An actual RLWC story on Sky Sports homepage

The fact is RL still isn't as big as we want it to be, they have no duty to promote it. The BBC do, as they want the viewing figures.

People need to chill, I'm sure in the knockout stages you'll see it a lot more (should England progress.)

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?