Bunch of idiots

imeddyhobbs

So now i have to pay a second tax to watch amature players working for the GAA.I pay my TV licence but i cant see the GAA on RTE.These days i have to pay an addicional fee ?while all the time the sportsmen of the GAA do it for free!?.I think its time for the GPA to take its finger out of its own hole and start representing it's members and supporters!
Ultimately i would love for anybody to answer this proposition
How can you promote sport when all you want to do is encrypt it?(encrypt it=you pay twice)

Mushy

Well, the GAA are a business, so they accept the highest offer. GPA dont have much to do with it AFAIK. It should be RTE pulling its finger out of its hole and paying up a bit more so ya dont have to pay again. Its not Setantas fault, its not the GAA's fault.

P.S. you dont have to pay, you could just leave it be and miss it

thirdmantackle

Only for TG4 there'd be feck all GAA on the tv outside of summer months

RTE only want to show Rugby, soccer, golf and horse racing

gucci

GAA need finance to boost they're coffers (admittantly ever bulging with the pay from croke park being rented) so sell the TV rights to highest bidder. Having the match on a non-terrestial station is a pain but the viewing ratings of the national league would not make sense for RTE to outbid setanta i would imagine. but for the novelty factor and massive publicity hype (which was even added to by RTE advertising theyre hightlights package!)of tyrone V dublin id say the tv audience would have been quarter what was viewing saturday night. The league is largley ignored by the tv audiences as too often bad weather and underfoot conditions make 5 out of 10 matchs painful to watch.

patmac

Have to agree with the OP, watched that Rough Diamond the other day because I couldn't be arsed going into the other room, boy was it lame shíte, I thought RTE could be spending our licence fee better than this, I think there is another new show tonight called the Hospice, riverting viewing. Setanta is bad for Irish sport as we are expected to pay for programmes that used to be free to air like the National League/ Celtic League Rugby etc.

Mushy

But if ya have NTL, do ya have to pay extra for Setanta? Or does it come with it? And anyway, nobody is "expected" to pay for Setanta, its the persons choice. RTÉ can do what they like with the money they get, they just not putting it into the National League coverage. Anyway, Pat Spillane for the summer is enough

Flukey

You can indeed get Setanta for the games. As for pay for view, don't bother. Even having paid for the likes of Sky Sports you are then often asked to pay extra for some events. A sort of pay for pay for view. It is like going to a match, and having gone through one stile, finding another one facing you. Sky movies have additional movies too, which is like paying at the entry to the actual screen, having already bought your ticket in the foyer.

For Sky Sports they used to say that if you wanted Sky Sports, then you should ring your local operator. In that case you should be really contacting someone who performs operations, namely a brain surgeon, as you must be mad to even consider getting any pay per view channel. I never have and never will. The best way to get free to air sport is for peopple not to pay and put these people out of business. Pay for view channels may be idiots, but the real idiots are the ones that actually pay money to them. :mad:

gucci

god yeah its like paying for a tv, then having to pay for tv liscence and then the electricty that it runs on, its just cost after cost.
the sports have costs too, hence they sell they're rights to pay for these costs. admitantly are getting the players relatively "cost-free" it dosnt make sense that they shouldnt try and create revenue from not selling theyre rights.
but they have to be careful not to get too greedy. a boycott wouldnt really work, ireland is always apathetic when such a thing is suggested (unless we get eddie hobbs to front the campaign) (not talking about the original poster above)