Superleague vs ARL television ratings

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Hey guys, just a quick question for a uni assessment...


Does anyone know where/how i could access figures to tv ratings re: superleague vs ARL for the 1997 season?


I've done a bit of a look around the ABS website but to no avail.


or off the top of your head (or otherwise) do you know which code commanded greater tv ratings?


Thanks.
 
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sharky7 said:
Hey guys, just a quick question for a uni assessment...


Does anyone know where/how i could access figures to tv ratings re: superleague vs ARL for the 1997 season?


I've done a bit of a look around the ABS website but to no avail.


or off the top of your head (or otherwise) do you know which code commanded greater tv ratings?


Thanks.
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Sl probably had better coverage
 
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sharky7 said:
i know SL had better crowd attendance but not sure of TV ... thanks for your help guys
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It would be difficult for you to quantify, but I remember there were HEAPS of free tickets handed out for SL every week. Not sure if they did that for the ARL as well.
 
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It's a real shame SL failed, we would have been the most dominant sport in the world by now.
 
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It was, Packer owned Optus while Murdoch owned Fox. The ARL was a play thing in the battle between two giants. Packer in the end won.
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Sort of. Fox is still here and News Ltd ended up with half ownership in the NRL. All in all though, I think most parties probably ended up losing money... initially, at least.
 
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Sort of. Fox is still here and News Ltd ended up with half ownership in the NRL. All in all though, I think most parties probably ended up losing money... initially, at least.
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And they would be royally screwed in NSW and QLD if they ever lost the Rights. You have no idea how much I'd love to see that happen.
 
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slide rule said:
Sort of. Fox is still here and News Ltd ended up with half ownership in the NRL. All in all though, I think most parties probably ended up losing money... initially, at least.
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Packer won because he got to buy the rights to a major ratings winner for something like $30million even though the AFL got almost 10 times that.

He then got to sell onto Foxtel in later years the games he didn't want.
 
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It sucks the wcc wasnt a hit that year. Great idea playing the aussie teams vs english teams
 
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