{"id":192454,"date":"2025-10-06T00:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192454\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T00:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:50:08","slug":"tv-ratings-beat-afl-state-of-origin-and-bledisloe-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192454\/","title":{"rendered":"TV ratings beat AFL, State of Origin and Bledisloe Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NRL and Channel Nine are celebrating the best television ratings in the history of the sport, with the Broncos-Storm grand final attracting a record audience of more than 4.4 million viewers.<\/p>\n<p>The NRL grand final smashed the television viewing numbers of the AFL, with an average of 4.18 million viewers tuning in to watch the Brisbane Lions topple Geelong to win the flag a week earlier.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brisbane are the 2025 NRL champions.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/f71398f1dd95baecc057c70b8bfa68fd35d78562.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brisbane are the 2025 NRL champions.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s grand final also had more than a million viewers, passing the numbers of the Bledisloe Cup between the Wallabies and All Blacks (893,000) the night before. It was up 36 per cent on the NRLW grand final the year before.<\/p>\n<p>The NRL grand final was watched by more people than the highest rating Origin fixture of the year, with an average of 3.9 million tuning in for the decider in game three earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s NRL grand final between Penrith and Melbourne attracted an average audience of 3.36 million, with this year\u2019s grand final up 33 per cent. The 2023 grand final had an audience of 3.41 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos-Storm grand final was the highest-rated streaming event in the new ratings system\u2019s history, with 1.3 million watching the decider on 9Now alone. Nine is the owner of this masthead.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 grand final was also the highest-rated television program of the night in each major city bar Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>More to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NRL and Channel Nine are celebrating the best television ratings in the history of the sport, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-192454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}