Start of NRL season sees audience growth
The start of the NRL season has audience growth across the board, says the league.
The league says this is the best start to an NRL season on record with crowds at stadiums up 5.6 per cent on 2012, averaging 18,389 per game.
Online and television audiences have also been strong with Saturday’s Round six game between the Rabbitohs and the Storm recording the highest audience of any program on subscription television in 2013 attracting an audience of 379,319.
On free-to-air television the Nine and Win Networks ratings were up 6.6 per cent last year.
Fans are also engaging on-line with a 38 per cent increase in number of unique users visiting nrl.com. There has also been a further up lift of 24 per cent across the club network and a 67 per cent increase in people using mobile technology to access club websites.
The NRL says club memberships have risen to 215,000 to set yet another record for the year to date.
