Rte and league of ireland

**Macy** · 05/03/2009, 7:53 AM

Originally Posted by all drogged up

I'm not on a high horse - I love my club and the league but face it it's hardly the best supported league in the world, is it? And first div clubs tend to be even less so.

RT� broadcast to 5m or so people around the island - about 20,000 of us follow LoI. plenty of fariweather fans bu tyou can't really count them.

3 words: Public Service Broadcaster

If there to make cost savings from football, the UK football should be the first to go as there is no public service in them broadcasting it. It's available for free on BBC on satellite.

**Dodge** · 05/03/2009, 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by scottish_bohs

Why does it have to be on RTE or Aertel? Extratime are going to be offering a comprehensive coverage of both divisions this season. So, why not just log on to Extratime.ie and enjoy their coverage and support a site with a genuine interest in the league?

its not about LOI fans not gettin reports online. Its about people with a vague interest in the league not having access to reports.

That and some of the extratime writing is dreadful. Bias pouring out of most articles. Its great for news but most match reports are written by a supporter of one of the club involved, and that doesn't interest me.

**fergalr** · 05/03/2009, 12:29 PM

Anyone hear RTE1 Morning Ireland today?

During their 8:30 sports section they mentioned that the league was starting this weekend and said something about how hopefully things would be better than last year.

Then, as a supposed preview, they cut to what sounded like a heavily edited interview by Tony O'D with Ollie Cahill. The whole interview was about Ollie's past experiences with Shels and Drogs and not one word, not a single word, about the new season.

You would swear that the objective of the piece was to put people off the LOI.

**R�iteoir** · 05/03/2009, 1:27 PM

Just had a reply back from RT� concerning the email I sent them on Monday:

Dear Mr. Rock,
Unfortunately due to economic circumstances we are not in a position to broadcast Friday night Sport in 2009. This is a decision we have had to reluctantly take in the context of our overall financial situation. It is one of many measures that are being implemented across a range of programmes and I can assure we will be keeping this situation under constant review and if there is a possibility of re instating this programme it will happen as a matter of priority.

I do share with you a certain fondness for Bohs.

Best Wishes
Paddy Glackin

RIP Friday Sportsnight - you've served us well over the past few years

**seand60** · 05/03/2009, 1:33 PM

By not putting up first division reports on Aertel and the RTE website the state broadcaster is saving all of �200 a week!

**Boh_So_Good** · 05/03/2009, 5:42 PM

Does Marty Whealan still have a job at RTE?

Surely they have to hang onto their top talents.

**kingdom hoop** · 05/03/2009, 6:50 PM

Originally Posted by seand60

By not putting up first division reports on Aertel and the RTE website the state broadcaster is saving all of �200 a week!

Maybe home-team PROs could do up little factual, non-biased reports and submit them or put them up themselves? I'm pretty sure PROs have access to the results / fixtures pages for Local Soccer on Aertel so it wouldn't be stretching things too much for RTE to allow it. Obviously there's more opportunity for abuse when doing more than just inputting results but if they were certified Club Officers the legitimacy aspect would be softened somewhat. Kind of a Wikipedia-ifying of RTE?

**sheao** · 05/03/2009, 8:25 PM

Originally Posted by Boh_So_Good

Does Marty Whealan still have a job at RTE?

Surely they have to hang onto their top talents.

He's presents late date on rte radio 1 every weeknight from 11.

**sligoman** · 05/03/2009, 9:03 PM

Fair play to RTE, on the 6 o'clock news today they discussed the financial trouble instead of previewing the season.

**pete** · 05/03/2009, 9:24 PM

Originally Posted by sligoman

Fair play to RTE, on the 6 o'clock news today they discussed the financial trouble instead of previewing the season.

RTE have enough left to recently update the News studio. I now have to look at Ann Doyles thigh as she sits sideways

**DRDoc** · 05/03/2009, 9:25 PM

I see extratime have a couple of first division previews up already

**holidaysong** · 05/03/2009, 10:05 PM

Anyone notice the following line on the RT� article about their 2009 coverage?

RT� Aertel will also provide the quickest and most reliable latest scores and results over the 2009 season.

http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2009/0224/loi.html

**thischarmingman** · 06/03/2009, 6:41 AM

On the morning of the day our national league restarts the first 3 headlines are "AShley Cole is drunk and disorderly" (A story or an observation?), "Liverpool mulling over tour of Asia," (A club is thinking of maybe going to Asia...and that's a story?) and "Hughton foresees Newcastle survival." (Who?) There is absolutely nothing at all about the LOI.

**Mad Moose** · 06/03/2009, 4:57 PM

Just got this from the Newstalk site. The Friday Night schedule. It doesn't look like they will be changing much.

'19.00 - 21.00 Friday - Off The Ball Extra2 hours with Oisin Langan providing you with an in depth preview of the weekends sporting action. With regular focus on GAA, Premier League soccer, rugby, golf and horse racing, Oisin will have you fully prepared and in the know for all sporting events of the weekend, as well as keeping you up to date with all the live sport of the night, with the latest from the top Eircom League and Magners League games. '

**Schumi** · 06/03/2009, 5:15 PM

Not much use if it's over at 9:00.

**Rovers fan** · 06/03/2009, 5:17 PM

Listened to the 3pm and 4pm news on a few radio channels and not one mention of the new season on the sport. What an absolute joke.

**Rovers1** · 06/03/2009, 5:23 PM

Originally Posted by Rovers fan

Listened to the 3pm and 4pm news on a few radio channels and not one mention of the new season on the sport. What an absolute joke.

In fairness RF, 2FM and Today FM had match pre-views on their sports bulletins this morning, Havent heard any bulletins since.

Newstalk are 'discussing the LoI' on their Saturday Sports Show tomorrow.

**seand60** · 09/03/2009, 8:05 PM

Are the first division clubs now helping out RTE by sending in their own reports? If so it looks like they are letting RTE off the hook but better than nothing I suppose.

**stann** · 10/03/2009, 7:16 AM

The Div 1 clubs were all asked to submit reports to aertel and RTEonline.
Which on the one hand is cheek of the highest order, but on the other at least means they'll be up there.
Well, the Friday night ones were up, but the Sat night games didn't make it as far as I could see. They are up on the website though.

**scottish_bohs** · 10/03/2009, 7:52 AM

Originally Posted by stann

The Div 1 clubs were all asked to submit reports to aertel and RTEonline.
Which on the one hand is cheek of the highest order, but on the other at least means they'll be up there.
Well, the Friday night ones were up, but the Sat night games didn't make it as far as I could see. They are up on the website though.

A good few of them were just ripped straight from the extratime site.Pretty dangerous way of doing things in terms of mistakes / inaccuracies etc.