Corna News Pushes TV Ratings Up in Feburary
Posted on Friday March 20, 2020

News of the general election and the cornavirus have seen both RTÉ ONE\'s and VMT ONE\'s audience share increase dramatically. RTÉ\'s total TV audience for Feburary 2020 was 29%,it was up 7% from January, and up 14% from February 2019. Virgin Media had an average audience of 18% an increase of 11% since January, but down 3% from February 2019.

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All Ireland Draw\'s In Viewers
Posted on Wednesday September 04, 2019

The All Ireland Football clash against Dublin and Kerry ended in a Draw and drew a significant high audience for the end of the summer and RTÉ2 with 801,000 adult viewers. Top the top ten chart. This was follow by post match anaysis getting 637,000 viewers. The Rose of Tralee also brought in viewers for RTÉ One as the Autumn Seasons start. It had 472,000 adult viewers for its final night, taking up 3 of the top slots.

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Virgin Media Axe 780 hours of TV in 2020
Posted on Friday February 28, 2020

Virgin Media Television is to axe 780 hours of live TV from its schedules. Virgin Media One had recently announced a major increase in live TV in 2019 replacing ITV\'s This Morning with an extended Ireland AM, Elaine and News at 12. Ireland AM will see an hour cut from its programme, Elaine will move back to 3pm each weekday, while Virgin Media news will be cut by half an hour moving to 12:30, meanwhile their NEWS on TWO show was axed in 2019.

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Gentleman Jack Returns
Posted on Saturday June 01, 2019

The BBC have announced that there popular period drama Gentleman Jack is to return in 2020 to BBC ONE and the BBC player. The series preiemered on BBC One in May 2019.

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Finding Joy\'s Audience
Posted on Wednesday February 19, 2020

RTÉ\'s comedy vehicle for Amy Huberman had an average audience of 295,000 viewers over the course of its run according to an Freedom of Information (FoI) request seen by CCÉ. The series started of with 427,000 viewers and saw it fall to 212,000 by episode 5. The six part series also saw an average of 16,500 viewers on RTÉ ONE +1, with repeats the same week getting 108,000 viewers (7,500 on +1). The series was repeated a year later getting an average of just 26,000 viewers on RTÉ2, with the +1 getting 2,000 viewer on average across the six episode. The Second series of Finding Joy is due to air on RTÉ ONE later this year.

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