Live GAA on de Telly 2023 (No Discussion)

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2 AFAIK

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Yeah I had the Cork v Clare game on it last Sunday while glancing at Louth v Kildare on another tablet.

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Two anyway.

Until my sister realised she had left her credit card details on the site and I could order whatever I wanted.

So be careful out there once again.

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GAA invites bids for broadcast rights to games currently on GAAGO

The GAA are seeking “expressions of interest” for media rights within Ireland to broadcast games from the All-Ireland senior football and hurling championships.

The rights will be for the games which GAAGO currently broadcast within Ireland and which were previously behind the Sky Sports paywall.

The GAA are opening the process for purchase of rights to the games shown on GAAGO to all interested parties, which could again include Sky Sports.

Virgin Media, TG4 and even streaming platforms such as Amazon could also bid for the rights, while GAAGO are expected to submit a bid of their own to extend their rights deal.

This move comes after the GAA were advised by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission to go to tender on these packages after an initial two-year period with GAAGO.

The streaming platform has been the subject of criticism from members of the public and politicians, unhapy with the volume and status of matches behind a paywall on a service dependant on broadband.

However GAA president Jarlath Burns launched a staunch defence of the service in the wake of Taoiseach Simon Harris saying the GAA had “gotten this wrong” with GAAGO.

Speaking on Today with Claire Byrne on RTÉ Radio 1 in May, Burns said: "I’m very surprised to hear the Taoiseach speaking about this, considering last year we actually sat in front of an Oireachtas committee, we were asked to do so, we did so.

"There were no issues at the end of it, they accepted every argument that we had, all of our rationale, for the fact that we only have one broadcast partner, which is RTÉ – they have 35 matches.

“If you try to imagine a world without GAAGO, the rest of these games just would not be broadcast because we only have one broadcast partner.”

RTÉ and the BBC’s current deals with the GAA remains unaffected.

RTÉ will continue to show 31 championship games across the island of Ireland on RTÉ television and RTÉ Player, as well as the Joe McDonagh cup final, both Tailteann cup semi-finals and final until 2027.

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GoGo TV has been some unmitigated disaster.

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1051

I’ve been basically proven correct on all matters again. A major row back here.

I’m predicting in ten years we’re back to a Jan to September final.

The clubs will play a similar season with no inter county players.

That’s the way I see it going.

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1052

I totally agree with you.

It will be an AFL style season at Inter County.

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It’s been great for the Diaspora. I’ve watched more hurling and football in the past 3 years than ever. Well, hurling.

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1054

The inter county lads are wrecked and fed up with the game and I wouldn’t blame them. It’s way too much for any player to keep going season in and season out.

What was done to the galway footballers this year was shameful.

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Interesting. GGA Go was a money pit that it appears that both the GGA/RTÉ tried to cover up by gifting them domestic rights.

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1056

Must cancel the GAAGO renewal

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Does that mean gaago is gone for next year? Or are they bidding too?
What were the bbc viewing figures for the hurling final like?

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If nobody bids for the rights maybe it’s gone then but I wouldn’t think that’ll happen. Dodgy-box viewers must be a killer for a niche market like that

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Hopefully clubber/tg4 take it on

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The coverage itself on GAAGo has been excellent, be no harm to see elements of that make it to RTÉ or elsewhere if the rights are taken up by others next year.

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Clubber would need to up their professionalism but it would be a serious step

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I’d like to see tj Ryan, bubbles o dywer and Tommy Walsh on Rte.

I wonder how Daly would go as a presenter. He’s a useless pundit but he’s not a bad presenter. He could wind fellas up a little.

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Surely a hybrid solution is the answer here with TG4 and Virgin getting access to up to 10 live games each from April to June and the rest going up on gaago or some other streaming platform.

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Virgin will pontificate away but there isn’t a chance they’re putting the money into that.

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You’d wonder if TG4 have the manpower to pull it off given they are flat out doing Minor and U20 games from April to June.