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AUS vs. ENG Women's World Cup game was the most-watched TV event in AU history

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> roughly nine out of 10 Australians who were watching commercial TV were watching the Matildas.

What is "Commercial TV"? Does this not count Australian Broadcasting Corp (and potentially SBS)?

Otherwise, I'm very excited for what this means for football in Australia. Potentially more funding for A-League, perhaps even SBS putting more money towards rights to telecast overseas leagues as well.

The ABC and SBS are basically government funded channels. They are supposed to give everybody in the country some form of Radio and TV service.

'Commercial TV' are the advertisement-funded private TV Channels originally 7, 9, and 10* (but now also include the later extra digital channels run by those companies).

Obviously, some outback areas of the country are not commercially viable, so their Radio and TV services are very likely limited to ABC and SBS.

* Channel 10 was originally aired on the Channel 0 frequencies back in the 1960s. That frequency band was required for some other services, so Channel 0 TV Stations were moved up to Channel 10.

Some rich folks definitely see a market they can grow

Enshittify. Thats what they want. They've enshittified the male versions of sports with the expected drop off in interest and need a fresh enshitifiable source.

Impressive, given that The Ashes only happened recently.

The Ashes is a bit passe, the Women's world cup has huge novelty and locality factors

The Ashes is finished. Unlikeable players, gambling scandals, cheating scandals and the general disinterest in cricket as a mainstream sport did it in.

They play too many games for anybody to retain any kind of specialness the ashes used to have and too much of it is locked up on pay TV and sponsored by gambling companies. I just can't bring myself to watch it any more.

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