1.2 million viewers tune-in to Republic of Ireland’s historic victory over Italy
*** RTÉ2 programme is highest-rating of the year so far ***
An average* of 1.23m viewers watched last night’s Group E crunch clash between the Republic of Ireland and Italy on RTÉ2 as Robbie Brady’s headed effort ensured qualification to the Round of 16 and a glamour tie against hosts France in Lyon on Sunday.
73.6%** of those watching television at the time were tuned into the game. The audience peaked*** at 1.45m viewers in the last minute of the game while the post-match analysis peaked even higher at 1.47m viewers (21.56) as Darragh Maloney asked John Giles, Eamon Dunphy and Liam Brady to reflect on a famous victory.
Additionally there were 101,500 live streams for the Republic of Ireland v Italy game on RTÉ Player, which includes 7,450 streams of the Irish Language commentary version. This makes Ireland v Italy the third biggest live game of UEFA EURO 2016 on RTÉ Player after Ireland v Sweden and England v Wales.
Ryle Nugent, Group Head of Sport, RTE commented “The Irish team competing in the Euros is a national event which RTÉ is proud to deliver to Irish audiences. Everyone involved in delivering coverage of the UEFA EURO 2016 championship is hugely encouraged that such large numbers of viewers continue to choose RTÉ as the place to see national teams compete and unite to share the experience and we look forward to bringing viewers live coverage of what’s sure to be an exciting game against France.”
RTÉ2’s entire UEFA EURO 2016 coverage yesterday reached**** a cumulative total of 1.9m people.
Last night’s live game and post-match analysis were the two highest-rating television programmes of the year to date.
The Republic of Ireland’s Round of 16 tie with France on Sunday (KO 2.00pm) will be exclusively live on RTÉ2 television, streamed live on RTÉ Player and will have full live commentary on RTÉ Radio 1.
The day of the Ireland v Italy game delivered the highest peak of daily online traffic so far to RTÉ’s online Euro 2016 hub across RTÉ.ie and RTÉ News Now app, with over half a million page impressions (572,280) yesterday. The live tracker article of last night’s game had over 255,700 page impressions.
Thursday 23 June, 2016
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Further information – Fergus McCormack, RTÉ Sport press officer, 01 2083117, 086 8674751, Fergus.mccormack@rte.ie
Notes to editors –
Source for television figures: TAM Ireland Ltd/ Nielsen TAM, Live + VOSDAL data, National Individuals
Source for RTÉ Player and online figures is comScore Digital Analytix
*Average – The average number of viewers across a programme or series, expressed in 000s. TV viewing is measured minute-by-minute, so the average audience is the average across all of these minutes
** Share – The percentage of the total audience watching television at the time
*** Peak – The number of viewers watching during the minute which had the highest number of viewers across the programme.
****Reach – The number of viewers who tuned into a programme for a minute or more.