Willam and Kate Wedding - guess the RTE1 ratings

mike65

As per the title, how many hundreds of thousands with be watching the event on RTE (obviously many will flick over to BBC/SKY/ITV but we can't second guess that number really).

Predator_

What a joke:rolleyes:

mike65

In what repect? You have just wandered into the TV forum.

Mr E

Hard to know. I won't be anyway, because (a) I'll be in work, and (b) I don't give a shit.

Richard Dower

Is this refering to the awesome guilty pleasure Lifetime and C5 movie?

Richard Dower

Mr E wrote: »

Hard to know. I won't be anyway, because (a) I'll be in work, and (b) I don't give a shit.

I'll be scouring Fringefiles.com all day Friday in preparation for that nights epicness!

Suspiria79

Who really cares if it will be 200'000 or 600'000?

Basq

I would watch but I've got an appointment pulling rusty nails out of my testicles..

Wish the British were all as honest as this chap:

Pauleta

Its Friday morning. It probably wont reach 100,000 but will get more than what Dr Phil and Shortland Street get.

Clareman

I would imagine anyone that would want to watch this would already have the beeb and as they wouldn't have ads, and lets be honest do the whole Royal thing very well, I would say that most Irish people that want to watch it would watch it on the bbc, so very low ratings for RTÉ.

Me on the other hand would prefer to get a triple crown waxing done to myself by Edward Scissorhands while having Mary Harney sit on my face than watch it on any channel.

Lady Chatterton

Basq wrote: »

I would watch but I've got an appointment pulling rusty nails out of my testicles..

Wish the British were all as honest as this chap:

I thought Stephen Fry was meant to be a very close friend of Prince Charles and Camilla. Maybe they have fallen out

Kojak

Pauleta wrote: »

Its Friday morning. It probably wont reach 100,000 but will get more than what Dr Phil and Shortland Street get.

So that will be a ratings winner for RTE then, I guess.

From anyone I talk to (any women, anyways) they are all getting very excited about it and plan to tune in for "the wedding" on Friday.

Suffice it to say, I'd rather watch a Murder, She Wrote marathon than watch that rubbish..

expectationlost

doesn't matter what ratings shouldn't be shown

mike65

Why can't people just stay on topic? Vote or shut up!

hatz7

over 500,000

Auvers

where is the "couldn't give a fcuk" option?

PCros

hatz7 wrote: »

over 500,000

Half a million? Doubt it

Its on a Friday morning with majority of people in work.

No1J

Hard to know, the amount of people that are having parties (OH and about 10 girls going to bubbles and cake one) and inviting friends around might skew the number of TV's switched on.
Still think 500,000 +.

Fr Tod Umptious

I have no idea but I think the weather may have a part to play in it.

IMO the demographic that will watch this is mostly female, many of which will be mothers.

At times like this parents often take holidays as their kids are off school and there is no one to mind them.

So with that in mind you would expect a lot of mothers and kids at home tuning into this, many which may have only a passing interest in the Royal family.
I remember watching the Charles and Diana wedding in 1981, I was 9 at the time and I am male.

Now if the sun is splitting the rocks the chances are they may not watch it and head outdoors, but if it is pi**ing rain then the ratings will go through the roof.

bazman05

mike65 wrote: »

As per the title, how many hundreds of thousands with be watching the event on RTE (obviously many will flick over to BBC/SKY/ITV but we can't second guess that number really).

You do know there a meaningless bunch of morons, high on their own self-importance.

I say let them live in their fantasy world, and I don't care that it will be shown on the television in England but what is unforgivable is that the Irish stations RTE (horribly boring channel) and TV3 (trashy, and an ITV parasite) are showing this tripe.

That is unforgivable and I'm going to deliberately tune these channels out of my tv (I won't be missing much anyway), as I don't want to give these "Irish" tv schedulers the satisfaction of adding to the rating of any of their shows again. They also live in a fantasy world where they expect us to swallow this garbage and like it.

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Sir Oxman

What i don't get is that according to one of the TV3 'Loose Women' types this morning, TV3 are doing uninterrupted coverage throughout the day with NO ADVERTS??
I know they are infamous for product placement but no adverts for 8 hours?
That sort of blows ad revenue arguments out of the water or maybe she was sooo excited thinking about cooing over and licking royalty's arse she lost the run of herself..

Richard Dower

The tabloids will destroy Kate Middleton...they need a new Diana and she fits the bill.

mike65

Keep nonsense chit chat for After Hours thanks, there are weddings threads to be found if you look.

The schools Easter Holidays are still on of course so there are plenty of people at home looking after children.

I'll guess about 400,000.

JONJO THE MISER

Id say around 600,000.

phasers

I voted 500,000 plus but I forgot about ads. If RTE have ads then the numbers will be nowhere near that.

u_c_thesecond

mike65 wrote: »

As per the title, how many hundreds of thousands with be watching the event on RTE (obviously many will flick over to BBC/SKY/ITV but we can't second guess that number really).

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Mr Trade In

Over 1 million as we Irish love to pretend,I will be in a dentists chair while this is going on,first time in 2 years but what a time to be doing it,any and all who do watch it will suffer more than I.

chicken fingers

Why is everybody so stupidly militant with regards to this.
The thread title is "guess the rating", not "lie to boards about how you will untune RTE from your tv to avoid the royal wedding".

finbarrk

I'd say around 300,000. There seems to be a good bit of intrest in it.

Predator_

X number of west brits

Minstrel27

bazman05 wrote: »

but what is unforgivable is that the Irish stations RTE (horribly boring channel) and TV3 (trashy, and an ITV parasite) are showing this tripe.

That is unforgivable and I'm going to deliberately tune these channels out of my tv (I won't be missing much anyway), as I don't want to give these "Irish" tv schedulers the satisfaction of adding to the rating of any of their shows again. They also live in a fantasy world where they expect us to swallow this garbage and like it.

Lucky for you then that you don't have FTA satellite television as you would be tuning out the majority of the channels on there. I have just looked for something to watch and it is wedding coverage in every language you can think of .

LordSutch

PCros wrote: »

Half a million? Doubt it

Its on a Friday morning with majority of people in work.

Most at work will be watching Online, and those at home will probably favour BBC, SKY, ITV or TV3, as well as RTE.

JP Liz V1

Is TV3 showing it also?

Minstrel27

Yes. For 8 hours.

cosmic

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Yes. For 8 hours.

Good God, that's excessive! I never thought I'd say this, but I'm glad I'm in work today...!

Richard Dower

Any wardrobe malfuction?

LordSutch

None really, apart from the fact that Kate's sister 'Pippa' looked soo good she nearly outshone the bride!

Agent Smith

LordSutch wrote: »

None really, apart from the fact that Kate's sister 'Pippa' looked soo good she nearly outshone the bride!

120_Minutes

was at work training and all the women training with me had to call a halt to "see her dress" so the only bit i saw was pippas ass going into the church

+1 dat ass.

caseyann

Under 90,000:D

I havent avoided tv so much as i did for all that rubbish lol.And every time it came on somewhere changed.

EIRGRID said television and web viewers caused a noticeable change to electricity demand in Ireland yesterday. The company, which manages Ireland’s electricity grids, said demand fell as tvs and appliances switched off as people left their homes to avoid the wedding.:D


I thought brilliant in corrie when the immigration man told it as it was in the episode :P

hondasam

500'000 would be my vote.

Dman001

bazman05 wrote: »

You do know there a meaningless bunch of morons, high on their own self-importance.

I say let them live in their fantasy world, and I don't care that it will be shown on the television in England but what is unforgivable is that the Irish stations RTE (horribly boring channel) and TV3 (trashy, and an ITV parasite) are showing this tripe.

That is unforgivable and I'm going to deliberately tune these channels out of my tv (I won't be missing much anyway), as I don't want to give these "Irish" tv schedulers the satisfaction of adding to the rating of any of their shows again. They also live in a fantasy world where they expect us to swallow this garbage and like it.

How dare they show one of the biggest TV events of the year, where an estimated 2 Billion people worldwide watched it!! Seriously, do you not get how ridiculous your post is.

The thing I never understand is how they can say that 2billion people watched it, especially before the marriage itself. It's like they assumed that everybody who was part of an English colony watched it, which I severely doubt is the case.

Dman001

Deleted User wrote: »

The thing I never understand is how they can say that 2billion people watched it, especially before the marriage itself. It's like they assumed that everybody who was part of an English colony watched it, which I severely doubt is the case.

True, maybe they took the last Royal Wedding's figures and used them a guideline.

Yet how did they know the last Royal Wedding figures? I severely doubt they polled everybody. It's all assumptions and these ratings are what destroys TV shows.

Poochie05

Interesting blog post on the Telegraph website about that 2 billion figure (posted by Dara O Briain on his Twitter feed).
It backs up the assumption that these figures are just plucked from the ether but then quoted by everyone and begin to be taken as gospel.

ejmaztec

Deleted User wrote: »

The thing I never understand is how they can say that 2billion people watched it, especially before the marriage itself. It's like they assumed that everybody who was part of an English colony watched it, which I severely doubt is the case.

It was probably watched by 300 million Americans for starters, because they all lurv the "Windzores" and think they're all related to them.

_Bella_

Deleted User wrote: »

Yet how did they know the last Royal Wedding figures? I severely doubt they polled everybody. It's all assumptions and these ratings are what destroys TV shows.

Diana and Charles wedding was seen by 750 million people.

ejmaztec

ejmaztec wrote: »

It was probably watched by 300 million Americans for starters, because they all lurv the "Windzores" and think they're all related to them.

It seems I made a slight error in my assumption, and was about 280 million out.:pac:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/mixed-tv-ratings-for-the-royal-wedding/

The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on Friday was a snooze for most Americans, according to television audience estimates. Still, it amounted to a record ratings day for some television channels.
The Nielsen Company said that an average of 22.7 million viewers at home in the United States watched the wedding live (between 6 and 7:15 a.m. Eastern daylight time). That figure — encompassing the viewers of of 11 channels — reaffirms pre-wedding polls that found only lukewarm interest in the nuptials among most Americans.
Still, millions did tune in, giving channel executives reason to cheer.

Sir Oxman

Poochie05 wrote: »

Interesting blog post on the Telegraph website about that 2 billion figure (posted by Dara O Briain on his Twitter feed).
It backs up the assumption that these figures are just plucked from the ether but then quoted by everyone and begin to be taken as gospel.

Thanks for that - I always thought the 'accepted' figure of 2 billion was outrageous and completely made up and then quoted ad nauseum.
I believe the combined viewership for BBC/ITV was 24 million (reported on Digitalspy) - and that's in the country it was happening in.