.6 million viewers tune-in as ROIs UEFA EURO 06 Journey Ends

1.26 million viewers tune-in as ROIs UEFA EURO 2016 Journey Ends

27 June 2016: An average* of 1.26m viewers watched yesterdays Round of 16 defeat to France on RT 2 as the Republic of Ireland bowed out of UEFA EURO 2016.

*** RT 2 programme is highest-rating of the year so far ***

A massive 83%** of those watching television at the time were tuned into the game. The audience peaked*** at 1.34m viewers as the game drew to a close.

Additionally there were 130,300 live streams for the Republic of Ireland v France game on RT Player. This makes Ireland v France the second biggest live game of UEFA EURO 2016 on RT Player after Ireland v Sweden. The live tracker article of yesterday's game on RT s online Euro 2016 hub had over 232,500 page impressions.

Ryle Nugent, Group Head of Sport, RT commented On a huge weekend for Irish sport it has been a privilege for RT Sport to bring four live UEFA EURO 2016 games, two highlights shows, two live GAA Championship games, the Sunday Game highlights, the Irish Derby and the National Athletics Championships to RT viewers plus radio coverage of most of the above along with both Ireland v South Africa and the U20s World Cup Final between Ireland and England .As the national broadcaster, we are also proud that the highest audience of the year tuned into RT 2 s coverage as the nation united behind the boys in green

RT 2's entire UEFA EURO 2016 coverage over the weekend reached**** a cumulative total of 2.11m people.

Yesterday's game was the highest-rating television programme of the year to date.

UEFA EURO 2016 on RT 2 and RT Player continues this evening with live, exclusive coverage of England's Round of 16 clash with tournament surprise-packet Iceland. The programme begins at 7.30pm and Darragh Maloney will be joined by Damien Duff, Dietmar Hamann and Eamon Dunphy with commentary from George Hamilton and Jim Beglin.

Monday 27 June, 2016

-ENDS-

Further information Fergus McCormack, RT Sport press officer, 01 2083117, 086 8674751, Fergus.mccormack@rte.ie

Notes to editors

Source for television figures: TAM Ireland Ltd/ Nielsen TAM, Live + VOSDAL data, National Individuals

Source for RT Player and online figures is comScore Digital Analytix

*Average 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

** Share The percentage of the total audience watching television at the time

*** Peak The number of viewers watching during the minute which had the highest number of viewers across the programme.

****Reach The number of viewers who tuned into a programme for a minute or more.

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