Huge audience for GWS’ defeat of Swans gives Seven Saturday night and weekly win
Seven secured the ratings victory for the night and the week with the Sydney derby AFL final achieving big numbers for the channel.
SBS also achieved a good result with its EPL match beating Ten’s coverage of the Wallabies defeat of South Africa.
Seven and Nine both aired two matches on Saturday for the AFL and NRL finals respectively, but it was the GWS Giants’ historic win over city rivals the Sydney Swans garnered 724,000 viewers from 3pm, benefitting from airing on the main channel in Sydney as well as Melbourne and Adelaide and Perth.
interesting that the English soccer on SBS had double the FTA viewers than the AFL in Sydney and Brisbane
Channel Nine
Canberra v Cronulla 830k (Metro 504k, Regional 326k)
Melbourne v North QLD 988k (Metro 612k, Regional 376k)
Fox Sports
Canberra v Cronulla 349k
Melbourne v North QLD 349k
Total
Canberra v Cronulla 1,179,000
Melbourne v North QLD 1,337,000
Funny how the author fail to mention what the viewership for Swans v GWS was in Sydney and Brisbane but mentioned that stat twice when comparing the NRL. I found the numbers though, the AFL all Sydney final was watched by 157,000 people combined Brisbane and Sydney.