2022 TV Coverage

[nr637]

What chance that the 'New FAI' have secured a positive Airtricity League TV Package, as it was one of the intentions of the new regime!

RTE releasing ther usual early season games promotion. Its what we expected, an initial flurry of live games and then slowly tapering off as if the league has gone into hibernation.:confused:

What is necessary is a live league game every weekend followed by highlights package of the other games later in the week!

Whats the opinion out there! :nerd:

[total hoofball]

Is there any details of how many games RTÉ are covering and what other stations will be showing games? I can only find last seasons details in the below link

The lack of consistent and regular scheduling of live games has hurt the league for the past 20 years


https://www.the42.ie/fai-major-broadcast-deals-5365875-Feb2021/

[Mr A]

The following games will be broadcast live on RTÉ 2:

Shelbourne vs St Patrick’s Athletic
Friday February 18th, 7:45pm

Derry City vs Shamrock Rovers
Friday February 25th, 7:45pm

[pateen]

What chance that the 'New FAI' have secured a positive Airtricity League TV Package, as it was one of the intentions of the new regime!

RTE releasing ther usual early season games promotion. Its what we expected, an initial flurry of live games and then slowly tapering off as if the league has gone into hibernation.:confused:

What is necessary is a live league game every weekend followed by highlights package of the other games later in the week!

Whats the opinion out there! :nerd:

Agreed, a highlights show would be good, perhaps even with a UK element about the Irish Abroad to get the Rep of Ireland fans interested.

Thought MNS was an entertaining show when Con Murphy had it.

[Martinho II]

Agreed, a highlights show would be good, perhaps even with a UK element about the Irish Abroad to get the Rep of Ireland fans interested.

Thought MNS was an entertaining show when Con Murphy had it.

Yeah once Peter Collins took over and the show was cut in half it wasnt the same program. I am surprised that Virgin arent up for showing loi highlights considering it was their predecessors TV3 that started the ball rolling wot nearly 20 yrs ago now!

[sulywaterfordfc]

Richard Taylor from Dagenham & Redbridge F.C. was announced by Waterford before the friendly today.

[Charlie Darwin]

Richard Taylor from Dagenham & Redbridge F.C. was announced by Waterford before the friendly today.
Will he be presenting the show himself?

[TonyD]

Yeah once Peter Collins took over and the show was cut in half it wasnt the same program. I am surprised that Virgin arent up for showing loi highlights considering it was their predecessors TV3 that started the ball rolling wot nearly 20 yrs ago now!

It’s an absolute travesty that Peter Collins gets so much exposure on RTE when Con Murphy is a far better presenter. The Monday night programme was much better when Con did it.

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Didn’t Con Murphy take redundancy from RTE?

[Nesta99]

Ive no issue with Collins and the format of the show changed along with presenters. I felt that MNS tried to be both a highlights show and a football magazine show - some gimmicks worked other didnt. Con looked to be forever on the verge losing it with laughter at whatever the pundits were up to off camera and trying to keep some control. It added some character to the show but the messing shouldnt have happened. Maybe there werent a whole load of highlights but often there was an incident that ye wanted to see again after being at a game only for it not to be included in highlights. Soccer Republic was far less flustered looking, had better analysis but was shortened limiting highlights again. The old gang of Roddy, Dave Barry, McDonnell etc made way for Crawley and Byrne type analysts. When around the grounds started on match night it really did did gut any proper highlights and analysis after the weekend fixtures.

[nigel-harps1954]

I thought the whole lot was rubbish tbh. But it was nice to have a highlights show on TV at least.

[Kiki Balboa]

I think the talking part of a MNS is now redundant for the league, as it is normally excellently covered on various podcasts, which there is a great choice of.

All that really needed now is a wrap show of the highlights from LOI.TV put onto a youtube channel. If the round of games could be put out the same night as the games, much better.

[nigel-harps1954]

I think the talking part of a MNS is now redundant for the league, as it is normally excellently covered on various podcasts, which there is a great choice of.

All that really needed now is a wrap show of the highlights from LOI.TV put onto a youtube channel. If the round of games could be put out the same night as the games, much better.

I think it's something the official league social media accounts and their Youtube channel could be doing to effectively broaden their own reach too. Upload a highlights show the night of games, or the following day at latest. There's no reason they can't do that when they've got someone already clipping goals for social media accounts, and full time staff there capable of putting something together.

[Mr A]

The dream for me would be a Sky Sports News type show with reporters at the various grounds, some studio folks keeping it going, show the goals as they go in, include the first division too and generally package the league as a product.

[Martinho II]

Didn’t Con Murphy take redundancy from RTE?

Yeah correct!

[joey B]

https://mobile.twitter.com/SSEAirtricityLg/status/1497209516739502084

3 more games selected for TV coverage

18/3 Drogheda v Dundalk
8/4 Pats v Dundalk
29/4 Sligo v Rovers

[oldfan]

"Sligo v Rovers"????
Bit o' Red 1st XI v 2nd XI?????

[EatYerGreens]

The dream for me would be a Sky Sports News type show with reporters at the various grounds, some studio folks keeping it going, show the goals as they go in, include the first division too and generally package the league as a product.

I've never understood why Sky haven't picked up the LOI as relatively cheap content for them during the off-season for Britain. There would surely be interest amongst people there missing a bit of football to watch it and adopt a team etc.

Maybe the quality of the stadia is such that they just don't think it's broadcastable (which would be fair if so). Or it could be that Sky wouldn't want the cost of running it all in Ireland. But there wopuld be easy ways around that by contracting 90% of it out. Or just do a deal with RTE or LOITV, who have cameras at games anway.

They should try it for a season by just taking the feed from any games that RTE are broadcasting over the Summer and seeing how it goes down with their British viewers (with a suitabel dollop of Sky hype added, of course).

In general terms, it's shocking how Sky has hundreds of thousands of subscribers in Ireland yet the chamnel provides zero Irish-focused content. They briefly tried a nightly Irish News show at 7pm years back, but abandoned it fairly quickly. They obviously think the Irish are stupid enough to still pay for a channel that basically pretends they don't exist. And sadly they're right.

[oriel]

It would also offer sky a good product for the summer when the UK leagues are closed, loads would be interested in placing small bets too, nothing stopping them but with a live game, more interest, even if its just on in the background / pubs etc.

[Nesta99]

Its a question that English lads would ask when they'd be out with us to watch LoI games in England in some Irish bar. They tended to be impressed enough and enjoyed the games and were generally less critical of things over all. But then Dundalk were schooling teams in football with a swagger at the time. Inevitably there was the non LoI person who'd thow out the odd snide remark and calling for some junior club game on TG4 stuck on instead. But for small outlay Sky could do some coverage during the summer.

[sadloserkid]

Is there a tangible benefit for Sky though? If there was I'm sure they'd have bought into the idea before but, as somebody alluded to above, they don't seem to be struggling for Irish subscriptions anyway and adding a product that relatively few Irish eyes are interested in already won't necessarily impact their bottom line significantly. Like I'm sure it would attract a niche audience but I'm not sure Sky are overly committed to niche markets. And for what? Two months a year? In the years without World Cups or European Championships? Like they'd have no real justification to show a Dublin derby instead of the Dundee derby, let alone a bigger game once August rolled around again.

Apologies if I sound needlessly negative too, it would be lovely obviously from our point of view, I just don't see what makes it an especially attractive sell to a UK broadcaster. They could probably secure Norwegian or even Chinese games if they really wanted a short-term, summer alternative.

[Nesta99]

Naw its not negative, pragmatic. Sky have moved so much of their coverage to specific channels rather than the general Sky Sports. Its as much wishful thinking for me. I think there is a niche as a filler as there would be for any sports channel but whether its worth it or not - RTE would say no. I do think it could be done at minimal cost, dont RTE use third party companies to do the leg work? I dont thin it'd be a major payday for the league but if it was spun well by an FAI marketing team with a carrot or 2 ye never know. If there is a UK/international market it is tied to betting trends which is controversial. Anecdotally my personal experience is that fans in England would be more inclined to have an interest in LoI than highlights of the A League or whatever is now on rinse and repeat ad nauseum, maybe even the Champions League magazine shows over and over. How to back that up?

Wasnt there are plan years ago for Sky to cover LoI. I vaguely remember 'sky sports loans' being issued to upgrade floodlights. But that could have been part of an international/FAI deal that may even have been a sweetener for Sky not covering the league or backing out of a deal?

[Finlay Harp]

Sky show Irish League games. Maybe they deem that as adequate within the budget.

[Longfordian]

I think, open to correction though, that the "Sky Sports money" for lights was to do with the increased number of PL games they'd be showing live on TV which it was felt would detract from LOI attendances. Not quite sure why they agreed to pay it or whether someone made them.

[EatYerGreens]

I think, open to correction though, that the "Sky Sports money" for lights was to do with the increased number of PL games they'd be showing live on TV which it was felt would detract from LOI attendances. Not quite sure why they agreed to pay it or whether someone made them.

It was a deal done at the time with either the FAI or the government (can't recall which one).

[nigel-harps1954]

No reason the FAI couldn't tie in a handful of league games into any international rights deal that Sky have.

[ger121]

With the demise of EIR Sports and their excellent coverage, we really do need another player in the market to look at showing games. Relying on RTÉ seriously limits the amount of Live Games per season and any additional exposure the league gets from these matches being shown on TV. The Sky thing has always baffled me alright. Not much on in the Summer months football wise. Even a small number of games per season ala the Irish Leage would be a positive.

[EatYerGreens]

Sky show Irish League games. Maybe they deem that as adequate within the budget.

They're contractually obliged to do so though, as part of the NI international rights

[EatYerGreens]

With the demise of EIR Sports and their excellent coverage, we really do need another player in the market to look at showing games. Relying on RTÉ seriously limits the amount of Live Games per season and any additional exposure the league gets from these matches being shown on TV. The Sky thing has always baffled me alright. Not much on in the Summer months football wise. Even a small number of games per season ala the Irish Leage would be a positive.

Bring back Sacar Beo !

[nigel-harps1954]

Derry v Shamrock Rovers - Sun 18th Sept FAI Cup 5pm

Shamrock Rovers v Shelbourne - Sun 9th Oct 5pm


Is there a full list of the games shown on TV this year anywhere?

[nr637]

Derry v Shamrock Rovers - Sun 18th Sept FAI Cup 5pm
Shamrock Rovers v Shelbourne - Sun 9th Oct 5pm
Is there a full list of the games shown on TV this year anywhere?


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