Since Premium Sports/UStream no longer offer the home package for watching the Championship 2014, where do we turn for this option? Premium Sports steered us to GAA.ie but I see nothing there regards the 'residential viewing' for GAA supporters to enjoy the matches. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

lostintime (USA) - Posts: 533 - 10/05/2014 13:06:18    1586072

It looks like it may be broadcast on MHZ network. The matches will be delayed but free.

http://www.gaa.ie/gaa-news-and-videos/gaa-media-coverage/

mikeyjoe (USA) - Posts: 415 - 10/05/2014 13:44:11    1586080

tHANKS mIKEY jOE, I LOOKED AT THIS SITE EARLIER BUT STILL CANNOT SEE THIS LISTING SPECIFICALLY, pls excuse the caps-and which is the MHZ?

lostintime (USA) - Posts: 533 - 10/05/2014 15:13:58    1586105

There are numerous streaming sites available via the internet, as far as i know they can be accessed worldwide

iarmhi_an_mhaith (Westmeath) - Posts: 269 - 10/05/2014 15:58:30    1586119

Hey lostintime. I'm sorry to get your hopes up. This is getting more confusing by the minute. MHZ Netowrk is a public station broadcasting around the country. In NY it is WFME. However, the only information I on their website is that in DC they are just rebroadcast the 2013 season!!!

mhznetworks.org/blog/april-gaa-matches-mhz-networks-1-dc-area

mikeyjoe (USA) - Posts: 415 - 10/05/2014 16:50:10    1586134

Was the Sky deal not put in place for your likes? The more i see about this the more i think it was all about the money.

gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 10/05/2014 18:22:40    1586167

I believe Sky is for UK gotmilk. Last week I read somewhere that premium sports had 3 more years to broadcast matches Stateside. Now we've been dropped like the proverbial red-headed step-child.

mikeyjoe (USA) - Posts: 415 - 10/05/2014 19:22:34    1586190

Yes I remember that station in NY (it may have been nation wide?) showing the 2013 matches in the Fall & Winter of 2013/2014. The Premium package $199 for the entire Championship was a great deal. I am not able to every match live on Sundays or Saturdays, so their caveat of making the matches available on demand to watch when you were able was very handy. Now it looks like this SKY extravaganza has botched things up. I am hoping the GAA straighten this out before the opening matches on May 18th. If not, then they have reversed the plan to spread our games to a wider audience worldwide.

lostintime (USA) - Posts: 533 - 10/05/2014 19:27:23    1586192

You are on target there Mikey Joe, Premium Sports will keep their home viewing available in Canada and the Carribean. Do you want to split a beach villa in Jamaica for the next five months? :) Oddly enough I would say there is more demand stateside but the pub owners must have put pressure on Premium Sports because they no doubt lost customers due to the home viewing option that many of us availed of.

lostintime (USA) - Posts: 533 - 10/05/2014 19:31:06    1586193

I guess we'll have to move to Jamaica and switch from stout to rum and coke. :)

mikeyjoe (USA) - Posts: 415 - 11/05/2014 11:55:16    1586272

A complete and utter farce, the GAA and RTE cannot get their act together with regards to the "Streaming Service" they were supposed to provide for us here in the US. The championship has already started and no word from anywhere as to what this PHANTOM service will be. It was supposed to be announced at the end of April. A complete slap in the face to the hard work being done by all over here who work to grow the games in the country with the largest number of teams and players outside of Ireland.
Typical Irish response, how the hell did Sky get hooked up with such a shambolic organization?

Dubfan Abroad (Dublin) - Posts: 282 - 11/05/2014 19:18:55    1586398

Total joke. So the GAA lied stating that the SKY deal was for the diaspora abroad. Complete Bull S**t!

portavogielad (Down) - Posts: 446 - 11/05/2014 19:57:04    1586415

portavogielad

To be fair, we all knew the only country apart from Ireland that Sky was going to make the games accessible to was Britain, so nothings changed in that regard.

The 'bringing the games to the diaspora angle' was always dubious. If that was the case, then this proposed RTE streaming service would have done the job for all. That said, a TV broadcast is always going to be better than a live web stream for sports, especially hurling. So the TV deal in Australia was genuinly a good deal for the diaspora (TV broadcast, all games free to air). That was a really good deal for the GAA to set up, but i think thats the only part of the whole deal that benefiited the diaspora really.

For those of us stateside, I don't think anythings really changed, I'll still probably be going to the pubs for the matches, and paying 20 buckaroos for the privalege. The gaago website seems to be up (thats the site that the service will be accessible from), but I still haven't heard a word about when it will start, or how much it'll cost. It'd be great if we could get at least some of the matches on basic cable TV over here.

Marlon_JD (Tipperary) - Posts: 1823 - 11/05/2014 20:25:09    1586426

Marlon the matches have been accessible to view on the UK for years now on Premier sports. And premier sports still has 75% of the gaa rights in the UK. But the gaa haven't announced that because it shows up the sky deal for what it is : money. The sky deal just ensures people in the UK, as like Ireland, have to pay an extra subscription to what they have paid in previous years in they want to watch certain championship games

mike03 (Limerick) - Posts: 2000 - 11/05/2014 20:55:07    1586439

mike03
County: Limerick

Oh yeah, sorry, I wasn't trying to say that games weren't accessible in the UK before, I was just pointing out that the Sky deal was always going to be limited to Britain, so alot of us Stateside weren't expecting alot from the deal in the first place.

It will be interesting to see how the live streaming works. Unfortunately, if there's one sport thats unsuited for live streaming, its hurling. Given how fast hurling moves, how much ground is covered in a few seconds, its tough to do a quality live stream. Hopefully the live stream will contain a good number of renditions, with bitrates that cross the quality spectrum. I don't really want to watch a 200kbps stream, but if that's the only rendition that streams smoothly, then so be it. Or I might just go to a bar, depending on how much the web stream costs. Hopefully we'll get more details soon.

Marlon_JD (Tipperary) - Posts: 1823 - 11/05/2014 21:12:44    1586453

I have been saying all this since the deal was announced and no one paid any heed. How on earth they sold it to the people as a good deal for the diaspora I will never know.

s goldrick (Cavan) - Posts: 5518 - 12/05/2014 09:31:34    1586488

They sold it that way in Ireland and must have somehow though those in the UK wouldn't hear what they were saying. I have seen numerous quotes from GAA executives saying the sky deal was to make the games available in the UK. Never once have I seen Premier sports mentioned in the same period. This is despite them having 75% of the rights for the GAA in the UK and having 100% of the rights for the last few years. They also show leagues games every weekend ands some club games. That hasn't been mentioned by GAA executives. I am presuming Premier sports weren't mentioned because having them on board completely contradicts the GAA's statement about sky being the only option.

mike03 (Limerick) - Posts: 2000 - 12/05/2014 09:52:30    1586494

Looks great right now:
http://gaago.rte.ie/

doublehop (Kildare) - Posts: 4172 - 12/05/2014 10:32:09    1586506

mike03

There is a massive difference between what Sky is going to do and what Sentant/Premier sports does. All Premier does is reshow the feed that they get from Ireland, they do nothing to promote the games they have and during the halftime they actively promote te other sports they broadcast. We have yet to see what Sky will do but its expected to be far beyond the existing product.
Here is the question for you - what do you think the diaspora needs? is it just a feed of the games at home that nobody bar the first generation Irish people will watch or do they need to see Gaelic Games become more popular across the board so that wherever they live teams reach critical mass and they can play games? People involved with the development of the game outside of Ireland will tell you its not just about making the games available but how thats done. I believe Sky can see the potential for the product outside of Ireland - I hope with Sky the GAA has someone who they can work with, which was never going to happen with premier/setanta

zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 1806 - 12/05/2014 12:21:40    1586565

Zinny if you think sky are going to do a big promotional push of GAA you are mistaken. All matches will be put on sky sports 3 or 4 and will get a few minutes towards the end of the hour on sky sports news. As of now the GAA coverage on the sky sports website is found under other sports. This is despite netball and speedway having their own section!! It shows how high up on thie rlist of priorities the GAA coverage is.

The world cup is on this Summer don't forget. And no doubt England will have numerous cricket tests which are all played Thurs-Mon. Most English people wont even know a GAA match is on never mind watch it.

So to answer your question, a feed of the coverage is all that is needed but even outside of that I think you are missing the point. This deal was sold to the people as if they were doing people in the UK a favour. They aren't. Those that wanted to watch the GAA in the UK already had access to it and it only cost a tenner a month. The new deal just means they now need to pay 2 subscriptions instead of one and the second subscription is a hell of a lot more than the Premier Sports one. Now explain to me how is that a benefit to anyone in the UK??

mike03 (Limerick) - Posts: 2000 - 12/05/2014 13:45:39    1586608