This weekend’s big sporting events drew massive audiences to RT Television and Online.
The GAA Hurling Championship All-Ireland final drew its highest audience in three years, winning a phenomenal 68% audience share.
An average audience of 771,000 people watched the match and the audience peaked at 912,000, again in the dying minutes of the match.
From kick-off to the final whistle, the World Cup Qualifier won 2-1 by Ireland against Cyprus and broadcast live from Nicosia on Saturday night was watched by an average 633,000 viewers with 833,000 watching at 21.19, during the closing stages.
On RT.ie, 11,081 live streams were served for the online coverage of Ireland v Cyprus while 28,076 were streams were recorded for the Sunday Game Live double header of the All Ireland Minor and Senior Hurling finals.
[quote=“larryduff”]But Sky aren’t the national broadcaster. Anyway…
This weekend’s big sporting events drew massive audiences to RT Television and Online.
The GAA Hurling Championship All-Ireland final drew its highest audience in three years, winning a phenomenal 68% audience share.
An average audience of 771,000 people watched the match and the audience peaked at 912,000, again in the dying minutes of the match.
From kick-off to the final whistle, the World Cup Qualifier won 2-1 by Ireland against Cyprus and broadcast live from Nicosia on Saturday night was watched by an average 633,000 viewers with 833,000 watching at 21.19, during the closing stages.
On RT.ie, 11,081 live streams were served for the online coverage of Ireland v Cyprus while 28,076 were streams were recorded for the Sunday Game Live double header of the All Ireland Minor and Senior Hurling finals.[/quote]
RTE News at 6 did not contain a single mention of any county finals today but showed us Maradonnas dive across the grass. Keep the focus on Ireland anyway lads…
yes, lets keep it internal & rural- lets focus on minority sports rather on the popular sports to satisfy the amish tendencies of a few crackpots on this site:rolleyes:
Tony O’Donoghue referring to Yohan Gouffran as ‘Grouffrand’ on the RTE News Sport earlier. This guy is supposed to be RTE’s Chief Soccer Correspondent…A Grade A fucking fraud.
he is a footballer in a foreign country mate, i dont think its crucial that he knows the names of every professional footballer in the whole wide world mate.
He knew he hadn’t a chance of progressing in RTE with Nugent not going anywhere anytime soon. Didn’t they fly Nugent in especially for a knockout game in the last world cup after Cahill had done a fine job on the group games?
The RTÉ Sport website is usually appalling and riddled with errors, looking like a work experience project rather than the national broadcasters sport section.
Their live blog on the transfer window this evening takes the biscuit. Almost every single entry has a basic error. This one is a cracker:
