Ratings watch thread

First week without TLLS sees Fair City at the top with just 325,000 viewers.

Again RTÉ2 top shows are Sport ranging from 131,000 to 316,000, giving Champions League Live - Live Play:Juventus v Real Madrid second place.

After that for RTÉ2 had 73,000 viewers for Louis Theroux: Savile, with Home and Away at 20 getting just 43,000 viewers.

TV3 range was from 142,000 viewers to 289,000 viewers. BGT ranged from 142,000 viewers to 199,000 viewers, Coro Street from 224,000 to 289,000 viewers and Emmerdale 158,000 viewers to 192,000 viewers. No sign of any of the 3 final episodes to Red Rock. No Irish programming entering the top 20.

On Red Rock I work out.

If TV3 have 26 more eps from Series 3 to go, They air 10 before Christmas and 16 from end Feb to end May, they could hold of make a decision to axe the show until next summer. Though IMO that decision has been made.

Also they are repeating it from the begin late night/early mornings on be3 since Monday. Surely it could take over from Six O'Clock Show!

Has Masterchef appeared in RTE2s Top 20 over the past while? It's on nearly every weeknight for an hour, yet it's ratings are terrible, for what is a prime time for viewing.

MikeyTaylor

Elmo wrote: »

On Red Rock I work out.

If TV3 have 26 more eps from Series 3 to go, They air 10 before Christmas and 16 from end Feb to end May, they could hold of make a decision to axe the show until next summer. Though IMO that decision has been made.

Also they are repeating it from the begin late night/early mornings on be3 since Monday. Surely it could take over from Six O'Clock Show!

Best decision TV3 could EVER make is bringing back "Nightshift".
"Here on Nightshift, we only play, the BEST!"

Rank Programme Name Channel Day Time Date TVR 000's
1 The Late Late Show RTÉ ONE Fri 21:36 Avg 12.95 434.1
2 Redwater RTÉ ONE Sun 21:30 Avg 11.08 371.5
3 RTÉ News: Nine O'Clock RTÉ ONE Sat 21:22 May 6 10.54 353.2
4 The Ray D'Arcy Show RTÉ ONE Sat 21:51 May 6 10.22 342.5
5 RTÉ News: Nine O'Clock RTÉ ONE Mon - Sun 21:01 Avg 10.18 341.3
6 The Undocumented RTÉ ONE Mon 21:37 May 8 10.02 336
7 Fair City RTÉ ONE Tue/Wed/Thu/Sun 20:02 Avg 9.97 330.8
8 The Sunday Game Live - Live Play:Tipperary v Cork RTÉ 2 Sun 16:02 May 21 9.83 329.4
9 The Sunday Game Live - Post Match:Tipperary v Cork RTÉ 2 Sun 17:36 May 21 9.78 327.7
10 The Sunday Game Live - Live Play:Dublin v Galway RTÉ 2 Sun 16:00 May 28 9.22 309.1
11 At Your Service RTÉ ONE Tue/Sun 20:32 Avg 8.9 298.4
12 Brexit, Trump And Us RTÉ ONE Mon 21:37 May 22 8.5 284.9
13 The Ray D'Arcy Show RTÉ ONE Sat 21:36 Avg 8.41 281.8
14 RTE Investigates: Universities Unchallenged RTÉ ONE Thu 21:37 May 25 8.28 277.7
15 Eurovision Song Contest Final 2017 RTÉ ONE Sat 20:00 May 13 8.14 272.7
16 RTÉ News: Six-One RTÉ ONE Mon - Sun 18:01 Avg 8.1 271.4
17 Champions League Live - Live Play:Atletico Madrid v Real Madrid RTÉ 2 Wed 19:46 May 10 8.05 269.7
18 The Sunday Game Live - Build Up:Tipperary v Cork RTÉ 2 Sun 15:47 May 21 8.01 268.6
19 Crimecall RTÉ ONE Mon 21:37 May 29 7.91 265
20 Dragons' Den RTÉ ONE Mon/Sun 21:33 Avg 7.89 264.6
21 Prime Time RTÉ ONE Tue/Wed/Thu 21:38 Avg 7.78 260.7
22 Coronation Street TV3 Mon/Fri 20:30 Avg 7.77 260.6
23 UEFA Europa League Final Live:Man Utd v Ajax TV3 Wed 19:30 May 24 7.73 259
24 Brendan O'Connor's Cutting Edge RTÉ ONE Wed 21:36 May 3 7.36 246.6
25 Super Garden RTÉ ONE Tue 20:31 Avg 7.35 246.3
26 Coronation Street TV3 Mon/Wed/Fri 19:30 Avg 7.32 245.4
27 The Sunday Game Live - Post Match:Mayo v Sligo RTÉ 2 Sun 15:35 May 21 7.27 243.8
28 Coronation Street TV3 Mon/Tue/Wed 21:03 Avg 7.09 237.6
29 Find Me A Home RTÉ ONE Wed 20:31 Avg 6.88 230.6
30 Winning Streak RTÉ ONE Sat 20:21 May 6 6.84 229.3

2 exceptions to sport on RTÉ 2 with the Eurovision Semi getting 194,000 on average for both nights, and cool runnings having 97,000 viewers.

TV3's Policing Paddy's had 135,000 viewers over the month. While Red Rocks average on Monday night was 139,000 viewers with the 3 final episodes getting just 113,000 viewers.

TV3 news at 5:30 retains 100,000 viewers, FA Cup had 130,000 with Europa league getting 259,000 viewers, Champions League final on RTÉ2 had 269,000 viewers.

Coro St top 3e's top 20 with 142,000 when it swapped places with TV3 on Wednesday night (you think that be3 would be the channel to swap it with!!), next most popular show had 50,000 viewers for Bridget Jones' Diary, with 13 movies taking up the top twenty. The lowest show on 3e was The Hangover with just 24,000 viewers 11pm Tuesday night.

The Chase topped be3's top 20 with an average of 40,000 viewers. Islanders had just 21,000 viewers at number 20. Repeats of Emmmerdale and Coro St ranged from 23,000 to 30,000 viewers. Notably the repeat of Coro St on Monday May 1st took over from 3 News at 10 which did not make the top 20, the same for 3 News at 7.

Watch TV3 drop both the 7 and 10 news.

Ireland v Austria tops weekly ratings, with Galway v Mayo second (wonder if the latter's rating factors in half-time switchers to the soccer?).

No. Programme Channel Start Time Day TVR 000's
1 World Cup Qualifier 2018 - Live Play:Republic of Ireland v Austria RTÉ2 17:00 Sun 12.6 423
2 World Cup Qualifier 2018 - Post Match:Republic of Ireland v Austria RTÉ2 18:49 Sun 11 369
3 The Sunday Game - Live Play:Mayo v Galway RTÉ ONE 16:02 Sun 10.6 355
4 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:02 Wed 10.5 350
5 Sunday Game Live - Post Match:Cavan v Monaghan RTÉ ONE 15:37 Sun 10 336
6 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:30 Sun 9.8 330
7 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Mon 9.6 322
8 The Sunday Game Live - Build Up:Mayo v Galway RTÉ ONE 15:46 Sun 9.5 318
9 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:03 Tue 9.4 315
10 Prime Time RTÉ ONE 21:37 Thu 9.1 306
11 Coronation Street TV3 20:30 Mon 8.9 299
12 Coronation Street TV3 19:29 Wed 8.9 298
13 FILM: Life's a Breeze RTÉ ONE 21:30 Mon 8.7 291
14 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:03 Thu 8.5 286
15 Prime Time RTÉ ONE 21:37 Tue 8.5 286
16 The Sunday Game Live - Live Play:Mayo v Galway RTÉ ONE 16:50 Sun 8.4 283
17 Coronation Street TV3 20:30 Fri 8.3 279
18 The Sunday Game Live - Live Play:Cavan v Monaghan RTÉ ONE 14:02 Sun 8.3 277
19 Redwater RTÉ ONE 21:31 Sun 8.2 275
20 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Fri 8.1 270
21 Liveline: Call Back RTÉ ONE 20:32 Thu 7.9 266
22 Senior Moments RTÉ ONE 18:31 Mon 7.6 255
23 Nationwide RTÉ ONE 19:00 Wed 7.3 245
24 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:28 Tue 7.3 244
25 Donal's Meals In Minutes RTÉ ONE 20:32 Tue 7.1 239
26 Missing You RTÉ ONE 20:31 Wed 7 233
27 Emmerdale TV3 19:00 Mon 6.9 230
28 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 20:00 Mon 6.8 228

Channel May Apr Mar Feb Jan 2017 2016 2015 2014
RTÉ ONE 17.95% 18.71% 20.24% 20.26% 20.37% 19.51% 18.67% 17.68% 18.70%
RTÉ ONE +1 0.85% 0.96% 0.82% 0.76% 0.84% 0.85% 0.77% 0.59% 0.50%
RTÉjr 0.56% 0.65% 0.71% 0.74% 0.78% 0.69% 0.77% 0.69% 0.50%
RTÉ2 5.00% 4.60% 6.71% 7.66% 4.60% 5.71% 6.39% 6.31% 7.60%
RTÉ Total 24.36% 24.92% 28.48% 29.42% 26.59% 26.75% 25.06% 25.27% 27.30%
TV3 11.66% 10.47% 10.88% 9.90% 9.27% 10.44% 7.66% 8.06% 10.30%
TV3 +1 0.54% 0.55% 0.50% 0.49% 0.55% 0.53% 0.37% 0.29% 0.00%
3e 2.60% 2.53% 2.67% 2.84% 3.79% 2.89% 2.47% 2.74% 2.50%
be3 2.35% 2.24% 2.29% 2.15% 2.46% 2.30% 5.87% 5.93% 0.00%
TV3 Total 17.15% 15.79% 16.34% 15.38% 16.07% 16.15% 16.37% 17.02% 12.80%
UTV (part of other) 1.31% 0.72% 0.87% 0.84% 0.83% 0.82% 0.87% 0.73% 2.70%
TG4 1.63% 2.67% 2.12% 2.04% 1.48% 2.08% 1.87% 1.63% 1.80%
eir Sport 1 0.08% 0.10% 0.12% 0.15% 0.10% 0.12% 0.31% 0.32% 0.30%
Total 43.22% 43.48% 47.06% 46.99% 44.24% 45.44% 43.52% 44.24% 42.20%
Other 56.78% 56.52% 52.94% 53.01% 55.76% 54.56% 56.48% 55.76% 57.80%

ehh TV3 lied! Massive increase for UTV proper!

Month on Month

Channel May Apr Mar Feb Jan
RTÉ ONE -4% -8% 0% -1% 10%
RTÉ ONE +1 -11% 17% 8% -10% 29%
RTÉjr -14% -8% -4% -5% 16%
RTÉ2 9% -31% -12% 67% -11%
RTÉ Total -2% -13% -3% 11% 6%
TV3 11% -4% 10% 7% 31%
TV3 +1 -2% 10% 2% -11% 57%
3e 3% -5% -6% -25% 47%
be3 5% -2% 7% -13% -63%
TV3 Total 9% -3% 6% -4% -4%
UTV 82% -17% 4% 1% 9%
TG4 -39% 26% 4% 38% -15%
eir Sport 1 -20% -17% -20% 50% -57%
Total -1% -8% 0% 6% 1%
Other 0% 7% 0% -5% -1%

Year on year

Channel May Apr Mar Feb Jan
RTÉ ONE -1.16% -1.99% 1.66% -5.24% 1.70%
RTÉ ONE +1 4.94% 20.00% 12.33% 8.57% 10.53%
RTÉjr -6.67% -12.16% -5.33% -5.13% -14.29%
RTÉ2 -12.59% -3.36% 5.67% 11.01% 8.49%
RTÉ Total -3.68% -1.85% 2.67% -1.14% 2.51%
TV3 43.07% 41.30% 50.90% 29.92% 26.64%
TV3 +1 20.00% 77.42% 51.52% 32.43% 25.00%
3e 7.88% 8.58% 10.33% 15.92% 54.69%
be3 -60.83% -61.51% -61.12% -64.52% -57.80%
TV3 Total 0.82% -0.50% 3.09% -6.79% 0.19%
UTV (part of other) 48.86% -6.49% 6.10% 9.09% 3.75%
TG4 -15.54% 0.38% 3.41% 30.77% -5.13%
eir Sport 1 -82.98% -82.14% -82.35% -58.33% -68.75%
Total -3.31% -2.25% 1.60% -2.47% 0.87%
Other 2.68% 1.80% -1.38% 2.30% -0.68%

No. Programme Channel Start Time Day TVR 000's
1 The Sunday Game Live - Live Play:Waterford v Cork RTÉ ONE 16:48 Sun 11.8 395
2 The Sunday Game Live - Live PlayWaterford v Cork RTÉ ONE 16:02 Sun 11.1 371
3 Prime Time RTÉ ONE 21:40 Wed 10.3 345
4 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:01 Wed 9.8 328
5 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:00 Tue 9.7 324
6 Goodbye House RTÉ ONE 21:36 Mon 9.6 323
7 The Sunday Game Live - Post Match:Waterford v Cork RTÉ ONE 17:36 Sun 9.4 316
8 Coronation Street TV3 20:30 Mon 8.8 294
9 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Mon 8.7 291
10 Redwater RTÉ ONE 21:31 Sun 8.6 289
11 Prime Time RTÉ ONE 21:39 Thu 8.6 288
12 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:30 Sun 8.4 280
13 The Best Of The Late Late Show RTÉ ONE 21:37 Fri 8.2 275
14 The Sunday Game Live - Build Up:Waterford v Cork RTÉ ONE 15:43 Sun 8.1 271
15 Coronation Street TV3 20:30 Fri 8 266
16 Mrs Brown's Boys RTÉ ONE 21:36 Tue 7.6 256
17 Coronation Street TV3 19:29 Wed 7.6 255
18 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:28 Tue 7.5 252
19 Nationwide RTÉ ONE 18:59 Mon 7.2 241
20 The Daniel O'Donnell Show RTÉ ONE 22:41 Thu 7.2 241
21 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:03 Thu 7.1 237
22 Liveline: Call Back RTÉ ONE 20:33 Thu 7.1 236
23 The Sunday Game Live - Post Match:Donegal v Tyrone RTÉ ONE 15:37 Sun 7 236
24 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Fri 7 235
25 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:58 Mon 6.8 227
26 Emmerdale TV3 19:00 Mon 6.2 207

So it looks like RTÉ have moved all GAA over to RTÉ ONE this helps RTÉ ONE retain last years audience as the rest of their schedule is pretty much down. RTÉ2's coverage of the confederation cup gives them an excuse to move GAA to ONE but audiences range from 46,000 for NZ V RUS and 88,000 for CAM V CHI.

Top show on 2 was The Sunday Game with 117,000 followed by Home and Away with 88,000 viewers. The lowest audience for Home and Away was 47,000 viewers with the number 20 on RTÉ2 getting 44,000 for the film The Butcher Boy.

Coro St is holding its own but no massive increases in audience ranging from 235,000 viewers to 294,000 viewers. Monday night edition of Xpose had 111,000 viewers. The Loch which aired on itv the previous day had 129,000 similar to Red Rock audience which it replaces.

VB ranges from 90,000 to 108,000 viewers. With the Celebrity Chase getting just 83,000 viewers.

V. entertaining, but sadly, the wrong thread!

An Ciarraioch wrote: »

V. entertaining, but sadly, the wrong thread!

?????

trixiebust

An Ciarraioch wrote:

V. entertaining, but sadly, the wrong thread!

Elmo wrote:

?????

That was me, being a fool, by posting about my dog issues in the TV ratings forum !

What I was going to say wass, how does a show like Goodbye House get so many viewers. Just goes to show - put anything on RTE 1 and it'll gather viewers.

No matter how crap, it will still find a ( sizeable ) audience.

Pretty decent for The Loch on TV3. Fearless on Wednesday hot faring well though. They must be very disappointed with Assassins. Put a lot of promotion behind it, but I guess TV3 have overdone a lot of these 24 hours to kill, Gangland Ireland, Gangsters at War, Beware Ireland type of documentaries.

Again, how does Masterchef stay on a prime slot on RTE2 for few days a week and not get above 45,000 viewers.

brick man

Elmo wrote:

So it looks like RTÃ‰ have moved all GAA over to RTÃ‰ ONE this helps RTÃ‰ ONE retain last years audience as the rest of their schedule is pretty much down. RTÃ‰2's coverage of the confederation cup gives them an excuse to move GAA to ONE but audiences range from 46,000 for NZ V RUS and 88,000 for CAM V CHI.

Just while the confederations cup is on . Back on RTE2 Sunday 2nd of July

No. Programme Channel Start Time Day TVR 000's
1 Too Old For The Road? RTÉ ONE 21:37 Mon 9.4 316
2 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:01 Wed 9.2 309
3 Sunday Game Live - Live Play:Dublin V Westmeath RTÉ ONE 16:47 Sun 9.2 308
4 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:30 Sun 9.1 306
5 Sunday Game Live - Live Play:Dublin V Westmeath RTÉ ONE 16:01 Sun 8.6 287
6 Coronation Street TV3 20:30 Mon 8.4 280
7 Prime Time RTÉ ONE 21:37 Thu 8.3 279
8 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:01 Tue 8.1 273
9 Liveline: Call Back RTÉ ONE 20:32 Thu 8 267
10 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:02 Thu 7.8 262
11 The Best Of The Late Late Show RTÉ ONE 21:36 Fri 7.7 258
12 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Wed 7.7 257
13 Coronation Street TV3 20:29 Fri 7.6 254
14 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Mon 7.5 250
15 Sunday Game Live - Post Match:Dublin V Westmeath RTÉ ONE 17:35 Sun 7.1 238
16 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:19 Thu 6.6 222
17 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Fri 6.5 219
18 The Daniel O'Donnell Show RTÉ ONE 22:40 Fri 6.4 215
19 Missing You RTÉ ONE 20:31 Wed 6.2 209
20 Room To Improve RTÉ ONE 19:30 Sun 6.2 207
21 A Different Country RTÉ ONE 21:38 Wed 6.1 203
22 Emmerdale TV3 19:00 Wed 6 201
23 Getaways RTÉ ONE 18:59 Thu 5.9 199
24 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:59 Mon 5.9 198
25 Emmerdale TV3 19:00 Thu 5.9 197
26 Donal's Meals In Minutes RTÉ ONE 20:30 Tue 5.8 193
27 Nationwide RTÉ ONE 19:00 Mon 5.7 192

Yes you could say summer time is here but we can only say that for sure based on audience share, if it is a case that RTÉ ONE retains 18% of the audience they can happily point to the summer. But if they are down at 15% then well its just RTÉ.

Not that TV3 can be too happy with its preimere channel. TV3 this week look very similar to UTV Ireland back in the day. With their top 12 shows coming from itv, with 7 episodes of Emmerdale!!!

13 Catchphrase 19:07 Sun 3.4 114
14 Tonight With Vincent Browne 23:00 Wed 3.3 112
15 Tonight With Vincent Browne 23:00 Tue 3.1 104
16 The National Television Awards 2017 21:00 Fri 3.1 103
17 The Celebrity Chase 19:54 Sun 3.0 99
18 Tonight With Vincent Browne 23:00 Mon 2.7 89
19 The Loch 21:00 Mon 2.5 85
20 Xpose 20:00 Mon 2.4 81

As for RTÉ2 well the confederations cup really isn't bring in the audience. With 91,000 watching GER V CHI and 49,000 watching NZ V MEX.

Elmo wrote: »

Yes you could say summer time is here but we can only say that for sure based on audience share, if it is a case that RTÉ ONE retains 18% of the audience they can happily point to the summer. But if they are down at 15% then well its just RTÉ.

Not that TV3 can be too happy with its preimere channel. TV3 this week look very similar to UTV Ireland back in the day. With their top 12 shows coming from itv, with 7 episodes of Emmerdale!!!

13 Catchphrase 19:07 Sun 3.4 114
14 Tonight With Vincent Browne 23:00 Wed 3.3 112
15 Tonight With Vincent Browne 23:00 Tue 3.1 104
16 The National Television Awards 2017 21:00 Fri 3.1 103
17 The Celebrity Chase 19:54 Sun 3.0 99
18 Tonight With Vincent Browne 23:00 Mon 2.7 89
19 The Loch 21:00 Mon 2.5 85
20 Xpose 20:00 Mon 2.4 81

As for RTÉ2 well the confederations cup really isn't bring in the audience. With 91,000 watching GER V CHI and 49,000 watching NZ V MEX.

The big mystery is why the Sunday Game highlights programme is rating so poorly - perhaps casual GAA fans not tuning in until the football quarter-finals in August?

Elmo wrote: »

Not that TV3 can be too happy with its preimere channel. TV3 this week look very similar to UTV Ireland back in the day. With their top 12 shows coming from itv, with 7 episodes of Emmerdale!!!

Will be interesting to see how 3e will get on this month when the monthly figures are released. it's possible that BB and LI are taking a portion of the regular TV3 viewers.

Looks like they're giving up on Be3 for the summer. Repeats of Downton Abbey, 16 Kids And Counting, Deception, Britain's Biggest Hoarders, Victoria, Four In A Bed dominate the schedule. While so much of ITV Studio's catalogue remains unshown. Feels like we took one step backward when UTVi took over UTV's position, and now we're a further 2 steps back after TV3 took over the UTVi mantelpiece.

iseegirls wrote: »

Will be interesting to see how 3e will get on this month when the monthly figures are released. it's possible that BB and LI are taking a portion of the regular TV3 viewers.

I don't see LI being a big ratings winner for 3e but BB will be interesting particularly since its good showing for CBB the question is "was that down to Jedward?"

An Ciarraioch wrote: »

The big mystery is why the Sunday Game highlights programme is rating so poorly - perhaps casual GAA fans not tuning in until the football quarter-finals in August?

114,000 for a highlights programme is typically good.

Elmo wrote: »

I don't see LI being a big ratings winner for 3e but BB will be interesting particularly since its good showing for CBB the question is "was that down to Jedward?"

Not having it on at the same time as ITV2 will hurt it. the show is getting a lot better press in the UK than BB - unsure how it translates to the Irish audience though.

3e have messed up their schedule twice in the past 2 weeks, by having BB in the schedule at 9, but it was shown at 10, while LI swapped into the 9pm slot. Virgin Media guide didn't even update. Recently happened last Sunday.

Clearly they see like UTV Ireland that they need the simulcast.

LI is doing better than BB according to BARB

MikeyTaylor

Elmo wrote: »

Clearly they see like UTV Ireland that they need the simulcast.

LI is doing better than BB according to BARB

And this was a show that was axed in 2006 because of poor ratings and wasn't as big as BB??

Giles should get a sizeable audience on RTE One tonight.

An Ciarraioch wrote: »

Giles should get a sizeable audience on RTE One tonight.

Yeah during the summer these docs seem to top RTÉ1 list, last week was Too Old For The Road? which topped the top 20 shows overall.