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There's nothing wrong with the show at all, I also think it's pretty decent for what it is and for it's target Market. It's a well thought out show. However, it shouldn't in all honesty be the most watched Irish show outside of RTE1. There have been millions of Euro put into the TV3 schedule on New Irish Programmes and almost none of them have worked. Same can be said for RTE2 schedule.
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Rare Breed would always get the ratings because it's inbetween the 2 episodes of Coronation Street. Got to remember that Malcolm in The Middle, Mike And Molly, Saving Ray, Nothing To Declare etc got the same ratings when they were in the same position of 8pm on TV3.
Comparing Ireland AM's 1999 figures with GMB's figures now is laughable. Ireland AM was a brand new area which Ireland never had - breakfast morning TV specifically made for us. For people to switch on the TV instead of the radio was a slow process. But now they have an average of 62,000 viewers daily over 3 hours. That's more that UTVi's entire weekend schedule, and most of their primetime weekday shows - Cilla, The Bletchley Circle etc... |
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Rare Breed would always get the ratings because it's inbetween the 2 episodes of Coronation Street. Got to remember that Malcolm in The Middle, Mike And Molly, Saving Ray, Nothing To Declare etc got the same ratings when they were in the same position of 8pm on TV3.
Comparing Ireland AM's 1999 figures with GMB's figures now is laughable. Ireland AM was a brand new area which Ireland never had - breakfast morning TV specifically made for us. For people to switch on the TV instead of the radio was a slow process. But now they have an average of 62,000 viewers daily over 3 hours. That's more that UTVi's entire weekend schedule, and most of their primetime weekday shows - Cilla, The Bletchley Circle etc... As for Ratings, it would be far fairer to compare Lorainne to Ireland AM. There is no question that Ireland AM is the Market leader at that time of Morning but UTV Ireland have made the decision not to compete at all 18 hours out of a 24 hour Day and they also seem to have put off competing on Saturdays until Britain's Got Talent has finished. UTV Ireland really adds little to the TV market in Ireland, but no one in the industry is judging them on the first month or indeed the first 6 months. It's the figures this time Next Year that are going to tell the tale. They are prepared for Large losses this year and Next. If they break even on day to day operations in year two they'll regard that as a success. In the meantime Stations have to stay on the air to compete. Looking at TV3 figures if they don't bring up Primetime audiences soon they won't be around in their current format in 12 months. Having Daytime Programmes in your top twenty is never a good sign and I'm sorry to say to advertisers 63,000 viewers at 9.00 at night are worth a lot more than 63,000 at 9.00 in the morning. Finally it's better to compare like for like. The 62,000 for Ireland AM is all Viewers and from a press release. The 63,000 for Cilla is over 15 Adults only and actual Figures from Tam Ireland. |
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UTVi have made a decision to only compete between 6.30pm-11pm Monday - Friday while forgetting about the rest of the times outside of that, which won't help it's share.
It's also very easy for them to make a profit in year 2 or 3 if they don't bother creating home produced programming. UTV NI rarely made any type of shows apart travel/nature docs, and I expect UTVi to follow the same way. At least BBC NI produced panel, politics, debate, comedy and music shows alongside their sport coverage. Their launch has been an absolute shambles. They thought they could breeze in and take the No2 spot straight away and take on RTE1 for No1 - by putting up repeats upon repeats and hoping that the soaps will do the work for them. Their ratings have been terrible outside the soaps and the 2 shows at 8pm on Mon and Fri. As for being an advertiser, I sure wouldn't be happy if my product was being sold at a primetime hour at 9pm (at a high primetime fee) when the show only has 63,000 viewers for Friday night, and under 56,000 for Wednesday and Thursday nights. |
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UTVi have made a decision to only compete between 6.30pm-11pm Monday - Friday while forgetting about the rest of the times outside of that, which won't help it's share.
In Primetime last Monday 6pm to 11.30pm - UTV Ireland had an audience share of 13.41pc, while TV3's share was 6.9pc. Quote:
It's also very easy for them to make a profit in year 2 or 3 if they don't bother creating home produced programming. UTV NI rarely made any type of shows apart travel/nature docs, and I expect UTVi to follow the same way. At least BBC NI produced panel, politics, debate, comedy and music shows alongside their sport coverage.
BBC NI and UTV are very different beasts and can't be compared. Quote:
Their launch has been an absolute shambles. They thought they could breeze in and take the No2 spot straight away and take on RTE1 for No1 - by putting up repeats upon repeats and hoping that the soaps will do the work for them. Their ratings have been terrible outside the soaps and the 2 shows at 8pm on Mon and Fri.
Their Ratings outside of the soaps are nothing to write home about but even repeats of Midsomer Murders and Birds of a Feather appear to beat almost everything TV3 puts out. Quote:
As for being an advertiser, I sure wouldn't be happy if my product was being sold at a primetime hour at 9pm (at a high primetime fee) when the show only has 63,000 viewers for Friday night, and under 56,000 for Wednesday and Thursday nights.
Basically it's two awful stations with generally awful Programmes fighting it out. Both Owned by British Companies. The interest here is which will survive. |
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Was watching This Morning today and noticed that Phillip Schofield introduced the itv news. So does UTV Ireland show the ITV news during This Morning
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Was watching This Morning today and noticed that Phillip Schofield introduced the itv news. So does UTV Ireland show the ITV news during This Morning
10:55am UTV Ireland Weather With this morning sandwiched either side |
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They may have got the cricket because no-one else wanted it, but could have bandwagon potential!
http://www.independent.ie/sport/othe...-30990412.html |
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They may have got the cricket because no-one else wanted it, but could have bandwagon potential!
http://www.independent.ie/sport/othe...-30990412.html |
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Next Saturday UTV Ireland has the new series on Saturday Night Takeaway
http://www.locatetv.com/tv/ant-and-d...son-12/9043661 while TV3 is airing a repeat of Saturday Night Takeaway from series 10 http://www.locatetv.com/tv/ant-and-d...son-10/7973707 |
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Will it be there own programme or a simulcast of ITV's highlights programme
http://www.independent.ie/entertainm...-30992620.html |
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Are UTV Ireland showing the Graham Norton Eastenders special
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Don't know, I'm afraid. RTE Two takes that position in the market share wars this week, presumably due to the Six Nations:
http://www.tg4.ie/ie/production/tg4-viewing.html |
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Next Saturday UTV Ireland has the new series on Saturday Night Takeaway
http://www.locatetv.com/tv/ant-and-d...son-12/9043661 while TV3 is airing a repeat of Saturday Night Takeaway from series 10 http://www.locatetv.com/tv/ant-and-d...son-10/7973707 |
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That's a bit desperate. I remember ITV showing repeats of The Paul O'Grady Show against his new show on Channel 4, but very few people fell for it and within a few days ITV replaced the repeats with something else.
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UTV Ireland have announced they have secured the exclusive rights to broadcast Belfast boxer Carl Frampton’s world title defence on February 28. it is also on ITV/UTV
is this the first live sport on the channel ? http://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/oth...ve-662773.html |
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UTV Ireland have announced they have secured the exclusive rights to broadcast Belfast boxer Carl Frampton’s world title defence on February 28. it is also on ITV/UTV
is this the first live sport on the channel ? http://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/oth...ve-662773.html |
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Yes, only sports highlights previously was the aforementioned cricket, so they're getting killed at weekends.
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Yes, only sports highlights previously was the aforementioned cricket, so they're getting killed at weekends.
Neither TV3 or UTV Ireland have ratings on Saturday or Sunday that would allow the stations to break even. However, Monday to Friday UTV Ireland Do have The Soaps which are bringing in the audiences. TV3 appear to have almost nothing in primetime that has more than 100,000 viewers Monday to Friday. the exceptions being The Restaurant and Red Rock, but Red Rock has dropped viewers every week since it started and is now only on 102,000 viewers (adults over 15). The pity here is that Red Rock is not bad at all and would have a chance if it was on RTE or had started a few months earlier on TV3 when Soap Watchers would have gotten used to watching it. |
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The question is will they produce there own coverage or use ITV's coverage
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They're not competing at weekends at all. Saturday and Sunday are TV3 best nights with Ant and Dec and The Cube. But will an Irish Audience prefer 2 year old Ant and Dec or a brand new episode on UTV Ireland?
Neither TV3 or UTV Ireland have ratings on Saturday or Sunday that would allow the stations to break even. However, Monday to Friday UTV Ireland Do have The Soaps which are bringing in the audiences. TV3 appear to have almost nothing in primetime that has more than 100,000 viewers Monday to Friday. the exceptions being The Restaurant and Red Rock, but Red Rock has dropped viewers every week since it started and is now only on 102,000 viewers (adults over 15). The pity here is that Red Rock is not bad at all and would have a chance if it was on RTE or had started a few months earlier on TV3 when Soap Watchers would have gotten used to watching it.
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Just noticed that RTE is lumbered with the FG Ard Fheis this Saturday, so safe to say even reheated SNT will perform better!
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Just noticed that RTE is lumbered with the FG Ard Fheis this Saturday, so safe to say even reheated SNT will perform better!
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Will the new SNT on UTV Ireland not perform better
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Quick question regarding RTE it seems on Thursday that RTE 1 isnt showing the 9.30 pm ep of Eastenders and are instead showing it on Friday at 7.30 before the live. Is this to beat UTV Ireland as they have corrie at 7.30 pm
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