Sky Sports to bid for Welsh football

**Réiteoir** · 23/01/2006, 2:41 PM

Sky Sports to bid for Welsh football
Sky Sports are set to bid £7.5 million for rights to show Welsh national games and Welsh Premier League highlights.

The deal will include £1.5m allocated to Welsh Premier clubs to improve their grounds to meet UEFA licensing criteria.

How much do we get from the Setanta / TV3 / RTÉ deal?

**Roo69** · 23/01/2006, 2:45 PM

Originally Posted by Réiteoir

How much do we get from the Setanta / TV3 / RTÉ deal?

Surely the eL would command better viewing figures than the Welsh league ? Always thought Sky would try and get over here to do coverage

**Poor Student** · 23/01/2006, 2:45 PM

You can't compare. That deal is mainly to show the national team. The club bit will probably be a 30 mins round up programme. No harm to get that exposure at all but nothing like the deal the eL has.

**Rory H** · 23/01/2006, 2:46 PM

Originally Posted by Réiteoir

How much do we get from the Setanta / TV3 / RTÉ deal?

a tennar and a promise that george hamiliton wont come on tv with that beard again

**CuanaD** · 23/01/2006, 2:55 PM

Originally Posted by wild rover

a tennar and a promise that george hamiliton wont come on tv with that beard again

:lol:

**Rochey** · 23/01/2006, 2:57 PM

taught you meant trevor welsh there for a minute

**pete** · 23/01/2006, 4:08 PM

Originally Posted by Réiteoir

How much do we get from the Setanta / TV3 / RTÉ deal?

Sky Sports did bid for the Ireland international teams previously but of course RTE kicked up a stink dispite the fact Sky Sports were offering 4 times RTE pitance. I think previously RTE bid 1.5m which is why the FAI accepted the money from Sky in the region of 6-7m over 4 years i think?

**hamish** · 23/01/2006, 10:18 PM

That Welsh language channel has a regular highlights programme each week - crowds are very poor but some clubs have nice tidy facilities.

Usually hosted by a blonde lass who wears leather trousers.

**Gerrit** · 24/01/2006, 4:26 PM

Aren't the rights to the Welsh games with the BBC?

**A face** · 24/01/2006, 11:22 PM

Lads, does the eircom League get anymore money from SkySports for the right to broadcast a foreign league in this country. I think someone mentioned it was a once off payment type deal but surely the league would be within its rights to contest that at this stage. I mean the whole deal has changed now, even as regards the amount of hours they are showing live games now.
Shouldn't the league be looking at this now ??

**garykelly** · 25/01/2006, 9:27 AM

Originally Posted by A face

Lads, does the eircom League get anymore money from SkySports for the right to broadcast a foreign league in this country. I think someone mentioned it was a once off payment type deal but surely the league would be within its rights to contest that at this stage. I mean the whole deal has changed now, even as regards the amount of hours they are showing live games now.
Shouldn't the league be looking at this now ??

good point. I do know that sky paid compensation that paid for all league clubs to get floodlights in 1993. but i dont think sky have paid a thing since or if they pay a fixed compensation every season(which they should IMO).

If Sky end up covering welsh league games then it's good business from the Welsh FA to package it up with international games. It shows us up a bit that the welsh league will benefit almost 2million euro from it when the entire rte bid was 1.5m which the eircom league clubs would have seen no benefit.

EL Coverage will grow, the league just has to ensure it know it's own worth when it comes to getting a coverage deal.

**paudie** · 25/01/2006, 12:59 PM

Originally Posted by Rochey

taught you meant trevor welsh there for a minute

At least if Trevor had a beard we wouldn't have to look at all of his chins

**paudie** · 25/01/2006, 1:01 PM

Originally Posted by sirhamish

Usually hosted by a blonde lass who wears leather trousers.

Nothing except leather trousers?

I'll have to watch that programme

**A face** · 26/01/2006, 2:34 PM

Originally Posted by garykelly

good point. I do know that sky paid compensation that paid for all league clubs to get floodlights in 1993. but i dont think sky have paid a thing since or if they pay a fixed compensation every season(which they should IMO).

Definitely should be an annual fee. Who actually was responsible for this once off deal in the first place ?? Who put pen to paper and the whole thing ??

The league definitely have grounds to contest this, without a shadow of a doubt.

**CollegeTillIDie** · 28/01/2006, 10:47 AM

Originally Posted by paudie

At least if Trevor had a beard we wouldn't have to look at all of his chins

What has he more chins than a Beijing phone book?

**hamish** · 29/01/2006, 4:53 PM

Originally Posted by paudie

Nothing except leather trousers?

I'll have to watch that programme

Tried to get a picture of her on their website (S4C-Digidol) but no luck. She's allright looking - nothing special but wears lovely tight leather trousers and yes, she wears other clothes also - before you start fantasising.LOL

**LFC in Exile** · 31/01/2006, 10:46 AM

Originally Posted by sirhamish

Tried to get a picture of her on their website (S4C-Digidol) but no luck. She's allright looking - nothing special but wears lovely tight leather trousers and yes, she wears other clothes also - before you start fantasising.LOL

Digi-Doll? Must get that Channel.

**hamish** · 01/02/2006, 12:24 AM

Originally Posted by LFC in Exile

Digi-Doll? Must get that Channel.

I presume it's a half-assed attempt to makey uppey a Welsh word of digital like Telefon for telephone over here. Though, in school, we were told that the Irish for telephone was guthan.

Makes you think though. A small channel can have regular Welsh League footie while our so called national station won't have an EL highlights programme like TV3 does. For GAA fans isn't Breaking Ball gone too yet there's no problem having an eggball programme every week.
Of course there SHOULD be an rugby magazine programme - no problems with that whatsoever - but TBF there should also be a Gah and footie one too.