Ratings watch thread

Channel		Feb		+1 Share
RTÉ ONE		18.72%		1.2%
VMT one		12.01%		0.28%
RTÉ2		6.80%		0.27%
VMT TWO		4.74%
TG4		2.45%
VMT THREE	2.23%
Sky News	1.28%
Challenge	1.15%
VMT FOUR	0.40%
RTÉjr		0.15%
RTÉ ONE +1	1.20%


RTÉ Total	27.15%
VMT Total	19.65%
Sky Total 	7.51%

I am not sure how the split for Six Nations is doing for RTÉ2, will be interesting to see how the RWC goes for RTÉ2 in the Autumn.

The coronation may have been cheap filler for RTE on Saturday, but the general public were apathetic, to put it mildly, about the coverage, as it failed to enter RTE One's weekly top 20 (rounded off by Mark Moriarty: Off Duty Chef on 146,000). Nothing spectacular to report, as the Late Late topped the week on 312,000, Kin finished respectably with 277,000, but Angela Scanlan's 177,000 is far from Tommy Tiernan numbers, and 200,000 for Ireland's Smartest is surely below the expectations of Montrose bosses for the series.

The GAA ratings (233,000 for the Munster final, 159,000 for Connacht) show that appetites will only truly be piqued from the QF stage onwards, and the URC doesn't appear to interest the casual sports fan (118,000 for Munster, 94,000 for Leinster). Finally, Virgin Media audiences are slowly dwindling YoY, with neither Corrie nor Emmerdale recording 200,000 for an episode, indeed with some of the latter nearer the 100,000 mark, and I'm A Celebrity South Africa doesn't have the drawing power of the Aussie series, peaking at 114,000 last week.

73,000 adults tuned into This Morning to see the first episode with out Philip, This Morning had appeared a few times in the top twenty of UTV Ireland when it first started broadcasting on Saorview (Terrestrial TV) in 2015. It be interesting to know if it was a once of or if this is the kind of audience seen by TM and just a coincidence as audience number for VMTV ONE are down, with Coro St getting between 144,000 and 173,000 adult viewers and BGT getting just 107,000.

Tubs last Late Late was watched by 497,000 adult viewers, will be interesting to see the consolidated numbers with +1 and the player.

RTÉ2 had sport but it top non-sporting programme (The Living Daylights) had just 57k v 352k for Limerick V Cork Hurling.

The "Player" figures really don't seem to stand up for me.

VMTV are investing 2m on an upgrade (or they have invested).

The report shows that Love Island was the most streamed show on the player and brought in significant increases in audience for the player. However, what about the rest of the year. Back of the envelope stuff puts RTÉ and VMTV player between 80,000 to 150,000 streams a day, this compares to 200,000 viewers for a soap opera on live TV.

The return of Holly Willoby to This Morning had 71,000 +15 viewers.

Probably as good as can be expected nowadays. Interesting to see what he'll keep longer term

EastEnders even it is normal Monday and Friday time slots didn't do great numbers, it would be interesting to see the numbers on BBC1 and RTÉ1 +1, and RTÉ Player number against that of Nationwide.

They should let nationwide go out 5 nights a week, blend it into the Today show, forget about Daytime TV as they are unable to produce it year round.

7pm Nationwide

7:30 EastEnders (Friday Hour long edition of Nationwide)

8pm Fair City (Friday Lifestyle)

8:30 Lifestyle

Either that or move Fair City to 7pm Monday to Thursday

Or you could put Fair City on at 7pm and 8pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

RTÉ made no effort with the Soap changes.

Neighbours left, nothing

Eastenders change, nothing until about two months later when the move Fair City to Thursday to Friday Night.

Return of Neighbours, drop shortland street!

IMO they aren't aware of what they are doing. I don't think any show between 5:30 - 6:30 gets into the top 20 so Shortland street couldn't have being doing much worse than what is currently on at 5:30.

Record breaking figure for VM/TV3 on Saturday, with 1,378,000 average for the Irish Quarter-Final match.

RTE will suffer as well with them supposed to have exclusive Irish semi-final match, but no longer have that now.

It'd be interesting to find out the process from VM and RTE when selecting those games.

Not that I think TV isn't on the way out but... RTÉ's player isn't really replacing TV and that means others clearly are.

RTÉ hope that the player will achieve 100m streams by the end of they year.

That's on average 12k per hour (365days, 24hours).

The interesting thing about their press release is that they don't actually release any real numbers except

[actually that doesn't tell us anything 250,000hours streamed by how many people?]

and to say that soaps had 20m streams (and they are the biggest show on RTÉ), while not mention I assume this includes Ros Na Run, Shortland Street and Doctors. That's not that many stream across soaps that air about 2hours a week of content each.

Top 10 programmes on RTÉ Player in 2023

It is interesting to see the soaps at the top of the list, but I'd love to know the streaming numbers for the top episode over any of the 3 soaps.

TV is dead and the Soap is dead. Long live TV Soap!

Thanks, would you have 2022, just to compare if any channels saw a rise or decrease?

Challenge is on Saorview.

That figure, I believe, is only for Channel 4's opt out channels. So those on getting C4 via sat is not include. I could be wrong.

Also I'd say Channel 4 is no long considered a mainstream channel in Ireland as it has multiple channels. I think their audience has been diminished because of their suite of channels. The current opt-outs put Channel 4 as the 5th biggest broadcaster, this excluded E4 extra, 4 music, Film4 +1, More4 +1 and 4Seven. (and potential those watching non-opt out services).

It would be interesting to know how the 26% of viewers who do not make up those figures are broken down by Broadcaster.

I'd argue that BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and ITV make up most of that 26%.

Top programme on RTÉ2 this week was Investec Champions Cup with 169k with First Dates getting 133k (Adults +15) last week.

All other shows under 90k

I though RTÉ2's Selling Ireland's Dream Homes was a repeat but I believe it was new, had just 55k, the only other 2 Irish programmes are repeats My Bungalow Bliss (71k) and Home Rescue (46k).

Great Australian Railway Journeys had 41k at number 20 meaning all other shows had under 41k viewers.

This is RTÉ2 for the last decade, meanwhile Bakhurst begins to actually look at where the audience is, well they aren't on RTÉ2. Also the only American imports on the top 20 are movies and the Golden Globes!

Last weeks schedule

Never seen that before either. Those are some brilliant ratings, and plus it's a 3 hour show.

Although looking a different way, it shows how poor the prime time offering is on VMTV One outside of the soaps if they struggle to get into the Top 20.

@RoTelly how did the LLS turnout over the season?

Kielty is a better host but it's still the same old crap anytime I seen it

Other channels breakdown

Ireland AM creeping into the top twenty shows must be worrying, while Emmerdale was out ahead of Coronation Street. Neither Stardust nor Zoo Live did much for RTÉ ONE. Though with the weather the way it was perhaps getting out of the house was on people's minds. Worst figures for either that I have seen (outside 2014/2015 years of UTV IRELAND).

I though the exact same thing.

Fair City takes up 5% of RTÉ Players over all viewing - I think that's what Kevin Bee is suggesting.

One main reason for this is that the show is an exclusive to RTÉ, so you have no choice were to watch it, it would be interesting to know how all of the on the Player compare.

Then if it is going so well why would you cut an episode.