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As a Souths fan i absolutely loved it, thank God for the Yes voters (even though my family in Sydney were big no supporters:thumbsdown: )

Hope the whole series comes out on DVD in the future:cool:
 

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Was good to see more about the story.

I had heard about the story, but didn't know a lot about it so it was a good insight into what happened.

Will be good to watch as the story unfolds. You would imagine it would be released on DVD after the season is completed.
 
i am not a fan of Souths nor League. But next season i will be sending money up North. I assume they have memberships?
 
I am not a souths fan but I enjoyed it - my football agnostic girlfriend actually watched it with me and she seemed to find it interesting to.
 
It was a great episode, and i will be watching the rest of the series, it is good to see as i didn't have much knowledge of the whole South Sydney takeover bid.

Did well in the ratings also, #7 in Sydney with 326k viewers..impressive.
 
ParraEelsNRL said:
First episode aired the other night in America, it rated 18 million :eek:
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Impossible

It was on the Versus Cable Channel and if got that it a would be a) network record (which would be interesting considering they hold Cable Right's to the NHL Stanley Cup Finals and they don't even right that high) b) it would be a Cable TV Record (ESPN Monday Football holds the record at around 15 million) and c) most FTA shows don't get that many people.

Not saying it didn't get good ratings, but I doubt it broke Cable TV record in the USA.
 

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http://www.tvweek.com/news/2007/09/versus_croweing_about_rugby.php

We are approaching the culmination of a repositioning process that began in 2004, with the goal of growing this network into full distribution and appealing to as many fans of sports and competition as we can," said Versus President Gavin Harvey. "The cable distribution environment is so ferocious, and we have to justify our existence each and every day through quality programming that appeals to new and core audiences alike."

Since 2004, the network has grown from a distribution of just above 60 million to being available in 74 million homes. With the addition of the NHL, and with ad rates for the channel rising, Versus revenues have bolstered parent company Comcast's programming revenues by 22 percent in the second quarter to $334 million compared to the same period in 2006, according to company reports.
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Zarko said:
HAS to be a typo... Would at best be 1.8 mill (Sounds about right)
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Would have to be, because 18 Million would make it an all time Cable TV record, beating the August 17, 2007 premiere of High School Musical 2 on Disney Channel, with 17.24 million viewers. ESPN's Monday Night Football hold's 8 of the Top 10 alltime places with 16,028,000 viewers watching October 23 2006 telecast of the New York Giants-Dallas Cowboys NFL match in second place and the third place being a 1993 debate between Al Gore and Ross Perot.

So I think 1.8 million would be closer to the mark, which is still a very very good result in the US on a Sport's Cable Channel, that isn't ESPN or one of the FSN's. Someone at the Terror made an error.
 
About Versus NHL Ratings and in particular their Stanley Cup Finals Game 1 and Game 2 ratings. I thus doubt if their previous channel record was below 1 million, I doubt they are going to therefore get a Cable Record 18 million, for a 30 million Rugby League doco.

Versus' games rated substantially higher than any non-Tour de France programming that Versus had ever aired in comparable timeslots (rating between 0.2 and 0.3 during the regular season). Still, these numbers were quite small compared to ratings for most other sports on national cable channels reaching at least as many homes as Versus.

Versus' playoff viewership did not increase as much as it or the league might have hoped. Versus reached a viewership of 610,836 households for Game 1 of the 2006 Stanley Cup Finals. This figure was 39% fewer households than what ESPN drew for the Stanley Cup series opener two years earlier (though ESPN reaches about 20 million more homes, and many more hotels and sports bars). Game 2 was seen in slightly fewer households (605,501).
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