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John Joe Jones

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

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Elmo

Year on Year (Sept)

Channel Sept Aug July June May Apr Mar Feb Jan
RTÉ ONE -15% -6% -7% 10% -1% -2% 2% -5% 2%
RTÉ ONE +1 -6% -4% 14% 18% 5% 20% 12% 9% 11%
RTÉjr -17% 1% 0% 1% -7% -12% -5% -5% -14%
RTÉ2 50% -23% 4% -50% -13% -3% 6% 11% 8%
RTÉ Total -3% -11% -3% -15% -4% -2% 3% -1% 3%
TV3 48% 46% 42% 17% 43% 41% 51% 30% 27%
TV3 +1 21% 29% 50% 37% 20% 77% 52% 32% 25%
3e 15% 32% 23% 23% 8% 9% 10% 16% 55%
be3 -63% -58% -62% -56% -61% -62% -61% -65% -58%
TV3 Total 3% 4% 0% -3% 1% -1% 3% -7% 0%
UTV (part of other) -100% -100% 37% -5% 49% -6% 6% 9% 4%
TG4 10% 17% 8% -8% -16% 0% 3% 31% -5%
eir Sport 1 -30% 113% -69% -27% -83% -82% -82% -58% -69%
Total -1% -5% -3% -10% -3% -2% 2% -2% 1%
Other 0% 4% 2% 10% 3% 2% -1% 2% -1%

Elmo

3RD Quarter

Channel Q3 2017 Q3 2016 Q3 2015
RTÉ ONE 16.75% 18.57% 15.96%
RTÉ ONE +1 0.79% 0.78% 0.60%
RTÉjr 0.79% 0.84% 0.76%
RTÉ2 7.14% 6.93% 7.49%
RTÉ Total 25.48% 27.11% 24.81%
TV3 10.35% 7.12% 8.03%
TV3 +1 0.46% 0.35% 0.31%
3e 3.02% 2.45% 2.92%
be3 2.28% 5.86% 5.78%
TV3 Total 16.12% 15.77% 17.04%
UTV (part of other) 1.15% 0.78% 0.65%
TG4 1.94% 1.73% 1.60%
eir Sport 1 0.13% 0.23% 0.34%
Total 43.67% 44.85% 43.80%
Other 56.33% 55.15% 56.20%

Last 12 Months

Channel Q3 2017 Q2 2017 Q1 2017 Q4 2016 12months
RTÉ ONE 16.75% 17.85% 20.29% 18.11% 18.25%
RTÉ ONE +1 0.79% 0.90% 0.81% 0.80% 0.82%
RTÉjr 0.79% 0.64% 0.74% 0.74% 0.73%
RTÉ2 7.14% 5.14% 6.32% 5.42% 6.01%
RTÉ Total 25.48% 24.53% 28.16% 25.07% 25.81%
TV3 10.35% 10.99% 10.02% 7.87% 9.81%
TV3 +1 0.46% 0.54% 0.51% 0.37% 0.47%
3e 3.02% 2.85% 3.10% 2.48% 2.86%
be3 2.28% 2.32% 2.30% 5.99% 3.22%
TV3 Total 16.12% 16.70% 15.93% 16.71% 16.37%
UTV (part of other) 1.15% 1.05% 0.85% 0.95% 1.00%
TG4 1.94% 1.88% 1.88% 1.65% 1.84%
eir Sport 1 0.13% 0.11% 0.12% 0.12% 0.12%
Total 43.67% 43.22% 46.10% 43.56% 44.14%
Other 56.33% 56.78% 53.90% 56.44% 55.86%

Elmo

Sorry for all the tables. As you can see UTV has been drop from the figures. :mad: Took me this long to get them to publish.

An Ciarraioch

Big jump for TV3 over the last month. TG4 also on the rise lately, must be the minor matches and ladies football.

Elmo

An Ciarraioch wrote: »

Big jump for TV3 over the last month. TG4 also on the rise lately, must be the minor matches and ladies football.

Really TV3 is flatlining when you consider their 3 extra channels. Seems when TV3 gain both 3e and be3 fall back, while when they gain TV3 falls back. With IGT TV3 will hope to gain and have both be3 and 3e retain.

Sept with beginning of new season, I think both RTÉ and TV3 may fall back in October.

iseegirls

Few listings changes today on TV.

RTE1: 08:05-12:25 News Special. Unsure about rest of day

TV3: 15:00-19:00 News Special

Joe Duffy.

iseegirls wrote: »

Few listings changes today on TV.

RTE1: 08:05-12:25 News Special. Unsure about rest of day

TV3: 15:00-19:00 News Special

This is the dumbest overreaction since the time all the pork was withdrawn

iseegirls

RTE One going for News Special from 13:40-16:30 now.

Not sure if it's an over-reaction. I'm sure there are plenty glued to Twitter, Facebook, Journal, boards etc monitoring events of the biggest storm we've had in 60+ years.

Elmo

Rank Programme Name Channel Day Time Date TVR 000's
1 The Sunday Game Live - Live Play:Dublin V Mayo RTÉ2 Sun 15:31 Sept 17 27.89 987.2
2 The Sunday Game Live - Live Play:Galway V Waterford RTÉ2 Sun 15:30 Sept 3 22.12 783.1
3 The Sunday Game Live - Post Match:Dublin V Mayo RTÉ2 Sun 17:15 Sept 17 21.36 756
4 The Sunday Game Live - Post Match:Galway V Waterford RTÉ2 Sun 17:04 Sept 3 16.45 582.3
5 World Cup Qualifier 2018 - Live Play:Republic of Ireland V Serbia RTÉ2 Tue 19:48 Sept 5 16.27 575.9
6 The Late Late Show RTÉ ONE Fri 21:36 Avg 12.56 444.6
7 RTE News: Nine O'Clock RTÉ ONE Sat 21:17 Sept 23 11.62 411.5
8 World Cup Qualifier 2018 - Live Play:Georgia V Republic of Ireland RTÉ2 Sat 17:01 Sept 2 11.5 407.3
9 The Sunday Game Live - Build Up:Dublin V Mayo RTÉ2 Sun 14:13 Sept 17 11.18 395.9
10 RTE News: Nine O'Clock RTÉ ONE Sat 21:37 Sept 30 11.1 392.8
11 RTE News: Nine O'Clock RTÉ ONE Mon-Sun 21:01 Avg 10.8 382.2
12 Up For The Match RTÉ ONE Sat 21:48 Avg 10.49 371.4
13 Mrs Brown's Boys RTÉ ONE Sat 21:10 Avg 9.52 336.9
14 Acceptable Risk RTÉ ONE Sun 21:30 Sept 24 9.48 335.5
15 The Ray D'Arcy Show RTÉ ONE Sat 21:47 Sept 23 9.26 327.6
16 Crimecall RTÉ ONE Mon 21:36 Sept 25 8.85 313.1
17 RTE News: Six One RTÉ ONE Mon-Sun 18:01 Avg 8.84 312.9
18 Winning Streak RTÉ ONE Sat 20:35 Sept 30 8.79 311.1
19 Ireland's Health Divide RTÉ ONE Mon 21:36 Sept 4 8.7 307.9
20 World Cup Qualifier 2018 - Post Match:Republic of Ireland V Serbia RTÉ2 Tue 21:39 Sept 5 8.34 295.1
21 World Cup Qualifier 2018 - Post Match:Georgia V Republic of Ireland RTÉ2 Sat 18:52 Sept 2 8.24 291.7
22 The Sunday Game Live - Build Up:Galway V Waterford RTÉ2 Sun 14:00 Sept 3 8.12 287.3
23 Champions League Live - Live Play:Liverpool v Sevilla RTÉ2 Wed 19:46 Sept 13 7.9 279.7
24 Fair City RTÉ ONE Tue/Wed/Thu/Sun 20:02 Avg 7.9 279.6
25 The Ray D'Arcy Show RTÉ ONE Sat 22:05 Sept 30 7.89 279.4
26 Find Me A Home RTÉ ONE Thu 20:32 Avg 7.83 277.2
27 What Are You Working For? RTÉ ONE Mon 21:36 Sept 11 7.65 270.6
28 Coronation Street TV3 Mon/Wed/Fri 19:30 Avg 7.64 270.6
29 Ploughing Live RTÉ ONE Tue/Wed/Thu 19:00 Avg 7.63 270.2
30 Coronation Street TV3 Mon/Wed/Fri 20:30 Avg 7.63 270
31 The Classroom Divide RTÉ ONE Mon 21:36 Sept 18 7.58 268.4
32 Winning Streak RTÉ ONE Sat 20:16 Sept 23 7.54 266.8
33 The Sunday Game Live - Live Play:Cork V Kilkenny RTÉ2 Sun 16:01 Sept 10 7.09 251
34 Celebrity Operation Transformation RTÉ ONE Wed 21:36 Avg 7.08 250.5

brick man

Seen rte news now being broadcast on rte one today that's a first

Elmo

TV3 News had 106,000 viewers interest to see if this is due to its new look. News At 10 drop out of be3 top programmes under 21,000 viewers.

Channel 4's Irish Opt-Out channel had 28,000 viewers for GBBO.

icdg

Today with Daithi and Maura was the only programme in the daytime schedule that aired - all other programmes bar news bulletins were replaced with RTE News Specials or RTE News Now (itself simulcasting Radio 1).

Elmo

No. Programme Channel Start Time Day TVR 000's
1 Wales V Republic of Ireland RTÉ2 19:46:00 Mon 20.2 715
2 Wales V Republic of Ireland RTÉ2 21:40:00 Mon 15.7 556
3 The Late Late Show RTÉ ONE 21:38:00 Fri 11.3 401
4 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:00:00 Wed 9.2 325
5 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:02:00 Tue 9 317
6 Acceptable Risk RTÉ ONE 21:31:00 Sun 8.9 314
7 Coronation Street TV3 20:30:00 Fri 8.5 300
8 At Your Service RTÉ ONE 20:32:00 Sun 8.3 292
9 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:03:00 Sun 8.2 290
10 Coronation Street TV3 19:30:00 Fri 8.2 290
11 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:03:00 Thu 8 285
12 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:29:00 Thu 7.8 276
13 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:27:00 Tue 7.8 275
14 Nationwide RTÉ ONE 19:01:00 Mon 7.7 273
15 The Ray D'Arcy Show RTÉ ONE 21:38:00 Sat 7.4 262
16 Prime Time RTÉ ONE 21:42:00 Tue 7.3 258
17 Room To Improve RTÉ ONE 19:02:00 Sun 7.3 258
18 Coronation Street TV3 20:30:00 Wed 7.3 257
19 Find Me A Home RTÉ ONE 20:33:00 Thu 7.2 256
20 Wales V Republic of Ireland RTÉ2 19:00:00 Mon 7.2 256
21 Coronation Street TV3 19:29:00 Wed 7.2 254
22 Painting The Nation RTÉ ONE 18:33:00 Sun 7.1 250
23 Brendan O'Connor's Cutting Edge RTÉ ONE 21:36:00 Wed 7 249
24 Nationwide RTÉ ONE 19:00:00 Fri 7 249
25 Nationwide RTÉ ONE 19:00:00 Wed 7 248
26 Winning Streak RTÉ ONE 20:06:00 Sat 6.7 239
27 Coronation Street TV3 19:30:00 Mon 6.7 238
28 Prime Time RTÉ ONE 21:38:00 Thu 6.6 235
29 Emmerdale TV3 19:00:00 Thu 6.6 235
30 Coronation Street TV3 20:30:00 Mon 6.6 233

Elmo

As iseegirls suggested Blind Date is down at 152,000 this week. XFactor remains at 182,000 and 178,000 viewers, with ITV drama Liar getting 105,000 viewers following its airing on ITV on Monday Night.

RTÉ2 docs Trauma (120,000) and Vogue (65,000). Not sure if it is a new season of First Dates with 70,000 viewers. A repeat of This Wild Life had 60,000, it must have been repeats a 1000 times at this stage.

Room To Improve repeat on Sunday had 258,000 viewers.

It will be interesting to see how figures are next week as 100,000 remain without power.

brick man

Looking at RTE One would I be right in thinking it is down across the board in comparison to same time last year

An Ciarraioch

Yes, even on poor weeks, TLLS is down a good 50-75k from last season.

Elmo

When you continue to repeat programming into October and they are part of your most watched shows for the week their is a problem. How many times can they repeat Room To Improve? and At Your Service?

Joe Duffy.

Something needs to be done about thw amount of repeats on RTE

Badabing

D'arcy down a good bit from last season.

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Joe Duffy. wrote: »

Something needs to be done about thw amount of repeats on RTE

This is where the proposed RTE3 would have been a good addition to Saorview. RTE could have shoved all repeats with some classic home grown content on to RTE3 and kept all new homemade and bought in content on RTE ONE and TWO.

Elmo

Joe Duffy. wrote: »

Something needs to be done about thw amount of repeats on RTE

They have no clue, 45% of RTÉ2's programming are repeats with 20% on RTÉ ONE. Now lets face it we all notice repeats of Channel 4 and BBC ONE, 12% and 4% receptively. Audiences are not stupid, also it seems as if RTÉ don't know which episodes of programmes they have repeated with RTÉ repeating ones that have just been repeated a month or 2 earlier.

Elmo

Finley Attractive Pensioner wrote: »

This is where the proposed RTE3 would have been a good addition to Saorview. RTE could have shoved all repeats with some classic home grown content on to RTE3 and kept all new homemade and bought in content on RTE ONE and TWO.

I don't think this would have solved the problem. RTÉ don't like showing new bought in programmes in prime time, many would have featured on the RTÉ PLUS/3 schedule rather than either ONE or 2, with PLUS/3 taking on clashing sports and classic RTÉ TV series.

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Elmo wrote: »

I don't think this would have solved the problem. RTÉ don't like showing new bought in programmes in prime time, many would have featured on the RTÉ PLUS/3 schedule rather than either ONE or 2, with PLUS/3 taking on clashing sports and classic RTÉ TV series.

If RTE don't like showing bought in content durning prime time hours when most people are settling down to watch tv especially durning the Winter months how do they expect to compete with TV3,TG4 and all the Brittish national channels beamed In to this country by Sky and cable companies?

Elmo

Finley Attractive Pensioner wrote: »

If RTE don't like showing bought in content durning prime time hours when most people are settling down to watch tv especially durning the Winter months how do they expect to compete with TV3,TG4 and all the Brittish national channels beamed In to this country by Sky and cable companies?

They were caught complete off guard because they do not know what they are doing.

RTÉ ONE's Summer Time audience was down significantly in 2015, this was slightly problematic for 2015's Autumn where it took RTÉ ONE a good 3 months to deleiver 20% share of the audience. 2016 wasn't bad for RTÉ ONE, New Year had drama and reality, but also 1916 coverage all boosting audiences, Summer 2016 saw RTÉ ONE take over GAA coverage meaning coming into the autumn months their audiences were pretty even from the start of 2016. And then in 2017 they had the success of DWTS. This held the audience until the Summer and RTÉ ONE faired far better in 2017 to 2015 because of this success. However Audience were still below 20% mean RTÉ ONE for the New autumn season has to climb, but if you look back at 2015 (which is what RTE should be looking at) the up swing doesn't come until December, meaning losses in audiences for RTÉ ONE. RTÉ ONE will see a swing up but I wonder if they will be down overall from 2017 in early 2018.

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Elmo wrote: »

They were caught complete off guard because they do not know what they are doing.

RTÉ ONE's Summer Time audience was down significantly in 2015, this was slightly problematic for 2015's Autumn where it took RTÉ ONE a good 3 months to deleiver 20% share of the audience. 2016 wasn't bad for RTÉ ONE, New Year had drama and reality, but also 1916 coverage all boosting audiences, Summer 2016 saw RTÉ ONE take over GAA coverage meaning coming into the autumn months their audiences were pretty even from the start of 2016. And then in 2017 they had the success of DWTS. This held the audience until the Summer and RTÉ ONE faired far better in 2017 to 2015 because of this success. However Audience were still below 20% mean RTÉ ONE for the New autumn season has to climb, but if you look back at 2015 (which is what RTE should be looking at) the up swing doesn't come until December, meaning losses in audiences for RTÉ ONE. RTÉ ONE will see a swing up but I wonder if they will be down overall from 2017 in early 2018.

My guess is RTE will mostly likely gain viewers over the Christmas period especially with the influx of good movies they show over that period. How much of a gain they will make on TV3 and all the other channels I mentioned in my previous post remains to be seen. Since Virgin Media took over the TV3's bouquet of channels I think they have really upped their game regarding news,home produced and bought in content. So it will be interesting to see who gains the most viewership over the Christmas period.

Elmo

natashaob6 wrote: »

My guess is RTE will mostly likely gain viewers over the Christmas period especially with the influx of good movies they show over that period. How much of a gain they will make on TV3 and all the other channels I mentioned in my previous post remains to be seen. Since Virgin Media took over the TV3 bouquet of channels I think they have really upped their game regarding news,home produced and bought in content. So it will be interesting to see who gains the most viewership over the Christmas period.

To be honest TV3 haven't really. I agree TV3 have improved vastly and I think largely because of this they have retained audiences from 2015 and 2016 but this is all they have done, retained an audience. TV3 will really be looking to IGT and 6 Nations to see them jump to 20% overall. Certainly both RTÉ and TV3 seem to be looking more at January than Sept to Dec in terms of audience, which is odd considering that advertisers want audiences before Christmas.

My guess is RTÉ will have 25% over Christmas with TV3 having around 16%, I suspect that RTÉ will drop in Oct and Nov, with TV3 increasing in Nov with the return of I'm A Celeb.

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Elmo wrote: »

To be honest TV3 haven't really. I agree TV3 have improved vastly and I think largely because of this they have retained audiences from 2015 and 2016 but this is all they have done, retained an audience. TV3 will really be looking to IGT and 6 Nations to see them jump to 20% overall. Certainly both RTÉ and TV3 seem to be looking more at January than Sept to Dec in terms of audience, which is odd considering that advertisers want audiences before Christmas.

My guess is RTÉ will have 25% over Christmas with TV3 having around 16%, I suspect that RTÉ will drop in Oct and Nov, with TV3 increasing in Nov with the return of I'm A Celeb.

When I look at the programmes RTE have shown over the last couple of weeks I must say apart from the excellent dramas like Broken with Sean Bean An Acceptable Risk and Mr. Mercedes with Brendan Gleeson and of course their news coverage leading up to and including the aftermath of Storm Ophelia there hasn't been anything on RTE to show a possible increase in audience figures. I wonder how did they above dramas mentioned fair in the ratings so far?

Elmo

No. Programme Channel Start Time Day TVR 000's
1 The Late Late Show RTÉ ONE 21:35 Fri 11.3 399
2 Coronation Street TV3 20:30 Mon 10.4 367
3 Prime Time RTÉ ONE 21:38 Tue 9.8 348
4 Anthony Foley: Munsterman RTÉ ONE 21:41 Mon 9.6 341
5 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Mon 9.5 338
6 The Ray D'Arcy Show RTÉ ONE 22:01 Sat 9.3 328
7 Winning Streak RTÉ ONE 20:30 Sat 9.1 321
8 Prime Time RTÉ ONE 21:37 Thu 8.8 311
9 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:03 Tue 8.7 306
10 Acceptable Risk RTÉ ONE 21:31 Sun 8.5 302
11 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:02 Sun 8.5 300
12 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:01 Wed 7.8 278
13 At Your Service RTÉ ONE 20:32 Sun 7.6 270
14 Room To Improve RTÉ ONE 19:01 Sun 7.5 267
15 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Fri 7.6 267
16 Coronation Street TV3 19:30 Wed 7.5 267
17 Claire Byrne Live RTÉ ONE 22:44 Mon 7.5 265
18 Coronation Street TV3 20:29 Fri 7.5 265
19 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:57 Mon 7.4 264
20 Today With Maura And Daithi RTÉ ONE 16:59 Mon 7.4 261
21 Fair City RTÉ ONE 20:02 Thu 7.3 258
22 The Zoo RTÉ ONE 19:28 Mon 7 248
23 Coronation Street TV3 20:30 Wed 7 247
24 Emmerdale TV3 19:00 Tue 6.9 245
25 Eastenders RTÉ ONE 19:28 Tue 6.9 243
26 Champions League Live - Live Play:Benfica V Manchester Utd RTÉ2 19:47 Wed 6.9 243
27 Emmerdale TV3 19:00 Mon 6.7 239
28 Nationwide RTÉ ONE 19:00 Fri 6.7 238
29 Emmerdale TV3 19:00 Thu 6.7 238
30 Painting The Nation RTÉ ONE 18:32 Sun 6.7 237

Elmo

Not sure how the power outages were considered in these figures. First time entry for Today/a daytime show in the top twenty for RTÉ with 261,000 viewers.

RTÉ2's Vogue, Say Yes To The Dress, Salon Confidential and Trauma ranged from 85,000 viewers to 112,000 viewers. Sport continued to be the main attraction with BEN V MU getting from 97,000 to 243,000, GAA Draw had 122,000 viewers, Cork City V Derry City getting 79,000 viewers. Home and Away had from 64,000 to 106,000 viewers, with Eamon and Bridget getting just 62,000 viewers.

9 of TV3's top 20 got into the top 30 show, Coro St and Emmerdale. X Factor had 172,000 and 169,000 viewers.

Irish shows Blind Date (152,000), Gogglebox (120,000), Blind Date Repeat (113,000) and The Rehab (112,000).

iseegirls

That is one huge rating for The Today Show. The storm definitely had people in watching telly. Although, it may have been nice if some of the channels like 3e went off-kilter and showed something different considering most of the irish people were stuck inside.

Blind Date doing well if you add up the repeat with the first showing.

Ray D'Arcy's rating is getting close to the Late Late Show. unsure whether TLLS is just getting bad, or RDS is getting better. Surely it can't be the latter.