Gleebo
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From what I saw abroad, Premier Sports have poor commentary over the RTE pictures & NO half-time or pre- or post-match analysis.

I can second that Keeper, we get treated to Aussie rugby league ads etc. during the half-time breaks on Premier Sports.

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PS does that indeed, which is one issue that causes me to be skeptical of the SKY deal.
With all the matches back home, in addition to matches around the States; PS gives no results, no schedule, no league tables, just ads promoting rugby for children. Perhaps they could mention about the CYC which promotes football, hurling and camogie for kids 8 - 18.

mikeyjoe (USA) - Posts: 415 - 27/04/2014 12:27:39    1580611

26/04/2014 21:29:50
supersub15
I am trying to imagine my self going into a pub in Britain some where and asking them to switch over to allow me to watch a Gaelic football match, I wonder would they facilitate me, especially after explaining to them that the game was between Carlow and London.
--- not alone will it not work (successfully,) it's laughable. Why wouldn't a pub facilitate you if no one else is watching the tv?
Why is it laughable that you a potential paying customer would ask the person behind the bar to change channel so that you can watch a game?

27/04/2014 10:46:56
OLLIE
No probs at all. Just find the nearest Irish pub and there is plenty of them over in the UK. wouldn't have to be just irish pubs...

27/04/2014 12:27:39
mikeyjoe
Gleebo
From what I saw abroad, Premier Sports have poor commentary over the RTE pictures & NO half-time or pre- or post-match analysis.
I can second that Keeper, we get treated to Aussie rugby league ads etc. during the half-time breaks on Premier Sports.
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PS does that indeed, which is one issue that causes me to be skeptical of the SKY deal.
With all the matches back home, in addition to matches around the States; PS gives no results, no schedule, no league tables, just ads promoting rugby for children. Perhaps they could mention about the CYC which promotes football, hurling and camogie for kids 8 - 18.PS are providing a service that would otherwise be unavailable. Its more than likely the cheapest and best way they can operate.

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 27/04/2014 12:50:55    1580620

Ok so last night Setanta/PS showed the game. First it started in Irish, then they quickly went to a commercial break to promote rugby, next they came back with the Irish in the background and the PS commentator in English, at different stages then it went to the PS commentator and no crowd noise to the PS commentator, crowd noise and Irish. It was hard to know what to expect. I would have preferred the Irish and the crown all the time just like the folks in Ireland but I had to pay for my service!

zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 1805 - 28/04/2014 08:37:39    1581107

supersub15
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I am trying to imagine my self going into a pub in Britain some where and asking them to switch over to allow me to watch a Gaelic football match, I wonder would they facilitate me, especially after explaining to them that the game was between Carlow and London.

never mind in Britian its hard enough in some places in Ireland to get that done
Limerick they decide to show reruns of the rugby matches over GAA in some places

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 28/04/2014 09:55:51    1581155

27/04/2014 12:27:39
mikeyjoe
Gleebo
From what I saw abroad, Premier Sports have poor commentary over the RTE pictures & NO half-time or pre- or post-match analysis.

will people please stop repeating this nonsense. PS does not have their own commentary APART from matches that are broadcast on TG4.
when the games are in the english language they broadcast the entire programme including commentary and half-time analysis.
Always have done. The recent matches have all been broadcast on TG4 here in Ireland so that is why PS use their own commentator.

Can people not get their head around that and the fact that the SKY deal does NOT in any way help the diaspora in the UK.

s goldrick (Cavan) - Posts: 5518 - 28/04/2014 15:27:12    1581528

So, with regard to RTE's online subscription service for the championship, does anyone know when this will be available, or how much it will cost? Or whether its a package based subscription, or a pay-per-view online service?
The details were supposed to be announced this month, but I didn't see anything.

Marlon_JD (Tipperary) - Posts: 1823 - 28/04/2014 17:15:42    1581628

Marlon_JD
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So, with regard to RTE's online subscription service for the championship, does anyone know when this will be available, or how much it will cost? Or whether its a package based subscription, or a pay-per-view online service?
The details were supposed to be announced this month, but I didn't see anything.


That's one reason why I say its laughable, still questions being asked, no one seems to have the answers, and how long is it launched now

supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 2907 - 28/04/2014 21:57:22    1581840

marlon

was launched today
GAAGOGO its called and they are replacing ulster bank as sponsors of the football championship

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 29/04/2014 10:14:23    1581890

s goldrick

Can people not get their head around that and the fact that the SKY deal does NOT in any way help the diaspora in the UK

Rather than ask why you think it doesn't help let me ask what is it you would think that would help the diaspora in the UK? and how would you give it to them?

zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 1805 - 29/04/2014 12:27:30    1581986

The sky deal does help those in the UK.
Its the rest of the world outside of the UK and Australia that will have to subscribe to the online service provided by RTE and the GAA. We are all waiting patiently for the announcement of how much they will be charging (ripping us off?) and how few games we will get to see. There is a reason they have been low key about the on line service to the rest of the world and blowing their trumpet about the Sky Deal, why else would they take so long to tell us what we will have to fork out. I can tell you if they stick it to us we will all be sticking with our Overplay Proxy Server option which is $10 a month and they can shove their subscription service. Everything I've heard through the grapevine is that it will be the same as the premium sports deal, just under a different name. RIPPED OFF AGAIN!!!

Dubfan Abroad (Dublin) - Posts: 282 - 29/04/2014 21:41:37    1582277

I believe the fall out from this Sky/GAA deal will cause more than a few ripples as time goes by.

Question, why is it that a couple of people could negotiate a deal like this and sign it off, when issues of a lesser importance had to go through congress and CC.
However it is signed off and it will be implemented whether some of us are happy with it or not, it may be practically possibly to roll it out but it doesn't mean it will be user friendly.
20 million over 3 years is serious money, 6.6 million over one year is equally as serious, does anyone know how this is going to be divided up, club by club or county by county.
It's clear from the amount of posts here since April 02 that lot's of people are not overly happy with it for one reason or another.
At the end of the three year contract if it's decided not to sign up to an extension of the three years, I think it's going to make a couple of people look some what foolish, so I believe an extension to that contract will be signed up to, the thing is will congress be involved next time around.
Should Sky look for a better deal to make it more viable or attractive to them, will bits and pieces be added to the existing contract like the All Ireland club championships, etc, etc.
- - - there is a bigger picture, and it's not free to air.

supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 2907 - 30/04/2014 16:53:49    1582586

I have to say, I dont see sky putting the effort into analysis that we seem to think they will. We arent the EPL. Take a look at their coverage of la liga for a more accurate reflection of what is in store. i.e. some sky head presenter, probably with an irish connection to anchor, and some ex player/manager in the Guillem Balague role. A few different ex players/manager on each week and between the 3 of them a high level conversation on what is happening. Very TV3-esque... We are kidding ourselves thinking they are going to go all out for it.

TheMaster (Mayo) - Posts: 16187 - 30/04/2014 17:19:07    1582600

Supersub15,

"Question, why is it that a couple of people could negotiate a deal like this and sign it off, when issues of a lesser importance had to go through congress and CC."

Did Congress vote on the TV3 deal?

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 30/04/2014 17:32:02    1582605

TheMaster

Ye you're right they certainly won't go analysis EPL style when it comes to the Gaa, it probably will be more like their La Liga coverage but I'm perfectly fine with that anyway to be honest. Once they actually show the games, treat them with respect and hopefully advertise them better than RTE then that'll do me, analysis never really interests me too much anyway.

Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 30/04/2014 17:49:36    1582614

keeper7
County: Longford
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Supersub15,

"Question, why is it that a couple of people could negotiate a deal like this and sign it off, when issues of a lesser importance had to go through congress and CC."

Did Congress vote on the TV3 deal?


By the same token did supscription charge or pay to view ever apply to the TV 3 deal ??.

supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 2907 - 30/04/2014 20:16:10    1582694

It's a business deal. Simple as that. Can you imagine a business getting its shareholders to vote on a commercial deal? That's what a board of directors is for.

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 30/04/2014 21:48:55    1582763

keeper7
County: Longford
Posts: 1933

1582763 It's a business deal. Simple as that. Can you imagine a business getting its shareholders to vote on a commercial deal? That's what a board of directors is for.


With respect, you are over complicating things, the GAA by it's own admission and insistence is an amateur organisation where pay for play and related issues is a no-no, the very fabric of it's own constitution and the success of what it represents is built around that word "Amateur". With respect again, IMO, the gaa is not a business it's an amateur organisation built on subscriptions, fundraising etc, etc. There are no share holders that I'm aware of but there are club members., the club members are the gaa.

This is on the assumption you are referring to my post, if not my apologies.

supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 2907 - 01/05/2014 09:06:56    1582791

Less than an hour away from the first championship match of the year on UK tv......

mike03 (Limerick) - Posts: 2000 - 18/05/2014 14:40:39    1589249

28/04/2014 09:55:51
hill16no1man
never mind in Britian its hard enough in some places in Ireland to get that done
Limerick they decide to show reruns of the rugby matches over GAA in some places When do you see that happening regularly? and while some pubs do it(not just in Limerick) they do it as majority of the customers in pub at that time prefer to watch rugby rerun than a hurling/gaelic game.

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 18/05/2014 16:33:52    1589301

Isnt it funny that RTE complained about sky getting the rights to broadcast games, yet this weekend we had five championship games on, yet they only showed one. Were they worried about the poor old man in the country that couldn't see games when they decided to show only one this weekend?

PK57 (Louth) - Posts: 1653 - 18/05/2014 18:03:48    1589393