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From BBC NI website: "Ten Irish Premiership matches are to be broadcast live on BBC NI television on Friday nights this season....With 10 live league games across the season and three Irish Cup matches, including the final, we are delivering a comprehensive live package of local football. We look forward to featuring as many clubs as possible throughout the season." This on top of the match highlights, full coverage on FM radio of all games on a Saturday afternoon, a web-based highlights programme that local Irish league soccer already enjoys. Compare this to the coverage of gaelic games - outside of the Ulster Football Championship, nothing on terrestrial TV (even Tyrone in the AI Final wasn't televised), NFL and NHL reduced to lower quality MW; nothing on club championship games even though their attendances regularly outweigh many of those at Irish League games. If I'm being kind to BBCNI Sport executives, I would say it isn't their fault - it's just a product of their Belfast-centric view of the world where Friday nights are spent at Ravenhill and 'Ireland' is a another country. Aoife1234 (Antrim) - Posts: 17 - 21/09/2018 14:49:33 2143171 Link 0 |
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Great point. Coverage of the GAA in the North is really poor. The BBC say its a rights issue but why not show a weekly highlights show and televise the Ulster club championship. Justin McNulty held a meeting with the BBC recently on this issue. Irish league football on Saturdays on BBC Radio Ulster is on FM and MW while GAA coverage is only on MW. There definitely is a partitionist mindset at the BBC and their coverage of the GAA always seems like a token gesture. REDANDBLACK30 (Down) - Posts: 1617 - 22/09/2018 11:32:59 2143240 Link 0 |
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its interesting how they always manage to air any violence/scandal from the most obscure parts of the north if it ever kicks off. Jerome Quinn who was let go by the BBC was able to confirm this sort of double standard from his former employers even though its plainly obvious to anyone watching the 6 news. they think that deferred coverage of ulster championship games will tick the boxes for 'our crowd' and show live coverage of niche sports like the moto gp etc on the regular basis. they have a long way to go to be taken seriously by the nationalist community in the north. SaffronDon (Antrim) - Posts: 2385 - 22/09/2018 15:04:04 2143264 Link 2 |
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The lack of GAA coverage by BBC N.I is disappointing but not surprising. fainleog (Limerick) - Posts: 598 - 22/09/2018 16:03:01 2143269 Link 0 |
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Most of the time they do compensate. It's only when there's a busy weekend fixture list and RTE or Sky don't show the Ulster game that you would hope BBC might step up. But they even played deferred coverage of a really big game this summer, it might have been Tyrone v Monaghan possibly.
SaffronDon (Antrim) - Posts: 2385 - 22/09/2018 17:23:40 2143275 Link 0 |
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What's the position with RTE terrestrial TV? It doesn't, I don't believe, fully reach the four corners of the country? If not, that too is a disgrace and they should get their house in order as supposed national broadcaster and two fingers then to the BBC. But you're right 100% Aoife.
Passer_By (Carlow) - Posts: 509 - 22/09/2018 17:50:32 2143277 Link 0 |
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Having holidayed this year in north Antrim this year this does not surprise me that much. While the people were nice and friendly most things seemed to be set up there towards one side. I gained a respect for people there keeping Antrim hurling going, the people in the Glen's are seriously isolated. We had to get my son to take off his GAA top when heading out for a meal.
bdbuddah (Meath) - Posts: 1338 - 26/09/2018 13:38:51 2143929 Link 2 |
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When you say North Antrim do you mean in a GAA sense or in a Geographical? Only reason I ask is that from a GAA point, North Antrim is up around the Glens area and I would have thought you would have been grand with the sons top on as the majority of the Glens are Nationalist. If you are talking about being on up beyond Ballymoney, up towards the North Coast (Portrush etc) then you are well out of GAA country there.
Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 26/09/2018 14:04:07 2143938 Link 0 |
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No probs wearing a GAA jersey in the glens (the heart of the glens festival was on and plenty of GAA jerseys there) but further on the coast it was so staunch, we drove around the coast from Portrush, Giants Causeway (Bushmills) and the place with the rope bridge. Driving from Belfast up to North Antrim seemed similar. Its only when you are up there you really Glens are so isolated as not alone that there is no hurling around it (which I knew) but surrounded by Loyalist areas where every lamp posts in most of the towns have a British/ Unionist flag on it just to mark their territory. As a Southerner going up I'd heard about it but it still took me by surprise the extent of it.
bdbuddah (Meath) - Posts: 1338 - 26/09/2018 17:03:25 2143979 Link 0 |
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SKY have exclusive coverage of the latter stages of the GAA championships in "The UK" so blame The GAA for signing that deal. The BBC used to show nearly all the Ulster championship games live before SKY entered the fray. s goldrick (Cavan) - Posts: 5518 - 26/09/2018 17:26:42 2143983 Link 0 |