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.
On the contrary, RTE, through their joint venture with the GAA, were very interested in acquiring the rights to what would have been "the Sky matches"
Had GAAGo not existed I would be highly surprised if RTE didn't pick it, and the other sky matches, up. They may have instead decided to not show some of the dead rubber games
I honestly don't know why you find that hard to believe. Who would have shown that Limerick v Cork match, if it hadn't been for GAA GO?
No broadcaster - including RTE - properly expressed an interest in acquiring the rights to what would have been "the Sky matches" when the Sky deal ended, and the GAA can't force any broadcaster to show any match. That left them in a position where they had to come up with an alternative solution. They looked at the streaming model which was proving successful in many counties for their club matches, and came up with something similar. The only "mistake" (if you see it that way) was to enter into partnership with RTE rather than somebody else to do so, because of the questions that have arisen since then.
But my question to you remains the same - who do you think would have shown Limerick v Cork, if GAA GO didn't exist?
P.S. - by the way, funny how the detractors criticise the GAA from both sides. Some say they're rich enough that they should be able to give away broadcasting right for free if no TV station is willing to pay the asking price. Then you come along and say that they're broke and desperate for money. It can't be both!
Interesting quote earlier this year from GAA president Jarlath Burns
"If you try to imagine a world without GAAGO, the rest of these games just would not be broadcast because we only have one broadcast partner."
So Limerick V Cork in the Munster Championship Hurling wouldn't have been shown in a world without GAAGO… I find that hard to believe. Fact is the GAA are broke and need to get the money from somewhere, otherwise GAAGO would not incur a subscription cost
But that was already the case when Sky first obtained rights to show GAA matches - lots of people already had Sky packages then too, but all the uproar was over "the poor old people who don't have Sky and who can't afford it".
Then the games moved to GAA GO and it was all about "the poor old people who don't have broadband and who shouldn't have to pay for it just to then be able to pay extra to watch a GAA match".
Even if GAA GO showed all its matches online for free, you'd still have complaints about it.
Some won't be happy unless every match is shown on free-to-air TV. That remains unlikely to happen, unless Virgin Media becomes willing to do some broadcasting work itself, or TG4 ponies up more money than anybody thinks they have.
The only commitment here is to retender the rights and the GAA are being clear the only reason they are doing it is because the CCPC are making them.
GAAGO are allowed to bid and the RTE article this morning said they were expected to submit one.
Sky’s main issue is that GAA no longer does what it was supposed to for them - keep subs active through the summer. The secondary TV partner is done by the end of June instead of the August bank holiday like was the case before the start of the Championships were brought forward.
VMTV huffed and puffed (mainly because they are not ones to miss an opportunity to get a dig at RTE in) but their interest is mainly in deals which do not involve them having to act as host broadcaster, and they have been upfront about that.
TG4 may well be interested. As might Premier Sports.
But loads of people already have Sky packages so not sure there would be any increase for most people.
The last time Sky had rights they were shared with GAAGo in the UK, quite the disaster in many ways as people now had to take out 2 separate subscriptions
Sky would probably want exclusive rights to games and BBC currently show a lot of Ulster games. What was the story the last time Sky had rights had BBC games?
Can't see Sky going for it. If I remember correctly the viewing figures on Sky were very poor previously.
The idea of Amazon covering a few games is interesting. You could get prime for a month for less than one GAAGo game. The problem is though that you don't want the games all over the place.
You could regularly find a Sky Sports code on Bargain Alerts for €15 a month. If you bought this in June/July then not only would you get every sky exclusive game there was also Golf tournaments, the end of the PL soccer season, rugby July internationals. Overall a much better deal than the current GAAGo season pass
In 2020 I remember Sky put the GAA on Sky Sports Mix, free to view for anybody with a regular Sky TV package. If sky want the rights again, I say bring it
Obviously I'd prefer to see TV3 or TG4 get it
Sky wasn't so bad when they had the 24 hour pass on NowTV. Then you didn't need a dish and you could often get two games for the €10 fee.
GaaGo could then cover more games, there were many games with no coverage whatsoever. There should exist an annual pass with additional coverage of games, not so much to make a load of money as to serve the GAA community.
Also GAAGo fail the overseas audience from this time of year on. There will be club games on TG4 and RTÉ in the autumn, these are geoblocked, yet GAAGo do not make them available. Who thought that was a good idea? Either remove the geoblock or put them on GAAGo.
From what I can remember last time Sky were interested in extending the deal and wanted to show more matches but they were looking for exclusivity of throw in times, which the GAA were understandable unwilling to concede. If they can find a compromise we could well see the games back on Sky. And just wait for the outrage if that happens
Exactly
Be careful what you wish for.
It's going to be hilarious when it goes back to Sky Sports and the whole thing quadruples in price from what GAAGO costs.
The rights for the games currently on GAA Go are going back out to tender.
It will be interesting to see if Virgin Media or TG4 put in serious bids.
They can review it all they like there will always be complaints unless its scrapped. Rumoured annual 50 mill rte bailout now on top of the license fee / broadcast fee isnt going to help matters.
https://connachttribune.ie/calls-for-review-of-gaago-following-galway-dublin-thriller/
It's getting seriously heated now. Anne Rabbitte has the GAA in her crosshairs
You make it sound as if the government was trying to control the price of Brennan's bread. GAAGo is jointly owned by RTÉ, a semi state organisation currently in a state of chaos, which (like the GAA during Covid) will probably need a bailout in the near future. Bloody sure the government should be offering an opinion. Time to demand something less than contempt for the public.
Hard to listen to Harris with his populist yapping about the GAA and grassroots. Whats his angle? Perhaps deflection away from RTE before the license fee rebrand.
I see Harris sticking his oar in again on the GAAGo issue.
Is there any other issue where the government has been so vocal insisting that an organisation should be giving its product away for less than its market value?
You try another mobile browser? Might be worth a shot. I flip over to Brave sometimes when Chrome has trouble with something. I also have Firefox, MS Edge and the stock browser (Mi Browser) installed.
Iv'e done all that numerous times but no joy. I can watch on browser alright but cant get it to go full screen
Is it an error connecting issue? I'd that recently and a fresh reinstall and cleared all cache & data. Worked then.
Just log into the GaaGo website on web browser on device if stuck.
Still having the same issue, been back and forth to support for weeks and no resolution. Wasnt too bothered as tv app works fine but will be at an event today and would like to keep an eye on the games. Anyone else having issues?
But to the best of my knowledge, it's outsourced by RTE - i.e. RTE are still responsible for arranging it?
RTE don't provide OB infrastructure. Its been outsourced for years.
The reason Sky will be showing simultaneous games is because the right holder (EPL/EFL) has allowed them.
In the EPL case it's part of the new deal that all Sunday games can be broadcast, this is one of a few measures in the deal to counteract illegal streaming.
Sky and TNT will still have the ability to determine the KO times of the games they broadcast.
That was the sticking point with the GAA, the broadcaster picking which games could start at which times.
An awkward demand from Sky no doubt. But I think they've undermined their own argument a bit though, since as regards to English football they'll be showing simultaneous games in the lower leagues next season. Ditto the Premier League from 2025.
Have previously stated but maybe you missed it - large part of the reason Sky didn't renew their last deal was that they wanted exclusivity over throw-in times, similar to what they have for their soccer coverage in England. Basically means that if they were showing a hurling or football championship match at 2 p.m. on a Sunday, no other match could be on at the same time. Only exception would be for the final round group games, which by rule have to be played at the same time (again, similar to the last day of the Premier League in England).
Unless Sky back down on that demand, highly unlikely they'll ever show GAA matches again, because I simply can't see the GAA allowing them that sort of exclusivity.
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