A look at the Super Rugby TV numbers up to the end of round 5, so these EXCLUDE the most recent weekend’s activity, where the Stormers vs Bulls will no doubt have caused numbers to have skyrocketed!
The most watched games in SA thus far:
And a look at the numbers per round …
Year on Year comparison …
In summary …
- Live coverage of 34 games on SuperSport to date
- Cumulative audience across Live coverage = 11,0m viewers, an increase of 19.6% Year on Year.
- SA Home games are the key audience drivers with the Stormers v Sharks game reaching the highest viewership to date.
- There have been 47 repeat broadcasts across all SuperSport Channels.
- Repeat coverage on SuperSport 1 accounts for 74% of all repeat coverage to date.
- Cumulative Audience across all repeats = 572 861 viewers (an average of 12 188 viewers per game)
- 88 highlights broadcasts
- Cumulative Audience across all highlights broadcasts = 2m viewers (an average audience of 15 414 viewers per broadcast)
- Cumulative Audience across all Television coverage = 13,5m viewers.
NB – All numbers courtesy of REPUCOM SA, and based on DSTVi stats from Multichoice
Your thoughts of the last scrum penalty against Dean Greyling that got the stormers the 3 points?