Ryan Tubridy, on The Late Late Show
Further to an article in yesterday’s Irish Mail on Sunday in which it was reported that an unnamed source claimed The Late Late Show is in “need of a revamp” on foot of poor figures for the most recent season…
RTÉ has released the following statement…
RTÉ One categorically rejects any suggestion that The Late Late Show is in need of a revamp.
RTÉ One channel controller Adrian Lynch said: “This has been an extremely successful year for The Late Late Show. It has bucked wider television trends to increase its audience share, maintaining its position as Ireland’s biggest TV show.
“Any suggestion that the show is in need of a revamp is ridiculous. This is a programme that continues to draw the biggest weekly audiences on Irish television and regularly provides the talking point of the weekend for people around the country. We are very happy with how the show has performed over the last year. Any broadcaster would be delighted to have a show like The Late Late Show as their flagship programme, consistently delivering week on week”.
The consolidated* average audience for the 2015/16 series of The Late Late Show was 583,300 and the average share** of the available audience was 42.1 per cent. This compares to a consolidated average of 599,900 for the 2014/15 series and a share of 41.6 per cent.
While there has been a extremely modest drop in terms of the thousands watching, The Late Late Show confounded industry trends this year and actually increased its share of the available audience watching television at the time.
Adrian Lynch said: “The Late Late Show is a winning formula that viewers continue to embrace wholeheartedly, as clearly demonstrated by the fact that this year the show has increased its share of the available audience. This is a significant feat at a time when viewers can choose from more television channels than ever before and one that the Late Late team should be very proud of”.
Viewers are also watching the show on a wider variety of platforms including RTÉ One +1, RTÉ Player and On Demand.
There was an increase in the average number of people watching the show on RTÉ One + 1 this year (up to 17,100 Live+VOSDAL*** in 2015/16 from 13,000 in 2014/15).
The show is also doing exceptionally well on RTÉ Player with total streams of 1,735,700 for this season, a 9 per cent increase in streams on the previous season (Sept 2014 – May 2015).
FIGHT!
Ratings Source: TAM Ireland Ltd / Nielsen TAM
*Average consolidated audience – consolidated data incorporates VCR, DVDR and PVR playback viewing that took place within 7 days of the original broadcast. This time-shifted viewing is added to the live data to produce consolidated viewing data. Consolidated data is available eight days after the original transmission date. This data is the ‘TAM Gold Standard’ used by the industry to report and trade on.
**Share – The percentage of the total audience watching television at the time
***Live+VOSDAL – Live + Viewed On Same Day As Live – average reflects 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
Thanks Gareth
It is ridiculous. It should be cancelled.
While the Late Late Show is patently garbage, it is probably going to do fine by these metrics. As the population ages the Late Late will have a bigger and bigger proportion of those people who actually still watch live TV watching it. A horrible thought, I know.
Unless, of course, the BBC fights back by switching Countdown to Friday nights.
The majority of TV is still watched live by a massive margin.
It would be interesting to see stats/trends on this.
Sure… here’s two.
This one is ‘Housekeepers with kids’ (plse note, HK’s refers to ‘anyone’ that is given the job as the weekly shopper and is approximately 20% male in the make up of that audience)
HK’s watch 2hrs 55mins live + 35 mins recorded
https://twitter.com/MediaLive_News/status/729679037078118401
For 25-44s…. 2hrs 27mins live + 32 mins recorded
https://twitter.com/TAM_Ireland/status/737589771829018625
Or… this link here http://tamireland.ie/box-clever/takeaways/general
In the bottom right of the screen you’ll see ‘April Overview’ and about 4 or 5 slides in you’ll see where it says percentage live viewing by 15-24s has gone up year on year from 87% to 89%…. could be down to a lot of sports in April…. dunno myself, haven’t looked at the detail.
i read that as “by a massive virgin” and i was thinking ‘hm, an interesting contribution, lets see where this goes .. ‘
Countdown is on Channel 4, not BBC. It’s also on a Friday night, in the form of Cats does Countdown. Far better viewing than the LLS, which has been on a virtual repeat for the last 10 or so years.
“unnamed source claimed The Late Late Show is in “need of a revamp” ”
So, they just asked any random punter under 45 then :) …or something….
It’s Friday night viewing, it’s the new slot for the new ‘Live at Three’ audience. And it works. Not everything has to suit everyone. That slot on a Friday was always intended for ‘parents’, to put it broadly, and it hits that audience with viewing figures any TV station in the world would be salivating at.
And with an aging population on the island, you can be sure the LLS will be here for some time yet.
I don’t like it. But I’m not dumb enough to claim it should be cancelled because I don’t like it :)
Nobody said ‘cancel’ until you said it.
I think the words they used were ‘in need of a revamp’.
-What are your views on that?
You mean… fire Tubs?
I’ll get the matches !
“RTÉ One categorically rejects any suggestion that The Late Late Show is in need of a revamp.”
You’d swear it was an accusation of criminality.
By the standards of the geriatrics in RTE, it is!
You spelt ‘nepotism’ wrong.
Raised my brow too. Reads like a haughty customer complaint letter and sums up the institution perfectly!
Maybe if they dress Tubs in a backwards baseball cap and hoodie and give him lines like ‘Yo, better tweets mah main man Nasty Nick. Hammertime!’
Yeah, hi Roy.
Source says something sucks, something responds. Media publishes. Commenters comment and move on. This is media.
Can’t stand tubs anyway
you ask anyone of a certain demographic and they’ll hate it. it’s target demographic, who are also most likely to pay the licence, will be happy with it as is.
Turbidy gets a very hard time, it comes with the job. But he’s not as bad as people make out, imo.
From what I’ve seen of him, he’s alright at fluff and useless at the serious stuff. Like the anti-kenny.
I like that he loves and encourages reading, and holidays in Connemara, and promotes this on the radio at least
I like that he loves himself, and that he’s a little bit of a lot other people and not himself at all, which could possibly be worse if you think about it. Actually, don’t think about it…Sorry.
He’s great, isn’t he?
You’re just jealous.
-If Ryan Toobusy was on this site, commenting like what you are, he’d have you creased up with the laughing…
For instance, he might make a joke about someone’s spelling, or their bad grammar. He’d probably spell that wrongly, for irony, and after a quick commercial break he’d explain that it was a subtle joke about Grandmothers, and sure who doesn’t love their Granny. There’s a smell of stale wee for everyone in the audience, where’s me cheque?
Something like that, I dunno.
Talking to yourself, forgetting to change your avatar…
LOSER.
Dunno, I’m over sixty and haven’t watched “de late late” in over forty years. Getting tired of being part of a ‘demographic’ whose purpose seems to be to assume that whole swathes of people are an homogenous lump.
@ Shriek MeCootie
I’m with you brother…
It was better when it was in Black ‘n’ White.
-Not a lot of people know this but it’s the longest-running TV-program on the TV that is hosted by a Gay, and you have to give kudos to the fathers and uncles of those who work in RTÉ today, who probably think that’s still happening but their extended family is wrecking the gaff.
They should NEVER had changed over to Colour.
No one gives a crap about this garbage
True
Finally someone agrees with C
If Todd Andrews was still around he’d have booted the likes of Tubridy out the door
ages ago, irrespective if was the Grandson, and neither would the language be too
choice either….who in RTE is allowing a prime viewing slot to be filled with the type
of rubbish Tubridy and his pals spew out.
Does revamp mean they want to bring in vampires? If so I’m for it, and zombies too, not the zombies watching it
though.
This is just me being a pedant Darwinator.
If I was slagging you I would have called you Dora The Winator, but I wouldn’t do that…
I had to read your post twice but I’ll let you off this once…
Where were we..?
Oh yeah, ‘RE-VAMP???
Seriously like…you’re on your own with that one, but I’m pretty sure you’re heading in the right direction.
Vampires…I never saw it like that myself, but yeah….vampires….
The more you think about it…
bs and gareth naughton are joined at the hip.
The late late is rte’s flagship program?
Jaysus
My kids have a better question…
-They ask, ‘Daddy, a man on the Internet said that there’s an RTÉ…Can you tell me it isn’t so and let me sleep? I have exams in the morning, leave me alone’
I answer ‘Jaysus’
Winning a one team league. Woop woop
Pathetic that RTE feel the need to issue this statement. What are they thinking?
What are they thinking? The truth: someone said it in public, so now they have to come out and deny it.
Tubridy is losing audience, so he/his production team need to sort it. Afterwards they can deny it and say he’s the greatest thing since sliced bread, but those home truths sink in.
I’m taking away your avatar for behaviorism that is unbecoming of any person who is not like what you think other people think you are like, and even if they don’t., and I doubt that any of them even do or care if they do do or don’t…but yeah…
No avatar for twenty minutes.*
Idiot
There’s only one Sharkey-Toothy, with no toothy-teethy…
There’s only three sǝɯǝɯʇɐpɐq’s, so far…
Don’t tempt me.
I might bite.
Leave ‘Shaft MeMeBeauty’ (from behind) alone.
Stop making fun of his ridiculous name.
The TAM Survey is based on a sample of a mere 1050households. As such any estimate should be accompanied by WIDE margins of error.
People quoting viewer numbers per show rounded to the nearest 100 know nothing about statistics and are talking through their proverbial circular object. A year-on-year change of 2.7% may well be just random noise.
These numbers are useful for showing broad relativities BETWEEN shows and when you get a VERY large temporal change in a show itself you should take notice. But in general they tell us nothing new and are just created so that those selling advertising can pretend to sound clever in front of their clients.
Whenever the issue of sample size comes up I always mention that the sample size of just 1000 is used to extrapolate political policy and popularity among an electorate of some 3 million. But more on topic its good to know that RTE still pay Nielsen to do the stupid work instead of maybe doing some quality control and first hand stats. You’d think they’d ask UPC and Sky what their customers watch and for how long but nah just keep outsourcing it to a company that gave a box to honest god fearing catholics from nice areas in the country and thought they’d always press a button whenever they’d watch a programme. So the surveyed ordinary folk would always push the button when the Angelus and 6.1 news came on. But perhaps maybe not when Eurotrash was on or late night channel 4 in general.
Precisely. The whole system relies on people accurately and consistently pushing buttons as the start and stop watching. This is something that is very easy to drift into bad habits with.
What’s he cribbing about anyway
Their idea of a revamp would be to change the curtains and get a new settee
The same arses from the canteen would be on it
The same circles of pals would be in and out of it
And who would you replace Tubs with anyway?
There’s no One
And
TBF now
His Toy Show is great telly
Well, in Politics ” categorically denies…” means “definitely going to…”
I think they should go back to the old format where audience members used to participate in some quite revolutionary debates. Ah Gaybo – forgotten but not gone!