Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:25 pm  

The guy who owns cash convertors brand is a massive RL fan, here in Perth. Reckon he would be up for sponsoring SL.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:53 pm  

JB Down Under wrote:

The guy who owns cash convertors brand is a massive RL fan, here in Perth. Reckon he would be up for sponsoring SL.

The RFL will love it. They converted 1.7 million in cash into a few refrigerated Trucks last time....

Slightly off topic, but worthy of a mention in this thread, Magic Weekend saw 895,000 people tune in to watch the games on SKY TV.
Catalan v London 88k
Cas v Wakey 110k
Hull v Hull 182k
St's v Wire 167k
Salford v Widnes 53k
Bulls v Hudds 90k
Leeds v Wigan 205k.

An average of about 128k a game....what do the RFL need to do to get these fans into stadiums? The NRL brokered a chunk of their TV deal in advertising airtime.....do the RFL need to do the same? There were TV adverts here in NZ for every Warriors home game this year promoting event games with KO times and information....maybe SKY need to be squeezed into doing the same in the UK??

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Wed Sep 11, 2013 4:47 am  

where did you get the sky viewing figures from?

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Wed Sep 11, 2013 5:45 am  

JB Down Under wrote:

where did you get the sky viewing figures from?

Go to BARB.CO.UK
Select top 10's,
Highlight Sky Sports 1,2,3,& 4 and select May and the last week.
It gives the times of KO so that's how I knew which game was which.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Wed Sep 11, 2013 7:27 am  

Oh, TV viewing figures and stats:

"Magic Weekend saw 895,000 people tune in to watch the games on SKY TV."

Really ?

Are you sure that they're not just double counting the same people. If the peak figures were 205k for the Leeds game, there's a fair chance that these were exactly the same people (but in lower proportions) that were watching the other games.

You simply can't just add all the figures together!

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Wed Sep 11, 2013 7:27 am  

Oh, TV viewing figures and stats:

"Magic Weekend saw 895,000 people tune in to watch the games on SKY TV."

Really ?

Are you sure that they're not just double counting the same people. If the peak figures were 205k for the Leeds game, there's a fair chance that these were exactly the same people (but in lower proportions) that were watching the other games.

You simply can't just add all the figures together!

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Wed Sep 11, 2013 7:28 am  

Look that's 2 posts on the same subject, not just 1 that's been repeated !

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:42 am  

More than 1.6 million people attended a SL game this year, that's 1 in every 20 adults in the UK!

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Wed Sep 11, 2013 1:32 pm  

shinymcshine wrote:

Oh, TV viewing figures and stats:

"Magic Weekend saw 895,000 people tune in to watch the games on SKY TV."

Really ?

Are you sure that they're not just double counting the same people. If the peak figures were 205k for the Leeds game, there's a fair chance that these were exactly the same people (but in lower proportions) that were watching the other games.

You simply can't just add all the figures together!

And you can't get your facts right, the 205k was for the Wigan game.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:31 pm  

Sorry, you're right, so that's 205k for the Leeds game and 205k for the Wigan game so 410k overall for that fixture.