Nine and Seven share weekly ratings honours, as the AFL Grand Final cracks 2m metro viewers
2.197m metro viewers tuned in to Seven on Saturday afternoon to watch the Richmond Tigers beat the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the 2019 AFL Grand Final. That’s a significant drop from 2018’s 2.601m for the West Coast vs Collingwood match and an even bigger fall from 2017’s 2.801m.
The total reach across the day was 4.4m metro viewers, with that figure rising to 6.153m for the combined regional and metro viewership. After the match, the presentations were the next most-watched (1.99m metro viewers), followed by the on-the-ground coverage (1.6m).
The Tigers won the 2019 AFL season with a 114 to 25 win over the Giants
Be interesting to see quarter-by-quarter numbers for the Grand Final. I’m guessing a lot of viewers switched off at half-time and even more at three-quarter time (especially in Sydney). Hell, I’m a Richmond supporter and even I thought the final quarter was pretty dull.
The numbers that are reported are ‘average minute audience’. So if a trove of people didn’t bother with the last quarter the average will go down – but the reach will be unchanged.