More than 2m tune in for Western Bulldogs win while NRL pulls a million
More than two million viewers tuned in across the country to see the Western Bulldogs overcome GWS Giants in a tense preliminary final to land a spot in next Saturday’s grand final.
Seven showed the match, which started at 5pm, on its main channel in four of the five metro markets with an average audience of 1.237m, and including 7Mate in Brisbane it had a five city metro audience of 1.355m viewers.
Foxtel’s simulcast managed 565,000 viewers, which including national viewers meant the match had an average audience of 2.387m viewers.
The NRL clash between Canberra Raiders and Melbourne Storm proved less of a draw from 8pm, with just 771,000 viewers on the main channel in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.
Overall it managed a combined five city metro audience of 801,000, including viewers on 9Gem in Adelaide and Perth, and a national audience of 1.277m, according to OzTam overnight metro rankings. Pay-TV numbers were not available at the time of publishing.
While Saturday’s AFL being the most-watched show of the week it was not enough to give Seven the main channel win for the week, with Nine consolidating its lead built during the week courtesy of The Block and the JonBenet Ramsey specials, to finish on 22.2%, ahead of Seven’s 19.7%, with Ten and ABC tying on 11.6%.
While the AFL was the most watched show on Saturday on free-TV Seven News was third with 1.171m airing at 8pm, straight after the football.
Nine News had 731,000 at 6pm.Ten’s best shot was its Eyewitness News in 20th spot with 237,000.
Meanwhile SBS managed 203,000 metro viewers for its EPL clash between Manchester United and Leicester City.
2.7 million viewers an 7 can’t be bothered to put cameras in the goalposts or on the goal umpires Hat.
I hope the next deal makes it compuslory
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Tim, while I agree with your sentiment, it is not up to Seven (or Foxtel) to put cameras in goalposts or goal umpire hats – it is the AFL’s decision.
How would you react if a broadcaster decided to put a camera (with audio) in the coaches box and broadcast that simply because they thought it was a cool idea.
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