882,000 Aussies get up early for World Cup final
The World Cup final proved a bigger draw for Australian TV viewers than the Socceroos’ last game in the tournament.
Yesterday morning’s victory for Spain drew an average audience of 882,000, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.
This compared to 728,000 for the Australia-Serbia game.
However, SBS1’s biggest ratings of the World Cup remained the Australia-Ghana game which pulled in an average metro audience of 1.4m. The Socceroos’ 4-0 defeat to Germany was next, pulling in 1.1m. The games may prove to be the only two SBS shows to pull in 1m+ audiences this year.
it’s worth noting that the final did pull over 1m with the regional markets included
Are they measured the same way as in the UK? According to the UK measurement *only* 18.4m people watched the World cup final. Really?
Masterchef – Looks as though they did not lose the 5% (Grasby) audience as predicted by industry experts……
Frank, basically yes the same measurement approach. But when you take the broadcast time differencesbetween the UK and Australia that would explain the differential, even after allowing for the population difference.