Surprised that the Thursday night games are not making the top 10, what else do people do on a Thursday night.

I am really enjoying these games and for me it's a really good decision to put the games on a Thursday.

Thursday night RL is not making top ten for Sky Sports 1 channel. If it was on Sky Sports 2 it would be top 4. The viewing figures are very impressive. Only sport thay is holding its own again football (except the darts)

There appears to have been a distinct lack of enthusiasm resulting in a news blackout with regards to announcements of TV viewing figures for SL fixtures on Sky Sports in recent weeks. I therefore decided to pop along to the BARB website to identify what all the lethargy, non-fuss and can't-be-dness of recent weeks was all about. And here's what I discovered...

Latest BARB viewing figures...

SL Round 6

[iSky Sports 1
w/e 23 Mar 2014
000's[/i
1 MANCHESTER UTD V OLYMPIAKOS-LIVE (WED 1900) 1,438
2 FORD SATURDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL LIVE/#WEST (SAT 1659) 1,327
3 REAL MADRID V BARCELONA-LIVE (SUN 1930) 987
4 LIVE FORD SUPER SUNDAY/#ASTON VILLA V ST (SUN 1530 922
5 LIVE FORD SUPER SUNDAY - MATCH (SUN 1230) 833
6 GILLETTE SOCCER SATURDAY 09-10 (SAT 1500) 377
7 FL 72 LIVE - DERBY V NOTTM FOREST/#DERBY (SAT 1200 252
8 REAL BETIS V ATLETICO/#REAL BETIS V ATLE (SUN 1830 216
9 SNF - GAME OF THE DAY (SAT 2002) 213
10 SOCCER AM/#SOCCER A M # 32 (SAT 1000) 174

Nope... nothing there...

Neither Warrington V Wigan (Thu 20 Mar) or Leeds V London (Fri 21 March) made the Top 10 on Sky Sports 1 that week.

However, Catalan V Hudds did make the Top 10 on Sky Sports 2 that week with a whopping 87K tuning in...

For all those who enjoy laughing out loud at Union viewing figures on BT Sport, here... fill yer boots!

[iBT Sport 1
w/e 23 Mar 2014
000's[/i
1 BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE (SAT 1159) 764
2 AVIVA PREMIERSHIP RUGBY (SAT 1510) 205
3 AVIVA PREMIERSHIP RUGBY (SUN 1300) 117
4 AVIVA PREMIERSHIP RUGBY (SAT 1720) 80
5 AVIVA PREMIERSHIP RUGBY (FRI 1859) 67
6 BUNDESLIGA (SUN 1615) 35
7 RUGBY TONIGHT (WED 2000) 31
8 UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE (THU 195icon_cool.gif 27
9 MOTOGP 2014 (WED 2130) 27
10 THE SKRILL PREMIER (MON 1930) 23

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[iBT Sport 1
w/e 30 Mar 2014
000's[/i
1 BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE (SAT 1200) 568
2 AVIVA PREMIERSHIP RUGBY (SAT 150icon_cool.gif 151
3 AVIVA PREMIERSHIP RUGBY (FRI 1900) 71
4 SERIE A (SUN 1944) 50
5 RUGBY TONIGHT (WED 2001) 46
6 AVIVA PREMIERSHIP RUGBY (SUN 1300) 36
7 THE SKRILL PREMIER (THU 1930) 33
8 THE SKRILL PREMIER (MON 1930) 33
9 SCOTTISH PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE (TUE 1930) 26
10 BUNDESLIGA (SAT 172icon_cool.gif 24

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Should the above not be on "Other Sports"?

rlRalph Rimmer at the RFL likes to mention Rugby Union TV ratingsrl.

rlSo does Martyn Sadler at League Expressrl.

Perhaps they should both be consigned to a Sin Bin with photoshop software and a box of crayons for the next 48 hours as penance for their thought crimes?

So let's see what Martyn Saddler actually wrote then...



So is that really the best you can come up with? Someone comparing viewing figures on one Sky Sports channel with viewing figures for the same time slot on other Sky Sports channels, one of which happened to be showing an RU game.

Desperate much?

3 union games make it into 6 figure viewing figures! The RFL must be quaking in their boots! RL is still comfortably beating union figures.

Could used union attendances but with union using magical 00 attendances you love so much not really accurate is it.

Sky Sports viewing figures in "higher than BT Sports viewing figures" shock!

Super League by plenty! (Even when they fail to make the Top 10)

So the 10th placed viewing figure on Sky Sports 1 for w/e 30th March was 226,000.

How do we know SL didn't pull 225,000, comfortably beating everything apart from football on BT (as it always has and always will). I highly doubt Leeds/Saints pulled less than 151,000 which was the top RU figure.

Yeah, so like you say.. Sky Sports by plenty. Even when they don't make the top 10.

And how come you haven't added 9th & 16th March figures? Do they not suit your agenda?

Couldn't remember the latin phrase, eh? 4.0625:5