Wallabies’ World Cup walloping an Oz TV ratings success
Editor ©RapidTVNews | 17-10-2011Pummelled on the pitch by the All Blacks they may have been but Australia’s rugby team have been more successful in the TV ratings stakes.
According to Australian sports opinion website The Roar, the Australia v New Zealand World cup Rugby semi-final attracted nearly 1.8 million viewers, nearly a tenth of the entire population of Australia, on free-to-air TV on Channel Nine and a record audience on pay-TV for a combined nationwide television audience of 3.234 million people to watch what is very much a minority game in a sports-mad country.
Quoting figures released by leading Australian TV measurements source OzTam, The Roar said that that the average total people metro audience on Nine was 1.788 million with 710,000 watching in Sydney, 376,000 in Melbourne, 409,000 in Brisbane, 141,000 in Adelaide and 152,000 in Perth. The semi-final was the top rating free-to-air program on Sunday.
OzTam also revealed that for Fox Sports, the semi-final attracted a national subscription TV audience of 701,000, according to, the highest rating show in Australian pay-TV history.
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