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Worst NBL television ratings in history?

...than football...

bugger!

I will try to decipher what I believe our poster Jacks is trying to say, here goes:

'You have all been hoodwinked into believing basketball is rated more highly in Australia that football, yet the foolish Australian basketball media always seems to criticise football.'

'I am flabbergasted at how poorly Australia plays sport, even the AFL is a poorly played sport on the world stage in my opinion.'

'Why is it that retired NBA players are seen as the answer to viewer ratings in the NBL, I am not unsure this is the answer, however I am totally unqualified to suggest an alternative?'

'It is obvious that the Australian media loves its cricket, however I don’t like it and in fact I don’t like any Australian content on the TV, especially Foxtel because I cannot afford it due to the overbearing cost of cigarettes and beer!'

'I have a headache because I watch too much sport, oh and by the way the AFL is really my secret happy place.'

Regards to everyone, love Jacks

LOL! This is what happens when some dude gets his sister pregnant.

I don't think I can ever take ratingss serious after knowing how small the sample rate is. Honestly how the hell can 3500 homes give an accurate indication of what 20million people are watching on TV.

http://www.botinagy.com/blog/keep-calm-ratings-arent-what-you-think/

Boti's take on the so called ratings.

"Maybe in the Wednesday there are more people flicking around to the news channel because there's no live sport on. This is what LK was targeting with his clever scheduling"

This is exactly what the previous head of the NBL (name escapes me now, sorry) was saying with his idea of games during the week. I know that he also wanted to play those games in smaller venues, but that also could've worked.

Of course there were a LOT of NBL fans freaking out about that idea. I thought it would've been worth a try. This league needs to think outside of normal Australian sport traditions, because it can't compete head to head it seems.

On the standard of the league, I watched the 2nd half of the MEL v ILL game, and to be truthful, I was pretty bored even though the game was close-ish. I was basically sticking with it purely to see Warrick play (that was barely worth it either).

I'm not pessimistic about the future of the league, but I don't think it will ever be a BIG sport again down here. I think aiming for an "alternative" sport (for want of a better word) is what they should be gunning for. If that means games on Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs to get rid of viewing competition, and boutique venues occasionally, then so be it.

On ratings boxes, we had them in our house when I was younger. One with every TV in the house. They were very annoying, and after a few months, easily forgotten about. Not sure if the tech has changed since then, but I often forgot to input the fact that I was in the room watching whatever I was watching.

Not saying that low ratings aren't a concern, but I do agree that we should wait for the season to settle in, and to get to the proper sports channels before hitting the panic button.
I know when I'm just doing some channel surfing for sport, I press 501 and then head upward from there.

But that's because there's nothing interesting on. It's not an inherent problem of Fox News. And the rating for the first game demonstrates that people know it's on.

There is no trend yet. Let's wait and see.

The Go! number is fantastic, yes. But the Fox numbers after the first game have been low, which is a concern given the first game rating so high.

If the trend was up, or if it was just low overall, you could say people just aren't aware yet and it'll build. But that's not what's happening.

Have we actually established that the NBL *is* paying for coverage?

Does Foxtel have ratings boxes? They're all connected to the Internet/phone line/whatever anyway, so I wouldn't think they'd need to?

paul, if you're looking at the sports section of the TV guide FSN is right there at the top. People are going to see what's listed there.

And again, game one rated well. So people are obviously aware of the NBL being on that channel, and haven't tuned back in for other games.

Previous post was directed at the Anon asking about marketing for the game on Go!

What does that have to do with anything?

Am I the only one who goes to the TV guide and presses 5 when looking for sport to watch?

And that argument doesn't really fly when game one rated so well.

The concern for me isn't that they're low, it's that they're trending down. If you've watched one NBL game, you know where to find the other NBL games. And people aren't coming back. That's not a good sign at all.

On the other hand...most TV guides didn't bother to list the NBL game on Go!, Bathurst was on, and they still managed 28,000. That's impressive.

This forum would be better on Reddit, then a post with actual links and facts would be higher up and not lost in the discussion.

Link to sources or GTFO.

The numbers seem crazy low...what the OP is saying is that nearly 8000 perth members did not tune into the game vs Adelaide along with fans without memberships and Adelaide fans who couldn't make it to the game. It also makes out that nearly 0 fans of Cairns watched the game. where did these numbers come from? I know how ratings are aquired (we dont all have a sensor in our TV that tells the networks what we are watching)

What is it with this 'proper channel' stuff? It keeps popping up, as though the new channels are in some way secondary. It's not about the channel, it's about the promotion. And the [viewing] pattern - i.e., people knowing when to look where.

I knew yesterday's game was on but it wasn't in the printed program I was using and so went looking for it - albeit at 3 p.m., not 2.30, when it started.

But Ch93 is as much a 'real channel as Ch9, Ch24 is as much a 'real channel' as Ch2, and so on, even if Ch7 hasn't quite worked out that, with three channels, they can actually run three different programs.

Get over it and find out [& watch] the game where and when it's on.

Does that include the people who watched the Live stream for free on the app? Perhaps more will tune into Fox/Nine once they have to pay for the stream.

The figures aren't great, but they will surely improve when given a proper channel. The product is good, people will come back

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Where did these ratings come from? seems really low. There was a fair bit of social media activity etc. regarding the broadcasts (mainly their errors), would have thought they would have been a lot higher.