2013 Championship TV Schedule

munchkin_utd

the official announcement hasnt been made and won't be for another week or 2, but from the timing of the Sunday 2pm and 4pm games you can deduct with fair certainty what's going to be televised
The Saturday fixtures are a grey area but i've added them anyways just for reference even though theres far from a guarantee that they'd be shown.

NOTE : these are selected Championship games, which based on announced throw in times are candidates for broadcasting
Sunday May 19th, 2013
2 00 PM Cavan vs. Armagh Kingspan - Breffni Pk
4 00 PM Galway vs. Mayo - Pearse Stadium

Saturday May 25th, 2013
7 00 PM (FOOTBALL) Limerick vs. Cork - Gaelic Grounds, Limerick

Sunday May 26th, 2013
2 00 PM Kerry vs. Tipperary - Fitzgerald Stadium
4 00 PM Donegal vs. Tyrone - Ballybofey

Saturday June 1st, 2013
5 00 PM Offaly vs. Kildare - Páirc an Chrócaigh
7 00 PM Westmeath / Carlowvs.Dublin - Páirc an Chrócaigh

Sunday June 2nd, 2013
2 00 PM Derry vs. Down - Celtic Park
4 00 PM (HURLING) Clare vs. Waterford - Semple Stadium, Thurles

Saturday June 8th, 2013
7 00 PM (HURLING) Wexfordvs.Dublin - Wexford Park

Sunday June 9th, 2013
2 00 PM (HURLING) Offaly vs. Kilkenny - O Connor Park, Tullamore
4 00 PM (HURLING) Limerickvs.Tipperary - Gaelic Grounds, Limerick

Saturday June 15th, 2013
7 00 PM Wicklow / Longford vs. Meath

Sunday June 16th, 2013
2 00 PM Fermanagh vs. Cavan / Armagh
4 00 PM Roscommon vs. Galway / Mayo

Saturday June 22nd, 2013
Hurling Qualifiers

Sunday June 23rd, 2013
2 00 PM (ULSTER SEMI FINAL) Donegal / Tyrone vs. Derry / Down
??WTF?? 3 30 PM (HURLING) Kilkenny / Offaly vs. Wexford / Dublin
4 00 PM (HURLING) Cork vs. Clare / Waterford

Saturday June 29th, 2013
7 00 PM (ULSTER SEMI FINAL) Antrim / Monaghan vs. Fermanagh / Cavan / Armagh

Sunday June 30th, 2013
2 00 PM (LEINSTER SEMI FINAL) Wicklow / Longford / Meath vs. Laois / Louth / Wexford
4 00 PM (LEINSTER SEMI FINAL) Westmeath / Carlow / Dublin vs. Offaly / Kildare

Lemlin

I would love if they showed Cavan but I doubt it. The last two years the BBC have shown deferred coverage of the Cavan game at six or seven.

I can't stand the BBC coverage due to Martin McHugh. He sticks the knife into Cavan wherever he can.

Last year, we gave a decent account of ourselves against Donegal losing by six points and he was still hugely negative.

munchkin_utd

Are you sure that the coverage by bbc in the past wasn't a delayed coverage of a 3.30pm throw in?

Bbc used to show all ulster games live but then one year a tyrone v armagh(or such very watchable) 3.30 game on bbc clashed with something like Sligo v Leitrim on rte at 4pm and the Connacht board threw a wobbler that their (far from glamourous) match was being undermined.

So now the rule is that bbc can only show games live if it's the game being shown in the south, I.e. is at a 2pm or 4pm Sunday slot or 7pm Saturday slot.

ohyesthefinest

Armagh v Cavan and Galway v Mayo are both on live Sunday week. They showed a graphic at the end of League Sunday last Sunday.

Lemlin

munchkin_utd wrote: »

Are you sure that the coverage by bbc in the past wasn't a delayed coverage of a 3.30pm throw in?

Bbc used to show all ulster games live but then one year a tyrone v armagh(or such very watchable) 3.30 game on bbc clashed with something like Sligo v Leitrim on rte at 4pm and the Connacht board threw a wobbler that their (far from glamourous) match was being undermined.

So now the rule is that bbc can only show games live if it's the game being shown in the south, I.e. is at a 2pm or 4pm Sunday slot or 7pm Saturday slot.

That's what I said. They showed deferred coverage of the game at six or seven.

So they show a 3.30 throw in at six or seven in the evening.

Syferus

Glad to see Roscommon's immenient destruction of Mayo/Galway is getting the full TSG buffet threatment.

Kinder Bueno

Lemlin wrote: »

That's what I said. They showed deferred coverage of the game at six or seven.

So they show a 3.30 throw in at six or seven in the evening.

Isn't it better than not showing them at all?

You very rarely see Clare, Tipperary, Offaly or Letrim on telly, all similarly as bad (or good, depending on how deluded you are) as Cavan.

munchkin_utd

Rte "announced" their coverage today.
Lots of fancy words about the extensive coverage, indeed, blah blah blah.

No hint on what games are actually being covered except confirming the bleeding obvious that the Cavan Armagh game is the opener next week.

I'm sure they'll eventually announce what they are covering, rather than announcing coverage which we already knew they had a contract for.

munchkin_utd

RTÉ have confirmed via facebook some of the games they are showing so I've marked those saturday games now below.
Interestingly, Cavans (or Armaghs) route to the Ulster final is now to be televised in full.
Should either team go the whole way(what chance, but you can always hope!) then all their 7games incl all ireland final will be televised.
Surely a first?

NOTE : these are my choice of selected Championship games, which based on announced throw in times are candidates for broadcasting
Sunday May 19th, 2013
2 00 PM Cavan vs. Armagh Kingspan - Breffni Pk
4 00 PM Galway vs. Mayo - Pearse Stadium

Saturday May 25th, 2013
7 00 PM (FOOTBALL) Limerick vs. Cork - Gaelic Grounds, Limerick

Sunday May 26th, 2013
2 00 PM Kerry vs. Tipperary - Fitzgerald Stadium
4 00 PM Donegal vs. Tyrone - Ballybofey

Saturday June 1st, 2013 - Confirmed RTE
5 00 PM Offaly vs. Kildare - Páirc an Chrócaigh
7 00 PM Westmeath / Carlowvs.Dublin - Páirc an Chrócaigh

Sunday June 2nd, 2013
2 00 PM Derry vs. Down - Celtic Park
4 00 PM (HURLING) Clare vs. Waterford - Semple Stadium, Thurles

Saturday June 8th, 2013 - Confirmed RTE
7 00 PM (HURLING) Wexfordvs.Dublin - Wexford Park

Sunday June 9th, 2013
2 00 PM (HURLING) Offaly vs. Kilkenny - O Connor Park, Tullamore
4 00 PM (HURLING) Limerickvs.Tipperary - Gaelic Grounds, Limerick

Saturday June 15th, 2013 - Confirmed RTE
7 00 PM Wicklow / Longford vs. Meath

Sunday June 16th, 2013
2 00 PM Fermanagh vs. Cavan / Armagh
4 00 PM Roscommon vs. Galway / Mayo

Saturday June 22nd, 2013
Hurling Qualifiers

Sunday June 23rd, 2013
2 00 PM (ULSTER SEMI FINAL) Donegal / Tyrone vs. Derry / Down
??WTF?? 3 30 PM (HURLING) Kilkenny / Offaly vs. Wexford / Dublin
4 00 PM (HURLING) Cork vs. Clare / Waterford

Saturday June 29th, 2013 - Confirmed RTE
7 00 PM (ULSTER SEMI FINAL) Antrim / Monaghan vs. Fermanagh / Cavan / Armagh

Sunday June 30th, 2013
2 00 PM (LEINSTER SEMI FINAL) Wicklow / Longford / Meath vs. Laois / Louth / Wexford
4 00 PM (LEINSTER SEMI FINAL) Westmeath / Carlow / Dublin vs. Offaly / Kildare

Thinkstoomuch

Donal Og Cusack and Eammon O Hara have been added to the Sunday Game panel for the season.Two good additions to the panel.

Thinkstoomuch

Lemlin wrote: »

I would love if they showed Cavan but I doubt it. The last two years the BBC have shown deferred coverage of the Cavan game at six or seven.

I can't stand the BBC coverage due to Martin McHugh. He sticks the knife into Cavan wherever he can.

Last year, we gave a decent account of ourselves against Donegal losing by six points and he was still hugely negative.

I know exactly what you mean.He is so biased against Cork too and never gives us credit.For years we were a boring team of athletes.Look at Donegals style and not a word about it.I cant wait to see what he makes of Cork playing the blanket defefence this year.They are playing Donegals system this year.

dcr22B

McHugh has an agenda against most counties TBH, he would only love to see Dublin divided up into two.

patmac

munchkin_utd wrote: »

RTÉ have confirmed via facebook some of the games they are showing so I've marked those saturday games now below.
Interestingly, Cavans (or Armaghs) route to the Ulster final is now to be televised in full.
Should either team go the whole way(what chance, but you can always hope!) then all their 7games incl all ireland final will be televised.
Surely a first?

I think you will find that all Dublin and Kerry's games are covered nearly every year.

Lemlin

Kinder Bueno wrote: »

Isn't it better than not showing them at all?

You very rarely see Clare, Tipperary, Offaly or Letrim on telly, all similarly as bad (or good, depending on how deluded you are) as Cavan.

The 4 teams you named are Division 4. Cavan are Division 3.

theoneeyedman

Thinkstoomuch wrote: »

Donal Og Cusack and Eammon O Hara have been added to the Sunday Game panel for the season.Two good additions to the panel.

I'd take or leave Cusack but o'hara I cannot stand.....

Kinder Bueno

Lemlin wrote: »

The 4 teams you named are Division 4. Cavan are Division 3.

What has that got to do with anything?

Tipp, Clare, Offaly and Leitrim are on a par with Cavan. Cavan have done nothing in the last few years to warrant televising their games.

Lemlin

Kinder Bueno wrote: »

What has that got to do with anything?

Tipp, Clare, Offaly and Leitrim are on a par with Cavan. Cavan have done nothing in the last few years to warrant televising their games.

It has to do with those teams not being as good as Cavan.

Cavan have been hugely successful at underage level and have a blueprint for youth that alot of other counties are trying to follow.

I'd agree that Cavan have done nothing to warrant televising our games but we are of a better standard than the 4 teams you've named.

Anyway, if you want to debate the standard of Cavan football, there's a Cavan GAA thread where I'd be more than happy to discuss your opinion.

RikkFlair

Ger Loughnane not involved with the RTE coverage this year? I hope he's ok healthwise.

dxhound2005

This is a useful site to see what is on for about 10 days in advance. GAA is under Other Sports. Satellite TV only.

http://liveonsat.com/quickindex.html

iseegirls

Surely the live matches on RTE and TV3 should be announced by now?

Crazy that the season has already begun, but no official word about the matches the broadcasters are showing.

Lemlin

iseegirls wrote: »

Surely the live matches on RTE and TV3 should be announced by now?

Crazy that the season has already begun, but no official word about the matches the broadcasters are showing.

RTE had a list of games scroll across the bottom of the screen during the game yesterday. I thought that was the games they were showing.

munchkin_utd

another update,
Saturday the 29th of June will see 18 football teams involved in 8 qualifiers and 1 ulster match being played simultaneously
With all this action and RTÉs lack of transparancy its completely unknown what they might decide to show.

Nevertheless, according to BBC twitter:

Both Ulster football semi-finals AND the final will be live on BBC TV & radio. #GAA

https://twitter.com/bbcchampionship

meaning that the Cavan v Monaghan clash in Clones will be available on TV regardless of the RTE dislike for both teams and indecisiveness on what they are showing from the tv rights package that they have spent millions of tv licenceholders' cash on.

The Premier Man

its an absolute disgrace that the waterford offaly qualifier and the kilkenny dublin leinster semi final aren't televised

Syferus

Kinder Bueno wrote: »

What has that got to do with anything?

Tipp, Clare, Offaly and Leitrim are on a par with Cavan. Cavan have done nothing in the last few years to warrant televising their games.

Cavan are a step about all those. Only Tipp really have the capacity to become an overall better team than Cavan and that's because of their own underage success.

Lemlin

Syferus wrote: »

Cavan are a step about all those. Only Tipp really have the capacity to become an overall better team than Cavan and that's because of their own underage success.

I did point that out at the time and Cavan have shown it themselves since.

zetecescort

The Premier Man wrote: »

its an absolute disgrace that the waterford offaly qualifier and the kilkenny dublin leinster semi final aren't televised

Really? thats bad form alright. Waterford-Offaly could be a cracker with their summer on the line, Kilkenny-Dublin not so much if the dubs games with Wexford are anything to go by imo.

presumably they are showing the Ulster football because the BBC are providing cameras etc so its a reduced cost for RTE

Neeson

Well they can't not show Donegal and down at the same time.

The Premier Man

Neeson wrote: »

Well they can't not show Donegal and down at the same time.

why can't they considering its on the bbc aswell!!!there is little enough hurling on television as it is without not showing provincial semi finals.
the waterford offaly game has the potential to be one of the games of the summer but again rte fail to show a hurling qualifier.

Al_Coholic

The Premier Man wrote: »

why can't they considering its on the bbc aswell!!!there is little enough hurling on television as it is without not showing provincial semi finals.
the waterford offaly game has the potential to be one of the games of the summer but again rte fail to show a hurling qualifier.

the bbc can only show games that rte are showing thats why they have the game.

Neeson

Also the Donegal Derry game could be quite good.

Donegal are the All Ireland Champions as well and really should have most of their games shown, and probably will. Same as Dublin the year before.

They really are a quality team with more than just Donegal people fascinated by their system.

The Premier Man

its donegal down not derry.and why should donegal get tv coverage over kilkenny(and im a tipp man)who are also all ireland champions.i can't see why these can't be shown on rte 2 at 2 and 4 with tv3 showing cork clare at around 3.at least people would get the choice.there is absolutely no excuse for showing a confederations cup match sat nite over the hurling qualifier