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What I mean is that I hope the extra revenue is significant to justify people not having access to these games"]Or those people you speak of , (who prior to 1991) wouldn't have seen any games upto and including provincial finals, either get in aky or better still attend a game. Win win."]Yeah let's make the whole country pay for Sky to watch GAA matches....says the guy who can't understand why paying for Sky doesn't allow him to watch rival broadcasters contents as well"]I feel eir should be excluded from it or give them all coverage, its a bit here bit there there that bothers me . RTÉ and sky.
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 10/12/2016 07:18:10 1939345 Link 0 |
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It's different competitions at different times of the year so you actually don't have to pay for both at the same time. It's much worse in rugby & soccer because you never know who's covering what game & in which competition. keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 10/12/2016 09:57:58 1939348 Link 1 |
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What I mean is that I hope the extra revenue is significant to justify people not having access to these games"]Or those people you speak of , (who prior to 1991) wouldn't have seen any games upto and including provincial finals, either get in aky or better still attend a game. Win win."]Yeah let's make the whole country pay for Sky to watch GAA matches....says the guy who can't understand why paying for Sky doesn't allow him to watch rival broadcasters contents as well"]I feel eir should be excluded from it or give them all coverage, its a bit here bit there there that bothers me . RTÉ and sky."]Lads the sky deal has nothing to do with money its so the Irish abroad can see the games too . :-)
KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 10/12/2016 11:13:12 1939354 Link 0 |
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The tv rights deal, I don't really mind to be honest, now granted I do like to see as many big sporting occasions on free to air tele as possible but Sky Sports does have the advantage of being a dedicated sport broadcaster and they can light a fire under RTE if they wish to. That would be no harm. Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 10/12/2016 13:39:25 1939378 Link 1 |
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interesting to see peoples views on newstalks dig at rte alano12 (Dublin) - Posts: 2208 - 10/12/2016 13:43:21 1939379 Link 0 |
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it seems their priorities lay with other sports though
alano12 (Dublin) - Posts: 2208 - 10/12/2016 14:17:58 1939384 Link 0 |
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Newstalk forgot to add that as soon as the premier league starts in August they drop their live GAA coverage like a hot shot. Killarney.87 (Tipperary) - Posts: 2513 - 10/12/2016 14:30:51 1939386 Link 0 |
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You talking about Newstalk or Sky? I'd imagine neither would threat Gaa as their main sporting priority, Newstalk would give it a bit of air time naturally but it would be well done Sky's list of priorities. Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 10/12/2016 15:41:24 1939390 Link 0 |
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Htaem, keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 10/12/2016 17:07:19 1939395 Link 0 |
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Don't really know keeper, it's probably one of those things were they realized that it wasn't broken but decided to fix it anyway. I think the mornings in particular are gone very boring and drive time isn't great either, now I know George Hook is not everyones cup of tea but at least you could get a good laugh out of him. Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 10/12/2016 18:01:59 1939405 Link 0 |
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*Hot snot
Killarney.87 (Tipperary) - Posts: 2513 - 10/12/2016 18:27:47 1939409 Link 0 |
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Listenership, Keeper7. Radio is a ruthless profession, if you listeners you are gone.
Killarney.87 (Tipperary) - Posts: 2513 - 10/12/2016 18:30:13 1939410 Link 0 |
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Great news that TG4 are still going to show National League games on Sundays for the next 5 years as well as club championship, we can jumps for joy or whinge about the Sky deal but the reality is the viewership on Sky is down from the viewership on terrestrial TV such as RTE and TV3 before Sky got the contract, I don't agree with people living in Ireland north or south having to pay any channel to watch our native games, Sky may have excellent coverage and analysis of games but when it costs money to watch them then I won't pay and if a vast number of people are doing the same which is currently the situation then viewership will be down, it's pure economics robbing Peter to pay Paul. The GAA have this idea if you don't pay subscription then if you want to watch your team then you have to go to the games, most people already attend their county games, it's the other counties playing that you want to watch, will the GAA pass on the TV rights money to match goers such as reducing match prices I guarantee they won't, more likely prices will go up riverboys (Mayo) - Posts: 1389 - 11/12/2016 13:24:36 1939514 Link 1 |
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How do you feel about Eir sports having exclusive rights to games on a platform less available then sky?
RoyalBadger (Meath) - Posts: 571 - 11/12/2016 14:09:03 1939518 Link 0 |
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I'm pretty sure their listenership was pretty good. Was it just a classic case of capitalism at work?
keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 11/12/2016 16:37:32 1939547 Link 0 |
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newstalk..dunno why my posts arent being approved but the rumour is they made a low ball offer
alano12 (Dublin) - Posts: 2208 - 11/12/2016 17:22:15 1939558 Link 0 |
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As I often said I don't agree with paying to watch our games on TV, Eir would be in that bracket riverboys (Mayo) - Posts: 1389 - 11/12/2016 20:05:01 1939579 Link 0 |
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i disagree with your view but at least its consistent...the hypocrisy of those who dont point this out in relation to the league irritates me
alano12 (Dublin) - Posts: 2208 - 11/12/2016 20:09:13 1939581 Link 0 |
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why are my posts being constantly restricted?..in my view its a bit cheap from newstalk to have a dig at the gaa when they have a blatant preference for other sports despite gaa being the most popular on the island
alano12 (Dublin) - Posts: 2208 - 11/12/2016 20:41:56 1939591 Link 0 |
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I think AIG met more difficulties and obstacles initially when staking their interest in aer lingus, but they were overcome. Personally I can't see where the challenges/obstacles (if any) would come into play should sky express an interest in rte. supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 2908 - 12/12/2016 23:46:17 1939798 Link 0 |