Katie Taylor’s final fight, which saw the Bray boxer become three-time undisputed champion of the world, drew an audience peak of 1.6 million on RT\u00c9 television on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The event also had over half a million streams (552,000) on RT\u00c9 Player.<\/p>\n
The programme had an average of 973,000 TV viewers, representing a 74% share of the available viewing audience.<\/p>\n
Radio coverage was also provided by 2FM.<\/p>\n
RT\u00c9 Director of Video Steve Carson said: “On a historic Saturday night, Irish audiences came together in huge numbers to celebrate the extraordinary career of an Irish sporting icon. Katie Taylor’s final victory was a national moment that will be remembered for many years to come.<\/p>\n
“RT\u00c9 Sport felt it was important to be able to bring live coverage from Croke Park to viewers and listeners, free-to-air, right across the country.”<\/p>\n
With the iconic backdrop of the home of the GAA, Taylor successfully defended her WBO, WBA, IBF and Ring Magazine titles and won the WBC super lightweight version in the historic clash against Flora Pili.<\/p>\n
The coverage of Katie Taylor\u2019s final fight was the latest sport offering on RT\u00c9 platforms which featured extensive World Cup, GAA and European Athletics and European Swimming coverage.<\/p>\n
The fight was broadcast around the world by DAZN, with the streaming service helping to facilitate free-to-air coverage by RT\u00c9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Taylor’s final fight, which saw the Bray boxer become three-time undisputed champion of the world, drew an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-762990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}