State of Origin Game III the highest-rating program in series history
- The 2026 State of Origin decider was the highest-rating game in the television broadcast history of the interstate rugby league series.
- Days after the NRL inked a $5.3 billion broadcast deal — the most lucrative in Australian sporting history — broadcaster Channel Nine flagged that another record had been broken.
- A total audience of 4.29 million, calculated as the average number of people tuning in at any given time, watched NSW stun Queensland to reclaim the Origin shield on Wednesday night.
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- The 2026 State of Origin decider was the highest-rating game in the television broadcast history of the interstate rugby league series.
- Days after the NRL inked a $5.3 billion broadcast deal — the most lucrative in Australian sporting history — broadcaster Channel Nine flagged that another record had been broken.
- A total audience of 4.29 million, calculated as the average number of people tuning in at any given time, watched NSW stun Queensland to reclaim the Origin shield on Wednesday night.
Sources: ABC Australia