RTÉ A CHOSEN DESTINATION FOR THE NATION AFTER STORM EMMA DELIVERS RECORD NUMBERS
Posted on May 21, 2018
RTÉ kept the nation informed and entertained over the last few days with over 3 million people (3.1M) tuning into RTÉ Television over the period Wednesday 28th February – Sunday 4th March. (1 min reach).
Our news coverage did particularly well with each of the following averages achieved over the 5 day period. (Wed 28th Feb – Sunday 4th March).
|
2018 |
Individuals |
|
|---|---|---|
| News at One |
000s Share |
309 35.1 |
| Live Line |
000s Share |
225 23.5 |
| Today with Maura and Daithi |
000s Share |
221 19.7 |
| Six One |
000s Share |
702 45.7 |
| News at Nine |
000s Share |
635 38.9 |
| News Special |
000s Share |
247 21.8 |
Some other key highlights:
- Highest Six One was on Thursday 1st March. It averaged 808K viewers (47.4% share)
- Nine News averaged 707K (40% share) on the same day
- Room to Improve had an audience of 620K (44.1% share) on Sunday
- The Late Late Show – 545K and 43.9% share on Friday.
- Primetime had a 30% share on Thursday with 464K viewers.
- On RTÉ2 the Young Offenders had an average audience of 400K (22.6% share) on Thursday with the repeat also doing well last night (206K)
We’ve also listed the Top 10 programmes of which RTÉ held 9/10 positions:
2018
| # |
Description |
Channel |
Day of week |
Date |
r (000s) |
Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
RTE News: Six One |
RTÉ One |
Thu |
01-03-2018 |
808 |
47.4 |
| 2 |
RTE News: Nine o'clock |
RTÉ One |
Thu |
01-03-2018 |
707 |
39.9 |
| 3 |
Room to Improve |
RTÉ One |
Sun |
04-03-2018 |
620 |
44.1 |
| 4 |
Dancing with the Stars |
RTÉ One |
Sun |
04-03-2018 |
580 |
38.1 |
| 5 | The Late Late Show |
RTÉ One |
Fri |
02-03-2018 |
545 |
43.9 |
| 6 |
Coronation Street 20 |
TV3 |
Wed |
28-02-2018 |
483 |
29.6 |
| 7 |
Prime Time |
RTÉ One |
Thu | 01-03-2018 | 464 | 29.9 |
| 8 |
Operation Transformation |
RTÉ One |
Wed | 28-02-2018 | 456 | 27.3 |
| 9 |
RTE News: One o'clock |
RTÉ One |
Fri | 02-03-2018 | 454 | 40.7 |
| 10 |
Fair City |
RTÉ One |
Sun | 04-03-2018 | 451 | 29.5 |
In tandem with this we also had a very strong performance on our digital platforms with some figures as follows: RTÉ.ie/ RTÉ News Now
- 53.4m page views and 3.4m unique browsers across RTÉ.ie/ News Now App last week. This looks to be a new weekly record and beats the week of Storm Ophelia.
- The Top 3 articles/ trackers had over 1m page views each.
- 9 of the top 10 articles were directly related to weather news. The 10th was indirectly related – the Lidl looting.
RTÉ Player
- 1,551,000 total streams on RTÉ Player last week – the strongest weekly volume of streams ever (10% greater than the previous high – week of 13th June 2016 which included Euro 2016)
- Over 371K live streams last week and RTÉ News: Six One was the most popular live programme