting everywhere that they have more tv viewers this season.

 

[The_Wookie]

AFL Week 1 Finals (Consolidated)

Home	Away	VOZ Total	VOZ Reach	BVOD Ave	BVOD Reach
Port Adelaide	Geelong	832,000	2,493,000	356,000	642,000
Western Bulldogs	Hawthorn	972,000	2,426,000	413,000	710,000
Sydney	GWS	718,000	2,092,000	369,000	750,000
Brisbane	Carlton	887,000	2,342,000	374,000	706,000

NRL Wk 1 Finals

Home	Away	Total TV	TV Reach	BVOD	BVOD Reach	Agg Ave
Penrith	Sydney	767,000	1,643,000	274000	485000	1,041,000
Melbourne	Cronulla	567,000	1,377,000	315000	535000	882,000
North Queensland	Newcastle	718,000	1,530,000	282000	498000	1,000,000
Canterbury	Manly	825,000	1,837,000			825,000

 

[The_Wookie]

 

[Bjo187]

The finals are a good measure between the afl and nrl coz they're direct head to head, not overlapping games. The usual 300k extra viewers jumps to 1 million extra viewers when directly competing, with no overlapping games etc.

 

[threenewpadlocks]

The finals are a good measure between the afl and nrl coz they're direct head to head, not overlapping games. The usual 300k extra viewers jumps to 1 million extra viewers when directly competing, with no overlapping games etc.

Not to mention that if an AFL game was the same length as an NRL game, the differences in average would be even greater (obviously). The AFL has more people watching, for longer.

Assuming a two and three hour broadcast (for example).

(1.183/3.017)*180 = 3.017 million people each watching an average of 71 minutes of broadcast.

(845/1.811)*120 = 1.811 million people each watching an average of 56 minutes of broadcast.