Said he, as he whistled past the graveyard
You can’t compare an All Ireland final to an international team playing in their first major tournament in 12 years.
I think you can. If Ireland qualified for every major championships I don’t think the viewing figures would be diminished. The All Ireland Final is certainly infrequent enough to gather as much interest as it can and it’s so clearly the pinnacle of its respective sport that it represents max viewership.
An All Ireland final is annual and contains just 2 county teams. It is not a remotely fair comparison.
But of course the All Ireland final only contains two counties. That’s the nature of the sport and that’s the sport being compared to soccer.
The viewing figures for Irish international completive games are always very high. They are peerless at major tournaments. The GAA not having a tournament every 2, 4 or 12 years doesn’t change its popularity.
But you can’t take the “pinnacle” of the sport line for ratings. Bumper audiences are caused by non core audiences tuning in when they normally wouldn’t. Kerry v Mayo is not the same.
Why can’t you?
@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy’s point was that the Irish international soccer team is the most popular team in the country. I think that’s true. Saying that they’re only more popular because x or y ignores the fact that they are the most popular. The reasons for them being more popular aren’t really relevant.
Sorry didn’t mean to confuse, I’m not actually denying that, just that it’s a pointless comparison. I think the only person who said the ROI weren’t the biggest team was naming English soccer clubs, not intercounty teams.
I’m not even sure how the “double” ratings comes from;
RTÉ Television scored highly with Irish audiences in 2012 as just-released consolidated figures for the Top 20 programmes of the year show that nineteen of the top twenty programmes broadcast by any channel available in Ireland during the year were on RTÉ Television.
The Late Late Toy Show once again scooped top spot with an average audience of 1,453,000 viewers. The second most-watched programme of the year was RTÉ Sport’s Euro 2012 coverage of Republic of Ireland v Croatia in June with 1,236,000 viewers and the Mrs Brown’s Boys Special on Christmas Day hit third spot with 1,068,000 viewers.
It was a very good year for RTÉ Drama as Love/Hate’s series finale in December became the fourth most-watched programme of the year with 1,034,000 viewers tuning in to see Darren’s betrayal by Nidge and his shock execution. Fair City also made the Top 20 with an episode from January which saw 648,000 viewers tune in to see what happened in the aftermath of the revelations of Tommy and Jo’s affair. And Raw hit No 15 with the series finale in February as 704,000 viewers tuned in to see Pavel’s tragic demise.
Irish audiences loved RTÉ’s big entertainment programmes in 2012 as The Late Late Show made a second appearance in the Top 20 with the 50th Anniversary show in June hitting fifth spot with 1,028,000 viewers. Mrs Brown’s Boys made a second appearance in the list with the finale of the second series in February which was seventh with 909,000 viewers. The Eurovision Song Contest in May came in at tenth place with over 771,000 viewers. The Voice of Ireland had two spots on the list with 725,000 viewers for one of the blind auditions in February and 718,000 viewers for the results show in April, putting those shows in twelfth and thirteenth position. The Rose Of Tralee final had 695,000 viewers, putting it in sixteenth place.
Sport again proved very popular with Irish audiences with five of the Top 20 programmes of the year. As one might expect, the GAA All Ireland Finals featured strongly with The Sunday Game Live coverage of the All Ireland Senior Football Final (Mayo v Donegal) hitting sixth position with just under 975,000 viewers. The Sunday Game Live coverage of the All Ireland Senior Hurling Final (Kilkenny v Galway) came in at No 8 with just over 900,000 viewers. RTÉ Sport’s coverage of the RBS 6 Nations (Ireland v Wales) came in at No 20 with 648,000 viewers. And RTÉ Sport’s coverage of Katie Taylor’s history-making win at the London 2012 Olympics was the eleventh most-watched programme of the year with 754,000 viewers.
As ever Operation Transformation proved to be a ratings winner as the series finale attracted 673,000 viewers to make it No 18.
As might be expected, RTÉ News also featured in the top programmes of the year with 778,000 viewers tuning into the RTÉ Nine O’Clock News on February 12th and 675,000 viewers the RTÉ Six-One News on January 3rd , putting them in ninth and seventeenth spots respectively.
Dublin - Kerry in 2011 got 1,085,000.
this thread is about the demise of football in Oireland.
The facts are a big football game gets twice as much as an all ireland final or a rogbee game
twice as many people play football than rugby and all the bog sports combined,
its thriving despite the bog men being against it for xenophobic reason and the rogbee crowd being against it for sectarian reasoning.
the guy horsebox who posts here keeps harping on about the poor development plan yet when the bogmen play the aussies in gga and the aussies are more skillful than them despite playing the sport for a forthnight not a squeak out of him
ive posted these figures before from nielsens ratings.
a recent all ireland final got 600k
www.medialive.ie has them all
I assume you have to pay to see them?
Just going by what RTÉ themselves put out there.
http://www.rte.ie/about/en/press-office/press-releases/2012/0119/293191-190112top50progs/
RTÉ Television Broadcast 47 of the Top 50 Programmes of 2011
RTÉ Television delivered 47 out of the 50 most-watched programmes on Irish television in 2011 and all bar two of these were home-produced.*
“With the vast array of channel choice now available to Irish viewers, the fact that RTÉ remains so firmly the channel of choice for the Irish public is deeply gratifying. In these economically challenged times and in the face ever-increasing competition and choice, it is no small achievement to have delivered over 4,000 hours of original, relevant and high calibre programming that has proved to have been of such strong appeal. The public’s loyalty to RTÉ programming is something we continue to strive to earn and in no way take for granted.” Glen Killane, MD RTÉ Television
Rating highly across all genres from News and Current Affairs, Sports, Drama, Entertainment and Lifestyle, the most watched programme of the year was The Late Late Toy Show, securing an **average viewership of 1,528,000 viewers in December of last year, making it the most watched programme on Irish television in 17 years. Also within the Entertainment genre other favourites such as The Eurovision Song Contest and Rose of Tralee, new series Mrs Brown’s Boys proved to be a huge hit with viewers this year, with the Christmas special attracting an average audience of 952,000. Almost 700,000 viewers tuned in to countdown the New Year’s Eve Live Show which featured an array of RTÉ talent, both past and present, and The Saturday Night Show rated well across the year peaking at 596,000 last January.
Key milestones of 2011 feature prominently amongst the top-rating programmes. The most popular television sporting event proved to be the All Ireland Senior Football Final (Kerry vs Dublin) in September of last year, attracting an average audience of 1,085,000 viewers securing it the number three position in the overall line-up. Other sporting events which attracted large audiences included the All Ireland Senior Hurling Final (Kilkenny vs Tipperary), The Six Nations Rugby, the Euro 2012 Play Off and The Rugby World Cup.
The Irish public also chose RTÉ as their channel of choice for its coverage of politics, and News and Current Affairs. The Frontline Leaders Debate in the final days before the General Election attracted an audience of 964,000 viewers making it the fourth most-watched programme in 2011. The Prime Time Leaders Debate, Prime Time’s Presidential Election Special and The Frontline (final Presidential candidate debate) all attracted audiences of over 650,000 as did RTÉ’s coverage of the visits of Queen Elizabeth II and President Obama to Ireland. Crisis - Inside the Cowen Government also commanded strong viewership with an average audience of 612,000.
Irish life is also reflected across a diverse range of factual and lifestyle programmes some of which proved to be particularly resonant for audiences. New commissions such as Secret Millionaire, Departure Day, Arrivals, What’s Ireland Eating? and Property Crash – Where To Now? All attracted audiences ranging from 550,000 – 673,000. High quality, and original lifestyle commissions also proved to be of strong appeal with series such as Operation Transformation, Room to Improve, At Your Service and Roomers all had at least one episode which attracted an audience of 585,000 or more.
2011 also proved to be an exceptional year for RTÉ Drama. Its long-running series Fair City commanded strong audience share right across the year; its top rating single episode (featuring Bob Charles’ return to Carrigstown) was in January 2011 and attracted an audience of 764,000. Returning series LOVE/HATE, (recently nominated for 10 IFTAs), proved to be even more popular than the first series; its top-rating episode featured the shock killing of gangland boss John Boy played by Aidan Gillen. That episode was watched by an average audience of 691,400. The third series of RAW continued to command high figures, the second episode pulling in an average of 649,000 viewers.
The role of RTÉ Television is to produce high calibre programming which informs, inspires, and entertains Irish viewers; it bears unique responsibilities in reflecting Irish political, social and cultural life. From its inception, RTÉ Television has endeavoured to serve the public well and the high audience figures commanded by RTÉ Television across the year, across such a diverse range of programmes, are strong evidence that we honour this commitment and to the highest standards. Glen Killane, MD RTÉ Television.
*Source: TAM Ireland Ltd/Nielsen TAM. Ranking is based on best episode of shows/series of 15+ minutes duration broadcast between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2011, on any television channel, available in Ireland at any time.
** All figures are Consolidated National Individuals 4+.(The Consolidated audience is the sum of the live viewing plus viewing recorded and played back within 7 days)
Ha what?
Registered and had a sift through that site, no where is it clear that soccerball gets “double” the ratings except for Euro 2012, though the peak on that site was 1,025,000 for Ireland v Croatia.
Of recent “big” internationals - Scotland v Ireland from November 2014 which was probably the most anticipated ROI match since Euro 2012 got 506,000. Two of Ireland’s Six Nations games this year got above that, the Guinness Series games from November 2014 got 423,000 and 411,000 each. The All Ireland Finals from September got 686,000 and 470,000.
Definitely not seeing double there for “big” games, just a bump for Ireland’s first tournament in 12 years.
thanks
Yup…
Ruud Doktor defending the Pathways programme on RTE now. SRFC Academy not getting a mention @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy
Good to see the underage clubs being bitter
Does Richie Sadlier still work as an agent? Why is he arguing for the schoolboy clubs??
Not sure.he is a dick
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