Katie Taylor’s Final Fight Draws 1.6m Viewers
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How many viewers tuned in to Katie Taylor’s final fight and why was it historic?
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Time for the last word in TV and streaming. Elaine Burke and Joe Shea, joined tonight by Kate Henshaw as well, because I want her to answer the question Is Katie Taylor more popular than Troy Parrot and the Irish football team? Than the Late Late Toy Show and indeed the Mao Gaelic footballers who beat Kerry this year?
Apparently so. More people were interested anyway. I mean one point six million viewers watching Katie Taylor's fight in Crow Park on Saturday night. That's
And that's before the R T player figures are taken in, isn't it?
Exactly, exactly. And God knows how many people have gone back to watch it and just kind of try and soak up the atmosphere again. And also not counting all of the people in the stadium, of course. It's just massive. I mean, she's just on another level. I think she's definitely our most successful, maybe our most beloved sports person ever. And what she's done for women's sport, putting it on a platform like this is just it's unbelievable. I mean, I I was around Crow Park on Saturday evening and it was really genuinely very emotional. emotional. I was talking to some of the women in some of the local pubs in Drumcondra and every single one I spoke to said, Katie Taylor, what she has done, how amazing it is, what the platform she has given women in this country and particularly women's sport, and the fact that we're not even talking about her as a female athlete.
She's just one of our most s uh she's one of our superior athletes in general. It's just amazing. I mean there were people with tears in their eyes. I certainly had tears in my eyes watching it.
But see, yeah, 'cause you were working beforehand and then you left and went home and watched it on television. Did television give you a sense of the atmosphere of what it was like there?
I think it did, but the coverage did come across as a bit messy at times.
What did fans say about Katie Taylor’s impact on women’s sport after the fight?
I mean, there I think of after the fight, obviously when she's victorious, she's doing her victory lap, she's talking, she has the mic and she's moving over and she's doing this really kind of emotional dedication to her family that are sitting in the crowd. And we're staring at her back the whole time. I mean, there was a solid five minutes where you couldn't even see the emotion on her face. So there was obviously some kind of um uh production issue. There. The sound was another thing that really stuck out to me. I mean, they were playing the VTs, that off that gorgeous um Barry Kogan monologue talking about Katie Taylor. And you could hear the crowd in the background so much so that you could barely hear what he was saying at times.
And I mean I felt so sorry for the the pundits as well. I mean, Jackie Hurley, she was practically shouting into her microphone at one point to be heard over the crowd while she's standing in this, as everyone is at departing Crow Park in the city. In this kind of fluorescent lighted Crow Park as people are cleaning up behind her. It just it did come across a bit messy and I it's such a shame and I I such a shame f to even say that because I would hate to take away from what Katie Taylor has achieved and what a massive occasion it was, but it was so uh you couldn't not notice it.
Joe, this is an interesting thing on the sound at events 'cause this is part our RT have a box in Crow Park, which for sound reasons they could easily have presented from, but it's all about getting the atmosphere now about been live pitch side or ringside or whatever. But it doesn't necessarily lend itself, does it, to the best television outcome?
It doesn't, but you you see it in all the major sporting events now. They want the reporters, they want the pundits standing on the pitch with those little plints, you know, and talking away and surrounded by the crowd and in the middle of the atmosphere. I can understand why people had some um had some criticisms uh of the sound and some of the presentation.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How many viewers tuned in to Katie Taylor’s final fight and why was it historic?
0:00–1:43
2
What did fans say about Katie Taylor’s impact on women’s sport after the fight?
1:43–4:03
3
Why did the broadcast’s sound and picture quality receive criticism?
4:03–5:31
4
How did the size of the live audience at Croke Park affect the event’s atmosphere?
5:31–7:32
5
What were the panel’s thoughts on the length of the under‑card build‑up?
7:32–9:20
6
How is RT approaching true‑crime drama with its new series on the Moonlight murder case?
9:20–11:49
7
What are Instadocs and how are they changing fast‑turnaround documentary storytelling?
11:49–13:42
8
Which TV shows did the hosts recommend as the ‘pick of the week’ and why?
13:42–14:57
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