New RTE deal for LOI football

**Maroon 7** · 21/12/2007, 5:07 PM

Originally Posted by GavinZac

rico is available...

They could fill the hour with just his analysis of the games.

**Sniffer** · 21/12/2007, 5:11 PM

Originally Posted by mypost
My god no matter what news we get positive or negative there is a gripe!!

Not from these quarters - this highlights programme could be the best thing since professionalism for eL football.

**DmanDmythDledge** · 21/12/2007, 5:44 PM

Delaney just said on RT� that it will be a "Monday night prime time slot" and is "a fantastic deal for the league".

**bray boy** · 21/12/2007, 6:09 PM

this i think is a huge step in the right direction into getting the barstoolers out of their seats.......and into new colder ones lol

but really its huge with the live games and highlights this means the league will be in peoples faces and more unavoidable.

never thought id say it but fairplay the fai

**Soper** · 21/12/2007, 6:11 PM

Next step is getting proper television gantrys where applicable, so that grounds look better on television.

**bray boy** · 21/12/2007, 6:18 PM

very true in most grounds u can either see random floodlights and poles looks very poor

**bohsRap** · 21/12/2007, 6:19 PM

Excellent deal by the FAI.
Just pray to god Monday prime-time doesn't mean after 11.

**Boh_So_Good** · 21/12/2007, 6:52 PM

Originally Posted by DmanDmythDledge

Delaney just said on RT� that it will be a "Monday night prime time slot" and is "a fantastic deal for the league".

Bravo to the FAI.

I am not going to thank RTE as Tony O'Donohue said to John Delaney on the Six One News "will the quality of the football rise up to the commitment by RTE to the LOI???" - Would they ever say that to the GAA for broadcasting the ham-fisted idiosyncratic muck that is Gaelic Football...

Anyways this is great news, but RTE are sickened by having to do this. You can just tell.

**gufcfan** · 21/12/2007, 6:57 PM

Originally Posted by DmanDmythDledge

Delaney just said on RT� that it will be a "Monday night prime time slot" and is "a fantastic deal for the league".

I would like Delaney to clarify exactly what time "primetime" is...

**Rocky77** · 21/12/2007, 7:06 PM

Originally Posted by Boh_So_Good

the ham-fisted idiosyncratic muck that is Gaelic Football...

There's nothing quite like a well-reasoned argument, is there?

**gufcfan** · 21/12/2007, 7:08 PM

Originally Posted by Boh_So_Good

Anyways this is great news, but RTE are sickened by having to do this. You can just tell.

Whether or not they are sickened, we all know that the only way of achieving this level of coverage for the eircom league, was to package it with the international games.

RTE are only doing it because they have no choice. They expect people then to applaud them for doing it.

Im happy all the same...

**feo123** · 21/12/2007, 7:19 PM

Originally Posted by bohsRap

Excellent deal by the FAI.
Just pray to god Monday prime-time doesn't mean after 11.

there not going to shift prime time, questions and answers, or the news off RTE1 for it. if its RTE 1 it'll be after 11 id imagine. not sure about network 2?!
great news though, lets hope paul osam can strike a deal and move to RTE now!! he'll be sorely missed if hes not there!

**Raheny Red** · 21/12/2007, 8:09 PM

Originally Posted by Soper

Next step is getting proper television gantrys where applicable, so that grounds look better on television.

Agreed. Until the above and the improvement of grounds around the country this deal means jack **** as right now it ain't going to attract any more fans.

**Dodge** · 21/12/2007, 8:27 PM

Originally Posted by Raheny Red

Agreed. Until the above and the improvement of grounds around the country this deal means jack **** as right now it ain't going to attract any more fans.

Might attract more/better sponsors though. Which in turn....

**LeixlipRed** · 21/12/2007, 9:01 PM

Originally Posted by feo123

there not going to shift prime time, questions and answers, or the news off RTE1 for it. if its RTE 1 it'll be after 11 id imagine. not sure about network 2?!
great news though, lets hope paul osam can strike a deal and move to RTE now!! he'll be sorely missed if hes not there!

RTE2 Mondays is generally comedy (Panel, Podge&Rodge, etc) but that doesnt run all year round. Might be space for an EL show. Most likely to be on at 10 though. My only worry is the quality of the footage/state of grounds. We all know from watching EL Weekly that both can be shocking at times. Wonder are RTE being forced to do a professional job on the presentation side of things? I'm sure the studio will look decent but will everything else look amateur?

**Dodge** · 21/12/2007, 9:07 PM

Originally Posted by LeixlipRed

RTE2 Mondays is generally comedy (Panel, Podge&Rodge, etc) but that doesnt run all year round. Might be space for an EL show. Most likely to be on at 10 though. My only worry is the quality of the footage/state of grounds. We all know from watching EL Weekly that both can be shocking at times. Wonder are RTE being forced to do a professional job on the presentation side of things? I'm sure the studio will look decent but will everything else look amateur?

A lot depends on whter they'll be covering the games or depending on well meaning amateurs. If they actually record every Premier game I'd have high hopes for it

**LeixlipRed** · 21/12/2007, 9:12 PM

Hopefully that'll be the case. Some great amateur taping of EL games goes on but it's not of a good enough standard for TV

**Dodge** · 21/12/2007, 9:15 PM

Originally Posted by LeixlipRed

Some great amateur taping of EL games goes on but it's not of a good enough standard for TV

Some of it is. Some of it is camcorder stuff. As I said everybody who does it at any club is to be applauded but hopefully now they won't have to.

**GavinZac** · 21/12/2007, 11:17 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Some of it is. Some of it is camcorder stuff. As I said everybody who does it at any club is to be applauded but hopefully now they won't have to.

As great as this deal is, with RTE i guess we've been bred to imagine every silver has a cloudy lining. I'd imagine for the first season RTE will simply imitate TV3, before realising that they're stuck with the show and had better make an effort.

I hope I'm wrong though

**Bald Student** · 21/12/2007, 11:51 PM

To be fair to RTE, when they do show a match they do the best job of all the stations. I don't think that they'd allow amateur footage onto their show.