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    The national TV viewership thread

    So, the most popular match in Ireland up to Sunday night was Brazil v Switzerland, with 407,000 viewers, making it the most popular programme of the week. Portugal v Spain came second with 312,000, with Argentina-Iceland on 285,000, Germany v Mexico on 248,000 and Peru v Denmark on 246,000. One suspects England v Tunisia may well have drawn figures similar to the Iberian derby, but figures won't emerge until next week.

    #2
    18 million people watched England v Tunisia in the UK. Biggest TV audience of the year. I wasn't one of them.

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      #3
      Apparently 99.4% (IIRC) of all TV viewers in Iceland were watching the Argentina match.

      I wonder what the 0.6% were watching?

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        #4
        Originally posted by tracteurgarçon View Post
        Apparently 99.4% (IIRC) of all TV viewers in Iceland were watching the Argentina match.

        I wonder what the 0.6% were watching?
        Probably one of those channels that show logs slowly burning.

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          #5
          People in Iceland are obviously tiring of football - their match v England at Euro 2016 got 99.8% of the television audience.

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            #6
            Which means at most 600 people watched something else (if literally everyone in the country was watching TV)

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              #7
              0.6% = whale porn.

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                #8
                They were watching a pilot of a Guðni Bergsson chatshow.

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                  #9
                  England games almost always get big TV audiences in the Irish Republic (as Ken Early points out, the advertising costs peak for them as a direct result).

                  It's not because all the South's fans dislike England, believe it or not.

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                    #10
                    They like the players who play for their club teams

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Diable Rouge View Post
                      Probably one of those channels that show logs slowly burning.
                      Or an endless loop of the Aurora Borealis.

                      Those 'log burning' channels and their ilk don't seem to be around anymore, do they? I used to enjoy an occasional dip into the Landscape Channel, which married images of mountains and hot-air balloons with some quite interesting ambient music. (Wikipedia claims it still exists, but I can't recall having seen it in at least twenty years.)

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                        #12
                        Germany has a weather channel that shows on a loop slow 30-second live pans from mounted cameras from dozens of places all over the country, from the mountains to the coast. It's quite hypnotic. I watched it for about twenty minutes once.

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                          #13
                          Tunisia vs England recorded a sizeable audience of 453,000 last Monday, though naturally that figure more than halved to 200,000 for the Panama game, given the kick-off time and GAA competition. Iran v Spain also proved attractive on 345,000, Russia v Egypt drew 312,000, followed by Poland-Colombia on 303,000, Argentina-Croatia on 286,000 and Germany-Sweden on 276,000. That final figure is particularly noteworthy as 205,000 were simultaneously watching Kerry v Cork, so a sizeable chunk of the country were watching live sport last Saturday.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View Post
                            England games almost always get big TV audiences in the Irish Republic (as Ken Early points out, the advertising costs peak for them as a direct result).

                            It's not because all the South's fans dislike England, believe it or not.
                            That's not why I or anyone I know watch these matches. We're in it for the sense of the event, and the fairly reasonable expectation of seeing a pompous fat man fall on a banana skin. People in the republic watched Northern Ireland and Wales because they wanted them to do well at euro 2016, but we watched the england Games for that Iceland result.
                            Last edited by The Awesome Berbaslug!!!; 26-06-2018, 12:28.

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                              #15
                              It seems curious to me that more England fans do not want Ireland to fail, especially when they play ugly football, unless they are playing a team you detest even more (like France in Euro 16). Do the Irish actually want English patronizing support?

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                                #16
                                Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View Post
                                It seems curious to me that more England fans do not want Ireland to fail, especially when they play ugly football, unless they are playing a team you detest even more (like France in Euro 16). Do the Irish actually want English patronizing support?
                                As Brexit showed up, however, scratch a significant proportion of English people, and you'll unearth some Irish relation.

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                                  #17
                                  Well there's a difference between friendly support, and patronizing, and we're able to tell the difference.... There's about 8 million people on the"mainland" that have at least an irish grandparent and are entitled to an Irish passport. The number of people with an irish Great grand parent is huge. Also there's nothing really objectionable about the irish team other than their early 1990's premier league style, which it turns out is what most english club fans seem to want for some fucking inexplicable reason. There's going to be plenty of people in England who are going to think the same broadly positive way about the republic of Ireland, as we did about Wales, and were very pleased for Northern Ireland at euro 2016.

                                  Fuck the english media though. We see them in action on this whole Northern Irish border business. It's painful.

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                                    #18
                                    Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View Post
                                    That's not why I or anyone I know watch these [England] matches. We're in it for the sense of the event, and the fairly reasonable expectation of seeing a pompous fat man fall on a banana skin
                                    People you know- or even people who think like you- are actually quite a small proportion of the TV audience. You're a bit like the guy who says 'I'll stand for election, I know lots of people'. Well that's great, but your 30 mates are hardly a quota.

                                    As I mentioned, there's always a TV audience in the South for England matches. Even though hardly any give a sense of event- they're either qualifying mismatches or friendlies. England have lost one competitive game (of 26) since the last World Cup. Running with your greengrocery theme, there are enough couch potatoes sitting through your games to keep Linker in crisps until he retires.

                                    People in the republic watched Northern Ireland...because they wanted them to do well at euro 2016


                                    Southern fans don't want to admit to their bias, so play dumb and pretend that we might want to merge with their team and ship a cricket score in every World Cup qualifiers.
                                    Last edited by Duncan Gardner; 26-06-2018, 14:01.

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                                      #19
                                      Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View Post
                                      People you know- or even people who think like you- are actually quite a small proportion of the TV audience. You're a bit like the guy who says 'I'll stand for election, I know lots of people'. Well that's great, but your 30 mates are hardly a quota.

                                      As I mentioned, there's always a TV audience in the South for England matches. Even though hardly any give a sense of event- they're either qualifying mismatches or friendlies. England have lost one competitive game (of 26) since the last World Cup. Running with your greengrocery theme, there are enough couch potatoes sitting through your games to keep Linker in crisps until he retires.
                                      You're very naive, though, Dunc, if you think they're actively cheering for England, however - just try to buy a white jersey in an Irish sports shop, and see how far you get.

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                                        #20
                                        Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View Post
                                        It seems curious to me that more England fans do not want Ireland to fail
                                        It's partly because of the effective food chain. The South are almost always weaker than England* (and thus not a threat). In the same way that England's 'rivalry' with Germany** is largely one-sided.

                                        * RoI have reached a later stage in one international tournament since 1964 (World Cup 1994)

                                        ** England similarly have outlasted Germany once since 1968 (Euro 2004)

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                                          #21
                                          Originally posted by Diable Rouge View Post
                                          You're very naive, though, Dunc, if you think they're actively cheering for England, however - just try to buy a white jersey in an Irish sports shop, and see how far you get
                                          I'm not in the least naive on this and didn't suggest that. The mass audience watch England internationals because they watch English clubs and thus know England's players. I realise that they'll have laughed after Iceland or Costa Rica did the job, like we all did but do suggest they sit down to every game hoping for or expecting that is just silly.

                                          Irish sports shops are full of England shirts- and if I can be gently patronising in turn I go to those with a rather larger turnover than in Tralee or Listowel
                                          Last edited by Duncan Gardner; 26-06-2018, 14:15.

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                                            #22
                                            Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View Post
                                            People you know- or even people who think like you- are actually quite a small proportion of the TV audience. You're a bit like the guy who says 'I'll stand for election, I know lots of people'. Well that's great, but your 30 mates are hardly a quota.

                                            As I mentioned, there's always a TV audience in the South for England matches. Even though hardly any give a sense of event- they're either qualifying mismatches or friendlies. England have lost one competitive game (of 26) since the last World Cup. Running with your greengrocery theme, there are enough couch potatoes sitting through your games to keep Linker in crisps until he retires.





                                            Southern fans don't want to admit to their bias, so play dumb and pretend that we might want to merge with their team and ship a cricket score in every World Cup qualifiers.
                                            Of course, there's the fact that soccer's the only sport that isn't organised on an all-island basis, and that both nations drew on the same panel of players until 1950.

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                                              #23
                                              It's also worth remembering that between 350,000 and 500,000 people living here were born in england.

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                                                #24
                                                Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View Post
                                                People you know- or even people who think like you- are actually quite a small proportion of the TV audience. You're a bit like the guy who says 'I'll stand for election, I know lots of people'. Well that's great, but your 30 mates are hardly a quota.

                                                As I mentioned, there's always a TV audience in the South for England matches. Even though hardly any give a sense of event- they're either qualifying mismatches or friendlies. England have lost one competitive game (of 26) since the last World Cup. Running with your greengrocery theme, there are enough couch potatoes sitting through your games to keep Linker in crisps until he retires.





                                                Southern fans don't want to admit to their bias, so play dumb and pretend that we might want to merge with their team and ship a cricket score in every World Cup qualifiers.
                                                Much like someone who hasn't had time to make it to the hairdresser, your roots are showing. You do realize that those two positions aren't contradictory at all. People in the republic would like a United Ireland eventually, but in the meantime are very comfortable with the idea of Northern Ireland carrying on existing until ye decide otherwise. You can easily wish Northern Ireland well in a tournament that is happening right now but wish that the sport was organized on an all ireland basis like Rugby or GAA. Also Northern Ireland are managed by one of the most popular League of Ireland figures in living memory. It would simply be rude to wish failure on a team managed by Michael O'Neill. He's also the best Pundit RTE have for this world cup.

                                                It's not a zero sum game DG.

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                                                  #25
                                                  Originally posted by Diable Rouge View Post
                                                  Of course, there's the fact that soccer's the only sport that isn't organised on an all-island basis, and that both nations drew on the same panel of players until 1950
                                                  As I may have pointed out once or twice, that fact is a tad misleading. NI's top performers in a wide range of sports represent not (just) all-island but NI (Commonwealth Games as well as football), Britain, England or themselves. And of course Derry's finest cartoon Provos have won plenty of caps under Mad Mart. You already have a united Ireland team in other words, so it's just vindictive to want rid of a NI rival, as that poll suggests. Not to mention odd to claim as Berba does that everything's lovey-dovey.

                                                  Is Berba claiming that the audience for England games in RoI is made up largely of immigrants and returning emigrants?

                                                  As for that RTE Poll. If it was any more of a zero-sum game both Coke and Pepsi could sponsor it. There is no likelihood of a UI side beyond the existing situation while partition endures, and still little chance of that changing for a generation or more. Thanks for the coiffure tips btw, even though I'm nearly as bald as you are.

                                                  You have a snide habit of referring my roots any time we disagree, as if I stepped out of UDA kindergarten yesterday rather than 50 years ago.Knock it on the head, there's a good lad.

                                                  PS was Mikey drunk? He certainly seemed to be on the Jungle Juice in central America
                                                  Last edited by Duncan Gardner; 26-06-2018, 15:01.

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