Curious as to how the Gold Coast/Northern Rivers area is aggregated when the NSW has something like 200k there.
Gold Coast’s population is counted in both the Brisbane market and the Northern Rivers market. It’s basically counted twice.
So Brisbane’s 3.4 million includes 600,000 Gold Coast residents and Northern Rivers 1.05 million also includes 600,000 ( I think it may be slightly less actually, maybe 500,000 - as as many postcodes are not included)
If you stripped out the Gold Coast from both markets, Brisbane would still be #3 (although ahead of Perth just a nudge instead of the huge margin it is including Gold Coast ) and the Newcastle market (825,000) would move up a rank to be #6 ahead of Northern Rivers.
I guess the markets should really be called Brisbane - Gold Coast and Northern Rivers - Gold Coast, to show both include Gold Coast post codes.
Northern NSW market - 2.229 m
including sub markets
Northern Rivers - Gold Coast 1.046m
Newcastle .825m
Tamworth - Taree - .357m
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What are the next 20 spots?
Largest TV markets ranked
- Melbourne
- Sydney
- Brisbane - Gold Coast
- Perth
- Adelaide
- Northern Rivers - Gold Coast
- Newcastle
- Maryborough, QLD (Sunshine Coast)
- Canberra
- Western Australia
- Wollongong
- Orange - Dubbo - Wagga
- Ballarat
- Tamworth - Taree, NSW
- Toowoomba
- Hobart
- Cairns
- Launceston
- Gippsland, VIC
- Bendigo, VIC
- Townsville
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When did Melbourne overtake Sydney?
Melbourne overtook Sydney in 2018
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I thought Newcastle was a bigger tv market than Adelaide at one stage or did I just imagine that?
Also, those ranking show how over serviced markets like Tasmania and Darwin are with local news compared to the likes of Canberra.
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Consolidated Northern NSW is bigger (as it’s essentially #6 + #7 combined), Newcastle on its own isn’t.
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Based on OzTam & Regional TAM Universe Estimates 2021
| Rank | Market | Pop |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Melbourne | 5,356,100 |
| 2 | Sydney | 5,279,700 |
| 3 | Brisbane | 3,479,800 |
| 4 | Northern NSW | 2,229,300 |
| 5 | Perth | 2,162,100 |
| 6 | Queensland | 1,892,200 |
| 7 | Southern NSW | 1,531,800 |
| 8 | Adelaide | 1,507,800 |
| 9 | Victoria | 1,217,200 |
| 10 | Regional WA | 559,700 |
| 11 | Tasmania | 533,600 |
| Rank | Market | Sub-Market | Pop |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Melbourne | N/A | 5,356,100 |
| 2 | Sydney | N/A | 5,279,700 |
| 3 | Brisbane | N/A | 3,479,800 |
| 4 | Perth | N/A | 2,162,100 |
| 5 | Adelaide | N/A | 1,507,800 |
| 6 | Northern NSW | Northern Rivers | 1,046,000 |
| 7 | Northern NSW | Newcastle | 825,500 |
| 8 | Queensland | Maryborough | 658,200 |
| 9 | Southern NSW | Canberra | 565,000 |
| 10 | Regional WA | N/A | 559,700 |
| 11 | Southern NSW | Wollongong | 546,400 |
| 12 | Southern NSW | Orange / Dubbo / Wagga | 420,400 |
| 13 | Victoria | Ballarat | 360,600 |
| 14 | Northern NSW | Tamworth / Taree | 357,800 |
| 15 | Queensland | Toowoomba | 297,800 |
| 16 | Tasmania | Hobart | 278,600 |
| 17 | Queensland | Cairns | 264,200 |
| 18 | Tasmania | Launceston | 255,000 |
| 19 | Victoria | Gippsland | 241,900 |
| 20 | Victoria | Bendigo | 241,200 |
| 21 | Queensland | Townsville | 240,700 |
| 22 | Queensland | Rockhampton | 239,100 |
| 23 | Victoria | Shepparton | 197,400 |
| 24 | Queensland | Mackay | 192,300 |
| 25 | Victoria | Albury | 176,100 |
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Here’s the rewind promo
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I must say, I’m REALLY looking forward to this.
This would be a great thing for Nine’s other O&O to take notes from!
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Just caught Nine news on NBN for a few seconds and now NBN News is on.
Reporter has Nine Co tee on, with a NBN flag.
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Yeah I saw that too. Switching error most likely
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And again I’m sure the picture quality is once again improved.
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Any caps? Possibly being controlled from Nine now?
I’m recording the whole thing, I’ll put one up if I can.
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Switched from 7News to NBN for the weather segment as usual on weekends, but only caught the very end of it today and there was a highlights package for Jane Goldsmith.
Was worried that she was retiring - but turns out it was to celebrate 20 years with NBN! Hopefully they will post it online.
Jane started as a casual with PRIME Newcastle in 2000, and then joined NBN News, where she has been ever since. A nice article here:
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Has been for a few weeks I believe.
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