The Sunday Game (highlights)

Nidgeweasel

Would it really be too difficult to run off all the football and then all the hurling (or vice versa).

This jumping from one to another several times is a mess.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

It's structured to make you stay watching. They're making us wait til the very end to see the Monaghan v Armagh game which is one of the only games that wasn't on TV over the weekend. Extended highlights of Dubs v Cats, Tipp v Galway, Cork v Kerry and Clare v Wexford. I saw all those games already but I'll watch again whereas if they had stuck on the Monaghan game and a couple of the footy qualifiers at the start, I'd have switched over after.

ProudDUB

RTE don't want people tuning in to watch the football and then switching off when the hurling comes on and vice versa. They want people to keep on watching for the entire duration of the show. They can make more money from advertizing that way.

awec

You could always record it and watch it a bit later and just skip through the bits you don't want to see.

jethro081

thought it was fair disrespectful to the ulster championship. It's half eleven. I have to get up for work in the morning, but they showed four football qualifiers, two hurling qualifiers, the camogie and the two provincial finals which were televised today before the monaghan game.

Nidgeweasel

awec wrote: »

You could always record it and watch it a bit later and just skip through the bits you don't want to see.

I could, but I can't as I'm exiled!

I know they're trying to keep people tuned in but jesus, it's a mess. If they wanted to leave Armagh v Monaghan last, run through all the hurling, then the football.

Dayor Knight

ProudDUB wrote: »

RTE don't want people tuning in to watch the football and then switching off when the hurling comes on and vice versa. They want people to keep on watching for the entire duration of the show. They can make more money from advertizing that way.

Maybe so, but we're the customers. Present the program to the customer's preferences, RTE, please.

Dayor Knight

Tipp v Galway hurling qualifier. Big win for Tipp but most if the talk was about what happened to Galway. Come on Des, we know you're from Galway, but to the winners the spoils.....

Diabhal Beag

Dayor Knight wrote: »

Come on Des, we know you're from Galway, but to the winners the spoils.....

I can't find anything on him being from Galway but if he is I deeply apologise to all of Éire.

tom_tarbucket

Dayor Knight wrote: »

Tipp v Galway hurling qualifier. Big win for Tipp but most if the talk was about what happened to Galway. Come on Des, we know you're from Galway, but to the winners the spoils.....

Des is a Dub.

Maybe your getting mixed up with Michael Lyster - he is from Galway.

dastardly00

Pretty sure Des is from Dublin.

Nidgeweasel

dastardly00 wrote: »

Pretty sure Des is from Dublin.

He is. He's a cuala man. Not sure all his life or having moved to Dalkey but he is most certainly a dub.

His better half is a Donegal woman.

ProudDUB

Dayor Knight wrote: »

Maybe so, but we're the customers. Present the program to the customer's preferences, RTE, please.

RTE are a business, just like any other. If they can make more money from formatting the show the way that they do, than so be it. The more money they make, the more money they have to spend on programming.

Grats

The outstanding display, and one of the best ones ever, in Croke Park today was from Richie Hogan. No matter who you spoke with on the way on he was on everybody's lips. He had some engine today covering the whole pitch, taking knock after knock, winning ball and sending in great deliveries.

Tomas Mulcahy reflected that view directly after the match in the aftermath discussion on RTE. He mentioned how brilliant he was and showed some great footage of his display which hadn't been shown in the highlights.

It will be very interesting to see if the newspapers pick him as MOTM!

Dayor Knight

tom_tarbucket wrote: »

Des is a Dub.

Maybe your getting mixed up with Michael Lyster - he is from Galway.

Fair point about Des, lads. I may have gotten that wrong (back on the mind still says there's a connection to Galway...!.) Still, I stand by my original point - Tipp performance to win deserved the main focus of discussion. But then, I am biased.

Dayor Knight

ProudDUB wrote: »

RTE are a business, just like any other. If they can make more money from formatting the show the way that they do, than so be it. The more money they make, the more money they have to spend on programming.

No, they're a public service broadcaster, funded by license fees. In any case, businesses if all types need to be aware of their customers' preferences. Giving customers stuff they don't want while waiting for what they want, is a risky strategy.

ProudDUB

Well my personal preference as a paying customer, is to have zero ads, zero competition giveaways, zero sponsorship tie ins, and zero annoying promos for other RTE shows that I will never watch. But I am a realist. I know that having all that jazz pays the bills. If it didn't, the license fee would be either triple what it currently is, or the RTE production budget would be a fraction of what it currently is, which in turn affects the sporting events that RTE are willing and able to broadcast live.

Anyway, The Sunday Game is a highlights show that it targeted specifically at GAA fans. I'd say that most people will have a passing interest in one code, while waiting for their preferred code to come on. Mixing up the hurling and the football highlights hardly counts as "a risky strategy" or "giving customers what they don't want", when the show is 100% about GAA games. It's not as if they are making you watch the tennis, or the World Cup soccer, or the tiddleywinks championships, in between the football and hurling highlights.

Dayor Knight

ProudDUB wrote: »

Well my personal preference as a paying customer, is to have zero ads, zero competition giveaways, zero sponsorship tie ins, and zero annoying promos for other RTE shows that I will never watch. But I am a realist. I know that having all that jazz pays the bills. If it didn't, the license fee would be either triple what it currently is, or the RTE production budget would be a fraction of what it currently is, which in turn affects the sporting events that RTE are willing and able to broadcast live.

Anyway, The Sunday Game is a highlights show that it targeted specifically at GAA fans. I'd say that most people will have a passing interest in one code, while waiting for their preferred code to come on. Mixing up the hurling and the football highlights hardly counts as "a risky strategy" or "giving customers what they don't want", when the show is 100% about GAA games. It's not as if they are making you watch the tennis, or the World Cup soccer, or the tiddleywinks championships, in between the football and hurling highlights.

Good for you, man. You have a point of course. We know why they do it - it just doesn't mean we have to like it! 😊

Browney7

Dayor Knight wrote: »

No, they're a public service broadcaster, funded by license fees.

I assume people from Armagh/Tyrone etc don't have to pay license fees either!

adrian522

ProudDUB wrote: »

RTE are a business, just like any other. If they can make more money from formatting the show the way that they do, than so be it. The more money they make, the more money they have to spend on programming.

Well it is a terrible business strategy to deliberately p!iss off your target audience.

I think it will result in less rather than more people watching the Sunday Game in its entirety.

As already suggested people would just record and fast forward or simply not bother in the future.

Rightwing

Sunday Game has turned into a really poor show. Football analysts like O shea would put you to sleep.

K-9

adrian522 wrote: »

Well it is a terrible business strategy to deliberately p!iss off your target audience.

I think it will result in less rather than more people watching the Sunday Game in its entirety.

As already suggested people would just record and fast forward or simply not bother in the future.

Loads of the target audience enjoy both codes so aren't that bothered.

Anyway, it's the same as MotD, they often keep one of the higher profile matches to near the end.

Nidgeweasel

K-9 wrote: »

Loads of the target audience enjoy both codes so aren't that bothered.

Anyway, it's the same as MotD, they often keep one of the higher profile matches to near the end.

With respect, it's usually the opposite. Big hitter on first and then Wigan v Stoke or such similar dross will be on last.

adrian522

K-9 wrote: »

Loads of the target audience enjoy both codes so aren't that bothered.

Anyway, it's the same as MotD, they often keep one of the higher profile matches to near the end.

MOTD don't cover 2 sports though and they don't have 2 sets of analysts in different areas etc.

K-9

Nidgeweasel wrote: »

With respect, it's usually the opposite. Big hitter on first and then Wigan v Stoke or such similar dross will be on last.

Yeah, but they'll often keep one of the top 4 or 5 teams till second last, if they don't everybody will switch off after 45 minutes!

Boom__Boom

jethro081 wrote: »

thought it was fair disrespectful to the ulster championship. It's half eleven. I have to get up for work in the morning, but they showed four football qualifiers, two hurling qualifiers, the camogie and the two provincial finals which were televised today before the monaghan game.

I really wouldn't be surprised if this game on last was related to the fact that both Monaghan and Armagh have a media ban in place.

RTE engaging in a bit of the oul tit-for-tat.

jethro081

Boom__Boom wrote: »

I really wouldn't be surprised if this game on last was related to the fact that both Monaghan and Armagh have a media ban in place.

RTE engaging in a bit of the oul tit-for-tat.

To be honest, i think there is a fairly general tone of disrespect toward the ulster championship. Look at the sunday game facebook page for example. you have to go a long way back to find a mention of an ulster team. When they do cover ulster games it's generally to disparage them. Just cos a team isn't kicking diagonal balls all fcuking day doesn't mean they are bad to watch.

I accept this may come across as paranoid or whatever, but i look damn well in a tinfoil hat, so i'm keeping it. :pac:

rebel girl 15

Delighted - able to watch it live in the UK on the RTE website, didn't think I could!

Nidgeweasel

rebel girl 15 wrote: »

Delighted - able to watch it live in the UK on the RTE website, didn't think I could!

But I don't think you can watch it after! Drives me mad when I'm in the UK, like now.

rebel girl 15

Nidgeweasel wrote: »

But I don't think you can watch it after! Drives me mad when I'm in the UK, like now.

Have you got an Irish phone? I'm with a network that gives me free data in the UK, so I can tether my Irish phone to my laptop and watch it via the RTE player, because it is an Irish number