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Do some research my friend, you will find they are accurate, 2.5 million in NSW and over 2million in Qld. Plus 321,000 in ACT. We're talking about big population centres like Cairns, Townsville, Wollongong, Newcastle etc
I already knew why the AFL want to go into NSW and QLD and im reasonably happy with the way they are doing it. The fact that alot of NRL clubs are having some serious financial trouble should help the cashed up AFL penetrate the difficult NSW and QLD markets.
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For one thing digital sets aren't rated because they're too hard .
Neither are there ratings for multi channels like ABC2 .
And everybody is sucked into double counting the regionals .
Let alone all the other issues of data gathering like
channel 7 scoring 70k viewers for a blank set ,
that's 3 times the ratings for rl WA .
You're close for NSW, but nowhere near it for Queensland. It's only just over a million outside the Oztam region of Brisbane (which includes the GC). Not much different to regional Victoria.
Take into account that football is far more popular in regional NSW and Queensland that rugby league is in other states (just look at the abominable ratings figures for sunday afternoon NRL in Perth), and the actual figures wouldn't be that far off. Certainly wouldn't make up the substantial difference between NRL and AFL ratings in Oztam. Given Oztam covers over 2/3rds of the total population in Australia, and the AFL figures are about 50% higher than NRL through Oztam, you'd need massive NRL audiences in the regionals and the AFL to rate virtually zero to make it up.
The stupid thing is that ratings don't contribute to the ambiance of a game and the relationship between them and sport is purely economic.
Considering that regional ratings are not taken into consideration when national media organizations make bids for the sports rights they don't even count when your talking about "ratings".
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Are you the full quid
Digital/analogue air the same thing and if you had a ratings box and a digital tuner it would be counted. The only thing Oztam don't do ratings on are the HD channels.
Is that actually true? So if I watch footy on 10HD (which I do), my people meter (if I had one) wouldn't pick up that i'm watching the footy?
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- #64
No NRL team in Perth yet the % watching matches the swans.
You mean the Swans game live on Pay TV, and doesn't pick up anyone watching the game on 7HD? And do you really want to bring up Perth NRL ratings?
That just makes the ratings a joke. Especially for Channel 10, who heavily promote their HD coverage of AFL.
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- #67
I had a ratings box smarty and they couldn't do it on the digital signal .
If you knew anything , you'd know that they take the signal after the STB .
There are many makes of STBs so it's difficult to interact .
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You can apologise now .
Nope, live on Fox Sports as well, but without ads. So anyone with pay TV would obviously be watching Fox. And, as it turns out, it doesn't include HD viewers. I wonder whether it includes all 3 of 7's SD channels as well.
Generally, the ratings are reasonable - anything around 120k is OK. But I simply doubt the 70k figure being realistic. Most AFL games rate higher than that in Sydney that don't involve the Swans.
As a rugby troll, it's in your interests to believe this as well, because the NRL has been absolutely reamed in the national ratings so far this year by the AFL.
Both of those ratings are are abominable.
Yet one of them has a team that has played in that city for over 20 years.
What about a comparison between that Perth number against a game in Sydney not including the Swans.
You're grasping at straws here to account for what are terrible numbers.
I suppose anyone that doesn't agree with you is a "rugby troll", but the reality is Swan's ratings in Sydney are absolutely terrible, Perth's NRL ratings are by no means any good, but that doesn't stop you from spouting rubbish as perhaps the most one-eyed AFL supporter there is.
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No , they're absolutely terrible .
If you're going to make comparisons then firstly you'll have to admit that .
The figure of 25k is the best they've ever had up against what ?
Absolutely nothing else on TV at that time on a Sunday afternoon .
And the Swans bouncedown was when ? midday .
Nobody should be watching TV then on such a beautiful day outside .
Again you can't get decent crowds so you have to cling to ratings .
News flash ! Ratings aren't real .
They're an interpolation of a narrow static sample .
They are not randomn , dynamic or proper cross section .
Remember Channel & recorded ratings of 50k for a blank screen !!!
Your best rating is half the viewers of a blank screen .
Or , more viewers wanted to watch a blank screen than the nrl
Just stating fact. You don't think the game live and uninterrupted on Pay TV, for example, would have an effect on FTA TV audiences for exactly the same program?
Rubbish? Are you seriously denying that the NRL's TV audience is well behind the AFL's so far this year?
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No , they're absolutely terrible .
If you're going to make comparisons then firstly you'll have to admit that .
The figure of 25k is the best they've ever had up against what ?
Absolutely nothing else on TV at that time on a Sunday afternoon .
And the Swans bouncedown was when ? midday .
Nobody should be watching TV then on such a beautiful day outside .
Again you can't get decent crowds so you have to cling to ratings .
News flash ! Ratings aren't real .
They're an interpolation of a narrow static sample .
They are not randomn , dynamic or proper cross section .
Remember Channel & recorded ratings of 50k for a blank screen !!!
Your best rating is half the viewers of a blank screen .
Or , more viewers wanted to watch a blank screen than the nrl
8,323, makes the 25,000 RL got in Perth look pretty good considering they don't have a team.
52,000
38,000
Now that's pathetic any way you look at it.
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- #75
70,000 in Sydney on a Sunday with a Sydney team involved hahahaha.
What was it up against, I love Lucy or I dream of Genie for the 10,000th time.
What was it up against, I love Lucy or I dream of Genie for the 10,000th time.
