NRL vs AFL – Which grand final won the TV battle?
As AFL and NRL diehards go at it yet again over which sport is better and whether The Kid LAROI’s performance was better than Katy Perry’s, the dust has settled on the 2024 seasons.
And while the NRL achieved its highest TV audience for a grand final since 2022 this past weekend when the Penrith Panthers toppled the Melbourne Storm, it was the AFL who won over Australian audiences.
Sunday night’s NRL grand final pulled in a national Total TV reach of 5.349 million, which fell just behind last weekend’s AFL match – a Brisbane Lions masterclass over the Sydney Swans – which hit a total TV reach of 6.228 million.
It wasn’t all doom and gloom for the NRL though, as Sunday’s game achieved an average audience across Total TV of 3.422 million, up 0.3% year on year.
