mod
I found it incredible that our national broadcaster had no mention of GAA matters on Saturday Sport.
19/05/2015 09:23:23
janesboro
THEY HAD LOTS OF IT ON SUNDAY SPORT - COVERAGE OF ALL GAMES - I HAD IT ON ALL DAY WHILE GARDENINGJanesboro why all the capitals? Why shout!!!
Did RTE not have huge coverage on sunday? Its the start of the championship and other sports which mainly play Saturdays are coming to a conclusion
mod
You did have the option of turning off your radio or tuning into another station. RTE gave priority to a 3rd rate competition of a minority sport
19/05/2015 09:23:23
janesboro
AH COME ON IT WAS THE FINAL WEEKEND OF THE PRO12 AND THEY ARE NATURALLY GOING TO FAVOUR LIVE SPORT OVER PREVIEWS -
THE NAME OF THE PROGRAMME IS SATURDAY/SUNDAY SPORT NOT SATURDAY/SUNDAY GAA - - AND A SPORT THAT CAN GET 8000 FOR
WHAT YOU REFER TO AS A 3RD RATE COMPETITION IS HARDLY A MINORITY SPORT - Rugby is a well supported sport, one of the biggest sports in the country. The pro12 isn't 3rd rate. Ignorant to say it is

19/05/2015 11:08:33
galwayford
there has been a more balanced view in the media of the GAA recently. Pat Kenny on UTV had an interview with Micky Harte. And the Irish Times had a lot of pages devoted to the championship.
Unfortunately the GAA will have to get use to being a minority sport now. A bit like the Catholic church post SSM referendum. Hopefully this minority sports category will help then get a less hostile media. In other words maybe the media and big business will turn their fire on Cricket and Rugby and the EPL!

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 19/05/2015 12:37:13    1725430

Its funny how when the sky deal was being negotiated, all the talk was about the poor old man who cant watch his county, yet RTE have decided that people like that are only worth mentioning if sky take some of their games, not if RTE aren't bothered showing games. I don't understand why the games over the weekend couldn't be streamed on the RTE website. Maybe the time has come for the GAA to show games on their website.

PK57 (Louth) - Posts: 1656 - 19/05/2015 13:14:53    1725462

Re Janesboro Less of the capitals!! What is that about?
I cannot understand how you could possibly consider completely ignoring Donegal v Tyrone; Galway v Leitrim; Louth v Westmeath; Longford v Offaly; and Laois v Carlow on Saturday May16th is acceptable. This is not the start of the GAA Championship It had already started 2 weeks ago. This is by no means the centre of the rugby season yet RTE our National broadcaster decided to focus on this 3rd rate competition. Yes 3rd rate!!!!! Frequently the higher profile players do not play in this competition. The Rugby Internationals I would place in the 1st tier the Heineken in the 2nd tier and the Pro 12 in the 3rd tier. Not to preview or allude to the GAA football Championship at all on a so called Sports Program is frankly unbelievable and I cannot see how any reasonably minded fan could see otherwise.

mod (Mayo) - Posts: 859 - 19/05/2015 21:01:09    1725830

I am sick to death listening to Joe Brolly on the sunday game LIVE. he talks and talks and interrupts and talks over the other panelists and presenter. He is boring,boring,boring. The Sunday game (evening shows) panel are much better. I know they have time to prepare but they are easier to listen to. the other trio (spillane,brolly and O'Rourke) see themselves are bigger than the games. They think they are the main attraction. They are not. I enjoyed seeing the camera shots from behind the goals on The Sunday Game. It gives you a better idea of what is actually happening all over the pitch. That is something you miss when watching a game on TV as opposed to seeing it in the flesh. some games can be frustrating to watch on TV as you only see the area around the ball, so you don't get to see what is going on inside or behind. if you seen the bigger picture you might have a better understanding of why players are holding on to possesion for so long. I agree with previous posters that when a game has already been shown live that it should not take up the first half of a highlights program. I was looking forward to seeing the other games much more than the one I had already watched.

s goldrick (Cavan) - Posts: 5518 - 20/05/2015 09:57:46    1725916

RTE TV is covering both hurling and football live this weekend and yet both Morning Ireland Sports bulletins failed to mention this. In contrast we were informed twice that both this weekend's Rugby Union matches are being covered live on 2FM. Does RTE not want to promote its own football/hurling coverage? Or is there something else going on that I'm missing?

mediaman (Antrim) - Posts: 355 - 22/05/2015 18:27:45    1727223

There are 9 matches today, 8 hurling and 1 football. So here's what RTE's Six and Nine News should be providing for GAA supporters (at the very least). The results of all 8 hurling games on both bulletins and maybe 2 minutes highlights of the Clare Limerick MSFC match in Ennis. A fair and unbiased national broadcaster would be doing this without even giving it a second thought. But RTE? That's another matter.

mediaman (Antrim) - Posts: 355 - 23/05/2015 11:36:34    1727324

As expected RTE Six News completely ignored this afternoon's 8 hurling matches. In an exact copy of last Saturday the Sports bulletin didn't give even the Christy Ring results. In total the presenter devoted 10 seconds to GAA matters just giving tonight's MSFC fixture. There was no mention of when you could see highlights of the game or indeed any of the other championship games this weekend. The presenter did however show us highlights from one of last night's League of Ireland matches with the information that we can see all the goals from this weekend's LOI matches on Soccer Republic on Monday night. Once again RTE does nothing to promote its GAA coverage and everything possible to promote other sports. Tonight the anti-GAA bias was especially obvious.

mediaman (Antrim) - Posts: 355 - 23/05/2015 20:39:08    1727502

There was me thinking that the Rugby Union season came to an end yesterday and as a result RTE might at long last give their undivided attention to football and hurling for a few weeks at least. Well it appears I was wrong. This evening's Six News showed highlights of this afternoon's 2 games in Croke Park but no highlights of the day's 2 other championship matches. However they did show highlights of the England/Barbarians Rugby Union friendly match. How bizarre is that? Is there a rule in the RTE Newsroom that at least one rugby item no matter how insignificant has to be included in every bulletin? It's the only explanation for including a non event of this nature in the National Broadcaster's main news. There always seems to be some excuse to give Rugby Union daily coverage on the news. I think it's called a positive bias.

mediaman (Antrim) - Posts: 355 - 31/05/2015 19:22:00    1730612

http://m.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/the-sunday-game-anchor-michael-lyster-rushed-to-hospital-with-sudden-illness-31282772.html
Best wishes to Michael and his family had pleasure of his company many moons ago a true gent.

OhtobeARossie (Roscommon) - Posts: 1764 - 06/06/2015 18:56:16    1733271

At 9.30 tonight RTE tweeted details of the Kerry team to play Waterford on Sunday. They also tweeted details of the Waterford team (with 15 Tipp players on it) to play Kerry. How professional is that?

mediaman (Antrim) - Posts: 355 - 11/06/2015 21:52:55    1735825

11/06/2015 21:52:55 mediaman
At 9.30 tonight RTE tweeted details of the Kerry team to play Waterford on Sunday. They also tweeted details of the Waterford team (with 15 Tipp players on it) to play Kerry. How professional is that Entirely professional. Twitter is huge and people retweeting the RTE tweet and/or commenting about it gets the teams to be seen by 000s upon 000s.

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 12/06/2015 12:26:26    1735983

Entirely professional. Twitter is huge and people retweeting the RTE tweet and/or commenting about it gets the teams to be seen by 000s upon 000s.

So its entirely professional that '000s upon '000s see that they can't even get the County correct? Listing Tipp players as Waterford? Hmmmm.

Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 12/06/2015 12:38:04    1735991

Absolutely ridiculous that the Armagh Donegal match is on RTE on Sunday.

It's already on BBC which the vast majority of the country have access to so why don't RTE do the sensible thing and show the Kerry Tipp match so that viewers have a choice.It's not necessary for RTE to show the ulster match so seeing as they are supposed to be a public service broadcaster then they could at least give people a choice of what match to watch.

uibhfhaili1986 (Offaly) - Posts: 1296 - 12/06/2015 14:29:33    1736061

BBC can only show the matches that are being broadcast live on RTE so not possible to have both on.

benched (Tyrone) - Posts: 534 - 12/06/2015 14:56:11    1736077

Kerry could hammer tipp but I'd gladly tune in to see a potentially historical upset.

Having said that I'd still watch Armagh v Donegal over it.

Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 12/06/2015 15:30:17    1736106

12/06/2015 12:38:04
Offside_Rule
So its entirely professional that '000s upon '000s see that they can't even get the County correct? Listing Tipp players as Waterford? Hmmmm. I was referring to posting on twitter not the mistake about the county....
12/06/2015 14:29:33 uibhfhaili1986
Absolutely ridiculous that the Armagh Donegal match is on RTE on Sunday. It's already on BBC which the vast majority of the country have access to so why don't RTE do the sensible thing and show the Kerry Tipp match so that viewers have a choice.It's not necessary for RTE to show the ulster match so seeing as they are supposed to be a public service broadcaster then they could at least give people a choice of what match to watch. Same cameras for both stations. BBC cant show games unless RTE are showing a game. It is necessary for RTE to show the ulster championship game

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 12/06/2015 16:54:38    1736154

. I was referring to posting on twitter not the mistake about the county....

Hang on. Mediaman points out the fact that rte send out one team under the wrong County on Twitter and asks how professional that is. You respond saying entirely professional and that twitter is a way to get to 000s upon 000s. I then question how is it professional especially given the audience you referred to that they got something so basic wrong but you reply to say you are referring to posting on Twitter. What do you think I am referring to?

Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 12/06/2015 19:44:46    1736215

ormondbannerman
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Absolutely ridiculous that the Armagh Donegal match is on RTE on Sunday. It's already on BBC which the vast majority of the country have access to so why don't RTE do the sensible thing and show the Kerry Tipp match so that viewers have a choice.It's not necessary for RTE to show the ulster match so seeing as they are supposed to be a public service broadcaster then they could at least give people a choice of what match to watch. Same cameras for both stations. BBC cant show games unless RTE are showing a game. It is necessary for RTE to show the ulster championship game

Well thats a completely ridiculous rule.

RTE should be giving people as much choice as possible.Nobody would be losing out by having the Tipp Kerry match on RTE.

I thought it was the BBC cameras that are being used for the ulster championship coverage as there is a noticeable difference in standard between the camera work for Ulster championship matches and for any other matches on RTE.

uibhfhaili1986 (Offaly) - Posts: 1296 - 12/06/2015 19:46:32    1736216

They had a great promo for the galway v mayo game on the 6 o clock news talking to managers and some players and a brief history but the only mention of the other games was 'all four provinces will be in action this weekend' didn't even mention the teams let alone the where and when. Don't understand this

galwayfball (Galway) - Posts: 1679 - 12/06/2015 21:00:11    1736243

I was referring to posting on twitter not the mistake about the county....
12/06/2015 19:44:46 Offside_Rule
Hang on. Mediaman points out the fact that rte send out one team under the wrong County on Twitter and asks how professional that is. You respond saying entirely professional and that twitter is a way to get to 000s upon 000s. I then question how is it professional especially given the audience you referred to that they got something so basic wrong but you reply to say you are referring to posting on Twitter. What do you think I am referring to? I had a brainfart...
It was a stupid mistake but there is no need for any of mediamans pathetic agenda against RTE. If he does think RTE aren't good enough why doesn't he go into the open and under his own name call on GAA/RTE to be better.

12/06/2015 19:46:32 uibhfhaili1986
Well thats a completely ridiculous rule.
RTE should be giving people as much choice as possible.Nobody would be losing out by having the Tipp Kerry match on RTE.
I thought it was the BBC cameras that are being used for the ulster championship coverage as there is a noticeable difference in standard between the camera work for Ulster championship matches and for any other matches on RTE. I don't see how that's a ridiculous rule. Its in relation to costs.

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 12/06/2015 21:13:58    1736248