Not technically a broadsheet of course but The Times has just under half a page on today's semi final.

Well we were the main story on the BBC sport headlines

And ITV !!

The ratings for the England v New Zealand semi on BBC1 peaked at 2.83m (27.3% audience share).

I reckon the BBC and the World Cup organisers will be very happy with that.

And they all should be hooked now if they were not already

Saturday's Daily Telegraph had two pages of their tabloid sized sports section, and the Sunday Telegraph had three quarters of a broadsheet page plus a headline and photo above the sport section banner.

Full page report on RLWC semi finals in The Observer Sport Section including small brief on front page of that section too.

The BBC should be thinking how they got that figure with very little promotion

The RFL should be doing all it can to use these figures to leverage more live games and better timeslots on the BBC.

We need to have the SL highlights broadcast nationally for a start, the slot after MOTD2 late on Sunday nights (as has been used for the World Cup) seems the best for all parties. So lets get them to make it ours. No more of this 'anytime between 11pm and 2am in the North only' nonsense.

The 2:30 Saturday afternoon slot has done well in the ratings for the World Cup, and the hard to please RL fans seem to like that slot too. So lets stick to that slot for the next home 4 Nations too.

Finally lets convince the BBC to show more games from the next World Cup Down Under, its not like they have anything else to show at that time on a Saturday & Sunday morning, they can take the feed and commentary from Aussie TV. Cheap TV that'll bring the ratings in.

Mark Chapman & Robbie Savage plugging a
Bit of RL on match of the day 2. Sam Burgess getting a
Mention

Just went to bbc.co.uk and the main sport menu seems to be missing the rugby league tab across the top????

Its up now Gutterfax.

not for me its not
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Fine for me

Strange....just viewed it masking my location and RL is there......very odd???????!

Yes, same for me (in Sydney), they're clearly filtering the menus - by UK / non-UK at least. The irony of not having a League menu in a country where it is one of the two major sports and Union is a minority affair is not lost on me... unbelievable, I wish I was shocked but it's so bl**dy predictable from the southern-led media.

(No doubt Gutters will say this is the RFLs fault...)

Sky sports news ran a preview on the world cup final this morning so they haven't completely forgot about the tournament.

BBC Radio 5 Live yesterday said that the 75,000 crowd expected at Old Trafford will be the biggest ever Rugby League crowd anywhere in the world.... Clearly WRONG. I presume they meant for an International?

Does anyone know what the viewing figures for todays final was

Should be released tomorrow morning.

Thanks

No.....I blame gus!

The viewing figure for the World Cup Final peaked at 1.92m (14.9% audience share).

A little disappointing given the 2.8m who watched the semi final but still a decent figure. Clearly England not making the final had a big effect and put off some casual viewers.

Last night the BBC World News TV (international service) blundered in its headline intro, calling the winners of the rugby league World Cup "the Wallabies." However by the time they got to the story itself they had converted to winners to "the Kangaroos."

36k watched it Live (3am) here in NZ with another 63k watching the replay at 6am and the replay on FTA not rating .....all figures less than last weeks semi-final figures?
Full page "post-mortem" in the Dominion Post (Wellington based National paper ) here today....half of it speculating about Stephen Kearney's future, the rest about the dangerous in-goal areas and Thurston dedicating his MOM award to Alex Elisala.....no match report?