Live TV games

Coillte_Bhoy

Anyone know the schedule today for TG4?

OldMrBrennan83

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Xenophile

The Faithful County's Allianz Hurling League quarter-final clash against Kilkenny at Bord na Mona, O’Connor Park in Tullamore was called off this morning after a pitch inspection.
Offaly's Division 3 football meeting with Sligo, slated for the same venue, is also gone.
Both matches will be played tomorrow, Bank Holiday Monday, instead.
Dublin's hurling quarter against Tipperary is off, with the Parnell Park turf under a frAnd Wexford's quarter-final collision with Galway at Inovate Wexford Park has not passed a pitch inspection. It's hoped that one will also be played tomorrow at 2pm, though another pitch inspection will take place this evening before a final decision is made.
The Westmeath v Carlow Division 2A hurling final is gone and is rescheduled for tomorrow, 2pm throw-in.
Louth's Division 2 football showdown with neighbours Meath at the Gaelic Grounds is off, as is Down's Pairc Esler clash with Tipp in the same division.
In Division 4, Waterford's tussle with Leitrim at Fraher Field and Wicklow's Aughrim meeting with Limerick are wiped.
The All-Ireland Club Camogie Championships finals at Croke Park have been called off. Athenry were due to take on Johnstownbridge in the intermediate game at 1.30pm, while Sarsfields were up against Slaughtneil at 3.30pm in the senior decider.
Croker does have undersoil heating but as conditions around the ground continued to deteriorate, the decision was made to call them off.
Gaelic games are not the only sports unsettled by the unseasonal weather. esh blanket of the white stuff and will throw in at 3pm tomorrow.

Xenophile

Limerick V Clare called off.

Xenophile

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Called off.

OldMrBrennan83

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Are they not gonna show any of the div 1 football? Thats all going ahead at 2pm isnt it?

Bonniedog

Stuck with RTE radio. No doubt they will spend whole afternoon talking about rugby.

KevIRL

Are tg4 showing any of the two games on today?

OldMrBrennan83

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KevIRL

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Just seen they confirmed this on Twitter. Thought they might have gone with Off v KK as well, would have been a nice double header to occupy a lazy bank holiday

OldMrBrennan83

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KevIRL

Are tg4 showing Wexford v Galway as well as the club final replay today?

zetecescort

http://www.tg4.ie/en/live-sport/gaa-beo/

enoughtaken

KevIRL wrote: »

Are tg4 showing Wexford v Galway as well as the club final replay today?

yes. wexford v galway at 3 , followed by club game at 5:30  dublin v tipp tomorrow at 1

nice_guy80

should be showing Westmeath v Carlow final

OldMrBrennan83

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nice_guy80

finally showing a Division 2 football match
good open attacking football

zetecescort

TG4 showing games from county championships this year beginning with the Dublin SFC this weekend

Saturday 14.04

Dublin Senior Club Football Championship
•Ballymun Kickhams v St. Brigids – Live on TG4 @ 3.35pm
•Kilmacud Crokes v Ballyboden St. Endas – Live on TG4 @ 5.30pm

Brian017

Given the new format in, both, hurling and football and have more games than normal how is the TV deals with RTE and Sky working this year?

munchkin_utd

Brian017 wrote: »

Given the new format in, both, hurling and football and have more games than normal how is the TV deals with RTE and Sky working this year?

From clarification today from Tom Ryan, in a word, not unsurprisingly, no.

Ryan stressed that the terms of the controversial five-year broadcast deal with Sky Sports would remain in place for the duration and indicated that the addition of extra Championship games in football and hurling would not lead to an increase in the number of games that the pay-per-view channel, or RTE for that matter, would cover, keeping it at the present level of 45 live games.

"We’re going to stick with the existing structure of things. We’re happy with how the arrangement has worked up to now and we’re not looking at changing the nuts and bolts of the arrangement until that comes up for renewal," he said.

https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/new-director-general-confirms-there-wont-be-additional-games-shown-on-tv-despite-new-championship-structures-36816021.html

It'll be interesting though to see what actual games are picked and will the broadcasters choose, or be allowed, to hoard games slots for round robin hurling and football games involving all ireland contenders to the detriment of then having less provincial and qualifier games involving counties down the divisions.

howiya

munchkin_utd wrote: »

From clarification today from Tom Ryan, in a word, not unsurprisingly, no.

Agree it's not surprising. Ties in with the GAA's desire to increase attendances at matches.

Also would devalue future rights auctions if the GAA said to RTE and Sky here's a few extra matches for free. Replays have appeared on tv though so I wonder what clauses are invoked there. Is there a fee for broadcasting it? You'd have to imagine there would be given the ad revenue RTE make from The Sunday Game Live.

Would have made much more sense to change the competition structures in the same year as a tv deal year but that would require remarkable foresight and potentially manipulating democracy at congress.

zetecescort

Sunday 22.04

Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
•Na Piarsaigh v Doon – Live on TG4 @ 1.45pm

Galway Senior Hurling Championship
•Castlegar v Liam Mellows – Deferred on TG4 @ 3.40pm

kala85

Is there a schedule for live gaa games for this summer available yet.

munchkin_utd

kala85 wrote: »

Is there a schedule for live gaa games for this summer available yet.

normally comes out annoyingly late, just before the station in question is showing their first TV game.
If you're lucky it might be on GAA go a little before the announcement

in the past you could nearly guess it, as the 7pm Saturday plus 2pm/ 4pm throw ins stood out, but the schedule is littered with possible TV matches so its now harder to make a guess.

Brian017

kala85 wrote: »

Is there a schedule for live gaa games for this summer available yet.

No, we only know the first Sunday Game of the season since Michael announced them on the final League Sunday. Kilkenny/Dublin and Mayo/Galway

howiya

There’s also a Tipperary hurling match on TV according to Liam Kearns. The weekend that the winners of Tipperary v Waterford were originally supposed to play Cork in the football. Football match changed because the hurling couldn’t be moved as it is on tv.

So the schedule is known but as someone else said it’s annoying not published until really late

howiya

zetecescort wrote: »

Sunday 22.04

Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
•Na Piarsaigh v Doon – Live on TG4 @ 1.45pm

Galway Senior Hurling Championship
•Castlegar v Liam Mellows – Deferred on TG4 @ 3.40pm

Eir Sport have a live doubleheader of Limerick Senior Hurling Championship on Saturday too

Coillte_Bhoy

munchkin_utd wrote: »

From clarification today from Tom Ryan, in a word, not unsurprisingly, no.


https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/new-director-general-confirms-there-wont-be-additional-games-shown-on-tv-despite-new-championship-structures-36816021.html

It'll be interesting though to see what actual games are picked and will the broadcasters choose, or be allowed, to hoard games slots for round robin hurling and football games involving all ireland contenders to the detriment of then having less provincial and qualifier games involving counties down the divisions.

The Super 8 means there will be 8 more games at that stage of the cship and im guessing most of these will be live so im guessing less early rounds televised, which is good imo

Boom__Boom

Article here on the current state of play.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/we-still-dont-know-where-the-cameras-will-be-rolling-469687.html

Over the next few weeks the various channels will "launch/announce" their schedules and all of the 4 provincial councils will "launch" their provincial championships. There will probably be an overall GAA launch of the championship as well. Marketing overkill imo.

From what I can see, there is an increase in the number of SFC games from 60 to 68 while the SHC increases from 23 to 29, so an overall increase from 83 to 97 between the two championships or an overall increase of 16 games, of which only 45 will be televised.
[This is the minimum number, assuming no replays. (There was 3 replays last year in the football and none in the hurling)]

The qualifiers will fade even more into limbo territory without media coverage. The one hope is online streaming here, but this will probably be GAAGo exclusive.

However, the GAA look set to make more of their GAAGo relationship with RTÉ by streaming games which are not televised live. In January, McKenna revealed as much: “We’ll probably look at running some of them on GAAGo so we’ll be able to stream games for the first time, on our own service. That’ll be a new development we’re working on. I think the new Championship format is going to be very, very positive.

“RTÉ are our joint partners there (with GAAGo), and we want to make sure people get to see the game. It’s our view that this is the best way of doing it (game streaming).”

It’s an exciting venture, which will undoubtedly need a bedding-in period, but it makes a lot of sense for the GAA to take further steps towards developing their own channel. The changing market is something McKenna is acutely aware of.

OldMrBrennan83

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munchkin_utd

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for the word "get", substitute "pays €140 a year for" (or €156 if you do it in instalments).

anyhow, it looks like BBC are to have the number of Ulster Championship games slashed, and it looks like RTE might even block them showing delayed games.
As a background, BBC can only show games if RTE shows them simultaneously, and RTE are opting for hurling games in the new round robin Munster and Leinster championships rather than Ulster Football.

Negotiations are reported to be ongoing but it is highly likely the only games available to watch on BBCNI will be one Ulster semi-final and the final, a huge drop from previous years when it was the norm for seven out of eight games to be shown live on BBCNI.

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/bbc-ni-to-lose-most-of-their-ulster-championship-games-1.3471757?mode=amp

Bonniedog

Not hard to see why RTE would prefer to show Munster hurling games than any of the Ulster games apart from three likely encounters involving Tyrone. Monaghan and Donegal.

Leinster games between Cats, Galway and Wexford should be good, and for dramatic value the one between Dublin and Offaly. Hurling overall should make for good entertainment this year.

nice_guy80

4 championship games in 5 weeks is tough for amateur players

bruschi

nice_guy80 wrote: »

4 championship games in 5 weeks is tough for amateur players

Wexford have the first round bye and Offaly have the last round bye, so 4 games in 4 weeks for those 2.

aidan24326

nice_guy80 wrote: »

4 championship games in 5 weeks is tough for amateur players

Yes it doesn't give very much time for players to recover from knocks and minor injuries, and makes squad depth all the more important as you'd have to be very lucky to keep all players fit week after week when recovery time is so short.

munchkin_utd

Cavan v Donegal is on bbc 2 NI from 7 to 8.30 pm according to the radio times.
http://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/gjfqp2/the-championship--donegal-v-cavan/

On gaago for folks abroad, for a tenner a game, its listed and so is the Tyrone v Monaghan game the next week, also 7pm deferred so seems to be a pattern that bbc NI will have the ulster games deferred. No confirmation on their website yet

Kristopherus

kala85 wrote: »

Is there a schedule for live gaa games for this summer available yet.

Here you go:): https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2018/0503/960150-here-are-the-31-gaa-championship-games-live-on-rte-tv/

kala85

Thanks.

Any word on skys schedule. Maybe we could combine both schedules and put them as a sticky here.

howiya

kala85 wrote: »

Thanks.

Any word on skys schedule. Maybe we could combine both schedules and put them as a sticky here.

Sky list out on Tuesday according to the Examiner's John Fogarty

munchkin_utd

BBC just announced ......

Fermanagh's game against Armagh on Saturday, 19 May and the Down v Antrim game on 26 May will both be shown live on the BBC iPlayer.

The first semi-final on 3 June and the Ulster final three weeks later will be live on BBC Two Northern Ireland.

There will be full deferred coverage of the four other ties.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/gaelic-games/44006107?ns_linkname=northern_ireland&ns_campaign=the_bbc_championship&ns_source=facebook&ns_mchannel=social

Essentially UK only coverage then so of those first 2 games.

Coillte_Bhoy

So it looks like Sky will have coverage of the final round in the Super 8's?

Brian017

Sky 2018 GAA Championship Fixtures:

Exclusive to Sky

Saturday, 2 June

5pm Wexford v Galway (LSHC)

7pm Cork v Limerick (MSHC)

Saturday, 9 June

7pm Kilkenny v Wexford (LSHC)

7pm Galway v Dublin (LSHC)

Saturday, 23 June

5pm Football Rd 2 Qualifier

Saturday, 30 June

5pm Football Rd 3 Qualifier

7pm Football Rd 3 Qualifier

Saturday, 7 July

5pm Football Rd 4 Qualifier

7pm Football Rd 4 Qualifier

Saturday, 14 July

5pm AISFC Quarter Final, Rd 1

Saturday, 21 July

5pm AISFC Quarter Final, Rd 2

7pm AISFC Quarter Final, Rd 2

Saturday, 4 August

7pm AISFC Quarter Final, Rd 3

7pm AISFC Quarter Final, Rd 3

Semi Final & Final

Saturday 28, July

5.00pm All Ireland Hurling Semi Final

Sunday, 29 July

3.30pm All Ireland Hurling Semi Final

Saturday, 11 August

5.00pm All Ireland Football Semi Final

Sunday, 12 August

3.30pm All Ireland Football Semi Final

Sunday, 19 August

3.30pm All Ireland Hurling Final

Sunday, 2 September

3.30pm All Ireland Football Final


10 exclusive football games and 4 in the hurling

lertsnim

munchkin_utd wrote: »

BBC just announced ......


https://www.bbc.com/sport/gaelic-games/44006107?ns_linkname=northern_ireland&ns_campaign=the_bbc_championship&ns_source=facebook&ns_mchannel=social

Essentially UK only coverage then so of those first 2 games.

It's a pity that they are not allowed show all of them live on television. The BBC iPlayer is easy enough to access so no big deal at the end of the day.

OldMrBrennan83

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munchkin_utd

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indeed.
Unblocking methods work really well right until the moment that they just dont work any more!

RTE ratcheted up their blocking mechanisms, TG4 similarily, and the british channels were very lax in comparison.
If they are now getting more strict then its not really surprising.

lertsnim

I was watching the snooker on the iPlayer last night.

EdEd

lertsnim wrote: »

I was watching the snooker on the iPlayer last night.

How did you manage that then

Having spent the last half an hour googling I will try later when i get home from work.

dr.kenneth noisewater

Sunday 13th May - RTE

LHC Dublin V Kilkenny 2PM
CFC Mayo V Galway 4PM

Saturday 19th May - BBC iPlayer
UFC Fermanagh V Antrim 7PM

Sunday 20th May - RTE
MHC Limerick V Tipp 2PM
MHC Cork V Clare 4PM

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

BBC2 NI will be showing deferred coverage of Donegal v Cavan on Sunday at 7pm.