The NRL and Channel Nine are celebrating the best television ratings in the history of the sport, with the Broncos-Storm grand final attracting a record audience of 4.46 million viewers.

The NRL grand final smashed the television viewing numbers of the AFL, with an average of 4.18 million viewers tuning in to watch the Brisbane Lions topple Geelong to win the flag a week earlier.

The women’s grand final also had more than a million viewers, passing the numbers of the Bledisloe Cup between the Wallabies and All Blacks (893,000) the night before. It was up 36 per cent on the NRLW grand final the year before.

The NRL grand final was watched by more people than the highest rating Origin fixture of the year, with an average of 3.9 million tuning in for the decider in game three earlier in th

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