
NBL 17K rating for Melbourne and Cairns
Nice to see Sydney v Illawarra got an average of 29K on Fox on Friday. While that is low in the bigger picture, it is definite progress. It used to be grand finals got around that on Fox.

FWIW I saw those STV numbers the year before, 14K average in 2016/17 and 18K in 2017/18, and talk from those at the league is it has increased again this season. It's baby steps, but with 120+ matches on Fox each year a small increase in average produces a significant cumulative increase and that is important for sponsors.
The FTA average was stubborn around 30K for years, even when ONE was showing games at 10.30pm! The last year on Ten the Sunday arvo ratings got up quite a bit higher, but apart from that it's been consistent.
The other interesting thing is Round 1 generally produces one of the biggest audiences, so the 65K for the first game isn't surprising, the trick is whether those numbers can repeat a bit or whether it will settle back to the 30K give or take over the season.

It's a great increase, especially when you consider the season is young, people have only just started switching their minds off of the AFL season, and there have been a few big sports running at the same time. Still those numbers are a long way away from ideal

It's a great increase, especially when you consider the season is young, people have only just started switching their minds off of the AFL season, and there have been a few big sports running at the same time. Still those numbers are a long way away from ideal


According to media guy at the NBL it is 13.5k average last season on Fox to 18.3 this year. FTA from 29k to 42k.
https://twitter.com/nick_nbl/status/1054298152121974784

Average around 28,000 apparently, and the extra 8 is not insignificant when you consider that it is a third of the ratings there.

If that is true it doesn't surprise me that extra people are tuning in to watch Bogut.
I did and I know plenty of people think I'm extra.

Foxtel average so far is around 20,000 and you would expect a game involving Cairns to be below average.

Any news of imports? or any other signings for that matter? how do they select imports? anyone heading over to NBA summer L?
