First State of Origin clash sheds 360,000 viewers but still easily wins night
The TV audience for the first match of 2017’s State of Origin, which saw the NSW Blues smash the Queensland Maroons 28-4, was down on last year’s by 360,000 metro viewers.
Nine’s broadcast of the NRL clash captured 2.348m for the first match of the year, down from last year’s metro audience of 2.708m, according to OzTam’s preliminary overnight metro ratings.
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In Sydney, 989,000 metro viewers tuned in, while Brisbane had 808,000 metro viewers.
It was the most-watched program across the key advertising demographics 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54.
Nationally, the State of Origin had 3.527m viewers – taking into account regional viewers and affiliate stations – however, the results may change when the time-adjusted results come through.
Nine’s pre-match and post-match offerings also dominated Wednesday night’s ratings, pulling 1.509m and 1.201m metro viewers respectively.
The NRL post match show did not air in Melbourne or Adelaide.
Seven’s House Rules, which aired in the same time slot, slipped to 585,000, but did not air in Sydney or Brisbane.
Ten’s Masterchef managed 704,000 metro viewers.
Nationally, House Rules captured 866,000 while Masterchef attracted 963,000 viewers.
Despite Nine’s success, Seven News managed to beat Nine, with 1.126m watching the 6pm program, and 1.038m metro viewers at 6:30pm.
Nine News had metro audiences of 1.009m and 1.003m respectively however, both programs did not run in Perth.
The most-watched program for the ABC was Anh’s Brush with Fame repeat, which pulled 462,000 metro viewers.
Nine had an easy win with an average audience shares of 38.3%, ahead of Seven’s 15.5% and Ten’s 11.0%
ABC’s share was 8.5% and SBS’ 3.3%.
“which saw the NSW Blues smash the Queensland Reds 28-4”
Interesting to see the first trial of League vs Union. That would be the Queensland Maroons.
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Queensland Reds? Try Maroons
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Hi Luke,
That would have been quite the clash, but you are right. Thanks for flagging.
We have fixed it so the correct teams (from the correct sporting codes) are listed.
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Hi Ben,
Luke also flagged this and we have corrected it. What a game it would have been if our original story was correct though, hey?
Thanks for pointing it out,
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I was going to watch it on my TV but then my housemate needed to watch old episodes of Gilmore Girls. It was apparently an emergency.
‘Well, it’s the 21st century – I’ll just watch it on my laptop’ I said to myself. Apparently not, unless I wanted to pay for a ‘footy pass’ or some shit (why would someone pay for free-to-air TV?).
Was left to stream using less than legal methods. A stream Channel 9 can’t count and report to its advertisers. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one!
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Lowest rating State of Origin (Game 1) in 6 years, despite a commanding win by NSE Blues…
Ouch!
Sydney just doesn’t watch TV or sport as much as Melbourne, hasn’t for years, couldn’t get near cracking 1m last night.
Aussie Open final still on top for 2017.
Last year’s AFL Grand Final numbers were ridiculous
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@Anonymous, yes the AFL had large numbers last year but the year before that, I believe the NRL delivered stronger numbers. Swings and roundabouts I guess.
Regardless, it was a cracking game played at an incredible pace. I think those who missed it would be kicking themselves today. If only the buzz created from last nights game could be measured today.
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