Recent content by JRugby2

The off field review process in my view is easily the best innovation in the professional game that I've seen for some time. For rugby-related red cards (I'm talking dangerous tackles/ clean outs here mostly as opposed to punching, stomping, eye-gouging etc etc) there is now absolutely zero...

Love the cynicism (truly, I do) but they're quoting researchers and media industry experts in the article saying that 10's position is untenable - maybe there is something behind NC shining a light on it but there is definitely a lot of smoke anyway. 4th behind the ABC last year and no light at...

They don't directly benefit from talking about sports that they don't broadcast, so they don't talk about them.

As opposed to the rugby union heartland that is Homebush?

So many people will just travel for it - events like this it doesn't matter if the host city are mad for the sport or not, you'd be stupid not to capitalise on it (either as the seller or buyer)

It's still 60% (ish) of our games per year, and almost all of those away games are played in the mid-dawn timeslots and probably* wouldn't be a huge negotiating piece for the next rights deal anyway. *I have no data to back this up, nor can be bothered finding any

Most tests are protected by anti-siphoning

This is 4 of the starting 9s at our 5 super rugby clubs. Not sure what else we can do to bolster this very specific position.

I assume you also think that I believe the RWC broadcast numbers where directly related to the Rebels too.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sport/rugby-union/another-challenging-year-rugby-australia-posts-9-2m-annual-loss-20240428-p5fn57.html TL;DR - Spent lots at the RWC - but not as bad as the last 2 WR (World Rugby) gave us a fair chunk of pocket money Picking up the Rebels bill is actually quite expensive...

"In the third year of RA’s broadcast deal with Stan Sport and Nine, the World Cup posted average audience figures of almost 450,000 for the final between South Africa and New Zealand, while the Wallabies’ 40-6 group defeat to Wales was the most watched Australian game with an average audience of...

Maybe, but I doubt it. Paywalls tend to restrict a lot of people and Stan Sport doesn't offer much else. A general rule I learnt from my days in media was if the number was good, they'd publish it. Edit: Even if it were say the same about or double the FTA number for that game (again which I...

Streaming doesn't usually do all that much to ratings, unfortunately.

This is a great article, thanks for sharing. I've advocated for a return to Foxtel over Stan in this thread but seeing this new data has me questioning whether the trend is starting to turn against them. Kayo is still the top sports streaming service we have (IMO) - but if they continue to...

Sport tends to buck this trend with Audiences in the most recent summer stable YoY https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/tv-audiences-up-for-the-summer-s-sporting-stars-20240208-p5f3dk.html NRL and AFL TV audiences grew last year as well.