TV Coverage

ArmaniJeanss

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122037545#Comment_122037545

Premier League weekends comprise unique slots for Sky and TNT. There can be some unavoidable overlap in re-arranged mid-week games, but its a rarity.

You are wrong about NFL. Each network has it's own unique slot, so whilst they might show a different game for a local market they won't be up against a game on a rival network. So say CBS will have the big 1pm Sunday slate, Fox the late 5pm kick-offs, NBC the prime time 8pm Sunday games, Amazon the Thursdays etc.

I don't know much about NBA broadcasting, but a quick glance at the playoff schedule suggests unique slots - e.g., tomorrow ESPN have games at 1pm, 3.30 and 6pm, whilst ABC have a prime-time game 8.30. A similar spread on Sunday but different broadcasters. https://www.nba.com/news/2024-nba-playoffs-schedule

Red Silurian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122037777#Comment_122037777

In the regular NBA season there's 15 games per round. There's often crossover and all games available on the app.

Of the 10 Premier League games every weekend 5-6 are usually on the 3pm Saturday slot, all get broadcast, maybe not in England or Ireland but internationally they can all be picked up. Also take for example last season when the final 3 rounds were 3pm sunday kickoffs

Fr Tod Umptious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122037817#Comment_122037817

The 5 or 6 games at 3pm are not available in the primary market, i.e the UK.

It doesn't matter if they are available in India, China or the US.

They are not the primary markets for the game.

Having all games available in places like India, China or the US is used to try and grow the market, they don't need to do that in the UK.

In the US with NBA, MLB etc, you will get the games of your local team on local TV (some free, some subscription) and also some other games on network TV in different timeslots.

But if you want to watch out of market games you will have to pay for a subscription and you won't be able to watch your local team on it.

ArmaniJeanss

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122037817#Comment_122037817

Meh, if you are really going to go down the path of international broadcasters of the EPL then I'm out.

Clearly in the case of the GAA we are talking about host country broadcasters - and that is the EPL comparison I'm making. Sky/TNT/Amazon get unique slots where they are not clashing with a rival broadcaster. The final weekend is an anomaly, the only time they have a pre-scheduled clash. (Which interestingly won't be the case from 2025/26 when Week 38 will be one broadcaster only).

As said I don't follow NBA so don't know the regular season set-up. But why do they have these unique slots for the play-offs then? Surely every match should be at prime-time on rival networks - it wouldn't affect overall audiences at all as according to you 'each game will only ever attract 2 set of supporters'.

theoneeyedman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122037483#Comment_122037483

Are all of the URC games on live, not to my knowledge? Are there games on St the same time? Either way, the URC is very much a secondary competition, more like an FBD or Walsh cup in GAA terms behind the Nations and Heineken Cups.

Use the Rugby analogy, would BBC sign up for 6 nations if Itv were allowed to show games at the same time, would they hell. They are somewhat different in that they have 3 games per weekend for a 2 month period, and not a pretty much full 6 month calander with 50 odd teams over maybe a dozen or so competitions, including the 2 main championships.

Red Silurian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122040152#Comment_122040152

All Munster, Leinster and Connacht games are free to air but for arguments sake we take the free to air aspect away. Because the GAA is also only partly free to air

Every game from the URC and Champions Cup in rugby is televised and in both competitions there is regularly multiple kick-offs at certain times. At international level the November and July series regularly have the same kick-off times also

theoneeyedman

They're bit centrally contracted games afaik. They are effectively friendly games, and afaik the tv deals are negotiated independently by the unions, so the irfu will own and sell the rights to the games here, the QEUrbe games in Cardiff etc. If anything they are in competition, and they still generally coordinate the KO times.

It's generally not the done thing, and broadcasters don't generally work that way. Narrow casting and streaming maybe different. The Loi had rovers and Derry on TV tonight and several other games on at the same time, but they weren't broadcast in competition with rivers and Derry.

theoneeyedman

Why bring an analyst from Tyrone to Ennis for a game in Roscommon??.

Nuts.

keeponhurling

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122046192#Comment_122046192

LOL, yes we ask this same type of question every year !

theoneeyedman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122048289#Comment_122048289

Like, they have all the OB stuff in Roscommon anyway, the video feeds and all in the van..... Sean only does general, banal clichés anyway, so he doesn't need anything too exciting ('Oh Roscommon, Need a big performance from Enda Smith...... a few scoring forwards,... Lack of defensive system..... Yadayada')