{"id":111535,"date":"2020-01-06T10:01:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T10:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.tg4.ie\/?page_id=111535"},"modified":"2021-11-04T16:48:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T16:48:01","slug":"ratings-increase-for-tg4-over-christmas-period","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dev.tg4.ie\/en\/information\/press\/press-releases\/2020-2\/ratings-increase-for-tg4-over-christmas-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratings increase for TG4 over Christmas Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Share up 13% from 2018 on TG4 for Christmas period (Christmas Eve &#8211; New Year\u2019s Day)<\/li>\n<li>Higher viewership on 7 out of 9 days during the Christmas period v 2018<\/li>\n<li>650,000 reach on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>TG4 was the 6th most watched television station in Ireland in 2019, and had a share of 2.7% on average over Christmas. TG4 had a daily reach of 569,000 and an overall reach of almost 2 million viewers. On Christmas Eve, 28th December and New Year\u2019s Day, TG4 had over 3% share. <\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Opry le Daniel\u2019<\/strong> celebrating Margo\u2019s 55 years in the music industry attracted the highest viewership on Christmas Eve with an average audience of 83,000. The deferred coverage of Leinster v Munster on \u2018Rugba\u00ed Beo\u2019 on December 28th was the 2nd most watched programme over Christmas with an average viewership of 81,000 and 7% share of the audience.<\/p>\n<p>The Christmas movie schedule also proved popular with Irish viewers, <strong>\u2018Into the West\u2019<\/strong> was the most watched programme on Christmas Day with 79,000 on average tuning in. \u2018Dirty Dancing\u2019 on Christmas Eve attracted 9% of the viewership on the night with over 76,000 on average watching.<br \/>\nNewly produced documentaries about Phil Coulter &#038; Richard Harris <strong>\u2018Phil Coulter &#8211; Mo Shaol\u2019<\/strong> and <strong>\u2018Fear Darb Ainm Harris\u2019<\/strong> also proved popular choices in prime time schedule slots of 9:30pm on Christmas Day and New Year\u2019s Day attracting over 60,000 and 53,000 viewers respectively.<br \/>\nTG4\u2019s New Year\u2019s Eve live show from Peacocks Hotel in Connemara <strong>\u2018F\u00e1ilte 2020\u2019<\/strong> featuring live music from Sharon Shannon, Mundy, Frankie Gavin and others also was well received on social media and brought a healthy 4% share. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share up 13% from 2018 on TG4 for Christmas period (Christmas Eve &#8211; New Year\u2019s Day) Higher viewership on 7 out of 9 days during the Christmas period v 2018 650,000 reach on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. TG4 was the 6th most watched television station in Ireland in 2019, and had a share of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":876,"featured_media":0,"parent":111527,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-pr.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TG4 | Ratings increase for TG4 over Christmas Period | 2020 | Press Releases | Press | Irish Television Channel, S\u00fail Eile<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"TG4 see major increase in viewers over the recent Christmas period\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TG4 | Ratings increase 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