Super League - Sky Viewing Figures : Tue Sep 16, 2014 4:36 pm  

SKY VIEWING FIGURES... - *source barb.co.uk (Weekly Top 10s)

2014 viewing figures updated to week ending Sep 07, 2014

Regular Season
2008: 7,552k/48 = 157k average
2009: 8,555k/56 = 153k average
2010: 9,590k/60 = 160k average
2011: 9,138k/56 = 163k average
2012: 10,975k/65= 169k average
2013: 9,698k/63 = 154k average
2014: 6,754k/50 = 135k average <----- down by over 12%

Play-Offs
2008: --676k/3 = 225k average
2009: 1,242k/6 = 207k average
2010: 1,552k/8 = 194k average
2011: 1,583k/8 = 198k average
2012: 1,285k/7 = 184k average
2013: 1,234k/7 = 176k average
2014: ????

Grand Final
2008: 325k
2009: 365k
2010: 299k
2011: 319k
2012: 324k
2013: 276k
2014: ????

World Club Challenge:
2008: 332k
2009: 367k
2010: 307k
2011: 206k
2012: 264k
2013: 303k
2014: 159K (Saturday morning)

Championship
2008: -565k/11 = 51k
2009: -985k/21 = 47k
2010: -764k/14 = 55k
2011: 1,309k/20= 65k
2012: n/a
2013: n/a
2014: n/a

Re: Super League - Sky Viewing Figures : Tue Sep 16, 2014 4:37 pm  

There's a downward trend.

Cool.

Re: Super League - Sky Viewing Figures : Tue Sep 16, 2014 4:50 pm  

So shall we give the RFL some credit for mixing it up next season to arrest the downturn, or moan about the lost opportunities to capitalise from the 2013 RLWC ?

Re: Super League - Sky Viewing Figures : Tue Sep 16, 2014 5:38 pm  

shinymcshine wrote:

So shall we give the RFL some credit for mixing it up next season to arrest the downturn, or moan about the lost opportunities to capitalise from the 2013 RLWC ?

This being RL, moan.

Re: Super League - Sky Viewing Figures : Tue Sep 16, 2014 5:41 pm  

Nothing to see hear upon closer inspection except that adding Catalans home matches to the Sky schedule will decimate your average.

An example, Round 11 Leeds vs Wigan post an impressive 245,000 on the Friday, Catalans vs Salford gets us 66,000.

A reoccurring theme of SL Saturday games (which were the Catalans ones) making the top tens for that week but being comfortably below 100,000 nearly every time.

Re: Super League - Sky Viewing Figures : Tue Sep 16, 2014 5:42 pm  

shinymcshine wrote:

So shall we give the RFL some credit for mixing it up next season to arrest the downturn, or moan about the lost opportunities to capitalise from the 2013 RLWC ?

We shall give the RFL no credit for keeping RL club participation restricted to northern English clubs (with one exception) for 2015 on. We shall give the RFL no credit for failing to fulfill a past promise to bring in more interesting foreign club teams like Toulouse and Avignon, and for allowing the crucial non-northern English team London to fail.

That is why viewing figures in the UK are so small. Rugby league is a game mostly played by northern pit villages and mill towns. That is why British sports journalists look down on rugby league: the game is a parochial joke, not a serious international business like football and rugby union.

Re: Super League - Sky Viewing Figures : Tue Sep 16, 2014 5:47 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

Nothing to see hear upon closer inspection except that adding Catalans home matches to the Sky schedule will decimate your average.

An example, Round 11 Leeds vs Wigan post an impressive 245,000 on the Friday, Catalans vs Salford gets us 66,000.

A reoccurring theme of SL Saturday games (which were the Catalans ones) making the top tens for that week but being comfortably below 100,000 nearly every time.

Beat me to it. Can I have the 15 mins back I just spent looking, please! lol

Re: Super League - Sky Viewing Figures : Tue Sep 16, 2014 5:50 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

Nothing to see hear upon closer inspection except that adding Catalans home matches to the Sky schedule will decimate your average.

An example, Round 11 Leeds vs Wigan post an impressive 245,000 on the Friday, Catalans vs Salford gets us 66,000.

A reoccurring theme of SL Saturday games (which were the Catalans ones) making the top tens for that week but being comfortably below 100,000 nearly every time.

But isn't that because Catalans Saturday games were on early, and were rarely on Sky Sports 1 or 2, but instead on Sky Sports 3 or 4 or the Red Button?

Re: Super League - Sky Viewing Figures : Tue Sep 16, 2014 6:10 pm  

Found 8 Catalans home games, average viewing figure for them.....82,250

Re: Super League - Sky Viewing Figures : Tue Sep 16, 2014 6:13 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

Nothing to see hear upon closer inspection except that adding Catalans home matches to the Sky schedule will decimate your average.

An example, Round 11 Leeds vs Wigan post an impressive 245,000 on the Friday, Catalans vs Salford gets us 66,000.

A reoccurring theme of SL Saturday games (which were the Catalans ones) making the top tens for that week but being comfortably below 100,000 nearly every time.

What? You don't mean the facts have been spun by a certain poster so as to try and make it seem like there is a significant decrease in viewers in order to create a negative story?

But that doesn't sound like the OP, or RL fans in general to be so miserable and negative.

You'll be telling me next that someone has spent the last 6 years recording the attendances to prove that adding 2 clubs with lower than average attendances to the league has brought down the average.