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Looks like the current deal has been extended by 5 more years.

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 09/12/2016 14:10:51    1939245

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Hopefully the GAA managed to get a much better deal this time in terms of money.

The last deal was only slightly more than TV3 would've paid and considering the viewing numbers are shockingly bad on Sky you'd have to hope that there's a lot of money coming in to make it worthwhile.

One presumes that of the GAA are happy to have so few people watching these games on TV that they are getting a good bit of extra money to invest back into the games.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13707 - 09/12/2016 14:27:06    1939247

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Virgin Media customers have Saturday access to the league taken from us. Even if we wanted to pay we cant.
Eir Sport setting sport free me hole.

RoyalBadger (Meath) - Posts: 571 - 09/12/2016 14:46:56    1939257

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Great news. I loved the sky coverage, only pity is the there not showing provincial finals

rebelfan (Cork) - Posts: 70 - 09/12/2016 15:08:20    1939261

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Great news, I love the sky coverage, only pity is that dont have provincial finals

rebelfan (Cork) - Posts: 70 - 09/12/2016 15:10:17    1939262

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Replying To RoyalBadger:  "Virgin Media customers have Saturday access to the league taken from us. Even if we wanted to pay we cant.
Eir Sport setting sport free me hole."
Yeah dont hear any uproar over that, I pay for sky, shouldn't have to pay for additional channel

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 09/12/2016 15:29:54    1939267

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I'm just disappointed Newstalk has lost rights to cover live games on the radio.

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 09/12/2016 17:03:39    1939285

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Replying To MesAmis:  "Hopefully the GAA managed to get a much better deal this time in terms of money.

The last deal was only slightly more than TV3 would've paid and considering the viewing numbers are shockingly bad on Sky you'd have to hope that there's a lot of money coming in to make it worthwhile.

One presumes that of the GAA are happy to have so few people watching these games on TV that they are getting a good bit of extra money to invest back into the games."
That doesn't make a whole pile of sense.

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 09/12/2016 17:05:25    1939288

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Hopefully the GAA managed to get a much better deal this time in terms of money.

The last deal was only slightly more than TV3 would've paid and considering the viewing numbers are shockingly bad on Sky you'd have to hope that there's a lot of money coming in to make it worthwhile.


It looks like the money this time is about the same so i really can't fathom dropping newstalk & not dealing with TV3 over SKY

shea (Kerry) - Posts: 409 - 09/12/2016 17:14:56    1939291

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Replying To shea:  "Hopefully the GAA managed to get a much better deal this time in terms of money.

The last deal was only slightly more than TV3 would've paid and considering the viewing numbers are shockingly bad on Sky you'd have to hope that there's a lot of money coming in to make it worthwhile.


It looks like the money this time is about the same so i really can't fathom dropping newstalk & not dealing with TV3 over SKY"
TV3 don't appear to have any interest in GAA. They have a substantial investment starting in 2018 for the Six Nations so that's where their focus will be.

jimski (Kildare) - Posts: 381 - 09/12/2016 18:19:32    1939302

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Replying To jimski:  "
Replying To shea:  "Hopefully the GAA managed to get a much better deal this time in terms of money.

The last deal was only slightly more than TV3 would've paid and considering the viewing numbers are shockingly bad on Sky you'd have to hope that there's a lot of money coming in to make it worthwhile.


It looks like the money this time is about the same so i really can't fathom dropping newstalk & not dealing with TV3 over SKY"
TV3 don't appear to have any interest in GAA. They have a substantial investment starting in 2018 for the Six Nations so that's where their focus will be."
It's understood the Association has agreed a deal in the region of €80 million for the new Sky Sports contract, following on from the initial three-year deal.
TV 3 and UTV are there by name only as Virgin Media bought them out recently, RTE are the only national broadcaster left that can't/don't supply broadband to their customers. Sky have both feet inside the door now, and with the state of RTE's finances I believe the stage is set for sky to make a bid for part or all of RTE as a broadcaster, something like Aer Lingus.
I'm not saying it's a good thing or a bad thing that's the way I see it, RTE can't survive unless they provide broadband, sky can deliver that.

supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 2907 - 09/12/2016 18:53:40    1939310

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I think competition rules would be an obstacle for sky to have an influential holding in the state broadcaster broadband or not.

Dubh_linn (Dublin) - Posts: 2312 - 09/12/2016 19:14:04    1939313

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Replying To MesAmis:  "Hopefully the GAA managed to get a much better deal this time in terms of money.

The last deal was only slightly more than TV3 would've paid and considering the viewing numbers are shockingly bad on Sky you'd have to hope that there's a lot of money coming in to make it worthwhile.

One presumes that of the GAA are happy to have so few people watching these games on TV that they are getting a good bit of extra money to invest back into the games."
I really think Sky TV rights for the GAA is a false economy for us.

Who are Sky selling to?

Big GAA fans. A chunk of their disposable income is now going to go to Sky when it could be going to them attending games.

"In a departure from the previous media rights deal, the GAA has retained its clip rights for all games with plans to leverage them across its own platforms as part of a wider digital content strategy."

Seems like a good strategy.

Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4222 - 09/12/2016 19:39:21    1939317

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Replying To keeper7:  "
Replying To MesAmis:  "Hopefully the GAA managed to get a much better deal this time in terms of money.

The last deal was only slightly more than TV3 would've paid and considering the viewing numbers are shockingly bad on Sky you'd have to hope that there's a lot of money coming in to make it worthwhile.

One presumes that of the GAA are happy to have so few people watching these games on TV that they are getting a good bit of extra money to invest back into the games."
That doesn't make a whole pile of sense."
What I mean is that I hope the extra revenue is significant to justify people not having access to these games

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13707 - 09/12/2016 19:51:20    1939318

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Replying To MesAmis:  "
Replying To keeper7:  "[quote=MesAmis:  "Hopefully the GAA managed to get a much better deal this time in terms of money.

The last deal was only slightly more than TV3 would've paid and considering the viewing numbers are shockingly bad on Sky you'd have to hope that there's a lot of money coming in to make it worthwhile.

One presumes that of the GAA are happy to have so few people watching these games on TV that they are getting a good bit of extra money to invest back into the games."
That doesn't make a whole pile of sense."
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.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 09/12/2016 20:53:02    1939320

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Replying To keeper7:  "link

Looks like the current deal has been extended by 5 more years."
5 years is a pretty big commitment.

alano12 (Dublin) - Posts: 2208 - 09/12/2016 22:32:01    1939328

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Replying To MesAmis:  "
Replying To keeper7:  "[quote=MesAmis:  "Hopefully the GAA managed to get a much better deal this time in terms of money.

The last deal was only slightly more than TV3 would've paid and considering the viewing numbers are shockingly bad on Sky you'd have to hope that there's a lot of money coming in to make it worthwhile.

One presumes that of the GAA are happy to have so few people watching these games on TV that they are getting a good bit of extra money to invest back into the games."
That doesn't make a whole pile of sense."
What I mean is that I hope the extra revenue is significant to justify people not having access to these games"]surely the league could be shown on rte or tv3?..am suprised bt sport didnt make a bid...they are really hurting sky at the minute and sky needs sports like the gaa as it seems to have spent the vast majority of its budget on premier league rights

alano12 (Dublin) - Posts: 2208 - 09/12/2016 22:34:19    1939329

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Replying To royaldunne:  "
Replying To MesAmis:  "[quote=keeper7:  "[quote=MesAmis:  "Hopefully the GAA managed to get a much better deal this time in terms of money.

The last deal was only slightly more than TV3 would've paid and considering the viewing numbers are shockingly bad on Sky you'd have to hope that there's a lot of money coming in to make it worthwhile.

One presumes that of the GAA are happy to have so few people watching these games on TV that they are getting a good bit of extra money to invest back into the games."
That doesn't make a whole pile of sense."
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

benched (Tyrone) - Posts: 534 - 09/12/2016 22:41:14    1939333

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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.
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts:9846 - 09/12/2016 20:53:02

It's 2016.

Things have changed.

Sky's package was the one previously held by TV3 so less people can see the games now on TV.

I just hope that the extra money is worth less people seeing the games.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13707 - 09/12/2016 22:51:25    1939335

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Delighted TG4 have kept their brilliant coverage of Sunday league game aka not Dublin. The underage championship and club championship.

The thing that dissapoints me with this is Newstalk loosing their radio coverage which was excellent in terms of time given to it, analyses, effort and commitment.

Princapaly I am annoyed that newstalk were outbid by RTE. So we loose the free to air coverage that was new talk, to RTE who outbid them using taxpayers licence fees. Wrong.

TheUsername (Dublin) - Posts: 4445 - 09/12/2016 23:05:24    1939337

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