Ratings watch thread

I think new episodes of First Dates Ireland do pretty well. Maybe The Young Offenders did well, but you'd have to look back to see official ratings.

Are the viewing figures for 6 nations normal like this I know Ireland V Italy would be a relatively small game for series but 418,000 for VMTV one. Ant & Dec not getting into RTÉ's top 20 for a Saturday night with chat shows TLLS and TTTS getting 355,000 and 319,000 respectively.

Source freely available through medialive.ie

they will also be higher because of children, above figures do not include those under 15 years of age. Sports are often under reported on medialive.

RTÉ did once get viewing figures from BARB.

TBH my neighbour watched Six Nation via France 2.

It's not a great show, typically daytime soap like, they possibly need to improve the writing before the move.

I agree but RTÉ2 has no real shows or identity anymore, RTÉ could have decided to put a repeat of Fair City or EastEnders on 2 at 7pm and it possibly would have seen its 7pm slot increase in audience.

Shortland St is not an RTÉ2 show at all, purely there as part of a block of Soaps.

https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/top-100/eastenders-down-as-soap-battle-begins/5168635.article?referrer=RSS

RTÉ2 was recording audience of 500,000 viewers for Home and Away in the late 80s/early 90s with a similar figure for Coro St, Coro St when moved to RTÉ1 was reaching over 900,000 viewers. and then you can also ad UTV's audience for both shows.

It would be interesting to see the total audience for these soaps now. I wonder how many people repeat watch the soaps.

jaysis the Late Late down to 360k, thats a bit of a shocker no? I thought they consisently got 450-500k and then more for some shows like specials.

If 360k or even 400k is their new base I wouldnt be all that surprised, Im mainly surprised in how long it took actually. Like the quality of the guests has gone way down hill and there is only so long you can revolve the carousel of the same people before people start turning off. Like they have their country special every year (fair enough) but now when they are desperate for guests they invite all the same people back for a mini country special then they'll invite a few of them on for single interviews throughtout the season. Theres only so much people have to say before it gets boring very quickly.

Funnily enough during Covid they had their best guests in years since the days of Gay Byrne. All done on Zoom, you had Bruce Srpingsteen and lots of other Hollywood A listers. If famous folk of that standing are willing to do Zoom interviews I dont know why they dont continue that on. Instead they've gone back to the same old tired Irish guests and chatting to someone in the audience about some random sh1te that is of little interest to most people.

It did relatively well not sure about the player audience but the final had 430,000 adult viewers while the opening at 8pm on Monday saw Coronation Street lose a few viewers, Coro St averaging 140,000 viewer and RoT getting 226,000 viewers on Monday Night.

I can't imagine 100,000 viewers over the course of 7days or even a month tuning in for TLLS, same for RoT. It would be interesting to know.

Since the changes to the schedule they have been down, but I'd be more inclined to think that people catch up on the players.

I didn't think LLS figures were great for an opening episode and I am less inclined to think that people catch up with it on the player.

I watch neither Soap or LLS.

It comes after Harry Wilde so this may be the reason, but a good showing tbh, if it see a further drop next week it won't have won the audience.

As for the soccer good for soccer but no so good for everything else on RTÉ2, what stands out is 30,000 viewers for Shortland Street!

Unsure, Neighbour rarely got into the top twenty (adults +15) figure but when it did it had 50,000 viewers. RTÉ2 list are well below anything they have seen before, The Year That Rock The World at 20 had just 28,000 viewers, while at 4 Freddie: The Final Act had just 52,000 viewers.

I never thought about that being a reason for the move of The Simpsons, however AFAIK the deal the broadcasters make when they buy in programming is as follows

On the day of broadcast they have the right to show the same episode at any time over the next 24 hour period from the first airing that day

Generally over the course of a year they get between 3 and 5 repeats of a show.

E.G. if RTÉ2 repeated E1S1 of The Simpsons today at 6pm they can repeat it as many times as they like until 6pm the following day, but if they repeat it at 6pm tomorrow its considered one of the repeats.

I could be wrong.

I assume the move was partly do suggest that TRTÉ hadn't move its hours back and that they could consider The Simpsons as part of TRTÉ hours, but also that the Simpsons had been on repeat since the late-1990s, I fully assumed they would replace Neighbours with The Simpsons and thought it would have boosted the audience at that time.

I don't see any need for a RTE3, seeing how miserable looking those figures are for RTE2. Removal of kids tv from RTE2 would be the first start if they were to try anything.

Technically it should have the minister should have been sought to deem it as a public service as it is on Saorview, and same goes for Sky News addition.

Though Dept say that Sky News is commerical, while VM4 may come under TV3 original license like that of VM2, I wonder if VM3 still is under UTV Ireland license ?

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/free-to-air-status-for-utv-was-a-done-deal-fumes-tv3-q8x8t9nbd02

First time I've spotted Shortland Street in the RTE Two ratings - 34k for the Wednesday evening repeat.

Could be wrong the first page of this says (from 2015)

Latest Jan results

VMTV reported 1.8m for Six Nations

Medialive saw a massive increase in audience for TLLS, due in part to the announcement that Tubs is exiting and it was the St. Patrick's Night Special.

Just medialive Adult numbers

1	6 Nations Live: Trophy Lift	Sat	VMTV ONE	841
2	6 Live Play: Ireland v England	Sat	VMTV ONE	824
3	6 Post-Match: Ireland v England	Sat	VMTV ONE	534
4	6 Pre-Match: Ireland v England	Sat	VMTV ONE	531
5	The Late Late Show		Fri	RTÉ ONE		438
6	Dancing With The Stars		Sun	RTÉ ONE		310
7	Reeling In The Years		Fri	RTÉ ONE		290
8	The Tommy Tiernan Show		Sat	RTÉ ONE		289
9	Nationwide			Wed	RTÉ ONE		288
10	6 Live Play: France v Wales	Sat	VMTV ONE	275
11	Nationwide			Mon	RTÉ ONE		273
12	Fair City			Sun	RTÉ ONE		272
13	Cheap European Homes		Thu	RTÉ ONE		254
14	Kin				Sun	RTÉ ONE		246
15	Brian Arthur Very Modern Family	Mon	RTÉ ONE		229
16	Fair City			Tue	RTÉ ONE		228
17	Horseracing: Chelte		Fri	VMTV ONE	228
18	St Patrick's Festival Parade	Fri	RTÉ ONE		224
19	Coronation Street		Mon	VMTV ONE	221
20	Fair City			Fri	RTÉ ONE		206
21	Realtai Na Gaeltachta		Tue	RTÉ ONE		204
22	Prime Time			Tue	RTÉ ONE		202
23	Coronation Street		Mon	VMTV ONE	202
24	Home Of The Year		Tue	RTÉ ONE		198
25	6 Live Play:Scotland v Italy	Sat	RTÉ2		185
26	Horseracing: Cheltenham 	Wed	VMTV ONE	185
27	Emmerdale			Mon	VMTV ONE	181
28	Fair City			Thu	RTÉ ONE		169
29	6 Post-Match:Scotland v Italy	Sat	RTÉ2		168
30	Horseracing: Cheltenham		Tue	VMTV ONE	168
31	Coronation Street		Fri	VMTV ONE	161
32	The Dry				Wed	RTÉ ONE		160
33	Coronation Street		Fri	VMTV ONE	159
34	Prime Time			Thu	RTÉ ONE		155
35	Coronation Street		Wed	VMTV ONE	155
36	Coronation Street		Wed	VMTV ONE	155
37	Champions League Live 		Tue	RTÉ2		154
38	Ant & Dec			Sat	VMTV ONE	152
39	Eastenders			Wed	RTÉ ONE		150
40	Horseracing: Cheltenham 	Thu	VMTV ONE	150