Flaker,
Take all the good lookin women from the weather and reassign them

Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts: 8166 - 07/05/2016 12:10:38    1852714

Flaker,
Take all the good lookin women from the weather and reassign them
Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts:6626 - 07/05/2016 12:10:38 185


Liam you can have the craic if you want but if you have no idea what something costs to run then don't repeat the same point. It is not feasible, despite the hardcore GAA fans saying how great it would be!

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 7907 - 07/05/2016 12:24:36    1852717

Jayziz Flaker
Sir yes Sir!

Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts: 8166 - 07/05/2016 14:40:03    1852741

Ah come on Liam, at least come up with an argument to back up your thread!!!

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 7907 - 07/05/2016 14:59:31    1852746

Flaker

Ormond, the same place the revenue comes from to fund RTE News now, Oireachtas TV and about 15 different RTE Kids channels!!
I am not saying it would be on 24/7, 7 days a week
just at relevant times
Look at the way BBC have BBC3 and BBC4. Runs for 4-5 hours a day. No reason atall RTE couldnt fill that time during the championship, plus Live games at weekends

Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts:6628 - 05/05/2016 15:45:37 185

Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts: 8166 - 07/05/2016 15:52:35    1852756

Well if rte2 can practically turn into a rugby station when the six nation's is on
I see no reason why the gaa would not be successful seen as it's a more popular sport in Ireland.
I think an irish sports channel would work best. All local sport only would be brilliant.
surely if there's a demand for politics station and a news station (which never is put on ahead of sky news in our own public areas) a real irish sport station would be a clear runner for rte with both gaeilge and English language being catered for in the process. The revenue to be made would come through advertising like any other station,sport has a huge capacity to attract big money advertising and audiences for sports programmes on all irish stations dominate the top 20 watched programmes each year.
To go one further tg4 recently had their highest ever audience for any programme on the station since it started up all those years ago and it happened to be the live coverage of the Dublin v Kerry national league final

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 07/05/2016 16:06:02    1852761

TG4 is a GAA station. We need some GAA on TV3 or TV£ as i call it.

galwayford (Galway) - Posts: 2520 - 07/05/2016 17:19:17    1852785

Liamwalkinstown

They shut BBC3 down a few months ago to save money, so it's a pretty poor example. Even then the BBC has a potential audience of tens of millions, a GAA channel would have a very limited audience.

CastleBravo (Meath) - Posts: 1646 - 07/05/2016 17:39:40    1852793

The should have a channel for GAA games, after all it is the biggest attended sport in the country by a long shot. The could also show club matches of which there are many- some of the club football is more enjoyable to watch than some of what goes for intercounty.

browncows (Meath) - Posts: 2342 - 07/05/2016 18:21:08    1852813

Lads,i presume it would be easier and more cost effective to have a proper radio show dedicated to GAA than a tv channel. I don't think there is a need for a GAA tv station. I listen to quite a bit of Talksport in England; 24 hours of sport,seven days a week.Obviously they have a huge 60 million population to tap into,but if you are a football fan it is top coverage.No way we could have a 24 hour sports station over here with our 6.5 million(whole island) population.But how about a few hours on a Friday and another few on a Sunday to dissect all the weekends GAA ;intercounty,clubs,underage,ladies etc? There is still very little GAA coverage on the radio.Off The Ball,Newstalk,give it decent coverage during the championship,but hardly cover the league at all.Maybe ten minutes on a Monday and that's about it.I think most of us enjoy the leagues on here and the forum does be alive and buzzing.Why is there no radio coverage to discuss the weekly events?To be fair to RTE radio,they do a great Sunday show for every week of the league.I rarely miss it and they cover all the leagues extensively.
Matt Cooper on Today FM has a few pundits on each Friday evening after six,for average of 10 minutes.It is pathetic coverage of our two most popular games.They are only on before they are heading off the airwaves again.Why bother Cooper?You may as well have Rugby on for the full hour because that token gesture is an insult to GAA fans.
cuederocket (Dublin) - Posts:3908 - 06/05/2016 14:44:30 And where is the funding for this radio station? The markets, as you admit, are completely different. London has bigger potential market than all of Ireland.

Lads, RTE can afford GAA, its only themselves and Sky in the mix for it and after shocking viewership figures for last few years, Sky wouldnt be breaking the bank for it in the future.
Rte have a load of channels apart from RTE 1 & 2
They have another 4 or 5 at least on the Saorview package, some are totally obscure.
Your telling me there isnt a market for a summer GAA Station...
I think there is. 100%
Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts:6629 - 07/05/2016 11:17:26 What are the loads of channels RTE have? They have 8 channels. What does do you do for rest of the year? There is no demand for a summer channel just for GAA. An all sports channel may have some benefits but again where would the return be for RTE? Where does the funding come from?

Well if rte2 can practically turn into a rugby station when the six nation's is on
I see no reason why the gaa would not be successful seen as it's a more popular sport in Ireland.
I think an irish sports channel would work best. All local sport only would be brilliant.
surely if there's a demand for politics station and a news station (which never is put on ahead of sky news in our own public areas) a real irish sport station would be a clear runner for rte with both gaeilge and English language being catered for in the process. The revenue to be made would come through advertising like any other station,sport has a huge capacity to attract big money advertising and audiences for sports programmes on all irish stations dominate the top 20 watched programmes each year.
To go one further tg4 recently had their highest ever audience for any programme on the station since it started up all those years ago and it happened to be the live coverage of the Dublin v Kerry national league final
hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts:10565 - 07/05/2016 16:06:02 RTE2 doesn't "practically turn into a rugby station when the six nation's is on". It shows 4 games a weekend for 5 weeks as well as a magazine programme for an hour. Irish sports channel. There isn't the demand for it and the costs are not there. RTE are losing more and more live sport as they cant afford it. In no way can they afford to run a channel only covering sport. RTE doesn't even have full rights to the Olympics any more.

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 07/05/2016 18:42:58    1852819

I didn't callfor a radio station,ormond.All i'm asking for is somebody to have a proper 2-3 hour GAA show on any radio station for a couple times per week.Surely that wouldn't be too expensive to run.I know i'd tune in,and expect many others on here would as well.
I don't know how many on here listen to Ken Doherty do a two hour sports show on Sunshine every Saturday morning from 9 -11.A very simple format and i enjoy it.I'm sure a proper GAA radio show would get a decent listenership,countrywide.If i had the know-how and money i'd set it up meself.

cuederocket (Dublin) - Posts: 5084 - 07/05/2016 19:25:45    1852836

Easy to say RTE should have a GAA channel, no so easy to make it feasible. Need to have High Definition Digital footage to broadcast these days and it's expensive. Also pricy to send a camera and sound crew plus commentator to games. The rugby has an advantage where it's a national audience and viewers that have never even been at a live game of any level will tune in because it's the national team. As class as Kerry are I can't see RTE selling many ads on the back of a Waterford v Kerry Munster championship encounter.

We could start a You Tube GAA supporters channel ourselves. Not sure how the You Tube live thing works, I imagine it'd be expensive, so live games would be out. But supporters could add clips of games, game previews and reviews including club stuff, a bit of banter not taking itself too seriously like some GAA shows. We all know some passionate lads and ladies that are great GAA people with a unique and interesting views on the games, players referees etc. Could get their views on camera.Tablebangers who are not afraid to say what they feel and sure you'd get away with a bit of effing and blinding on YouTube. RTE's GAA coverage isn't bad but it's a bit too serious for me. O'Rourke must hold the world record for saying 'manly' on TV.

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7360 - 07/05/2016 19:55:32    1852847

RTE could run the GAA station at the weekends. Start off on a Friday at 7.00 pm and finish at 11.00 pm. Previews of the weekend matches. Saturday and Sunday could start at 1.00 pm and finish at 11.00 pm. Show two matches live on a Saturday and Sunday. Highlights of matches that evening. They could also run GAA documentaries.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 07/05/2016 20:37:27    1852862

I didn't call for a radio station,ormond.All i'm asking for is somebody to have a proper 2-3 hour GAA show on any radio station for a couple times per week.Surely that wouldn't be too expensive to run.I know i'd tune in,and expect many others on here would as well.
I don't know how many on here listen to Ken Doherty do a two hour sports show on Sunshine every Saturday morning from 9 -11.A very simple format and i enjoy it.I'm sure a proper GAA radio show would get a decent listenership,countrywide.If i had the know-how and money i'd set it up meself.
cuederocket (Dublin) - Posts:3914 - 07/05/2016 19:25:45 A whole programme devoted solely to GAA isn't going to happen. No national radio station will do that. Newstalk Off the Ball and 2FMs Game On cover the main sports sufficiently. They wont change to just covering GAA a couple of times a week.

RTE could run the GAA station at the weekends. Start off on a Friday at 7.00 pm and finish at 11.00 pm. Previews of the weekend matches. Saturday and Sunday could start at 1.00 pm and finish at 11.00 pm. Show two matches live on a Saturday and Sunday. Highlights of matches that evening. They could also run GAA documentaries.
OLLIE (Louth) - Posts:9044 - 07/05/2016 20:37:27 And what do they do for rest of week? This idea that RTE will run a station solely for GAA is fantasy land and completely unrealistic. Where does the funding come from? There isn't enough games for them to show. A tv channel with only 24 hours of programming a week. Are you mad? That would be completely loss making.

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 08/05/2016 11:50:38    1852934

Ormand Wee could always re-run what happened on the 31st October 1978 to fill in the gaps during the week. At least you would watch it. And also stick in a documentary about why Amhran Na bhFiann should be the proper National Anthem. What do you think? Would you watch it yourself?

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 08/05/2016 12:57:53    1852954

There's a massive archives of games there too. Only a few became available on DVD and they're just finals or popular semis. Should have an archive section on the player. Use your licence number and password to log in. Better than watching sheepsters on Republic of Telly anytime.

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7360 - 08/05/2016 13:12:06    1852958

Ormand Wee could always re-run what happened on the 31st October 1978 to fill in the gaps during the week. At least you would watch it. And also stick in a documentary about why Amhran Na bhFiann should be the proper National Anthem. What do you think? Would you watch it yourself?
OLLIE (Louth) - Posts:9046 - 08/05/2016 12:57:53Where is the A in Ormond? How difficult is it to spell ORMOND?
What exactly is a "proper" national anthem anyway?
You do realise that many on this island believe otherwise and that IRFU and the other sporting organisations that use other anthems recognise that.
RTE shouldn't run a 24 hour sports channel as it would be simply a run on funds and make big losses and not be worth it

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 08/05/2016 13:14:07    1852959

Ormand where did I say anything about 24 hours per day? I said run it at the weekend. You walk before you run. Sure when the History station started of on Sky in the 1990s it only started at 7.00 pm in the evening.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 08/05/2016 14:01:48    1852966

Ormand where did I say anything about 24 hours per day? I said run it at the weekend. You walk before you run. Sure when the History station started of on Sky in the 1990s it only started at 7.00 pm in the evening.
OLLIE (Louth) - Posts:9048 - 08/05/2016 14:01:48 Allie(Doing this to make a point) RTE wont do that. They don't have the finances to do it. Running a station solely focusing on sport is unfeasible and not going to have much if any ROI at least not any that it will be worthwhile investing money in

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 08/05/2016 14:09:46    1852969

Ormand of course RTE have the money. Sure don't they have RTE news station, Oirachtas station and children's station. They are just not bothered with it.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 08/05/2016 14:26:44    1852974