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Willam and Kate Wedding - guess the RTE1 ratings

  • 27-04-2011 6:41pm
    #1
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭


    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).

    Willam and Kate Wedding - guess the RTE1 ratings 41 votes

    up to 200,000
    0% 0 votes
    200,000 to 300,000
    43% 18 votes
    300,000 to 400,000
    21% 9 votes
    400,000 to 500,000
    21% 9 votes
    500,000 plus
    12% 5 votes


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  • #2
    Predator_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Predator_


    What a joke:rolleyes:


  • #3
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


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


  • #4
    Mr E
    Registered Users Posts: 55,451 ✭✭✭✭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. :)


  • #5
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


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


  • #6
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭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! :)


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  • #7
    Suspiria79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 462 ✭✭Suspiria79


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


  • #8
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,774 ✭✭✭✭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:

    tumblr_ljy64sgcEl1qgsxdqo1_500.jpg


  • #9
    Pauleta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


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


  • #10
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 23,923 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #11
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭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:

    tumblr_ljy64sgcEl1qgsxdqo1_500.jpg
    I thought Stephen Fry was meant to be a very close friend of Prince Charles and Camilla. Maybe they have fallen out :confused:


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  • #12
    Kojak
    Registered Users Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭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. :confused:

    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..


  • #13
    expectationlost
    Registered Users Posts: 11,753 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    doesn't matter what ratings shouldn't be shown


  • #14
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


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


  • #15
    hatz7
    Registered Users Posts: 303 ✭✭hatz7


    over 500,000


  • #16
    Auvers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,987 ✭✭✭Auvers


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


  • #17
    PCros
    Registered Users Posts: 2,067 ✭✭✭PCros


    hatz7 wrote: »
    over 500,000

    Half a million? Doubt it

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


  • #18
    No1J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 783 ✭✭✭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 +.


  • #19
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users Posts: 15,001 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #20
    bazman05
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭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.


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    5.


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  • #22
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭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..


  • #23
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


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


  • #24
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #25
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Id say around 600,000.


  • #26
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


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


  • #27
    u_c_thesecond
    Registered Users Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭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).

    zero









    no wait sorry i didnt mean that i ment to say...












    NIL






























    and if you didnt see that i said


















































    NO ONE


  • #28
    Mr Trade In
    Registered Users Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭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.


  • #29
    chicken fingers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 645 ✭✭✭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".


  • #30
    finbarrk
    Registered Users Posts: 5,411 ✭✭✭finbarrk


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


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  • #31
    Predator_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Predator_


    X number of west brits


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