All Whites, Ferns, and other international teams
It just crossed my mind The New Zealand versus Mexico match will have the biggest TV ratings
any New Zealand sporting team has played too. Perhaps funding from the Government will be in
order.
I just hope our media respects this sporting occasion and dont feel the need to make certain sporting references
into their stories about the all whites.
It'll probably be delayed until after the netball
Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet
It'll probably be delayed until after the netball
People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people.
Could be a college rugby game or perhaps a re-run of Bartercard Cup league to show to the clambering masses...
Grumpy old bastard alert
hahaha, I also hope the media explains what a horrific experience the supporters will be in Mexico. Mexico will
stop game, mexicans living around the world will stop for this game, nothing will come close, and this is coming for
a Basketball fan.
Once you get away from the IRB / NZRFU bullshit numbers the generally cited figure for viewership of the RWC final is around 35 million. Including the 35 million of Mexican origin that live in the US there is a potential Mexican audience for the games of 150m.
The game in Wellington will attract, by orders of magnitude, the biggest audience to ever watch a sporting event in NZ.
Just watch the media pounce on that opportunity for promoting Wellington and NZ (sarcasm alert).
I lol when rugby supporters tell me that 2 billion people watched the RWC.
I lol when rugby supporters tell me that 2 billion people watched the RWC.
A couple have told me its the biggest sports competition behind the Olympics.
If NZ football played their cards right they could make a mint from advertising for the Wellington game, not that NZF will properly capitalise on this opportunity :-(
It just crossed my mind The New Zealand versus Mexico match will have the biggest TV ratings
any New Zealand sporting team has played too. Perhaps funding from the Government will be in
order.
I just hope our media respects this sporting occasion and dont feel the need to make certain sporting references
into their stories about the all whites.
True, the viewing figures will be huge - Mexico's population is 118 million (11th in world)
But remember we played Brazil in the 1982 World Cup and their population then was already 119 million (193 million now).
We've also played Brazil since then, most recently in the Olympics last year, in the 2008 Olympics, the 1999 Confederations Cup in Mexico, a friendly in 2006 - and Brazilians will watch a Brazilian team in any competition in large numbers...
Brazil attract more international viewers than Mexico - so millions of neutral fans would have watched NZ teams play Brazil in the past.
Of course, a factor boosting Mexico's following is there are millions of Mexican fans living in the USA too.
And people don't realise Mexico are quite an emerging economic power these days - their GDP is 1.2 TRILLION $ US (14th in world) !!!
Most people are poor but there is a sizeable middle class, hundreds of whom will travel to Wellington for the game - if they can get tickets!!!
Remember too NZ played the USSR at World Cup 1982 and they had a population of 270 million at the time with the game free on state TV!
We've played China thirteen times over the years, most notably in the 1982 World Cup play-off in Singapore, and viewing figures must have been large for some of those games.
Big Pete 65, Christchurch
So millions and millions of people have to listen to Dewhurst?
I'm embarrassed already.
hahaha, I also hope the media explains what a horrific experience the supporters will be in Mexico. Mexico will
stop game, mexicans living around the world will stop for this game, nothing will come close, and this is coming for
a Basketball fan.
NZF should be looking at getting a Mexican sponsor on board. Sponsoring their national team probably costs a fortune... and this game as mentioned will get huge coverage.
Screw going to small time NZ businesses i'd be reaching out across the Pacific.
Yeah, Nah. Any india v NZ cricket game.
Kotahitanga. We are one.
hahaha, I also hope the media explains what a horrific experience the supporters will be in Mexico. Mexico will
stop game, mexicans living around the world will stop for this game, nothing will come close, and this is coming for
a Basketball fan.
Go Rob Loe. :)
I'm a big fan of Saint Louis University basketball.
Yeah, Nah. Any india v NZ cricket game.
NZF should be looking at getting a Mexican sponsor on board. Sponsoring their national team probably costs a fortune... and this game as mentioned will get huge coverage.
Screw going to small time NZ businesses i'd be reaching out across the Pacific.
Grumpy old bastard alert
Our 3 games in South Africa ?
NZF should be looking at getting a Mexican sponsor on board. Sponsoring their national team probably costs a fortune... and this game as mentioned will get huge coverage.
Screw going to small time NZ businesses i'd be reaching out across the Pacific.
A Mexican company sponsoring a team that may knock Mexico out of the World Cup - I don't think you lads have thought that one through.
A Mexican company sponsoring a team that may knock Mexico out of the World Cup - I don't think you lads have thought that one through.
Grumpy old bastard alert
Sorry if I misunderstood the comments, my original post meant WORLDWIDE tv ratings, no New Zealand
sport team will have ever had a tv audience that the all whites will get against mexico in the first leg.
The ratings in Mexico and the USA will be through the roof.
Do the Indians tune in, when they are playing the blackcaps? the top nations they will watch, but do they watch us??
Why would obsessive Indian cricket fans not tune in to watch their cricket side? Even if less tune in then against bigger cricketing nations there are still 1.2b of them...
NZ india cricket. The indians touring here has ridiculous sums of money in it despite the general apathy here - last one in 2009 was worth around 25 million in tv rights. from http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/1753399
The Indian cricket tour will deliver New Zealand Cricket the biggest payday in its history probably in excess of $25 million thanks to a multimillion-dollar deal for television rights.
But yeah the mexico game should still be one worth a bit for us. I think it will be good for the game's profile
So NZF get a heap of cash to blow on hookers and cocaine (or whatever they blew the last lot on) whether we qualify or not?
Do the Indians tune in, when they are playing the blackcaps? the top nations they will watch, but do they watch us??
Do the Indians tune in, when they are playing the blackcaps? the top nations they will watch, but do they watch us??
The viewership is actually quite poor in india considering their population size. People forget what kind of country India is, many millions simply do not have the means to watch these games.
Do the Indians tune in, when they are playing the blackcaps? the top nations they will watch, but do they watch us??
The viewership is actually quite poor in india considering their population size. People forget what kind of country India is, many millions simply do not have the means to watch these games.
http://www.tamindia.com/tamindia/NL_Tam/Overview_Universe_Update_2013.pdf
153 million tv owning households in India with >4 people per household, versus Mexico's total population of 112 million.
wow if the cameras zoom in on the white noise zone we shall be famous anus's . I might have to dress up as something awesome
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Do the Indians tune in, when they are playing the blackcaps? the top nations they will watch, but do they watch us??
The viewership is actually quite poor in india considering their population size. People forget what kind of country India is, many millions simply do not have the means to watch these games.
http://www.tamindia.com/tamindia/NL_Tam/Overview_Universe_Update_2013.pdf
153 million tv owning households in India with >4 people per household, versus Mexico's total population of 112 million.
Yep. And I peppered my angus beautifully for this by saying 'considering their population size'. Thats still something like 3 times the population of Mexico missing out.
And we're not just talking Mexicans in Mexico watching this anyway, isnt there something like another 30-40million of them living abroad? +the rest of North/South America being potentially interested in this game. And of course a few million more across the world.
Its going to be hard to know how many watch anyway, the governing bodies of various sports love inflating their own stats (egos)
