Live TV games

BonnieSituation wrote:

Is it even on iPlayer at least?

No, it isn't.

Coillte_Bhoy wrote:

Are you serious?

Aye.

GAA Beo wrote: »

Just deferred coverage on BBC2NI again. I couldn't get a stream up earlier, I'm too ill to attend. A shame that only the 6 counties could get the streams from BBC iPlayer. Was impossible to get one and I'm from Ulster and not far away.

Yeah. I saw it was deferred.

An Armagh friend of mine was in Mayo for the weekend with his better half and he managed to get a VPN working for it.

BBC's coverage is as pathetic as always. I mean showing highlights is one thing, but having deferred coverage means they have all the trappings of live coverage without the "live" aspect.

And priority of coverage will always go to "all six county" games generally it seems.

Anyway, guess we'll have to suck up the deferred coverage.

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On the ticket price thing, I paid £17 for the stand today but that was student price. I couldn't believe the full prices when I saw them during the week. It did make me think twice about heading to it and there was only a consideration of me and the missus. There was a whole family from Armagh behind me today and they were paying upwards of £70. Ridiculous for a first round Ulster game. But tbh, even with reduced prices I couldn't see it being a much bigger crowd today.

Both teams are division 3 (I know I know, but you get me), so it's not shocking. Different story with Healy Park tomorrow being sold out as well with the following SF between them and Fermanagh.

Tickets for Páirc Esler next week will be too expensive no matter what they charge.

GAA Beo wrote: »

Sky would take more. Depending on the agreement/price, I've no doubt BBCNI, Eir Sport and TG4 would take games if the circumstances were right. I wonder how their GAA budgets compares with RTE, not like RTE spend a massive amount throughout the year or do anything barring the same tired Sunday Game and 1-2 games for 3 months of the year.

Have a look at TG4's financials. There's no way on earth they could afford to pay market price for live championship games.

Eir Sport didn't bid for the rights to the championship when the rights came up. Eir already sponsor the football championship so they're probably happy enough.

BBCNI lost out under the exclusivity arrangements when Sky came on board.

If any of the companies you have mentioned wanted to show extra games they had the opportunity and didn't take it.

howiya wrote: »

Have a look at TG4's financials. There's no way on earth they could afford to pay market price for live championship games.

Eir Sport didn't bid for the rights to the championship when the rights came up. Eir already sponsor the football championship so they're probably happy enough.

BBCNI lost out under the exclusivity arrangements when Sky came on board.

If any of the companies you have mentioned wanted to show extra games they had the opportunity and didn't take it.

One very easy solution to that. Increase their budget. Slash the ridiculous salaries that most of RTE are on & back up the dump truck to TG4 with the dosh. The News is always going to be the bloody news. The Late Late is always going to be a pale reflection of what it once was. Ray D'Arcy, the voice of a nation? Spare me !

We the taxpayer/idiot license payer, shouldn't be handing over millions every year to people who perform a fairly limited function & don't perform it all that well. If they don't like it, too bad.

This isn't the UK or the USA. It's not like there is a vast, unchartered media landscape out there & RTE have to get out the golden handcuffs to make sure their "stars" aren't ever tempted to go off & explore it. The world didn't shift on its axis when Pat Kenny headed off to Newstalk, or Ian Dempsey to Today FM. I think I can survive the grief, if a few more of them depart for pastures new.

TG4 are a national treasure & they should have the respect - and the funding - that goes with it.

Ok. Rant over. Sorry.

Four good games today. I suppose they can't cover them all. Left down for lift to Wexford so it's the wireless!

Jaysus. Niall Moran is a doppleganger for Wallace (& Gromit).

So here's the suss with the BBC and the like:

The Irish Times wrote:

At present, BBCNI are locked into an arrangement with RTÉ whereby they pay them for rights, while also providing the live camera feed for Ulster matches.

Last year, RTÉ screened seven Ulster championship games, with six in 2016 and five in 2015. With the advent of the condensed championship season, RTÉ have decided a number of games in the Munster and Leinster hurling Championships may be a more attractive proposition.

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.

This is only the second year of a five-year rights arrangement, with BBCNI appearing to be squeezed out by the new championship structures in football and hurling.

Ulster Council spokesman Michael Geoghegan stated, “There are negotiations going on between BBC and RTÉ as to what they are actually going to show. I know RTÉ are only going to be showing two games in Ulster. It’s really a matter between them as to what they are going to show and it is still ongoing.”

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

I have questions about this.

Where has this obsession for having every game on TV ceom from?

I seen quite a lot of people complaining that the New York and Letriem wasn't on TV. New York have been playing in the championship for 20 years ans their games have never been on TV. Why now is it an issue?

That game and the Laois Wexford game are another example. People saying after the fact that they should have been on TV when they knew he games were good. Yet had the Laois Wexford game been poor the same people would be complaining.