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TV3's Terrible Competition

  • 23-07-2011 7:56pm
    #1
    patmac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,602 ✭✭✭


    Probably doesn't deserve it's own thread so mod's feel free to move, but TVs3's GAA competition has to be the cheapest ever.
    Win two tickets to an All-Ireland Quarter Final, so a prize worth at the most €80. Cost €1 per text (x2) and even better it is sponsored by Ulster Bank! They are as cheap as there coverage.
    I will sponsor the next one if they give me half the phone fees.
    I mean not even overnight accomodation, or rail train tickets just mean.
    End of rant.


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  • #2
    sendit
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 499 ✭✭sendit


    patmac wrote: »
    Probably doesn't deserve it's own thread so mod's feel free to move, but TVs3's GAA competition has to be the cheapest ever.
    Win two tickets to an All-Ireland Quarter Final, so a prize worth at the most €80. Cost €1 per text (x2) and even better it is sponsored by Ulster Bank! They are as cheap as there coverage.
    I will sponsor the next one if they give me half the phone fees.
    I mean not even overnight accomodation, or rail train tickets just mean.
    End of rant.

    Really i just assumed that there was thats crazy!!


  • #3
    jwcurtin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 562 ✭✭✭jwcurtin


    patmac wrote: »
    Probably doesn't deserve it's own thread so mod's feel free to move, but TVs3's GAA competition has to be the cheapest ever.
    Win two tickets to an All-Ireland Quarter Final, so a prize worth at the most €80. Cost €1 per text (x2) and even better it is sponsored by Ulster Bank! They are as cheap as there coverage.
    I will sponsor the next one if they give me half the phone fees.
    I mean not even overnight accomodation, or rail train tickets just mean.
    End of rant.

    Just one thing, €80 is the cost of 1 ticket this year... But I do agree with ya.. Sure RTÉ had the "fly your mate home from Australia for the Munster Hurling Final" competition earlier in the year..


  • #4
    delta_bravo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,567 ✭✭✭delta_bravo


    jwcurtin wrote: »
    Just one thing, €80 is the cost of 1 ticket this year... But I do agree with ya.. Sure RTÉ had the "fly your mate home from Australia for the Munster Hurling Final" competition earlier in the year..

    Not for a quarter.


  • #5
    abouttobebanned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    spot on OP.


  • #6
    jwcurtin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 562 ✭✭✭jwcurtin


    delta_bravo wrote: »
    Not for a quarter.

    Sorry, read that totally wrong.. Was sure it was for September :L Mea Culpa


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    Mountainlad
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    jwcurtin wrote: »
    Sorry, read that totally wrong.. Was sure it was for September :L Mea Culpa

    Any compeition for giving away final tickets is a good one as they're so hard to get.

    But giving away quarter final tickets is laughable. Would they be as much as 80 euro? They're only 60 for two at the highest cost for todays hurling quarter finals in Thurles


  • #8
    padd b1975
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    Can you enter for free via their website? I am posting from mobile so unable to check myself.


  • #9
    unknown13
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    Sums up TV3 and their whole production of the GAA. Its shockingly bad.


  • #10
    Kojak
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    unknown13 wrote: »
    Sums up TV3 and their whole production of the GAA. Its shockingly bad.

    +1

    Its always full of ads - never give the panel enough time to discuss the featured match. Bad and all as RTE are, at least they discuss the game in depth.


  • #11
    crackity_jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 140 ✭✭crackity_jones


    Its always full of ads - never give the panel enough time to discuss the featured match. Bad and all as RTE are, at least they discuss the game in depth.

    The reason TV3's coverage is full of ads is probably because they have to survive on their own business acumen and those same ad revenues.

    Unlike RTE, which has the nice little cushion of our tv license fee (160 bucks per household), along with its own ad revenues. And yet still manages to run up a loss each and every year! You're paying a princely sum for uninterrupted Brolly/Spillane/McStay debates. Those that have zero interest in sport pay for them too.

    Watch some American tv (where there are no state sponsored tv channels) and see a real ad-break onslaught. They happen every couple of minutes.

    Sure, TV3's coverage is shaky but they're making an effort to compete and survive in the 'real' world. They will improve. RTE has a huge advantage on that score.


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