{"id":349554,"date":"2026-03-16T20:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/349554\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T20:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:33:07","slug":"just-under-one-million-people-tune-in-to-irelands-triple-crown-decider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/349554\/","title":{"rendered":"Just under one million people tune in to Ireland&#8217;s Triple Crown decider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUST UNDER ONE million people tuned in to watch Ireland\u2019s Six Nations win over Scotland on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Triple Crown decider was the most-watched match of the tournament on Virgin Media Television; averaging 884,000 viewers, peaking at 972,000 viewers, and delivering a record 78% share of the available audience.<\/p>\n<p>Those figures were from Virgin Media One and Virgin Media Four on linear television, while there were a further 177,120 live streams on Virgin Media Play.<\/p>\n<p>Across the tournament, 2.4 million people tuned into the Six Nations across Virgin Media Television, reaching 51% of the potential total TV population. Over 10 million hours of action was consumed on terrestrial television, alongside a further\u00a0623,000\u00a0live streams\u00a0on the player.<\/p>\n<p>Live matches delivered an average audience of 485,000 viewers per game on Virgin Media One \u2014 and a 50% share of viewing, with 9% growth year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p>Irish Sign Language and Audio Description coverage on Virgin Media Four reached 290,000 viewers, with 9,000 live streams on Virgin Media Play.<\/p>\n<p>France won the Six Nations after a dramatic finale against England in Paris, while Ireland had to settle for their fourth Triple Crown in five years.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JUST UNDER ONE million people tuned in to watch Ireland\u2019s Six Nations win over Scotland on Saturday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,159118,3654,159119],"class_list":["post-349554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-on-the-box","tag-rugby","tag-tv-figures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}