433,000 metro viewers tune into Friday night’s NRL match as sporting codes ready for empty stadiums and postponed matches
Friday night’s NRL clash between two Queensland teams, the North Queensland Cowboys and the Brisbane Broncos had an overnight metro audience of 433,000 according to OzTAM’s preliminary ratings.
The match was played at Townsville Stadium during increasingly tense and uncertain times around the immediate future of live sport, with various international sporting codes suspending their seasons in the wake of the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus), and new advice from the Australian government about curtailing public gatherings of 500 or more people.
The ban on larger-scale events is meant to come into effect on Monday, with round two of the NRL to play out in empty stadiums.
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