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Ratings watch thread

John Joe Jones

This is a thread to keep an eye on the weekly ratings of irish television.

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iseegirls

No showings for Celeb Masterchef on TV3. It really did bomb, and wasn't helped by them jumping it around in the schedule half way through. Perhaps would have been better starting with non-celebs.

There have been promotions for new series of The Restaurant coming soon. Will they go for it in on Thursday at 9, or swap Gogglebox and put it on Wed at 9pm, where the last series' have been.

Elmo

iseegirls wrote: »

No showings for Celeb Masterchef on TV3. It really did bomb, and wasn't helped by them jumping it around in the schedule half way through. Perhaps would have been better starting with non-celebs.

There have been promotions for new series of The Restaurant coming soon. Will they go for it in on Thursday at 9, or swap Gogglebox and put it on Wed at 9pm, where the last series' have been.

Master chef wasn't very strong for RTÉ strange how they were talked into the show following their own show similar show which also flopped and the success of The Restaurant.

Don't think they had much choice but to move it from Monday night.

Elmo

No. Programme Channel Start Time Day TVR 000's
1 "RBS 6 Nations - Live Play -
Wales v Ireland" RTÉ2 20:06 Fri 20.6 690
2 Dancing With The Stars RTÉ ONE 18:32 Sun 13.6 455
3 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:33 Sun 12.7 424
4 Room To Improve RTÉ ONE 21:31 Sun 11.2 375
5 The Late Late Show RTÉ ONE 21:36 Fri 11.1 371
6 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:02 Tue 10.1 340
7 The Ray D'Arcy Show RTÉ ONE 21:51 Sat 10.1 340
8 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:03 Wed 9.8 327
9 Prime Time RTÉ ONE 21:37 Tue 9.7 327
10 Coronation Street TV3 20:30 Mon 9.7 325
11 "RBS 6 Nations - Post Match -
Wales v Ireland" RTÉ2 21:59 Fri 9.6 322
12 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:02 Thu 9.4 315
13 Daniel And Majella's B&B Road Trip RTÉ ONE 20:31 Tue 8.9 299
14 Nationwide RTÉ ONE 19:00 Wed 8.8 296
15 Home Of The Year RTÉ ONE 20:31 Thu 8.8 296
16 Winning Streak RTÉ ONE 20:21 Sat 8.8 293
17 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:27 Tue 8.7 292
18 Nationwide RTÉ ONE 18:59 Mon 8.6 289
19 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Mon 8.6 289
20 "RBS 6 Nations - Build Up -
Wales v Ireland" RTÉ2 19:00 Fri 8.6 288
21 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Wed 8.6 287
22 Prime Time RTÉ ONE 21:38 Thu 8.2 273
23 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:59 Thu 8.1 271
24 Eco Eye RTÉ ONE 19:00 Tue 8 267
25 What Are You Doing? RTÉ ONE 20:33 Wed 7.9 265
26 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Fri 7.6 254
27 RBS 6 Nations - England v Scotland RTÉ2 16:00 Sat 7.5 251
28 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:59 Mon 7.2 240
29 Emmerdale TV3 19:00 Wed 7.2 240

Elmo

RTÉ2's top twenty consist of sports and everything else under 100,000 viewers. and even then first dates, don't tell the bride etc don't make the cut. reallly only 3 of the top twenty are non-sport related, Home and Away, The Hunt and Weird Wonders of the World.

Red Rock will be happy with their audience from last monday their highest rating outside a priemier and it would have beaten Emmers a week ago with 165,000 viewers.

The Voice remains low with 124,000 viewers but PK Tongiht, Doctors in the House and Gogglebox helps the irish programmes out from 110,000 to 133,000 viewers. Number 20 is VB Tongight with 94,000 viewers.

Interestingly TLLS had just 371,000 viewers the lowest I have ever seen it at.

Elmo

Rank Programme Name Day Time Date TVR 000's
1 RBS 6 Nations: Live Play - Ireland v France Sat 16:52 Feb 25 21.22 711.2
2 RBS 6 Nations: Post Match - Scotland v Ireland Sat 16:12 Feb 4 17.47 585.5
3 RBS 6 Nations: Live Play -Scotland v Ireland Sat 14:26 Feb 4 16.56 554.9
4 RBS 6 Nations: Live Play -Italy v Ireland Sat 14:27 Feb 11 14.6 489.4
5 RBS 6 Nations: Post Match -Ireland v France Sat 18:50 Feb 25 14.33 480.5
6 Room To Improve Sun 21:30 Avg 14.3 479.4
7 RBS 6 Nations: Post Match -Italy v Ireland Sat 16:11 Feb 11 14.04 470.7
8 The Late Late Show Fri 21:36 Avg 13.84 463.8
9 Dancing With The Stars Sun 18:32 Avg 13.76 461.2
10 RBS 6 Nations: Build Up -England v France Sat 16:26 Feb 4 13.01 436.3
11 RTE News: Nine O'Clock Sat 21:23 Avg 12.95 434.1
12 RTE News: Nine O'Clock Mon-Sun 21:01 Avg 12.59 422
13 Fair City Sun 20:31 Avg 12.29 412
14 RBS 6 Nations: Build Up -Ireland v France Sat 16:23 Feb 25 12.03 403.3
15 RBS 6 Nations: Live Play -England v France Sat 16:50 Feb 4 12.02 402.8
16 RTE News: Six-One Mon-Sun 18:01 Avg 11.78 394.9
17 Fair City Tue/Wed/Thu 20:02 Avg 11.15 373.8
18 RBS 6 Nations: Live Play -Wales v England Sat 16:51 Feb 11 10.74 360
19 RTE Investigates - Living On The List Mon 21:36 Feb 6 10.11 339
20 RBS 6 Nations: Build Up -Wales v England Sat 16:25 Feb 11 10.07 337.6
21 The Ray D'Arcy Show Sat 21:51 Avg 9.91 332.3
22 RBS 6 Nations: Post Match -Scotland v Wales Sat 16:17 Feb 25 9.88 331.1
23 Ear To The Ground Tue 20:32 Avg 9.69 324.7
24 Toughest Place To Be: Nepal Mon 21:36 Feb 20 9.66 323.9
25 Getaways Thu 18:59 Avg 9.3 311.8
26 Winning Streak Sat 20:22 Avg 9.25 310
27 Operation Transformation Wed/Thu 20:31 Avg 9.07 303.9
28 Nationwide Mon/Wed/Fri 19:00 Avg 9.02 302.4
29 Prime Time Tue/Thu 21:37 Avg 8.92 299.1
30 Coronation Street Mon/WedFri 19:30 Avg 8.83 295.9
31 RBS 6 Nations: Live Play -England v Italy Sun 15:00 Feb 26 8.83 295.8
32 Crimecall Mon 21:37 Feb 27 8.8 294.9
33 FILM: Nanny McPhee Sat 20:01 Feb 11 8.69 291.1
34 Eastenders Tue/Thu 19:27 Avg 8.47 283.8
35 RBS 6 Nations: Live Play -Scotland v Wales Sat 14:25 Feb 25 8.37 280.7

iseegirls

The Ireland match seemed to have a huge effect on the ratings for TLLS. Their highest audience I presume would be between 9.30 and 10.30, and so this would have clashed with the match and the post match analysis.

Daniel & Majella hasn't exactly set the ratings on fire on RTE1. It seems to have been a lot more talk about it when on UTV Ireland.

TV3 will be reasonably happy with their home produced shows. Gogglebox, Doctor On The House and Pat Kenny all in top 20 on Wednesday. Red Rock ratings doing well too, and broadchurch jumps into top 20 after not appearing last week. Still think they should use the 8pm slot in between Corrie for something different, and not Xpose.

Elmo

3e's top show for feb was CBB which will push them up with 84,000 viewers, this may bring up the channel audience share for Feb.
the rest of 3e's top twenty ranged from 31,000 viewers to 64,000 for the Shawshank redemption.

be3's top show was The Chase with 50,000 viewers a slight drop perhaps down to the repeats. BallyK had 21,000 viewers with Midsommer's Murders getting 45,000 viewers at number 2.

Repeats of the soaps feature once on be3 with Coro St getting 30,000 viewers. While one episode of The Nightly Show had 33,000 viewers.

Elmo

RTE ONE 2000 TV3 2001 TV3 2014 be3 2015 be3 NOV TV3 DEC TV3 JAN TV3 FEB
7:30 604 438 313 331 288 276 309 295
8:30 - - 300 325 253 260 285 277
7:30 -27.48% -28.54% 5.75% -12.99% -4.17% 11.96% -4.53%
8:30 8.33% -22.15% 2.77% 9.62% -2.81%

Elmo

iseegirls wrote: »

The Ireland match seemed to have a huge effect on the ratings for TLLS. Their highest audience I presume would be between 9.30 and 10.30, and so this would have clashed with the match and the post match analysis.

Daniel & Majella hasn't exactly set the ratings on fire on RTE1. It seems to have been a lot more talk about it when on UTV Ireland.

TV3 will be reasonably happy with their home produced shows. Gogglebox, Doctor On The House and Pat Kenny all in top 20 on Wednesday. Red Rock ratings doing well too, and broadchurch jumps into top 20 after not appearing last week. Still think they should use the 8pm slot in between Corrie for something different, and not Xpose.

Yeah I forgot the Ireland match was on.

UTV Ireland placed dan and mag between Coro St which only proves how both TV3 and UTV Ireland failed/fail to utlise Coro St.

TV3 should put either Red Rock or TEOCS on at 8 (TSOCS).

iseegirls

TV3 achieved their highest all day share yesterday since the Rugby World Cup in 2015 - 23%

1pm-4:30pm Cheltenham Festival Day 1 - 114,000 (31% share)

7:30-10pm Champions League Live - 214,000

Elmo

iseegirls wrote: »

TV3 achieved their highest all day share yesterday since the Rugby World Cup in 2015 - 23%

1pm-4:30pm Cheltenham Festival Day 1 - 114,000 (31% share)

7:30-10pm Champions League Live - 214,000

I wouldn't have thought that Horse Racing was so popular.

icdg

Cheltenham (and Aintree) for various reasons tend to get a much bigger audience than horse racing in general does.

iseegirls

These post match and prematch ratings are just getting ridiculous in the top 20

Figures from last weekends rugby on saturday show the following:
12:30 Live Play - Scotland v Italy 113,000
14:23 Post Match - Scotland v Italy 164,000
14:37 Build Up - France v Wales 161,000
14:45 Live Play - France v Wales 256,000
17:02 Post Match - France v Wales 490,000
17:03 Build Up - Ireland v England 475,000
17:05 Live Play - Ireland v England 617,000
18:54 Post Match - Ireland v England 384,000

We have got a rating for 1 minute, 2 minute, 8 minute and 14 minute slots.
Maybe they do it, to hide the other low ratings that RTE2 have fallen into.

Elmo

No. Programme Channel Start Time Day TVR 000's
1 RBS 6 Nations - Live Play -Ireland v England RTÉ2 17:05 Sat 18.4 617
2 RBS 6 Nations - Post Match -France v Wales RTÉ2 17:02 Sat 14.6 490
3 RBS 6 Nations - Build Up -Ireland v England RTÉ2 17:03 Sat 14.2 475
4 The Late Late Show RTE ONE 21:37 Fri 13.6 454
5 Dancing With The Stars RTE ONE 18:32 Sun 13.3 444
6 Fair City RTE ONE 20:31 Sun 12.4 414
7 RBS 6 Nations - Post Match - Ireland v England RTÉ2 18:54 Sat 11.5 384
8 Prime Time RTE ONE 21:40 Tue 11.2 376
9 Fair City RTE ONE 20:03 Tue 11.1 371
10 The Ray D'Arcy Show RTE ONE 21:25 Sat 11 369
11 Fair City RTE ONE 20:03 Wed 10.6 357
12 Daniel And Majella's B&B Road Trip RTE ONE 20:32 Tue 10.3 354
13 Mrs Brown's Boys RTE ONE 21:30 Sun 9.7 326
14 Eastenders RTE ONE 19:29 Tue 9.4 314
15 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Mon 9.1 303
16 At Your Service RTE ONE 19:00 Tue 8.9 297
17 Fair City RTE ONE 20:03 Thu 8.8 295
18 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Wed 8.7 292
19 St. Patrick's Festival Parade RTE ONE 12:15 Fri 8.6 289
20 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Fri 8.6 287
21 What Are You Eating? RTE ONE 20:31 Wed 8.5 285
22 Coronation Street TV3 20:30 Mon 8.5 285
23 Prime Time RTE ONE 21:38 Thu 8.4 283
24 Reeling In The Years RTE ONE 19:00 Fri 8.2 275
25 Home Of The Year RTE ONE 20:32 Thu 7.8 262
26 Nationwide RTE ONE 19:01 Wed 7.8 261
27 Autism And Me RTE ONE 21:36 Mon 7.7 259
28 RBS 6 Nations - Live Play --France v Wales RTÉ2 14:45 Sat 7.6 256
29 Eastenders RTE ONE 19:30 Thu 7.6 254
30 Emmerdale TV3 19:00 Wed 7.2 242

Elmo

Really it is up to Medialive I assume they can present them as one full programme. It started with the RWC on TV3.

RTÉ2 at 65,000 for its number 20 just shows how badly the rest of the channels line up is doing. (Home and Away).

Coro St is definitely suffering due to Xpose.

Monday
7:00 Emmerdale 242,000 (it's highest rating)
7:30 Coro St 303,000 (it's highest rating)
8:00 Xpose 127,000 (it's highest rating)
8:30 Coro St 285,000
9:00 Red Rock 149,000
10:00 Broadchurch 113,000

Friday
7:00 Emmerdale 220,000
7:30 Coro St 287,000
8:00 Xpose less than 113,000
8:30 Coro St 183,000 (it's lowest rating)

Any you can't say that either the Under 21s or Women's Rugby took from Coro St on Friday Night (93,000 and 162,000 respectively) a respectable showing for both but not audience taking.

Horseracing - Cheltenham Festival worked out well for TV3 207,000, 123,000 and 120,000.

Red Rock was down but beat an episode of Emmerdale for the first time ever with 149,000 viewers.

Elmo

Channel Feb Jan 2017 2016 2015 2014
RTÉ ONE 20.26% 20.37% 20.32% 18.67% 17.68% 18.70%
RTÉ ONE +1 0.76% 0.84% 0.80% 0.77% 0.59% 0.50%
RTÉjr 0.74% 0.78% 0.76% 0.77% 0.69% 0.50%
RTÉ2 7.66% 4.60% 6.13% 6.39% 6.31% 7.60%
RTÉ Total 29.42% 26.59% 28.01% 25.06% 25.27% 27.30%
TV3 9.90% 9.27% 9.59% 7.66% 8.06% 10.30%
TV3 +1 0.49% 0.55% 0.52% 0.37% 0.29% 0.00%
3e 2.84% 3.79% 3.32% 2.47% 2.74% 2.50%
be3 2.15% 2.46% 2.31% 5.87% 5.93% 0.00%
TV3 Total 15.38% 16.07% 15.73% 16.37% 17.02% 12.80%
UTV (part of other) 0.84% 0.83% 0.84% 0.87% 0.73% 2.70%
TG4 2.04% 1.48% 1.76% 1.87% 1.63% 1.80%
eir Sport 1 0.15% 0.10% 0.13% 0.31% 0.32% 0.30%
Total 46.99% 44.24% 45.62% 43.52% 44.24% 42.20%
Other 53.01% 55.76% 54.39% 56.48% 55.76% 57.80%

Elmo

Channel Feb Jan
RTÉ ONE -1% 10%
RTÉ ONE +1 -10% 29%
RTÉjr -5% 16%
RTÉ2 67% -11%
RTÉ Total 11% 6%
TV3 7% 31%
TV3 +1 -11% 57%
3e -25% 47%
be3 -13% -63%
TV3 Total -4% -4%
UTV 1% 9%
TG4 38% -15%
eir Sport 1 50% -57%
Total 6% 1%
Other -5% -1%

Elmo

Channel Feb Jan
RTÉ ONE -5.24% 1.70%
RTÉ ONE +1 8.57% 10.53%
RTÉjr -5.13% -14.29%
RTÉ2 11.01% 8.49%
RTÉ Total -1.14% 2.51%
TV3 29.92% 26.64%
TV3 +1 32.43% 25.00%
3e 15.92% 54.69%
be3 -64.52% -57.80%
TV3 Total -6.79% 0.19%
UTV (part of other) 9.09% 3.75%
TG4 30.77% -5.13%
eir Sport 1 -58.33% -68.75%
Total -2.47% 0.87%
Other 2.30% -0.68%

deanh

Elmo wrote: »

Channel Feb Jan
RTÉ ONE -5.24% 1.70%
RTÉ ONE +1 8.57% 10.53%
RTÉjr -5.13% -14.29%
RTÉ2 11.01% 8.49%
RTÉ Total -1.14% 2.51%
TV3 29.92% 26.64%
TV3 +1 32.43% 25.00%
3e 15.92% 54.69%
be3 -64.52% -57.80%
TV3 Total -6.79% 0.19%
UTV (part of other) 9.09% 3.75%
TG4 30.77% -5.13%
eir Sport 1 -58.33% -68.75%
Total -2.47% 0.87%
Other 2.30% -0.68%

That is a pretty massive decline for eir sport 1. Surely they need to get carriage back on virgin media?

icdg

They don't care as long as Eir Broadband subscriptions go up.

An Ciarraioch

icdg wrote: »

They don't care as long as Eir Broadband subscriptions go up.

Not to mention the GAA club fixtures they announced - they won't worry, as long as they're riding on BT's coat-tails. Much like Six Nations for RTE Two, the League again proves pivotal for TG4.

deanh

icdg wrote: »

They don't care as long as Eir Broadband subscriptions go up.

Subscriptions are hardly going up much if annual viewing figures are down by almost 70%.

Elmo

No. Programme Channel Start Time Day TVR 000's
1 World Cup Qualifier 2018 - Live Play - Republic of Ireland v Wales RTÉ2 19:47 Fri 16.2 544
2 Dancing With The Stars RTÉ ONE 18:32 Sun 12.5 419
3 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:02 Tue 12.1 405
4 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:33 Sun 11.9 398
5 All Round To Mrs Brown's RTÉ ONE 21:37 Sat 11.8 394
6 The Late Late Show RTÉ ONE 21:37 Fri 11.6 390
7 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:02 Wed 11 368
8 Coronation Street TV3 20:30 Mon 10.3 344
9 Home Of The Year RTÉ ONE 20:31 Thu 10 336
10 Daniel And Majella's B&B Road Trip RTÉ ONE 20:31 Tue 9.9 331
11 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Mon 9.6 323
12 Claire Byrne Live RTÉ ONE 21:38 Mon 9.3 311
13 What Are You Eating? RTÉ ONE 20:31 Wed 9.2 307
14 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:02 Thu 9.1 306
15 The Ray D'Arcy Show RTÉ ONE 22:25 Sat 8.9 299
16 Dragons' Den RTÉ ONE 21:32 Sun 8.8 294
17 World Cup Qualifier 2018 - Post Match - Republic of Ireland v Wales RTÉ2 21:38 Fri 8.6 289
18 Prime Time RTÉ ONE 21:41 Tue 8.6 288
19 Brendan O'Connor's Cutting Edge RTÉ ONE 21:37 Wed 8.5 283
20 Prime Time RTÉ ONE 21:41 Thu 8.5 283
21 Nationwide RTÉ ONE 19:00 Wed 8.4 281
22 Nationwide RTÉ ONE 19:00 Mon 8.2 273
23 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:29 Thu 8.1 270
24 Neven's Food Trails: The Basque Country RTÉ ONE 19:30 Wed 7.3 246
25 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Fri 7.2 243

Elmo

Coronation Streets Friday Night Episodes are continuing to remain low with the 8:30 ep getting 189,000 viewers.

Red Rock continues to remain at a round 145,000 viewers (The episode was technically the first of season 3). Broadchurch follows with 105,000 viewers.

VB Tongiht on Tuesday had 111,000 viewers with no sign of Pat Kenny. The Voice UK remains low with 87,000 viewers.

The Restaurant returned with just 97,000 but in fairness it replaces Masterchef which looks likely never to return.

Interestingly TV3 choose the Qualifier to air on 3E with Gail and Me getting 115,000 viewers. While on RTÉ ONE Neven's Food Trails: The Basque Country had 246,000 viewers. The second qualifier on Sunday did not appear in TV3's top 20. (there was a second qualifier?).

RTE2's audience seem all over the place, with 1st dates returning to the top 20 this week with 142,000 viewers, with the Home and Away special getting from 64,000 to 83,000 viewers. Homeland had 70,000 viewers and This is Us had 65,000 viewers.

iseegirls

Elmo wrote: »

Interestingly TV3 choose the Qualifier to air on 3E with Gail and Me getting 115,000 viewers. While on RTÉ ONE Neven's Food Trails: The Basque Country had 246,000 viewers. The second qualifier on Sunday did not appear in TV3's top 20. (there was a second qualifier?).

The Wednesday match on 3e was just a friendly (and used ITV commentary). The match on TV3 on Sunday was a World Cup qualifier.

Elmo

No. Programme Channel Start Time Day TVR 000's
1 The Late Late Show RTÉ ONE 21:36 Fri 14.5 484
2 All Round To Mrs Brown's RTÉ ONE 21:14 Sat 12.5 419
3 At Your Service RTÉ ONE 20:32 Sun 11.8 396
4 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:01 Sun 11 368
5 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:02 Tue 10.2 342
6 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:03 Wed 9.9 330
7 Dragons' Den RTÉ ONE 21:29 Sun 9.6 321
8 Coronation Street TV3 20:30 Mon 9.5 320
9 Daniel And Majella's B&B Road Trip RTÉ ONE 20:32 Tue 9.4 316
10 The Ray D'Arcy Show RTÉ ONE 22:25 Sat 9.4 314
11 Prime Time RTÉ ONE 21:36 Tue 9.4 314
12 Prime Time RTÉ ONE 21:37 Thu 9.3 313
13 Crimecall RTÉ ONE 21:38 Mon 9.1 306
14 What Are You Eating? RTÉ ONE 20:33 Wed 8.9 297
15 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Mon 8.6 287
16 Nationwide RTÉ ONE 19:01 Mon 8.5 284
17 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:28 Thu 8.4 281
18 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:01 Thu 8.3 277
19 Coronation Street TV3 20:30 Fri 8.2 276
20 Home Of The Year RTÉ ONE 20:29 Thu 8.1 273
21 Brendan O'Connor's Cutting Edge RTÉ ONE 21:39 Wed 7.9 265
22 Coronation Street TV3 19:39 Wed 7.8 263
23 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Fri 7.8 261
24 Room To Improve RTÉ ONE 19:01 Sun 7.6 254
25 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:29 Tue 7.6 254

Elmo

Summer time ... has returned. Clearly RTÉ have seen the brighter days with a repeat of Room To Improve 254,000, no chance of a family game shows to replace DWTS then?

Mrs. Brown in Da Round had 419,000 viewers with D'Arcy getting 316,000 viewers, I wonders if D'Arcy audience watch Mrs. Brown as a warmer upper?

First Dates had 146,000 viewers with RTÉ2's Nature's Weirdest Events getting 51,000 viewers.

Red Rock is steady at 137,000 viewers with Paul O'Grady: For The Love Of Dogs getting 98,000 viewers no sign of PK Tonight.

The Parish Priest.

The Farcy show hasn't fallen as much as I had hoped

iseegirls

Interesting good rating for Doctor In The House on Wednesday. Big help for it was TV3s mix-up with Emmerdale earlier. They showed the first half again after the break, but sorted it out about 10minutes later. This meant Coronation St overran, and Doctor In The House ran a bit later at 8:10 - but helped it get it's best rating of the series.

Maybe a few more of these tactics would help other programmes after the soaps.

Elmo

Rank Programme Name channel Day Time Date TVR 000's
1 RBS 6 Nations - Live Play - Wales v Ireland RTÉ 2 Fri 20:06 Mar 10 20.57 689.6
2 RBS 6 Nations - Live Play - Ireland v England RTÉ 2 Sat 17:05 Mar 18 18.39 616.5
3 Republic of Ireland v Wales RTÉ 2 Fri 19:47 Mar 24 16.24 544.4
4 France v Wales RTÉ 2 Sat 17:02 Mar 18 14.62 490.1
5 Ireland v England RTÉ 2 Sat 17:03 Mar 18 14.17 475.1
6 Dancing With The Stars RTÉ ONE Sun 18:32 Avg 12.95 434.2
7 The Late Late Show RTÉ ONE Fri 21:37 Avg 12.83 430.2
8 RTE News: Nine O'Clock RTÉ ONE Mon-Sun 21:01 Avg 12.39 415.2
9 Room To Improve RTÉ ONE Sun 21:32 Avg 12.06 404.3
10 Fair City RTÉ ONE Sun 20:32 Avg 11.82 396.3
11 All Round To Mrs Brown's RTÉ ONE Sat 21:15 Mar 25 11.77 394.4
12 Ireland v England RTÉ 2 Sat 18:54 Mar 18 11.46 384
13 RTE News: Nine O'Clock RTÉ ONE Sat 21:18 Avg 11.43 383.3
14 RTE News: Six-One RTÉ ONE Mon-Sun 18:01 Avg 11.14 373.3
15 The Ray D'Arcy Show RTÉ ONE Sat 21:25 Mar 18 11.01 368.9
16 Fair City RTÉ ONE Tue/Wed 20:02 Avg 10.11 338.8
17 The Ray D'Arcy Show RTÉ ONE Sat 21:47 Avg 9.95 333.5
18 Mrs Brown's Boys RTÉ ONE Sun 21:30 Mar 19 9.72 325.5
19 RTE News: Nine O'Clock RTÉ ONE Sat 20:46 Mar 25 9.71 325.5
20 Daniel And Majella's B&B Road Trip RTÉ ONE Tue 20:32 Avg 9.59 324.8
21 Wales v Ireland RTÉ 2 Fri 21:59 Mar 10 9.59 321.6
22 Prime Time RTÉ ONE Tue/Thu 21:38 Avg 9.28 311
23 Claire Byrne Live RTÉ ONE Mon 21:38 Mar 20 9.28 311
24 Crimecall RTÉ ONE Mon 21:38 Mar 27 9.14 306.4
25 Home Of The Year RTÉ ONE Thu 20:31 Avg 8.93 299.2
26 The Ray D'Arcy Show RTÉ ONE Sat 22:25 Mar 25 8.92 299.1
27 What Are You Eating? RTÉ ONE Wed 20:32 Avg 8.88 297.5