Ratings watch thread

Elmo

The All Ireland Football final on RTÉ TV was watched by 1.2 million

Last years Football final was watch by just 843,000 viewers or a 62% share of the audience, this years hurling final had 901,000 viewers this compares to 785,000 last year.

Massive increase for both.

An Ciarraioch

Strange, considering the same two counties were in last year's football final - the novelty factor undoubtedly revived interest in the hurling decider.

Elmo

An Ciarraioch wrote: »

Strange, considering the same two counties were in last year's football final - the novelty factor undoubtedly revived interest in the hurling decider.

IMO Dublin's possible 3 in a Row and Mayo finally breaking their losing streak. The Hurling the fact that Kilkenny didn't take part and the Return of Waterford. .... Or .... cynically... there isn't much else on.

Elmo

No. Programme Channel Start Time Day TVR 000's
1 The Sunday Game Live - Live Play:Dublin V Mayo RTÉ 2 15:31 Sun 27.9 987
2 The Sunday Game Live - Post Match:Dublin V Mayo RTÉ 2 17:15 Sun 21.4 756
3 The Late Late Show RTÉ ONE 21:36 Fri 11.8 418
4 Up For The Match RTÉ ONE 21:44 Sat 11.2 396
5 The Sunday Game Live - Build Up:Dublin V Mayo RTÉ 2 14:13 Sun 11.2 396
6 Mrs Brown's Boys RTÉ ONE 21:08 Sat 9.4 333
7 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:02 Wed 8.4 296
8 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:02 Tue 8.3 295
9 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:03 Sun 8.3 292
10 Champions League Live - Live Play:Liverpool V Sevilla RTÉ 2 19:46 Wed 7.9 280
11 Find Me A Home RTÉ ONE 20:31 Thu 7.8 277
12 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Mon 7.8 277
13 Coronation Street TV3 19:29 Wed 7.8 276
14 Coronation Street TV3 20:30 Mon 7.8 276
15 Nationwide RTÉ ONE 19:00 Wed 7.7 273
16 What Are You Working For? RTÉ ONE 21:36 Mon 7.7 271
17 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:01 Thu 7.3 257
18 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:29 Thu 7.1 250
19 Champions League Live: Man Utd V Basel TV3 19:30 Tue 6.9 243
20 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:28 Tue 6.7 237
21 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Fri 6.7 236
22 Prime Time RTÉ ONE 21:36 Tue 6.6 233
23 Celebrity Operation Transformation RTÉ ONE 21:35 Wed 6.6 233
24 Coronation Street TV3 20:29 Fri 6.6 233
25 The Sunday Game RTÉ 2 21:30 Sun 6.4 227
26 The Geansai RTÉ ONE 18:59 Tue 6.4 226
27 Reeling In The Years RTÉ ONE 18:33 Sat 6.4 225
28 Nationwide RTÉ ONE 19:00 Mon 6.2 221
29 Daniel And Majella's B&B Road Trip RTÉ ONE 20:32 Sun 6.2 220
30 Emmerdale TV3 19:00 Thu 6.2 220
31 Frock Finders RTÉ ONE 20:31 Tue 6.2 218
32 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:58 Mon 6.1 217
33 Emmerdale TV3 19:00 Tue 6.1 216

Elmo

So IMO tabloid-ism works, I don't know what the reaction was to RTÉ2's Ireland's Rich List was but it was viewed by 155,000, this compares to a repeat of Up For The Match which had 55,000 (first time for a repeat of UFTM on 2?). Though I don't really understand its popularity on ONE with 396,000 viewers.

You can tell the autumn is here and TV3 seem to be settling into many of their shows. The X Factor is prob the only disappointment for them but its unlike that the show will pick up, with 171,000 and 154,000 viewers on Sat and Sun respectively. Nothing dropped below 100,000 viewers with Pat Kenny's new-ish show getting 111,000 and Gogglebox getting 109,000 viewers, It will be interesting to see if Coro St Wednesday night ep will push these figures up.

Champions league on 2 had 280 for live play and over on 3 243 but this is for the whole programme.

Again the diparity is those under 15 as medialive report adults only. Haven't said that in a while so though I would mention it.

Elmo

So TAMI has a new look site http://www.tamireland.ie/top-programmes/ but I can't see the share and reach, I don't think we will get them again. Dreadful looking new site, the other one was horrible but at least it was usable.

Really unprofessional site, links don't work. And many of the pictures will be dated and its not like TAMI are know for updating their site. And they link to a UK site for their planning section, everything in UK Pounds and stats on UK TV

Elmo

No. Programme Channel Start Time Day TVR 000's
1 The Late Late Show RTÉ ONE 21:36 Fri 12.7 449
2 Acceptable Risk RTÉ ONE 21:30 Sun 9.5 336
3 Find Me A Home RTÉ ONE 20:34 Thu 9.4 332
4 The Ray D'Arcy Show RTÉ ONE 21:47 Sat 9.3 328
5 Coronation Street TV3 20:29 Mon 8.9 316
6 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:01 Tue 8.6 305
7 Fair Ciy RTÉ ONE 20:03 Wed 8.5 299
8 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Mon 8.1 287
9 Coronation Street TV3 20:30 Wed 8 284
10 Ploughing Live RTÉ ONE 19:00 Wed 7.9 279
11 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:01 Sun 7.8 277
12 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Fri 7.8 276
13 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Wed 7.7 274
14 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:33 Thu 7.6 270
15 Ploughing Live RTÉ ONE 19:00 Thu 7.6 268
16 The Classroom Divide RTÉ ONE 21:36 Mon 7.6 268
17 Winning Streak RTÉ ONE 20:16 Sat 7.5 267
18 Ploughing Live RTÉ ONE 19:00 Tue 7.5 264
19 Prime Time RTÉ ONE 21:38 Tue 7.4 263
20 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:04 Thu 7.4 262
21 Coronation Street TV3 20:30 Fri 7.2 256
22 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:30 Tue 7.1 252
23 Prime Time RTÉ ONE 21:40 Thu 7 249
24 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:58 Mon 6.9 242
25 Frock Finders RTÉ ONE 20:32 Tue 6.8 240
26 Nationwide RTÉ ONE 19:00 Mon 6.8 240

Elmo

RTÉ2 has really fallen flat. Top show as their Rich List gaining 196,000 viewers. In fairness that does amazing considering a channel that has no other shows getting over 100,000. It's followed I assume by a repeat of First Dates with 71,000 viewers. And preceded by Building Ireland with 68,000 viewers.

Wildlife programming ranged from 70,000 for Animal Super Parents to 52,000 viewers for This Wild Life, both of which I think could be repeats.

Home and Away ranges from 55,000 viewers to 65,000 viewers.

New series of Bridget and Eamon had 70,000 viewers.

Sports wise TG4 (the sponsor) Ladies All Ireland Highlight on 2 had just 63,000 but this compares to live coverage of SSE Airtrcity League live game of just 54,000. Is it not the Daily Mail League now? Greyhound racing had 48,000 viewers.

Emmys had 60,000.

While one of their standard life docs Schizophrenia: The Voices In My Head had just 47,000 viewers at number 20, but this could have been Repeat from the previous week.

Record audience for TG4 for the live match over 300,000 viewers.

Elmo

Over on TV3 Coro Street was slightly up with 316,000 viewers and 287,000 viewers on Monday night this help Xpose get 109,000 viewers.

Xfactor on Sunday night had just 158,000 viewers with just 129,000 on Saturday though I believe their were technical issues.

Irish shows Living with Lucy had 116,000 viewers with Gogglebox getting 141,000 viewers.

Pat Kenny had just 103,000 viewers, no sign of The Tonight Show. I don't know if its a good idea to have 2 similar current affairs shows on Wednesday night.

MikeyTaylor

Elmo wrote: »

RTÉ2 has really fallen flat. Top show as their Rich List gaining 196,000 viewers. In fairness that does amazing considering a channel that has no other shows getting over 100,000. It's followed I assume by a repeat of First Dates with 71,000 viewers. And preceded by Building Ireland with 68,000 viewers.

Wildlife programming ranged from 70,000 for Animal Super Parents to 52,000 viewers for This Wild Life, both of which I think could be repeats.

Home and Away ranges from 55,000 viewers to 65,000 viewers.

New series of Bridget and Eamon had 70,000 viewers.

Sports wise TG4 (the sponsor) Ladies All Ireland Highlight on 2 had just 63,000 but this compares to live coverage of SSE Airtrcity League live game of just 54,000. Is it not the Daily Mail League now? Greyhound racing had 48,000 viewers.

Emmys had 60,000.

While one of their standard life docs Schizophrenia: The Voices In My Head had just 47,000 viewers at number 20, but this could have been Repeat from the previous week.

Record audience for TG4 for the live match over 300,000 viewers.

Do you know what Strictly Come Dancing is getting?

Joe Duffy.

Elmo wrote: »

RTÉ2 has really fallen flat. Top show as their Rich List gaining 196,000 viewers. In fairness that does amazing considering a channel that has no other shows getting over 100,000. It's followed I assume by a repeat of First Dates with 71,000 viewers. And preceded by Building Ireland with 68,000 viewers.

Wildlife programming ranged from 70,000 for Animal Super Parents to 52,000 viewers for This Wild Life, both of which I think could be repeats.

Home and Away ranges from 55,000 viewers to 65,000 viewers.

New series of Bridget and Eamon had 70,000 viewers.

Sports wise TG4 (the sponsor) Ladies All Ireland Highlight on 2 had just 63,000 but this compares to live coverage of SSE Airtrcity League live game of just 54,000. Is it not the Daily Mail League now? Greyhound racing had 48,000 viewers.

Emmys had 60,000.

While one of their standard life docs Schizophrenia: The Voices In My Head had just 47,000 viewers at number 20, but this could have been Repeat from the previous week.

Record audience for TG4 for the live match over 300,000 viewers.

Long gone are the days that home and away was getting 350k viewers

Elmo

Very hard to get BBC figures, GBBO didn't do to badly for C4 but medialive only give opt out Channel 4 figures not FTA/FreeView numbers.

Home And Away would have been very lucky to get over 300,000 viewers, it was getting maybe over 200,000.

MikeyTaylor

Elmo wrote: »

Over on TV3 Coro Street was slightly up with 316,000 viewers and 287,000 viewers on Monday night this help Xpose get 109,000 viewers.

Xfactor on Sunday night had just 158,000 viewers with just 129,000 on Saturday though I believe their were technical issues.

Irish shows Living with Lucy had 116,000 viewers with Gogglebox getting 141,000 viewers.

Pat Kenny had just 103,000 viewers, no sign of The Tonight Show. I don't know if its a good idea to have 2 similar current affairs shows on Wednesday night.

Yeah looks like Corrie is helping to keep that outdated Xposure sh1te alive!

Elmo

Home and Away average audience in Feb 1999 was 260,000 viewers. While TV3 EastEnders had just 70,000 viewers.

An Ciarraioch

Elmo wrote: »

Over on TV3 Coro Street was slightly up with 316,000 viewers and 287,000 viewers on Monday night this help Xpose get 109,000 viewers.

Xfactor on Sunday night had just 158,000 viewers with just 129,000 on Saturday though I believe their were technical issues.

Irish shows Living with Lucy had 116,000 viewers with Gogglebox getting 141,000 viewers.

Pat Kenny had just 103,000 viewers, no sign of The Tonight Show. I don't know if its a good idea to have 2 similar current affairs shows on Wednesday night.

Certainly wouldn't be in the interest of Irish television as a whole, though, if it ends up getting the axe, given they'd likely replace it with more repeats of Law and Order.

Elmo

An Ciarraioch wrote: »

Certainly wouldn't be in the interest of Irish television as a whole, though, if it ends up getting the axe, given they'd likely replace it with more repeats of Law and Order.

Xpose?

Xpose is the product of quantity over quality at TV3. TV3 for the last 10 years and I'd say even now have wanted to say that they have 50% of their programming coming from Ireland. TV3 spread their staff across multiple shows. If they did drop it, it most likely would result in jobs losses those people would move to other current programmes.

If they did axe it, they have 23hours of Red Rock they could replace it with on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

7:30 Coro St
8pm Red Rock
8:30 Coro St

and should they wish

9pm Red Rock

Or even just on a monday and a friday.

MikeyTaylor

Elmo wrote: »

Xpose?

Xpose is the product of quantity over quality at TV3. TV3 for the last 10 years and I'd say even now have wanted to say that they have 50% of their programming coming from Ireland. TV3 spread their staff across multiple shows. If they did drop it, it most likely would result in jobs losses those people would move to other current programmes.

If they did axe it, they have 23hours of Red Rock they could replace it with on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

7:30 Coro St
8pm Red Rock
8:30 Coro St

and should they wish

9pm Red Rock

Or even just on a monday and a friday.

XpoZZZé vs Nightshift - I know which I prefer! Anything is better than the former.

An Ciarraioch

Elmo wrote: »

Xpose?

Xpose is the product of quantity over quality at TV3. TV3 for the last 10 years and I'd say even now have wanted to say that they have 50% of their programming coming from Ireland. TV3 spread their staff across multiple shows. If they did drop it, it most likely would result in jobs losses those people would move to other current programmes.

If they did axe it, they have 23hours of Red Rock they could replace it with on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

7:30 Coro St
8pm Red Rock
8:30 Coro St

and should they wish

9pm Red Rock

Or even just on a monday and a friday.

Sorry, was talking about the Tonight Show - crossed wires!

Elmo

An Ciarraioch wrote: »

Sorry, was talking about the Tonight Show - crossed wires!

Yeah I agree TV3 would most likely replace with Law and Order but I also would conclude that VB Tonight/The Tonight Show are part of the 50% Irish programming that TV3 where so keen to achieve.

iseegirls

Any reasoning why there was no Monday edition of The Tonight Show? Agree that it's silly to have Pat Kenny and Tonight Show back to back on a Wednesday.

Joe Duffy.

I'd imagine as more and more people are back in work now and getting up early in the morning that there just isn't much of an audience for the tonight show anymore.

Elmo

Joe Duffy. wrote: »

I'd imagine as more and more people are back in work now and getting up early in the morning that there just isn't much of an audience for the tonight show anymore.

Cost of hiring two presenters.

zeebre12

Elmo wrote: »

Home and Away average audience in Feb 1999 was 260,000 viewers. While TV3 EastEnders had just 70,000 viewers.

Thats mad Home and Away was that big..where did you get this information? It lost like 200,000 viewers in a small country

Elmo

zeebre12 wrote: »

Elmo wrote: »

Home and Away average audience in Feb 1999 was 260,000 viewers. While TV3 EastEnders had just 70,000 viewers.

Thats mad Home and Away was that big..where did you get this information? It lost like 200,000 viewers in a small country

Medialive have monthly figures going back to the late 1990s

brick man

zeebre12 wrote:

Thats mad Home and Away was that big..where did you get this information? It lost like 200,000 viewers in a small country

Elmo wrote:

Medialive have monthly figures going back to the late 1990s

A different site carries classic rte guides from years gone by and week ending Sept 10th 1989 and home and away was the top program on rte network2 with an audience of 636000 viewers and the 20th program had an audience of 270000 if rte2 could get 270000 for its top programs now would be an achievement

Elmo

brick man wrote: »

A different site carries classic rte guides from years gone by and week ending Sept 10th 1989 and home and away was the top program on rte network2 with an audience of 636000 viewers and the 20th program had an audience of 270000 if rte2 could get 270000 for its top programs now would be an achievement

Be interesting to see what those figures for RTÉ2 were like in 1988 before it became Network 2. 636000 for Home and Away, I wonder if Six One news had return to an hour following the summer break.

You have to remember many people were in 2 TV land and even those that weren't were largely in 6 TV land with some just gaining access to Sky, Super, TCC, MTV and so on.

Also I don't think Home and Away had started on ITV and if it had they were a few months behind Network 2.

Elmo

here is the full list

Elmo

I am very surprised at how well Network 2 was doing with Coro St, I know it did a good bit better on 1 but I though it was way down for 2 before it switched over.

Not the greatest quality

zeebre12

brick man wrote: »

A different site carries classic rte guides from years gone by and week ending Sept 10th 1989 and home and away was the top program on rte network2 with an audience of 636000 viewers and the 20th program had an audience of 270000 if rte2 could get 270000 for its top programs now would be an achievement

What site is this?

zeebre12

Elmo wrote: »

Medialive have monthly figures going back to the late 1990s

I looked at Medialive. Do you have to register or where do you find these figures on the site?