emmomac
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02/09/2013 16:18:21
emmomac
would love to see some sort of global estimation for viewing figures why? The figures outside Ireland wouldn't be high at all.

No idea what kind of figures there are but I know in Edinburgh, where I am, there were 5 packed irish bars full of people watching as well as the people who watch online (illegally or otherwise). Any time I have been in another country during championship I see people watching. Would love to get an estimate as to global figures. I reckon the states have a good few thousand watching


I know a group of 25 who are in Spain and they were in the Irish Bars Watching as well. When you are away the irish Bars are packed to the rafters for these games. In 2011 in was In Spain for the AL final and was crammed into an Irish bar Packed with hundreds of People

chriscart580 (Meath) - Posts: 376 - 03/09/2013 13:38:57    1474034

Also does it take into Account Bars & Gaa Clubs around the Country watching as well??? I know i was in a Dublin Club on Sunday and there were a couple of Hundred watching there. Would this be counted as well?? And if it is how do they factor this audience into the figures?

chriscart580 (Meath) - Posts: 376 - 03/09/2013 13:42:33    1474038

When I was in the US years ago.....Packed Irish Bars!
When I was in NZ years ago.........Packed Irish Bars!
When I was in Oz years ago.........East Leagues Club in Bondi Junction, Packed hall!!

You would easily have 100,000 watching around the world!

Regards,

Snufalufagus....Laochra Gael

Snufalufagus (Dublin) - Posts: 8100 - 03/09/2013 13:44:23    1474043

ormond

what hes trying to say is there would have been thousands more watching in these countries in pubs alone.
i dont know whow they estimate how many is actualy watching one tv though as i always took they ment there was for this instance 1.2 million tvs tuned into the match.how they can calculate how many people are actualy watching the same tv is surely not possible as just say you have visitors in your house at that time or you could have a house of five people and maybe one only in the room with tv on.
its starbge they never include pubs in the viewing figures as im sure it would bump up a couple of hundred thousand

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 03/09/2013 14:07:31    1474082

Yeah chriscart - thats kind of what prompted my initial questions around how they get them. I know ormondbannerman
talks of the Nielsen Ratings but as far as I can see to get use this methodology they either get a target audience of viewers to record their watching habits or by putting set meters in to certain households. But assuming that the number of participants (in either the diary or meter) isn't huge as a total of the telly watching population then I would put the figures produced on the same shelf that I put the output from opinion polls.

Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 03/09/2013 14:15:34    1474102

ormond

purely curious. thats all!

I remember visiting Ellis Island and being blown away by the figures spouted for Irish now in America. They had a huge interactive map of the states and you could choose any country and it would give a geographical breakdown of descendants. Ireland was by far the biggest. Millions and millions of us!

Sure a few percentage of them watch the GAA

emmomac (UK) - Posts: 273 - 03/09/2013 14:18:15    1474108

Those figures are way off the mark and not accurate at all.

AfricanGael (UK) - Posts: 1947 - 03/09/2013 14:25:35    1474114

AfricanGael
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Those figures are way off the mark and not accurate at all.

knowing your deemening attiude to gaa i presume you mean there was less watching.
i cannot see how as they could always get a minimum by knowing the amount of tvs that had a programme on but how they get the maximum is what we all want to know

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 03/09/2013 14:33:54    1474125

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"knowing your deemening attiude to gaa" what a load of BS, if you knew how much i have promoted the GAA globally you would hide behind a rock. Globally means worldwide by the way hill.

AfricanGael (UK) - Posts: 1947 - 03/09/2013 14:40:06    1474139

03/09/2013 14:07:31
hill16no1man
ormond, what hes trying to say is there would have been thousands more watching in these countries in pubs alone.
i dont know whow they estimate how many is actualy watching one tv though as i always took they ment there was for this instance 1.2 million tvs tuned into the match.how they can calculate how many people are actualy watching the same tv is surely not possible as just say you have visitors in your house at that time or you could have a house of five people and maybe one only in the room with tv on.
its starbge they never include pubs in the viewing figures as im sure it would bump up a couple of hundred thousand
Maybe thousands more. It is not garbage(sic) that pubs are not included in viewing figures.
How could you use pubs as reliable source in terms of gathering info. Would be quite unreliable.
Viewing figures are found by use of surveys sent to homes etc
03/09/2013 14:18:15
emmomac
ormond, purely curious. thats all!
I remember visiting Ellis Island and being blown away by the figures spouted for Irish now in America. They had a huge interactive map of the states and you could choose any country and it would give a geographical breakdown of descendants. Ireland was by far the biggest. Millions and millions of us!
Sure a few percentage of them watch the GAA Doubt much watch GAA. Would have to have some strong connection to Ireland to watch GAA. Yes lots of irish went to US but numbers into GAA wouldn't be huge at all

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 03/09/2013 14:42:48    1474143

I remember visiting Ellis Island and being blown away by the figures spouted for Irish now in America. They had a huge interactive map of the states and you could choose any country and it would give a geographical breakdown of descendants. Ireland was by far the biggest. Millions and millions of us!
emmomac
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Well done!
I stood at that exact same board!
You pressed the button of a country on the panel and the map of the US lit up in the districts where most decendants are to be found and a figure was displayed also!
There was loads of people around it pressing their country and I couldnt get right next to it to press 'Ireland' so I told a man next to the Ireland button "Can you press Ireland for me please?" and he replied jokingly: "Christ, do you want to break the damn thing?!"
So he pressed 'Ireland' and the map lit up so much there was fear of a power outage as far up as Queens!

Regards,

Snufalufagus....Laochra Gael

Snufalufagus (Dublin) - Posts: 8100 - 03/09/2013 14:44:28    1474146

AfricanGael
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hill16no1man
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"knowing your deemening attiude to gaa" what a load of BS, if you knew how much i have promoted the GAA globally you would hide behind a rock. Globally means worldwide by the way hill.

your always putting the games down on hoganstand from your posts and always putting ireland down so seems strange if you feel a gra for the games why you do this

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 03/09/2013 14:52:46    1474161

ormondbannerman
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03/09/2013 14:07:31
hill16no1man
ormond, what hes trying to say is there would have been thousands more watching in these countries in pubs alone.
i dont know whow they estimate how many is actualy watching one tv though as i always took they ment there was for this instance 1.2 million tvs tuned into the match.how they can calculate how many people are actualy watching the same tv is surely not possible as just say you have visitors in your house at that time or you could have a house of five people and maybe one only in the room with tv on
its starbge they never include pubs in the viewing figures as im sure it would bump up a couple of hundred thousand
Maybe thousands more.

It is not garbage(sic) that pubs are not included in viewing figures.
How could you use pubs as reliable source in terms of gathering info. Would be quite unreliable.
Viewing figures are found by use of surveys sent to homes etc

i didnt mean garbage i ment strange it was typing error.
well surely they use the same method to see how many watch at home as a pub?
surveys please do explain?
as rte released this monday morning how on earth could they survey homes that quick and i have never had to answer a survey for them

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 03/09/2013 14:56:51    1474166

hill16no1man
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Wrong again hill, I put puke football down, if you like it, that's your choice.

AfricanGael (UK) - Posts: 1947 - 03/09/2013 14:58:52    1474171

whats puke football then?
i like watching attacking football like dublin,kerry mayo and alot of teams play

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 03/09/2013 15:20:48    1474192

There was one sad chap in pub after match watching some London teams playing that dreadful s****. Rest of us were watching the real game again. I know it is condescending but I tapped him on the shoulder and commiserated with him; asked him what part of north London he was from. Inchicore!!!!

Should have paid more attention in geography I suppose.

He said he would not "open his curtains" to watch "the gah".

Mother Ireland you are still raring them :-(

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 03/09/2013 15:28:54    1474201

03/09/2013 14:56:51
hill16no1man
i didnt mean garbage i ment strange it was typing error.
well surely they use the same method to see how many watch at home as a pub?
surveys please do explain?
as rte released this monday morning how on earth could they survey homes that quick and i have never had to answer a survey for them It would be a different method as pubs are public venues and not private venues.
It would be very different in pubs as crowds will vary so much more than in a home. Easier to work averages using households.

TV viewing figures are calculated using statistics gathered from various surveys carried out on various households. The surveys normally monitor which channels are being watched by which kinds of viewers. demographics etc

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 03/09/2013 18:54:38    1474399

Hurlingdub if he did not want to watch the Dublin V Kerry games what business it is of yours , GAA was not his sport and he has every right to watch his soccer without you putting your twopence worth in.

tinrylandman (Carlow) - Posts: 387 - 03/09/2013 19:08:59    1474415

ormond

so basicaly what your saying is they count how many tvs are tuned into the sunday game not how many people are watching a tv at a certain time?
as you could never have an accurate number as you dont know if a person has 3 or 4 people over watching a match with them the same as a pub you never know the amount of people in a pub watching a match

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 03/09/2013 19:47:45    1474445

hurlingdub
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"I tapped him on the shoulder and commiserated with him; asked him what part of north London he was from. Inchicore!!!!"

You are a great add for the GAA hurlingdub and that was a really educated thing to do, fair play to ya, all your mates there to back you up. Really brave.

AfricanGael (UK) - Posts: 1947 - 03/09/2013 19:48:35    1474448