First State Of Origin clash recovers metro audience from 2020 low, but down on 2019
Game One of the 2021 State Of Origin series showed significant recovery in audience when compared with 2020’s first clash, with 1.911 million viewers across metro markets (and 2.708 million nationally) to easily be the #1 program on Wednesday.
That figure was up substantially on 2020’s game one, which was played in November for the first time, and brought in 1.598 million metro viewers, the lowest metro audience for any game in the series since 2001.
Last night’s match was also the highest-rating program in 2021 to date, but was down on the first match of 2019, which had 2.178 million metro viewers, and Nine will surely hope that game two and the potentially series-deciding game three will break the two million metro viewer mark.
