Ratings watch thread

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122882622#Comment_122882622

Sky would have very big reach across all their channels but both Sky News and Challenge alone would have smaller reaches. I think it depends on how an advertiser wants to sell the ads.

I think what is more interest is their growth since arriving on Saorview, Challenge is now number 6 channel in the country. Imagine if DTT had been take seriously, perhaps we'd have more local competition. But its too late now.

Though I think Sky sell most of the advertising in the market outside of RTÉ, TV3 and TG4.

Infoanon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122883125#Comment_122883125

Stand alone Saorview figures would be interesting, either Challenge is pulling high numbers or the ratings are weighted towards Saorview, the jump in viewership does not make sense otherwise imho

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122889007#Comment_122889007

Yes in many ways that seems to be the case.

VM2, VM3 both get between 2.5% and 3.5%, but if it is the case that it is heavily weighted towards Saorview how is it that RTÉ2 is doing so poorly in comparison?

Challenge would have been one of Sky more popular channels getting 0.8% versus a 0.1% share and below for both Sky Mix (pick) and Sky Arts their 2 other FTA channels. Sky News had begun to see a drop in audience before its move on to Soarview, going from a normal 1.5% to 0.8% and now back toward 1.5%.

Also both VMTV1 +1 and RTÉ2 +1 get about 0.3% share, VMTV 1 +1 is not available on Saorview while RTÉ2 is not available on Virgin Media. It'd be interesting to see TG4 +1 (only available on Soarview AFAIK) figures and if RTÉ2 +1 would see an increase if it went 24hr.

But if you are wondering what the top 5 shows across the sky channels were for the month: -

1. Live play of Liverpool v Chelsea
2. Live play of Brighton V Totenham
3. Who wants to be a millionaire celebrity
4. Live play of Arsenal V Liverpool
5. Live play of Aston Villa V Man U

Sky sports' channels get between 0.04% (Sky Sports Football & Tennis) up to 1.02% for Sky Sports News, Sky Sports Main Event had 0.87%

Butson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122889382#Comment_122889382

The, shall we say alternative methods of viewing live sport, have to be hitting Sky Sports?

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122891304#Comment_122891304

Even when we didn't have alternative methods Sky Sports was around that kind of audience level, I am not sure if TAM Ireland include watching those sports via the Sky App which I assume is not much different to watching it via the broadcast channel on Pay TV. I don't know I don't watch sport. You also have to remember that people in the Pub watching are not included in the ratings either.

What is more interesting is that only one Challenge programme got into their top 5 programmes in October, but 4 are from Sky Sports channels.

Butson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122891319#Comment_122891319

Wouldn't include those streaming on Now Tv either.

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122891399#Comment_122891399

Never included Cinema or Xtravison or VHS recordings!

Sean P.Dole

I think TV ratings have been exposed as hokum, 400k homes were without power on Toy show night due to storm Darragh but apparently the toy show had "record high ratings"

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122979861#Comment_122979861

Yeah I have always thought this, this isn't the first time that high ratings have happened when homes are without electricity.

RoTelly

So the top 50 shows have been released

Almost 50% are on RTÉ2, you would think that RTÉ2 was doing well, but notice that only 18 are none sporting events. Only one non-sporting event from VMTV ONE appears on the list and that is I'm A Celeb, while Fair City appears for soap and drama with 454,500 viewers (not sure what day that happened on), with the only other scripted show being The Young Offenders.

RoTelly

Streaming figures broken down by eps as best I can

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Rank	Title/Series	Streams	average	episodes	notes
1	UEFA Euro 2024	8,785,820	172,271	51	matches
2	Paris Olympics 2024	7,213,176	150,275	48	3 programmes over 16 days
3	Yellowstone	4,508,395	136,618	33
4	Normal People	1,060,274	88,356	12
5	Kin	1,370,113	85,632	16
6	Love/Hate	2,274,211	81,222	28
7	The Young Offenders	1,582,634	79,132	20
8	The Dry	1,105,152	69,072	16
9	The Sunday Game Live	1,826,267	58,912	31	31 matches a year, but not all on Sunday
10	The Late Late Show	1,426,661	49,195	29	I think this is PK's agreement per year
11	EastEnders	8,503,264	40,881	208	4 eps per week
12	Fair City	6,013,281	30,680	196	3 eps per week up to august 4 after
13	Home and Away	6,914,555	30,063	230	5 eps for 45weeks
14	The Tommy Tiernan Show	1,090,786	19,832	55	as per RTÉ player form season 4
15	Room To Improve	1,127,714	12,530	90
16	Bluey	1,494,052	9,702	154	not sure how many on RTÉ player
17	Neighbours	1,812,006	8,712	208	4 eps per week
18	RTÉ News: Nine O’Clock	3,164,677	8,670	365	7 day week
19	RTÉ News: Six One	3,019,642	8,273	365	7 day week
20	Shortland Street	1,602,467	6,163	260	5 eps per week

RoTelly

Just to note that I forgot RTÉ had added the latest series of the Young Offenders to the player just before Christmas so this would bring the average down to 60,870, putting it in 8th position.

Also it back of the envelop stuff.

RoTelly

generally medialive will post results on Tuesday and while it is only late Wednesday morning it would have been interesting to see how the weekending 26 did, considering the weekend outages. My conspiracy theory in me suggests they are trying to cook the books, or we won't see those figures and it being a bank holiday weekend we can wait until this time next for this weeks figures.

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123111740#Comment_123111740

I will let ye consider the stats and the weather

No.	Programme	Start Time	Day	TVR	000's
1	Room To Improve	21:32	Sun	9.6	380
2	Nationwide	18:59	Mon	8.7	343
3	Ear To The Ground	18:59	Thu	8.6	339
4	Dancing With The Stars	18:33	Sun	8.5	333
5	High Road, Low Road	18:59	Tue	8.2	323
6	Nationwide	18:59	Wed	7.8	307
7	Nationwide	19:00	Fri	7.4	293
8	Prime Time	21:35	Wed	7.4	292
9	Fair City	20:33	Sun	7.2	283
10	Upfront with Katie Hannon	21:37	Mon	6.8	268
11	The Late Late Show	21:35	Fri	6.7	263
12	Fair City	20:01	Tue	6.2	244
13	Prime Time	21:36	Thu	6.2	243
14	Cheap Irish Homes	20:31	Tue	5.9	233
15	The Tommy Tiernan Show	21:46	Sat	5.8	228
16	Fair City	20:30	Thu	5.8	228
17	Eastenders	19:28	Thu	5.7	226
18	Prime Time	21:37	Tue	5.3	209
19	Fair City	19:30	Fri	5.0	195
20	Eastenders	19:26	Wed	4.9	194