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Boomers v NZ 141k viewers on GEM

The OzTam figures are a guide only - I don't know anyone who has one of those devices that tracks what you view that goes towards those figures.

Anon, what has 2 thumbs and wont loose any sleep - this guy.

That's great LC.

Those Brisbane stats are lower than i would have thought - no QLD teams were playing league that night. I wonder if it has to do with how the extrapolate the viewing data?

A summary of the stats broken down, also compared to other sports broadcast that same day/night as a comparison:

Has Australian basketball proved itself on television with Oceania series?

ummm maybe you haven't heard anything because you're not important enough to know what's going down - until the deal is actually ready........... Unless your LK and then you probably should know....

GWB - spot on.

And i'm not sure what the Boomers broadcast has to do with the NBL anyway. Given that BA has little to do with the NBL and vice versa....

blacked out? its free and live on youtube?


as for the NBL broadcast - given that K has only been in control for a very small amount of time and broadcast deals don't happen over nigh, what did you expect to happen? NBL.tv was run by Performance whose contract ran out, it wasn't scrapped.

That isn't GEM's fault.

I saw plenty of advertising for the game - but like it said there is a lot of other noise around this time of year. That pushes up the price of advertising and makes it harder to cut thru to the audience.

1) it's on at 5pm which would clash with their regular programming (especially on a week day).

2) there obviously is an issue with sharing content from the NZ broadcaster

3) it's broadcast live on youtube.

I'd take 1 live game on TV and a live youtube stream over nothing any day.

140k on a Saturday night with: AFL, NRL, and the deciding Bledisloe test - that's a bloody good number (probably the highest viewership GEM has ever had.....) and an excellent reminder that moving the NBL back to winter would be an absolutely horrible idea.

Thats right GWB - Amazing what could be achieved if there was some advertising behind it.

Really disappointed at the amount of news coverage (even for a supposed 'minor' sport in Australia) this series has generated.

I bet if you put a live sporting match on with no advertising, hype, or news coverage and still pulled 141K, I'd be laughing at the success.

#892 LOL, that is such an Aussie thing to do, go get a betting account just to watch this game, love the thinking outside of the box...

Basketball Australia website they are going to stream it from there.

I'd think one issue would be how much Sky would want for the right to televise the game they are producing?

Gilmore Girls wouldn't cost a thing cos they already have it.

You would think with streaming now extremely popular in Australia that networks would be jumping at the opportunity to show live sports to attract viewers.

Surely 140K viewers would beat if not compete with "Gilmore Girls".

I really hope that in the future the NBL can do a deal with Netflix or Stan and give a big F.U to commercial networks.

I didn't hold out much hope after they said on the Nine news at 6 what sounded suspiciously like that the return game was on Wednesday night.

If they can't get that fact right then it shows how unimportant they think it is. Probably just taking a gamble in the hope of riding the wave of interest, but with little real sense of commitment to the game for the game's sake.

Still the one ... For AFL and b..all else.


Dammit. Back to cable again.

Women's and Men's games both on Sky Sports 4 in NZ, so that's another option if anyone can find a stream...

Australia vs NZ in an Olympic qualifier with most of our NBA talent, and it's not televised... ridiculous.

People have. it is on the website I posted but as GWB said, you gotta pay 10 bucks a month for it

Actually, Maybe not...

yeah I had a look but I think some games are free. If you go on there the full games are available for the replays of Saturdays games for free

Can watch the mens and womens games live on livebasketball.tv apparently

As someone thats been involved in this aspect of television before. I reckon BA would be happy with those ratings and I reckon 9 would be happy to have those ratings on GEM.

Only saw 1 promotional add on Gem in the week leading up to it. Very low key on Nines news service all week, so they didn't through money at it.
It was competing with AFL and Rugby international, both of which were well promoted.

Also trying to get people to watch the Women and then the men might be a bit much. I don't think they even try that with soccer.

As a spectacle the women's game was pretty flat. About 5 Aussie superstars weren't playing. The standard wasn't great. Poor shooting and not too much going on.
The men's game promised more and thankfully Patty Mills played like he should. Webster was great for NZ and Delly's defence is great to watch. But not much above the rim action to hook the channel surfers in.