Who told you that most people in Ireland have either UPC or Sky? 'most people' seems like a pretty high estimate to me.

Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 10/06/2014 15:39:57    1601551

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I didn't think that Ireland was the target audience for Sky coverage, mostly the Irish diaspora and the uninitiated in the UK, would I be right in thinking that?

you didnt think that ireland was the target audience for gaa ?

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 10/06/2014 15:41:04    1601554

Indeed brend but like it or not the current reality is that the North comes under the UK/British broadcasting medium and SKY knows that Gaelic Games are popular here so at some time they could flex their muscle with Croke Park regarding this AND insist on sole Gaelic Games rights for the North. The UK broadcasting rights would technically also include the North and if SKY wanted to they could blank The Sunday Game out on satellite at the blink of an eye. I repeat they did this with the Irish soccer team and the FAI didn't lose much sleep at games being blanked out for Northern fans.

Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9706 - 10/06/2014 15:44:43    1601559

Yeah thats right hill, Sky will be flooding the airwaves of Ireland with Pelota, Bungee Jumping, and Trampoline Basketball, watch this space.

brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 10/06/2014 15:46:13    1601564

brendtheredhand
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I didn't think that Ireland was the target audience for Sky coverage, mostly the Irish diaspora and the uninitiated in the UK, would I be right in thinking that?

No. The target audience was/is Sky subscribers in Ireland who tend to drop their Sky subscriptions during the summer months (while the EPL is on hiatus)

Marlon_JD (Tipperary) - Posts: 1823 - 10/06/2014 15:46:45    1601567

htaem

on here people have been at pains to tell us that in this day and age most of the country has sky or upc

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 10/06/2014 15:58:50    1601578

Hill. Majority of households would have sky upc in ireland yes. But most of those would be basic package. I don't recall anyone saying most had sky SPORTS. Me thinks this is you using poetic licence to suit your usual anti sky/brit agenda. Most homes have sky or upc. Not sky sports.

foreverroyal (Meath) - Posts: 349 - 10/06/2014 16:02:27    1601581

It is too early to make any judgement. We need to get figures for home and the U.K. and more significant games also.

fainleog (Limerick) - Posts: 598 - 10/06/2014 16:18:19    1601598

Ulsterman

A large proportion of the population of the North receive the saorview broadcast of RTE which is not (and cannot be) switched off. I can get it Belfast!

benjyyy (Donegal) - Posts: 1422 - 10/06/2014 16:20:55    1601601

Hills being particularly pedantic today so best ignore him.

brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 10/06/2014 16:22:02    1601607

hill

Any examples of people saying that or is this your famous imagination acting up again? Pointless debate anyway because I seriously doubt there's anywhere near as many Skysports subscribers in Ireland as people who have RTE 2, which is all that really matters here.

Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 10/06/2014 16:31:07    1601618

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Hill. Majority of households would have sky upc in ireland yes. But most of those would be basic package. I don't recall anyone saying most had sky SPORTS. Me thinks this is you using poetic licence to suit your usual anti sky/brit agenda. Most homes have sky or upc. Not sky sports.

how those this rubbish be allowed get posted
your calling me an anti brit because i state that people had told us that most households in ireland have sky or upc
its getting ridiculous at this stage that you can label me this from nearly every post i put up
when their is absolutly no resmbelance to britian from what i said
its getting to the stage that your coming up with new ways to naccuse me of being anti everything

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 10/06/2014 16:44:59    1601627

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Hills being particularly pedantic today so best ignore him.

i am being pedantic because i point out that gaa shown live would have a target market in ireland?
seriously its getting to the stage where you get accuse for posting anything other then heaping praise on this thread

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 10/06/2014 16:46:23    1601628

hill

seriously its getting to the stage where you get accuse for posting anything other then heaping praise on this thread

No praise required hill, just try a bit of balance in relation to Sky's deal with the Gaa instead of constant criticism, then you won't get as much stick.

Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 10/06/2014 16:57:13    1601634

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hill

seriously its getting to the stage where you get accuse for posting anything other then heaping praise on this thread

No praise required hill, just try a bit of balance in relation to Sky's deal with the Gaa instead of constant criticism, then you won't get as much stick.

what balance is needed
i said i didnt see the match
i gave a fact of how many people tuned in
and i stated that we had been told on here that sky and upc were in most homes in ireland in this day and age
i didnt say the coverage was bad and i get labelled anti brit and pedantic
show me where i was either please

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 10/06/2014 17:02:34    1601639

10/06/2014 13:53:26 lukewalsh96
32,000 tuned in for the Kilkenny v Offaly game. Not a lot when you think 402,000 tuned in for the Dublin game and 221,000 watched the Kilkenny v offaly game last year. I suppose these are the sacrifices the GAA is making. It will be interesting to see what kind of viewership is there for the Dublin Wexford game next week. That will grow over time and wouldn't include pub viewing figures
Sky is new to market and people will turn over over time as their coverage improves as its on screen longer.
10/06/2014 14:45:56 hill16no1man
htaem yeah but we have been told most households in ireland have sky sports already
thats for ireland so how would the game need time to grow ? Because its a new channel to broadcasting GAA and people may be unlikely to change unless they hear the coverage from Sky is any good. It takes time for a new channel to build up market share

10/06/2014 15:05:03 Ulsterman
After this season watch SKY pick and choose the games they want more carefully and it won't be along the lines of Saturday's fiasco. SKY will want teams that can compete against each other and they will not want a repeat of Kilkenny/Offaly or they will muscle in on Dublin's success and interest. I also predict that SKY will eventually wrap up sole rights to broadcast the GAA in Britain AND the North and RTE on satellite will be blanked out like the Republic's soccer games. You wont see that happening. GAA are too smart and hard to stop an all island competition from being shown across the country. Republic soccer games is completely different situation

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 10/06/2014 17:16:43    1601651

hill

I didn't say you said the coverage was bad, I'm not sure anybody did and I'm not interested in that anyway, but what I did say is that you're getting stick because of you're almost constant criticism over Gaa's Sky deal, which is infact pedantic, that I very much will accuse you of.

Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 10/06/2014 17:49:22    1601667

I watched along with approx 32000 others and I am glad I did.
Very good analysis and nothing bad to say about it.

That figure will at least double for the Wexford v Dubs game and treble by the end of the year.
How many people were home this Sat with the weather being so nice, there are many things to factor in.

It's only the beginning and I am looking forward to the rest of the games Sky are showing this year!

bobby_shane (Dublin) - Posts: 106 - 10/06/2014 17:54:44    1601670

10/06/2014 15:39:57 Htaem
Who told you that most people in Ireland have either UPC or Sky? 'most people' seems like a pretty high estimate to me. Sky are market leader in multichannel tv networks and what do you think most people have if they don't have Sky/UPC etc?

10/06/2014 15:44:43 Ulsterman
Indeed brend but like it or not the current reality is that the North comes under the UK/British broadcasting medium and SKY knows that Gaelic Games are popular here so at some time they could flex their muscle with Croke Park regarding this AND insist on sole Gaelic Games rights for the North. The UK broadcasting rights would technically also include the North and if SKY wanted to they could blank The Sunday Game out on satellite at the blink of an eye. I repeat they did this with the Irish soccer team and the FAI didn't lose much sleep at games being blanked out for Northern fans. There has been plenty of irish sporting events and other tv programmes shown on all island basis and Sky are not stupid to try get sole coverage in the north. UK rights wont blank out the north as its completely bad pr they don't need,

10/06/2014 15:46:45 Marlon_JD
No. The target audience was/is Sky subscribers in Ireland who tend to drop their Sky subscriptions during the summer months (while the EPL is on hiatus) No they don't. Some do but its not a majority who drop off for the summer months...

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 10/06/2014 18:14:21    1601686

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hill

I didn't say you said the coverage was bad, I'm not sure anybody did and I'm not interested in that anyway, but what I did say is that you're getting stick because of you're almost constant criticism over Gaa's Sky deal, which is infact pedantic, that I very much will accuse you of.

i havent given constant stick about anything
it seems quite clear that if your not full of praise for something your completly against it
which is not the case at all
so how that can be construed as pedantic or anti brit is very unfair
all i have done is given an opinion on differant aspects and backed them up with facts
I dont see how that deserves to be singled out and labelled as anything
there was more people in croke park on sunday than watched skys first live gaa match
sky are a multi national sports giant who have got huge amounts of publicity over this gaa deal
so surely they would be dissapointed with them viewing figures themselves

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 10/06/2014 18:17:57    1601689