Great ratings for AFL Grand Final

[Damien]

Sydney figures were amazing.

1 AFL 2006 GRAND FINAL SYDNEY V WEST COAST Ten 3,155,000

Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
765,000 1,184,000 330,000 326,000 550,000

Melbourne RL figures were remarkable.

RUGBY LEAGUE GRAND FINAL Nine 2,561,000

Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
804,000 903,000 788,000 46,000 21,000

[Sanecow]

Re: Great ratings for AFL Grand Final

Originally posted by Damien
Sydney figures were amazing.

1 AFL 2006 GRAND FINAL SYDNEY V WEST COAST Ten 3,155,000

Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
765,000 1,184,000 330,000 326,000 550,000

Melbourne RL figures were remarkable.

RUGBY LEAGUE GRAND FINAL Nine 2,561,000

Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
804,000 903,000 788,000 46,000 21,000

The Perth RL numbers are pretty funny.

[Carolyn]

Re: Re: Great ratings for AFL Grand Final

Originally posted by Sanecow
The Perth RL numbers are pretty funny.

They're probably all too busy celebrating to watch RL.

[cruiser]

Wow, ratings for the AFL GF almost beat the NRL GF in Sydney.

The NRL will want the Storm to play in the GF every year with ratings like that in Melbourne.

[barry]

Only 40,000 under the RL and we were on at ordinary-time, and the RL was on prime-time.

the RL got spanked this year all through the finals series.

[Agent 86]

Originally posted by barry
Only 40,000 under the RL and we were on at ordinary-time, and the RL was on prime-time.

the RL got spanked this year all through the finals series.

Do you really think "prime-time" matters for a grand final?

I think the NRL would be stoked with those numbers for the Eastern states (think they've given up on the rest of the country)

[gossipcom]

That's an interesting number for the NRL figures for Sydney especially since they said on the 6pm news that there was almost a million watching it in Sydney not Melbourne. Sounds like the 6pm news people got that wrong

[Agent 86]

Originally posted by gossipcom
That's an interesting number for the NRL figures for Sydney especially since they said on the 6pm news that there was almost a million watching it in Sydney not Melbourne. Sounds like the 6pm news people got that wrong

Good point.

But are these figures accurate? Doesn't look right.

[adnar]

Originally posted by Agent 86
Do you really think "prime-time" matters for a grand final?
)

Well it would certainly boost the numbers for casual viewers. 700,000 people would be watching if only they hadn't changed channels after the news.


the Perth and Adelaide figures are misleading as the game was on at 1am or so.

[573v30]

Originally posted by adnar
the Perth and Adelaide figures are misleading as the game was on at 1am or so.

It started at about 11pm over here actually. It's not like it really matters, WA seems to be a one-team state again...

[W84]

Originally posted by 573v30
It started at about 11pm over here actually. It's not like it really matters, WA seems to be a one-team state again...

Just like the Sydney Swans in New South Wales?

[Damien]

Originally posted by W84
Just like the Sydney Swans in New South Wales?

Not even a comparsion can be made I am afraid between the Eagles in WA and the Swans in NSW.

This is a Rugby League town, plain and simple. The Swans have worked very hard for everything they have got.

Put one or two Sydney League teams in the NRL Grand Final on Sunday and our coverage would have been majorly different last week.

[mja]

Originally posted by cruiser
Wow, ratings for the AFL GF almost beat the NRL GF in Sydney.

But Melbourne RL had more veiwers that Sydney had AFL ...

Diff time of day etc etc ... but still, seems RL is alive in Vic

[Agent 86]

Originally posted by mja
But Melbourne RL had more veiwers that Sydney had AFL ...

Diff time of day etc etc ... but still, seems RL is alive in Vic

NAH! Eddie's somehow managed to fudge the figures and now he's telling Channel 9 it's all because of him.

[Damien]

Originally posted by mja
But Melbourne RL had more veiwers that Sydney had AFL ...

Diff time of day etc etc ... but still, seems RL is alive in Vic

It's no shock in my opinion.

The AFL grand final in Sydney was on a long weekend, Saturday afternoon. I think on a non-long weekend we would have got close to 1 million people.

The League grand final for Melbourne included the local team on a Sunday night with no long weekend. The biggest ratings night of the week. I wouldn't have been surprised if it had got even higher.

The sad thing for both codes that these figures wont be replicated outside of the biggest day of the year. Sydney will return to mid 100's and Melbourne will struggle to even get played live on FTA.