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Post by Seoirse Ui Duic on Nov 5, 2016 17:53:15 GMT
The rugby between Ireland and All Blacks is on "Eir Sport 2". That apparently is the new name for Setanta It is indeed. Setanta and BT sports are both part of the group that owes Eir. eir Sport (previously Setanta Sports) commenced broadcasting on July 5, 2016 following the takeover of Setanta Sports by eir. Two Irish commercial stations, eir Sport 1 (formerly Setanta Ireland) and eir Sport 2 (formerly Setanta Sports 1), join BT Sport 1, BT Sport 2, BT Sport Europe and BT Sport ESPN to make up the 6 channel eir Sport pack. Setanta Sports was formed in 1990 to facilitate the broadcasting of Irish sporting events to international audiences. It means that either ones upgrades to Eir sports for one of the biggest rugby games of the year or one will miss it. Meanwhile, RTE spent lots of money this week on showing Champions cup soccer with not a single Irish team or player involved.
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Post by sullyschoice on Nov 6, 2016 16:04:19 GMT
I will never subscribe to any channel that eir(formerly Eircom) have any involvement with. They are a *e company with *e customer service. God help anyone who has any issue with them. I have dealt with some dinosaurs in my time but they took the biscuit. The only language they understand is ComReg. I could write a book about them.
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Post by Mickmack on Nov 6, 2016 22:58:34 GMT
The rugby between Ireland and All Blacks is on "Eir Sport 2". That apparently is the new name for Setanta
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Post by Ballyfireside on Nov 11, 2016 18:45:10 GMT
Sky's latest stunt is that if you want to cancel a service you have to do it over the phone, and once you select this option then they put you on hold @ 20c a minute. They then refuse to refund you when you write to them, saying that they didn't accept your instructions because it wasn't verbal.
Imagine that, it is illegal to put it in writing, I think auld Murdoch wants us to pay for his bag of bones nuptials, I bet he put his pre-nupt with Jerry Hall in writing, otherwise 'I do' becomes 'I sue'.
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Post by kerrygold on Nov 13, 2016 21:27:13 GMT
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Post by Ballyfireside on Nov 13, 2016 22:56:41 GMT
If the article is as the headline said then it is only what we all know. I think County Boards and GAA HQ are looking at the same factors so maybe they will tell us what the strategic reason is and put the debate to bed. Duffy was interviewed not so long ago and he came across as a very competent officer and I'd be thinking he won't let the seeds of doubt take root.
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Post by Mickmack on Nov 13, 2016 23:26:24 GMT
The bit below is from Sean Morans article that i posted in the other thread yesterday. A discretionary spend of 25-30 million. Is that is a year? W There is a small group that has been constituted,” he said, “to look specifically, not at Dublin – it would be unfair to characterise it as Dublin – but just to look at the total amount that we generate in a year and if you think in terms of discretionary spend, maybe €25-30 million and our job is to look at how we can actually distribute that in the most equitable way.”
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Post by Mickmack on Nov 14, 2016 0:08:58 GMT
That is an outstanding piece by Brolly.
The one from last week was brilliant also
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Post by yellowbelly on Dec 9, 2016 12:43:47 GMT
www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/sky-and-rte-to-share-tv-coverage-while-newstalk-loses-out-in-new-gaa-media-deal-35281395.htmlSky and RTE will share the live GAA championship coverage on television for the next five years, it was announced today. RTE will show 31 live games per year, with Sky getting 20, 14 of which are exclusive to the station. RTE will screen all four provincial finals, both All-Ireland hurling and two All-Ireland football quarter-finals, as well as all the All-Ireland semi-finals and finals. Sky Sports will show the remaining two football quarter-finals exclusively, while also broadcasting all the All-Ireland semi-finals and finals along with RTE. TG4 has retained the rights to Sunday National League games, club championship games, minor championship games and U21 championship games. Eir Sport will continue to show Saturday night league games. In a blow to Newstalk, RTE were given the full radio rights to championship games, which had been shared between the stations under the previous deal. Newstalk and Today FM were awarded score flash rights.
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Post by buck02 on Dec 9, 2016 13:34:55 GMT
80 something games on TG4, 31 games on RTE and 14 on Sky.
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Post by Ballyfireside on Dec 9, 2016 14:00:17 GMT
With this complex mess fewer now watch games when their own team isn't involved and the same applies across codes. I know hurlers that have given up watching football and the same applies to us footballers who would watch hurling if was showing when you flick the TV on.
The big issue with Sky now is that they refuse to allow people to cancel subscriptions, say at the end of the season. Though what they are doing is not legal, they say that they will not accept instructions in writing. Stop paying them and they cut you off but say they will still bill you. What is really worrying is that the clowns at Comreg are briefed to back them up and these are the same organisation who interfered with the Milly Dowler investigation. And Comreg being under undue influence, well it is Ireland and we are there to be fooled, up to our eyes, literally in this case!
It was the openness of rugby in Munster that gave it the head start over other provinces where the game was confined to private schools and the GAA is intent on making the same mistake. It is so sad that young lads will now be deprived of the opportunity to 'catch the big' so to speak because their financially stretched parents, many of whom would have helped make the GAA what it is, can't afford to subscribe to Rupert Murdoch's wedding!
And what is it with the Irish language movement that they can't rekindle it while commercial interests can have people learn a foreign language from scratch in a matter of months. And then the GAA insist on pupping out commentary that 99% don't understand. I personally was good enough at An Gaeilge at Leaving cert level but I find there is no practical route to understanding the commentary, I failed to achieve a personal objective to be able to understand the AL minor final commentary this year. Any helpful suggestions as to how I might overcome the threshold would be appreciated.
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Post by yellowbelly on Dec 9, 2016 14:06:42 GMT
And zero games on NewsTalk. Pity, I thought their GAA Coverage this year was excellent.
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Post by kerrygold on Dec 9, 2016 14:43:17 GMT
Exclusive rights to SKY is a load of ballox and needless.
Talks of another of the Kerry minors as good as gone. Amateur playing status is on its last legs as far as I can see.
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Post by Ballyfireside on Dec 10, 2016 11:22:38 GMT
Re my previous comment it appears that I was even more right than I had thought, apparently the figures show that audiences from counties not involved in individual games have fallen by a full 90%. And if that is the case then viewings across codes (i.e. say footballing counties watching hurling and visa versa) must be decimated.
GAA President O'Fearghail suggests that the UK GAA is the driver behind the decision and one wonders how they could be gaining anything what they are losing at home. I think the reason is that by paying the GAA, Sky is coining it with subscriptions and that is certainly going against the grain of the GAA's amateur status. All ill advised IMO and it is bad news in the long term as pressure will now come on them to pay for play and which will spell the end of rural clubs, another blow to rural Ireland and the original soldiers who made the GAA what it is. It also bears on Aussie decisions as the GAA itself has fallen for the temptation of money to the detriment of it's community, and if they don't care then why should a young talent also not look after number one. It is also a bit strange that they didn't consult with grassroots, say like Eugene Magee did with his review and what was also done recently in Tralee with the Isle of Geese project where the residents were best placed to know what to do.
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Post by glengael on Dec 13, 2016 10:23:39 GMT
Very disappointed that radio coverage is gone back to the monopoly situation. Newstalk was good this year and it's good to have alternative voices to the same old same old RTE. If only to have something new to complain about!!!
I have never seen a match on Sky so I can't comment on their coverage.
As ever TG4 will carry us through the winter and spring and they really do a great service.
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Post by kerrygold on Dec 13, 2016 20:23:15 GMT
Very disappointed that radio coverage is gone back to the monopoly situation. Newstalk was good this year and it's good to have alternative voices to the same old same old RTE. If only to have something new to complain about!!! I have never seen a match on Sky so I can't comment on their coverage. As ever TG4 will carry us through the winter and spring and they really do a great service. There's a general consensus when you talk to root and branch GAA people around the country that the SKY deal is taking the game away from large tranches of people. That is shameful and flies in the face of what the GAA is supposed to be about.
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Post by Mickmack on Dec 13, 2016 22:27:14 GMT
I am reading this book at the moment. I thought I would share the bit from the President of the GAA in 1955. It shows how far the organisation has travelled since its origins.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2016 4:43:16 GMT
There are still a few stuck back in 1955.
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Post by Ballyfireside on Dec 14, 2016 9:22:35 GMT
Very interesting work by Bowman and I wonder how well we have scored in protecting our heritage while embracing the economic opportunities that globalisation has to offer?
The Sky deal has the GAA abandoning it's grassroots for the sake of trying to portray the games as ethnic neutral. The red herring is that Sky is in effect bribing the GAA to allow Sky to defragment it's audience to debase national media, principally RTE. Once the job is done then Sky will throw the GAA around like a rag doll and the global success of the GAA will be of no importance -just look at what is happening with Sky ownership at the moment, previously thwarted by Millie Dowler affair in the UK. Then we will have full first hand knowledge of what a garrisoned game is, we will be one!
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Post by kerrygold on Aug 4, 2017 7:32:05 GMT
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