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World Cup Qualifier tops Pay TV year

FOX Sports' broadcast of the World Cup Qualifier Aust v Uzbekistan was the year's top show on Pay Television.

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soccThe April broadcast of Live: Football: World Cup Qual. Aust v Uzbekistan was the year’s top show on Pay Television according to ASTRA.

It pulled in 431,000 viewers, setting an all time audience record for the industry.

It was followed by the South Africa cricket test Live: Cricket: Test RSA v AUS Day 2 S1 watched by 358,000 people in March.

The Live: NRL Bulldogs v Storm match was next with 347,000 viewers in May.

All three events aired on FOX Sports.

The top non-sports audience was the Australia’s Next Top Model Live Finale on FOX8 in July with 285,000 viewers, then Live: Sound Relief Melbourne on Channel [V] which set a channel record with 220,000 viewers in March.

Project Runway Australia: Finale on Arena was watched by 191,000.

Elsewhere The Disney Original Movie Princess Protection Program took 157,000 viewers, and Stargate: Universe premiere on SCI FI in October was watched by 149,000 people.

ASTRA also noted Sky News’ broadcast of Victoria Bushfire Disaster – Live Coverage as one of its other big events in 2009.

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  1. 431,000 viewers for Aust v Uzbekistan? It would got well over 2 million on free-to-air. Football is being wasted on Foxsports. All Australian Internationals be it World Cup Qualifiers, Asian Cup Qualifiers/Matches or Friendlies should have the exposure it deserves on free-to-air.

  5. Thats a big number for the football. I wonder what numbers it would have got if it was on FTA?
    I wonder if the number includes all those who would have gone to pubs/ clubs to watch the game as they don’t have FoxTel?

  6. David this doesnt make sense:

    Project Runway Australia: Finale on Arena was watched by 191,000 and the provided subscription TV viewers with timely and comprehensive updates on the tragedy in February.

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