Eddie the Exile
County: Monaghan
Posts: 331




RTE have a right to be selective in their choice of what sport they televise/cover, after all Setanta have, and sure didn't corporate Croke
Park sell off TV rights to Sky, surely Sky, Setanta, TV3, etc, can't be all that perfect.
Personally if I don't it, I walk away from it, however I feel more at home with RTE, 82 pages on they must be doing something right.

NB. Most of us counties in div.4 rarely if ever get a mention, you don't hear us complaining about RTE. - Move on.

supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 3160 - 31/03/2015 09:53:40    1708734

bad.monkey, rugby in Ulster was not this open arm structure you believe it to be, and like the GAA has only really started to mix things together since the Good Friday Agreement came into place.

Will all be very interesting to see what happens now that it is confirmed that 3 of Irelands 4 warm up games for the World Cup will be shown on SKY only!! Two from Aviva and one from Cardiff. Within a few years Friendly Internationals will follow and finally the 6 nations.

witnof (Dublin) - Posts: 1604 - 31/03/2015 10:21:31    1708750

31/03/2015 10:21:31
witnof
bad.monkey, rugby in Ulster was not this open arm structure you believe it to be, and like the GAA has only really started to mix things together since the Good Friday Agreement came into place.

Will all be very interesting to see what happens now that it is confirmed that 3 of Irelands 4 warm up games for the World Cup will be shown on SKY only!! Two from Aviva and one from Cardiff. Within a few years Friendly Internationals will follow and finally the 6 nations. Rugby in Ulster wasn't open but that isn't for want of trying.
Nothing will happen with regard to Ireland having warm up games only on Sky. 6 Nations wont move to Sky only. The games must be shown deferred on free to air tv and this is likely to change to must be shown live on free to air soon enough....

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 31/03/2015 10:53:23    1708763

fabio8 County: USA
Posts: 1636
janesboro it was perfectly logical to delay coverage of league sunday as a huge soccer match was on tv..the coverage warranted it
TOTALLY AGREE
- THE POINT I AM MAKING THOUGH WAS THAT IF A RUGBY MATCH WAS THE CAUSE OF IT BEING MOVED THERE WOULD BE A TONNE OF MOANING AND WHINGING ON THIS THREAD- POEPLE ARE UP IN ARMS WHEN RUGBY GETS COVERED OVER LEAGUE GAMES

..nobody has an issue if the coverage is warranted...a womens rugby match or u20s dont warrant the coverage they get that is the issue people have...ladies
football on tg4 gets big viewership....this has been talked about on numerous occasions on this site
OF COURSE CAMOGIE AND LADIES FOOTBALL DESERVE COVERAGE - AS DO THE MENS GAME -THEY ARE BRILLIANT GAMES TO WATCH AND PLAY

ACCORDING TO THIS ARTICLE TG4 GOT CLOSE TO 500000 VIEWERS FOR WOMENS WORLD CUP SEMI FINAL -THAT IN MY VIEW DESERVES COVERAGE -

http://sportforbusiness.com/tg4-steps-up-for-taylor/

janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 31/03/2015 12:23:38    1708812

separately in fairness to them i think RTEs radio coverage of gaa and rugby is excellent-

janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 31/03/2015 12:24:43    1708813

A bit of a slap in the face for RTE Sport though. After all no one has done more to promote rugby union than our National Broadcaster. And what thanks do they get? The IRFU decides to deny RTE and the Irish people free to air coverage of their upcoming friendlies in Dublin and all to bolster the IRFU bank account. No doubt RTE, as they did in the case of the GAA's deal with Sky, will now bring the IRFU CEO into the Primetime studio and give him a severe telling off. Somehow I doubt it. No matter how the IRFU treats RTE our so-called National Broadcaster will be only be too glad to accept whatever scraps are left over. Expect them to announce live coverage of Ireland 'B' versus the Barbarians any day soon as long as everyone agrees to pretend its a real international match.

mediaman (Antrim) - Posts: 355 - 31/03/2015 12:48:28    1708841

are ireland soccer friendlies shown live on rte?

janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 31/03/2015 13:27:57    1708874

31/03/2015 12:48:28
mediaman
A bit of a slap in the face for RTE Sport though. After all no one has done more to promote rugby union than our National Broadcaster. And what thanks do they get? The IRFU decides to deny RTE and the Irish people free to air coverage of their upcoming friendlies in Dublin and all to bolster the IRFU bank account. No doubt RTE, as they did in the case of the GAA's deal with Sky, will now bring the IRFU CEO into the Primetime studio and give him a severe telling off. Somehow I doubt it. No matter how the IRFU treats RTE our so-called National Broadcaster will be only be too glad to accept whatever scraps are left over. Expect them to announce live coverage of Ireland 'B' versus the Barbarians any day soon as long as everyone agrees to pretend its a real international match. hahahahahahaha what bitter rubbish.

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 31/03/2015 16:09:40    1708993

No janesboro, but not becuase the RTE dont want to show them. its because they cant afford them.
I guarantee you that if the RTE could afford it, they would saturate their viewers with premier league/Heineken cup sport.

joncarter (Galway) - Posts: 2692 - 31/03/2015 16:29:41    1709002

no janesboro they wouldnt if it was a proper six nations or world cup match as they are big games that people are interested in..have you any other sources to support the tg4 viewership article?..it is an isolated world cup btw..rte are showing 6 nations games which is what people are giving out about..even 1 game getting good viewership doesnt change that although id be sceptical of that figure..what is the viewership for the womens rugby and u20s on rte?...people need to actually need to look at the points being made...bad monkey why are you on a gaa forum if you are so against everything about the organisation and what it stands for?

fabio8 (USA) - Posts: 2182 - 31/03/2015 19:27:01    1709131

fabio8
County: USA
Posts: 1639

..have you any other sources to support the tg4 viewership article?..

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/tg4-aims-to-be-as-irish-answer-to-hbo-with-celtic-noir-1.1908853

http://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/other-rugby/we-feel-like-weve-let-people-down-marie-louise-reilly-30510187.html

janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 31/03/2015 20:30:32    1709174

The RTE website seems to be a bit confused at present. It's carrying a story about Australian Rules Football titled 'Drugs Charges against Aussie Rules team dismissed'. But for some odd reason it's included in the GAA section of the site. Surely someone in RTE knows the difference. Although on second thoughts.

mediaman (Antrim) - Posts: 355 - 31/03/2015 20:55:46    1709188

500000 may have tuned in but id say less than one tenth watched more than ten minutes. I watched part of it YOUR NOBLE FRIEND SCEPTICAL BEEN EGGBALL SNOBS BIGGEST CRITIC. it was muck. Barely able to string three passes together without a knock on. Kicking ability that ladies junior players would be ashamed of. Only about 4000 play womens eggball. There are over 200000 ladies gaa and camogie players. Its laughable they get coverage at all. On a side point ormondes eyesight must be destroyed not an hour will go by without him defending a negative comment about his beloved english national game.

sceptical (Cavan) - Posts: 544 - 31/03/2015 21:26:52    1709209

Because the last line refers to the International Rules manager being named today. This tends to involve players from the Gaelic Athletic Association. Just a thought .........

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7910 - 31/03/2015 21:33:03    1709215

joncarter - agree with you on both points - if they had it they would show lots of premier league and european cup rugby because thats what gets ratings and thats what people want to watch - if people didnt watch it they wouldnt cover it - bit miffed though that a couple of posters (not you jon) have had a pop at irfu for selling games to non terrestrial stations when other sports have done the done thing and they havent had a pop at those sports

janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 01/04/2015 09:51:17    1709272

fabio8 -

some posters here have been whinging about rugby being on news instead of gaa so i would view it as being reasonable to assume the same posters would crib if league sunday was moved due to a rugby game , (BTW of course it was the correct thing for rte to do - twas a good game too)

why are people are giving out about rte showing womens rugby and under 20s games they have been showing 20s games for a few years now and without knowing the viewing figures i am sure that if the viewing ratings were very bad rte wouldnt show it and would show something else that would get more viewers. They are usually on friday nights so usually dont clash with gaa game. Rte show league of ireland soccer (and rightly so in my view) yet nobody is whingin about that - it just seems to me its all anti rugby and as somebody who loves watching and coaching both gaa and rugby and used to love playing both and comes from an area where people follow both and more importantly kids play both i find it a bit baffling

janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 01/04/2015 09:58:48    1709276

sceptical

in but id say less than one tenth watched more than ten minutes. AND ID SAY MORE THAN 1 TENTH WATCH MORE THAN 10 MINS GIVEN THAT IRELAND WERE IN CONTENTION UP TO HALF TIME - BUT LIKE YOU I HAVE NOTHING ON WHICH TO BASE MY FIGURE

You say EGGBALL snobs - can you give examples of rugby related snobbery stating the clubs involved - played rugby and gaa in limerick and dublin for years and never had an issue with snobbery

Barely able to string three passes together without a knock on. Kicking ability that ladies junior players would be ashamed

WELL THE GAMES I SAW HAD PLENTY OF GOOD PASSAGES OF PLAY - HAVE A LOOK AT MAGALI HARVEYS TRY FOR CANADA IN SF V FRANCE - OR NIAMH BRIGGS ONE FOR IRELAND V NZL not bad for a much game - OR HAVE AT LOOK AT ENGLAND WING FORWARD MAGGIE ALPHONSI NEXT TIME ENGLAND PLAY

beloved english national game. - I THINK SOCCER AND CRICKET WOULD BE ENGLANDS NATIONAL GAME - SOCCER IS WAY WAY WAY MORE POPULAR IN ENGLAND

people should just come out and say they hate rugby

janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 01/04/2015 10:06:09    1709278

Soccer and cricket are the two most pppular sports on the planet. Both are played in poorest nations on earth. They left their upper middle class elitist cradle long ago. Rugby is an irrelevant minority sport compared to these world games.

sceptical (Cavan) - Posts: 544 - 01/04/2015 12:01:54    1709359

Janesboro RTE have broadcast all 15 of the Irish ladies Six Nations internationals live and in full on either radio or TV over the last three years . Have they broadcast a single game of any other ladies team sport live and in full over the last three years . Why have they not broadcast Katy Taylor winning world titles ? What makes the ladies rugby team so special that they have such coverage lavished upon them in comparison to other ladies sports . That is what p****s people off . There is colossal favouritism shown to ladies rugby and that is wrong .

Greengrass (Louth) - Posts: 6177 - 01/04/2015 12:24:16    1709372

Greengrass - County: Louth
Posts: 3603

Firstly i do understand your point about other womens sports and agree they are due coverage but i dont have any problem with the coverage the womens rugby gets

The only other womens sport they covered that i can remember was an ireland v belgium hockey game in march 2012 (outside you 3 year window - but you get the drift) Why have they not broadcast Katy Taylor winning world titles ? dont know to be honest but at least tg4 are covering it and it seem getting good audiences. Womens football gets great coverage on tg4 so at lease we can watch it on that

What makes the ladies rugby team so special that they have such coverage lavished upon them in comparison to other ladies sports . Dont know but as previously stated im sure if the viewing figures were bad they wouldnt show it.

janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 01/04/2015 12:54:39    1709399