NRL Grand Final winners: Penrith Panthers and Nine dominate night of NRL season climax

The NRL Grand Final has dominated Sunday night viewing for Nine, achieving an average audience across Total TV of 3.422 million (up 0.3% year-on-year).

Nine has reported this is the highest TV ratings Total TV audience for an NRL Grand Final since 2022. The Penrith Panthers victory achieved a national Total TV reach of 5.349 million.

The NRL Grand Final has recorded the highest-ever BVOD Audience for an NRL Grand Final at 762,000. This is an increase of 26% year-on-year. It is also bigger than the adjusted AFL Grand Final numbers with a corrected audience of 654,000.*

AFL Grand Final v NRL Grand Final

AFL Total TV national average 4,055,000 (was 4,024,000)*
NRL Total TV national average 3,421,000

AFL BVOD national average 654,000 (was 655,000)*
NRL BVOD national average 762,000

New BVOD record for NRLW Grand Final

The NRLW Grand Final recorded the highest-ever BVOD audience for the Women’s Grand Final at 101,000. This is an increase of 15% year-on-year. It achieved a National Total TV reach of 1.452 million and a Total TV national audience of 691,000.

Nine News #1 news bulletin

Wedged in amongst the NRL coverage, 9News was #1 news bulletin in Australia with total people, people 25-54 and people 16-39. The combined national bulletins achieved a national total TV reach of 1.814 million and a total TV national audience of 1.219 million. On 9Now, its BVOD audience of 160,000.

Winning shares

The 9Network was the No. 1 Network across the 5 City Metro on Sunday with all key demos and Total People
People 25-54:  57.9%
People 16-39:  66.4%
GS 18+:  43.8%
Total People:  46.8%

9Now was the No.1 CFTA BVOD platform on Sunday across Australia
People 25-54:  74.1%
People 16-39:  78.1%
GS 18+:  70.2%
Total People:  71.0%

*Seven corrected the AFL Grand Final figures based on the actual times the match was played. There could be a future adjustment of the NRL figures too.