More than 2m tune in for Western Bulldogs win while NRL pulls a million
More than two million viewers tuned in across the country to see the Western Bulldogs overcome GWS Giants in a tense preliminary final to land a spot in next Saturday’s grand final.
Seven showed the match, which started at 5pm, on its main channel in four of the five metro markets with an average audience of 1.237m, and including 7Mate in Brisbane it had a five city metro audience of 1.355m viewers.
Foxtel’s simulcast managed 565,000 viewers, which including national viewers meant the match had an average audience of 2.387m viewers.
2.7 million viewers an 7 can’t be bothered to put cameras in the goalposts or on the goal umpires Hat.
I hope the next deal makes it compuslory
Tim, while I agree with your sentiment, it is not up to Seven (or Foxtel) to put cameras in goalposts or goal umpire hats – it is the AFL’s decision.
How would you react if a broadcaster decided to put a camera (with audio) in the coaches box and broadcast that simply because they thought it was a cool idea.