Monday, 22 April 2013

A study of Media use in Ireland in 2011


Highest rated TV shows in Ireland in 2011
1.      The late late toy show
2.      The Eurovision song contest
3.      The Saturday night game live
4.      The frontline leaders debate
5.      Mrs brown’s boy Christmas special
6.      Mrs brown’s boy
7.      The Sunday night game hurling finals
8.      The late late show Eurovision special
9.      RTE News special Enda Kenny’s addresses the nation
10.  The rose of Tralee
11.  Prime time leader’s debate
12.  RTE special the queen’s speech
13.  President Obama’s visit
14.  The election 2011
15.  The late late show
16.  The new year eve show
17.  All Ireland talent show
18.  Series finale of love/hate
19.  RTE Six one news
20.  The all Ireland talent show final

Television
When it comes to the top  programmes on Irish television RTE one always come out on top in terms of viewer ship ever years. This due to the fact that RTE 1 having all the talk shows and news coverage. Also any new dramas made by rte are place on rte one because of the viewer ship. Unfortunately only two shows that made the list that where actually home produced. They are the Mrs Brown boys with the Christmas special and the final episode of the current series of love/hate.
 The Late Late Toy Show and the stand alone late late toy show which is the only time the show draws a universal audience of both adult and children in making it the most watched show on Irish television this year bring in I.5 million viewers. The highest view of the regular late late shows is the Eurovision episode.
This was a big year for Ireland and for Irish broadcasting. As live broadcasting the visit of both the queen of English and the president of American saw huge ratings for RTE one. As the queens visit was a historic moments that will be forever remembers in Irish history. And the American president’s visit was just Ireland trying to keep their main source of jobs happy and the president promotion his own public image back in American.
And then there was Eurovision song contest which normally doesn’t draw in that big of an audience but it was the first time in five years. This was due to Ireland sending an act that was very popular with the young teenage demography. It was also a very important year in terms of politic as there was the president election so as citizen people coming together via media to get information, shared idea and be involved in debates. So many of the programmes that made the top 20 where in fact either debates or the live results. Even with the Irish television and radio act of 1988 and the TWF directive which was set up so no counties could have a monopoly and reduce state intervention to support the public sphere. (The television without borders frontier) a large portion of television media came from Ireland its self last year.

The top 10 films in Ireland in 2011
1.      Bridesmaids
2.      Harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2 3D
3.      The guard
4.      The hangover part 2
5.      The inbetweeners
6.      The kings speech
7.      The twilight saga: breaking dawn part 2
8.      The smurfs 3D
9.      Pirates of the Caribbean: on stranger tides 3D
10.  Transformers: dark of the moon 3D

Film
When it comes to film Ireland produce very few movies. Ireland cinema viewing is dominated by American and British releases. Out of the top 20 highest grosses movies in the Irish box-office only one was Irish made. That movie was the guard and it came in a numbers three in the box-office chart. Almost all the other movie where blockbuster release in the summer session. Some using the new gimmick of 3D to draw in a big crowd. Only the guard and the king speech both film have a kind historic attachment with the Irish identity. The guard show a romantic view point of the rural Ireland. And the king speech being historic ground film in British history that Irish audience seen to find fascination. Even though only one of the movies in the top ten is Irish. There are three movies on this list that had taken advantage of the film boards tax incentives the S481.

Bibliography

digitaltimes.ie
Medialive.com
Theirishtimes.ie/ Mrs Brown boys
Theirishfilmboard.ie

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