Anyone subscribe to this? The website is fairly poor but it seems like you can't watch many games, but does have the facility to watch old All Ireland Finals which i'd be interested in.
As well as cameras do those companies provide commentators and analysts? And are the cameras of broadcast quality?
On June 02 there will be 16 football matches. Which is a lot to get a good audience for all the games. People watch non sport on TV as well or go shopping. Later on in the year when there is no county GAA, will those companies be showing club games?
Here's an example of how that one would work:
Consider a hardcore and dedicated GAA person who puts in many hours each week for club and/or county as player, coach or administrator. They look at the fixtures before booking a holiday at all, and choose a week when their own county won't be playing, so that they can actually attend all their own county's matches. While abroad, they'd like to see some of the other games that are actually taking place that weekend. They'd have to pay to do so.
Yet some yahoo sitting at home, who never gets off his arse to actually go to a match and who wouldn't even buy a club lotto ticket, gets to watch every match for free.
Not such a good idea, is it?
The service needs to be much more comprehensive. My SIL says many soccer and rugby clubs have installed cameras. Sign up is €4K and €1.5K/year. I think all League of Ireland soccer are streamed. This GAAGO service is just half cock. Are GAA, as per Jarlath Burns blaming RTE and their sole broadcaster? He was passing blame around to everyone incl politicians this morning. A comprehensive service and then people will pay.
And the desire to blame RTE for everything.
RTE 2 had the Munster Connacht rugby on until 19:30. In fact between 15:15 and 19:30 it was all sport related content. RTE 1 were showing Eurovision content in prepartion for the contest at 20:00. TG4 had Leinster v Ospreys rugby from 19:15. I can't see where it could have been fitted in.
You may as well be talking to the wall.
People just don't want to understand the reality of the situation because their desire to see the game for free trumps everything else.
Agree with this, the biggest games need to be FTA.
But RTE only have the rights to broadcast two games at the weekend and they are also obliged to show all football provincial finals.
That's not their fault, that's how the GAA have structured the rights.
So how do they show Cork v Limerick and the two football games?
Only a handful that I’m aware of in Dublin (obviously there are more that I’m not aware of). It’s mostly individuals who are buying the GAAGO subscription.
Saturday just gone is a perfect example of how GAA Go should work.
3 main games on. One huge one plus two others.
Everyone catered for but the big game gets huge exposure and hurling is the winner.
How many places are actually subscribing to this. Here in Waterford I didn't see any pubs with it.
I've payed for individual matches from time to time (especially on holidays) No major issue with this.
Im both gutted and delighted to only find out this weekend that GAAGO has been on my dodgy box all along.
I would generally only seek out hurling from semi finals onwards as I'm primarily a football man but with new dodgy box discovery I watched Cork and Limerick on sat.
It was one of the greatest games I've seen,to think it was hidden from a lot of older people,bad Internet etc is not right,nobody can tell me it is.
Why can't they charge for the games when the people are living abroad or on holidays abroad?
Make it free for the people living here.
Just for information, for you and others here too:
A key point Burns made is that if wasn't for GAA GO, these matches wouldn't be shown anywhere at all. Seems to me that people often overlook this in their rush to just criticise and expect everything to be on free to air.
The loss of revenue to illegal streaming for the GAA should be a worry.
In a far smaller market than something like English soccer, so people getting the service and not paying the legal rights holders is a much bigger problem.
Be hey, sure who's affected in the long run only your local GAA club.
Pubs are not taking it up.
I was in Cork City centre the day of the Cork v Waterford game. Went into 4 pubs at the time of the game, none showing it.
It costs pubs a fortune to pay for Sky and BT as it is.
But what's the alternative?
There has not been a second FTA provider since pre 2014.
For the latest rights sale Sky pulled out, Virgin Media, a potential FTA provider, were not suitable it seems, and I don't know what TG4's take on it was.
So they ended up using GAA Go which prior to that was only available outside of Ireland.
If people have an issue with Cork v Limerick on GAA Go then they need to talk to their local club and ask them to submit one or both of the following at the next Congress.
1. The obligation to broadcast all four provincial football finals FTA be removed.
2. The schedule take into account potential clashes between provincial football finals and "big" Munster hurling championship games.
It's early on in the gradual changeover to streaming. At the end of which there will be no terrestrial transmitters, and no satellite broadcasts. It a bit away yet, but it is no harm to get in early on the system. But they will have to find a way to stop the foreign criminal gangs stealing the content.
Revenues are at around €2.5mn - which is chunky enough to be fair.
My best guess is that most of this is pubs (including club bars). Its €300 per annum for a commercial premises; not a stretch at all to guess around 800 or so pubs would take it. I would say very few households take it up.
The actual profits are not large - half a million, and thats split 50:50 between RTE and GAA.
I think RTE does very well out of it, as it passes on a lot of operating costs to this new entity.
But for the GAA- the income is not large at all. €250k will not go very far in building Centres of Excellence….. I really dont know why they'd continue with it given the negative publicity and genuinely negative impact from a games promotion POV.
GAAGO is a great product if used correctly.
For instance, being able to watch the last 15 minutes of Carlow - Kilkenny on Saturday was brilliant. Disappointing to hear it being noted by the president that the Munster games are behind a paywall as a money spinner essentially.
They do seem to pay a dividend but half that is going to RTÉ.
In a nutshell he said that of their €150 million turnover approximately 83% of that is returned to the membership.
Did Burns just state that the Munster championship paywall on GAAGO is to pay for stadiums and centres of excellence from Antrim to Kildare… So not only is hurling not being showcased to the widest possible audience and future generations, the money it generates is being used for football focused counties' stadia and centres of excellence…
Wait, just wait, I just want to see what the poster is on about first.
Ah Jaysus. Another round of "GaaGo is nothing to do with RTE" incoming…
What is the context here?
What have RTE done now?
Seems like this is the most recent thread on GAAGO.
I wouldnt say this is the biggest disaster to befall RTE in recent years 😅 but at a time when its public reputation is couldnt be any lower, you would think they'd have the cop on not to go looking for more trouble.
Worth remembering also that the company address of GAAGO is Croke Park Stadium, Jones Road, Dublin 2.
It's never going to happen.
GAA are never going to sell individual provincial packages.
Regardless of what some people think many GAA fans outside of the provinces themselves don't real care that much for the Munster Hurling Championship or the Ulster Football Championship, certainly not enough to pay for it separately from the rest of their GAA.
And at the end of the day what difference would it make.
It would still be expensive to buy as a consumer (because it would be expensive to produce) plus it would be online and all the 79 year olds who love their hurling but live on the side of a mountain and can't get Internet would not be able to watch it.
It was on Twitter and I've seen it on a few online newspapers but it was removed since. So, maybe, they jumped the gun on an official launch or something... maybe RTE/TG4 lost their **** when they saw it and started ringing headquarters?
Clubber announce three-year media deal with Munster GAA to show Tipperary matches - Tipperary Live
This is the preseason schedule:
Where did you see that from Clubber? I've signed up but can't see a schedule, or what they will show.
Hopefully, in the future, Clubber will get the Senior Munster Hurling championship and that'll be that for the GAAGO/RTE.
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