Editing TG4 (section)

===Ratings===
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| style="text-align: right;" |{{nts|900000}}
| style="text-align: right;" |{{nts|800000}}
| style="text-align: right;" |{{nts|730000}}
| style="text-align: right;" |{{nts|250000}}
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TG4 has had a share of the Irish television market of some 2-3%.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kenny |first=Colum |date=27 August 2006 |title=Time to call a halt to the lip service behind TG4 'success' |url=https://www.independent.ie/opinion/editorial/time-to-call-a-halt-to-the-lip-service-behind-tg4-success/26415784.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404100757/http://www.independent.ie/opinion/editorial/time-to-call-a-halt-to-the-lip-service-behind-tg4-success-26415784.html |archive-date=4 April 2016 |access-date=13 October 2024 |work=Irish Independent}}</ref> TG4 provide their viewing figures each week on their website. Currently TG4's top ten programmes have ranged from 10,000 to 100,000 viewers, but their top shows have reached as high as 250,000. Like other television services TG4 achieves their highest viewing figures with sporting events.<ref name="tg4.ie">[http://www.tg4.ie/leir/luch.asp] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090626124520/http://www.tg4.ie/leir/luch.asp|date=26 June 2009}}</ref>

On Saint Patrick's Day 2009, live coverage of the All-Ireland Finals in the AIB Club Championships on TG4 achieved very high audience ratings for the channel. Twenty five percent of afternoon television viewers on St. Patrick's Day were tuned into TG4. Over 1.1m viewers tuned on TG4 during the day, giving it an overall 8.2% national daily share and placing it in third place in the national daily viewing table for the first time ever.<ref>[http://www.tg4.ie/corp/pr/2009/0319-1.asp] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090322054828/http://www.tg4.ie/corp/pr/2009/0319-1.asp|date=22 March 2009}}</ref>
Other major ratings successes for the channel include the All Ireland Ladies Football Final with 21% of all viewers tuned to that broadcast.
A series of [[Westerns]] has also proven very popular. On 25 April 2010, TG4's coverage of the [[National Football League (Ireland)|Allianz Football League]] Finals in [[Croke Park]] saw them become the most watched channel, with 650,000 viewers watching some of the games. The Division One final had an average audience of 220,000 viewers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tg4.ie/bearla/corp/pr/2010/0427-1.asp |title=VIEWING FIGURES FOR GAA BEO – ALLIANZ FOOTBALL LEAGUE FINALS 2010 |date=27 April 2010 |publisher=TG4 |access-date=3 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100511212953/http://www.tg4.ie/bearla/corp/pr/2010/0427-1.asp |archive-date=11 May 2010 }}</ref>

Some of the most popular programmes included: {{Langx|ga|[[Glór Tíre]]|label=none}} ([[country and western]] reality competition) – 90–110,000; {{Langx|ga|Rásaí na Gaillimhe|label=none}} (political comedy drama); ''{{Langx|ga|[[Ros na Rún]]|label=none}}'' (soap opera), {{Langx|ga|GAA Beo|label=none}} (GAA sport) – 50–100,000; ''[[Fíorscéal]]'', ''[[Cogar]]'' (documentary); ''{{Langx|ga|[[Seacht]]|label=none}}'' (university drama); ''[[Nuacht TG4]]'' (news); ''{{Langx|ga|[[7 Lá]]|label=none}}'' (weekly review); ''{{Langx|ga|[[Paisean Faisean]]|label=none}}'' (dating programme), {{Langx|ga|Feirm Factor|label=none}} (reality television); and {{Langx|ga|An Jig Gig|label=none}}. These have had an audience reach of 3% to 12% of the total viewing audience, or 40,000 to 100,000 viewers.<ref name="tg4.ie"/>