AFL returns to television with 591,000 viewers
Seven’s AFL returned to television last night as Carlton took on the Richmond Tigers pulling 591,000 metro viewers, helping Seven to a Thursday night win.
? Watch all of the highlights from last night’s win over @CarltonFC at the @MCG – https://t.co/vDqEI0Oex8 pic.twitter.com/sKc4dOu6b2
— Richmond FC (@Richmond_FC) March 23, 2017
The Richmond Tigers put the 43-point win under their belt in the opening game of AFL for the season. The game was the second most-watched non-news program, according to OzTAM’s overnight preliminary metro ratings.
Melbourne had the highest audience for the opening AFL match with 372,000 metro viewers – the most-watched program across the city.
The sport-studded television line up saw Nine’s Thursday Night NRL clash between the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the Sydney Roosters manage 412,000 metro viewers. The Roosters’ victory grabbed 240,000 metro viewers in Sydney – down on last week’s 252,000 – and 172,000 in Brisbane, also down on last week’s 238,000.
In national figures Nine’s NRL topped Seven’s AFL seeing 699,0000 tune in, while AFL’s debut averaged 627,000 national viewers.
Seven News at 6pm was the most-watched program for the evening, despite not breaking the 1m mark, with 928,000 metro viewers – ahead of Nine News’ 909,000. At 6.30pm Seven News/Today Tonight pulled 772,000 and was beaten by Nine News’ 916,000.
Off the back of the AFL’s debut and Seven News’ success, Seven won in overall audience share with 22.1%, beating Nine’s share of 18.8% and Ten’s 14.5%.
Meanwhile ABC averaged a share of 10.3% while SBS grabbed 4.1%.
Away from news and sport, Ten’s Gogglebox which aired at 8.30pm was the most watched non-news program for the evening managing 772,000 metro viewers – nationally the show grabbed 1.041m viewers.
The observational reality TV show was also the most-watched program across advertising demographics 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54.
I see one of the worst NRL games in recent memory out-rate the AFL’s hyped up season opener on national figures….. as usual mind you.
Rugby League being our national winter sport
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As usual? What planet are you from?
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Calm down Mel, mumbrella never comes fully correct with these articles. The game was also on fox footy where it out-rated the NRL which was Foxtel too, for an overall cumulative win. Mind you AFL won the 5 cities average – nrl only ‘won’ in this article by adding the mysterious ‘regional’ figures. That said, those numbers are an average and AFL is prone to drop on averages since its 3 hour game to a 2 hour nrl telecast, and the opener ended up a blow out. If you want to know which is the national winter sport look at the GF ratings last year. Or ask the over 400,000 people who broke the record for a round attendance this weekend
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