Live TV games

cms88 wrote: »

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.

The clamour isn't that people want EVERY GAME on TV is that the choices are perplexing.

Tyrone v Monaghan should be on TV. Football fans want to watch this.

It's probably likely to be more absorbing than Clare v Cork.
The only saving grace is the amount of football that we'll get from the Super 8s. So we just have to wait.

Vunderground wrote: »

I would imagine the real reason they aren't on is because not many people want to watch them. Is that too simple?

No

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

I'd prefer it as well but I think it's pretty marginal either way. If C v C wasn't on there'd be people making a compelling case as to why it should be. Your perfect set of 31 TV games would include some terribly bad choices in someone elses opinion.

From a football pov I'd be more worried about say missing out on a potential Mayo v Tyrone or suchlike first round qualifier, not sure what flexibility there is for swapsies as the qualifiers progress.

During this conversation yesterday about TV games this was my one concern about R1 qualifiers.

mickmackey1 wrote: »

The truth hurts.

The truth? I happen to think you're talking ballix. So you'll be grand.

dxhound2005 wrote: »

This won't be of any help to most people but just for information. Some games which are not televised live may be available on satellite feeds. The Tyrone Monaghan BBC feed is on the satellite at 16 East. The channel name is Brewster Park Clean Spare, indicating that the satellite truck was in Enniskillen and they did not change the feed name. Clean feeds are those with no screen captions for time or score, Dirty feeds have the captions.

I have a 1.1 metre satellite dish with a motor which can turn to different satellites.

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That's good to know for future.

dxhound2005 wrote: »

The heavens have opened in Omagh.

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Weather matching the gawk on McConville.

I'll need to pick your brains over your set up soon when I move into the new gaff. Mental note to BS. Mental note.

Real issue with Ulster games is that BBC have decided not to bother showing them any more.

Yesterday was a bit mad with at least 5 games that you would watch so impossible to show them all. Game in Wexford was brilliant, as apparently was Mon/Tyrone,

Sky Sports have announced (unsurprisingly) that Meath v Tyrone is the qualifier they will show on Saturday week

Comortas peile na Gaeltachta on TG4 tomorrow from 5:30

dastardly00 wrote: »

Meath-Tyrone is going to extra time. Sky look like they will continue showing it. What about KK-Wexford game starting at 7...

Sky blah blah, great coverage blah blah, much better than FTA blah blah,.....

Monumental fcuk up not showing the hurling, and showing the dregs of the football qualifier and it a dead game once extra time started.

Imagine the furore if it was RTE???

No win scenario for them really. Agree that extra time always takes precedence over start of new game.

Patww79 wrote: »

The end of a close game in progress should always take precedence over the start of one. Sky were dead right, but they couldn't win in the scenario anyway.

Yes they could. They could have delayed transmission of the hurling.

irishfeen wrote: »

Sky deserve an absolute bollocking over missing the hurling yesterday, they knew 20min or more that extra time was to be played. They have many red button streams available running in the background - they could simply have announced that all sky customers who want to see the hurling hit the red button like they do with every other sport.

The reason they didn't do it is they couldn't be bothered because its only GAA, if this was rugby, soccer even lower level Spanish league games they would have used the red button.

I agree they deserve a bollicking but the reason they didn't do it is not because it's only the GAA as you say

They are often not producing the pictures for the sports you have mentioned so it's straightforward to say its over here on the red button. They are producing the pictures for their GAA coverage.

At the start of the season, they announced they were going to show the two hurling games last night. As they were on at the same time they would have required two production teams.

When they changed their mind and went with the football at 5 instead of the Dublin match they obviously felt they could get away with one production team producing both games. This backfired on them hugely and thats why they should get a bollicking

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

I wonder did they ever genuinely want to show both hurling games. It seems to be a move that would cannibalize the audience a lot and is contrary to their scheduling m.o. in other sports. When you've only got 14(?) exclusive fixtures it would seem a waste to show two at the same time.

I suspect they would have always had the plan of saying to the GAA that one game was 'dead' and it would be better for everyone to swap to the most attractive football qualifier. After that it becomes a question of who decides the start times, who decides that the possibility of a draw doesn't matter even though its somewhere around a 12% chance. And a 12% chance that is going to cause a mess.

I don't think so to be honest. They've listed qualifiers in the list of games they originally published so there was nothing to stop them listing a qualifier for Saturday night.

The "shocks" in Leinster added a couple of big names to the first round. Even at that the most appealing tie was Tyrone v Meath. I suspect they had their football analysts go through the possible football fixtures for this weekend and they originally came to the conclusion that there was nothing worth showing. Canavan would obviously have been hoping Tyrone wouldn't be in the qualifiers for example.

Leinster u21 Galway v Offaly on tg4 tonight at 7:30