Gemini … How much afl is on free to air tv
The short answer is an average of 3 to 4 matches per round (guaranteeing a minimum of 81 games across the home-and-away season), plus every single Finals match and the Grand Final.
Every single…
You’re comparing us to Jordan and Uzbekistan AND a professional sports?
Do you tie your own shoes or are you still in Velcro?
Have you ever left your house and does your mammy still wipe the stains off your underpants with a tissue.
Strange turn to take in the argument.
Do you want to compare viewing figure of shinty maybe in Scotland and how many of their games are shown every weekend?
Your mother hardly cleaned your underpants with a kleenex did she? Fucking hell man, over share much?
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I’m sure the 10 people who watch Champions League Magazine on RTE2 on a Saturday afternoon would survive if there were more live GAA games on
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Expand that out there for the rest of the rounds, and do a cost analysis on same.
I assume cost is the issue with it, its definitely not because RTE’s regular Saturday or Sunday daytime TV programming would be interrupted
And Virgin and TG4?
It is normal to watch the Champions League Magazine at 2:20pm on a Saturday afternoon on RTE 2 but one always wishes for a live GAA match at that time, it is natural to want to see a live GAA match at that time.
It’s absolutely arguing black is white for the sake of it to say there should not be more matches on free to air tv. From a pure games promotion view it’s a very very bad idea by the gaa. They should be paying rte to show more. They’d make the money back and some.
Tell me again why the afl argument is relevant?
How would they do this when they are earning from GAA+?
Fuck me.
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You’re missing the point. The point is I was trying to write in the style of a continental football player being translated into English by a spoken voice on the Champions League Magazine show because the stilted, characterless translations of what are presumably deeply dull interviews anyway are funny to the intelligent viewer who likes the absurdity of dullness, like me.
It is normal that people miss the point in such a situation.
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I personally think the GAA are better advised to continue to invest money into their grassroots of the organisation rather than paying RTÉ to show Cavan v Dublin
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The afl argument is that they show all finals games on pay tv and free to air. They want to promote their games best they can.
With the new format the gaa could simple decide they want as many games as possible to be free air. They might lose money in the short term but in the long term the games would be more popular and become even more popular with advertisers.
Why couldn’t they make this choice?
They are professional organisation.
The GAA is not.
It is not like for like. Can you tell me how many Kabaddi games are televised live in South Asia?
The gaa are making a big mistake in my opinion. They should look at the bigger picture.
Channel 4 show live Kabaddi on Monday mornings.
Should they set up their own channel?
Great to see mbb semi arguing and taking a position on something though rather than making hilariously cryptic/inane ‘in the know’ comments.