QuoteAre they showing Pats game on Thurs?
Also, does anyone know how much do RTE pay for the Panathakanaikos game on Wednesday?
So they are going to show Panathakanaikos and At. Madrid on Wednesday, ahead of Pats and Steaua on Thursday.
Shame on them
Are they showing Pats game on Thurs?
Also, does anyone know how much do RTE pay for the Panathakanaikos game on Wednesday?
No, no screeningOriginally Posted by thischarmingman
Been said before, but absolutely appalling.
just watched MNS and yet another terrible show. But what is clear is that RTE do not want it or dont value it. Before, during, adds and after promos for the GAA and sunday game and centenary 125. They even told us in MNS that panelist Dave Barry had won two all irelands with cork FFS.
Comment of the night came from that chap Foley about Pats going to Bucharest in an empty stadium. They wont be used to it he said, as the highlights fade from pats game with monaghan in Century Homes Park attn 120 a rat and 4 ball boys, quickly followed by Fingal Vs Athlone in front of ......lots
It's not on RTE but it will be broadcast afaik.
Cumann Peile Dún Dealgan - Champions 2015 (too many accolades to be typing)
Termonbarry Athletic TID!
Cork have a new CEO . Some coup getting him off Celtic
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2009/0818/corkcity.html
Celtic Seconds vs Cork City. Whoopee.....
Well Bohs Reserves V Liverpool Toddlers packed Dalymount last night, so it should be a winner.
#NeverStopNotGivingUp
They had Peter Lawwell down as Cork's CEO earlier.
Celtic Seconds vs Cork City. Whoopee.....
Cumann Peile Dún Dealgan - Champions 2015 (too many accolades to be typing)
Termonbarry Athletic TID!
Is Irish Professional Soccer Viable?
I don't want a debate on this subject in this thread, that'd be severely off-topic, but moreso:
Does RTE have a right to put together these 'exclusives'?
Do they have any class of a mandate for reports like this with the laughable coverage of the league?
When during the three months where Irish soccer fans are denied Premier League football, they feature not a single LOI match, but at the start of the LOI season (just as most soccer fans are interested in the English Title Race) and the end of the LOI season (when we're back into the English domestic season) they decide to throw up three or four games?
When they referred to Monaghan United as Monaghan Town?
When they'd rather show Atletico Madrid vs Panathanaikos than Saint Patrick's Athletic vs Steaua Bucharest?
If you're gonna ignore the league, please do it fcuking right, and don't commission reports about the state of it when you won't show its representatives in major European ties.
That is an excellent point. Man, need to email RTE with that straight away (sportonline@rte.ie). Include the complaints dept. in it (complaints@rte.ie) and the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (info@bci.ie)
They cant have it both ways as you rightly point out.
If anyone else felt like giving them some what for then get writing.
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
Anybody who watches the GAA on RTE know if they advertise MNS and their live league of ireland football during their gah coverage?
I watch a bit of the GAA on rte and i havent seen the league or mns advertised once.
I emailed RTE complaints dept. and RTE Sports a few weeks ago about the disgraceful coverage of St. Pats in the round against Sovetov. I made a general point about the obvious bias toward GAA. I also made the point that RTE needed to generate interest in LOI on TV in order to stimulate advertiser interest and this would pay financial dividends for the league and RTE over time.
Stephen Alkin (Exec producer RTE Sports) got back to me today. See Below!
Many thanks for your email.
Clearly RTE is not biased against domestic football. Our commitment to Irish soccer over the next few years is considerable. It includes 13 live games in the League of Ireland and the FAI cup this year; 18 in 2010; 23 in 2011; 28 in 2012;and 33 in 2013. In addition there will be 36 Monday Night Soccer programmes every year until 2013, with every game covered in the domestic league and cup.
In these times RTE is not immune from the downturn of the economy. We have lost €68m in advertising revenue in the past year. We have covered many of the Irish sides in Europe in recent years: Cork City, Drogheda Utd, Bohemians and St Pats. More indeed than any other station in Ireland.
However, in 2009 we have no spare funds. We have had to cut back on a lot of our output and soccer is not immune from that.
Kind regards,
Stephen Alkin
Exec Producer RTE TV Sport
Last edited by Penfold; 18/08/2009 at 8:44 PM.
Could the funds required for each of Bohemians/Derry/St. Pat's European fixtures, as well as a LOI game almost biweekly (one Friday, once Saturday) be raised if the World Cup Dress-Rehearsal (AKA The Confederations Cup) and the shoddy celebrity boxing (Lords of the Rings) weren't commissioned for RTE?
Just sayin' is all...
I won't hold me breath over every First Division game being covered
"Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins."
"Homer Simpson, smiling politely."
That is a copout as the FAI are paying €3 million for MNS.
I bet the Gah don't pay to have their games shown.,
Yes because their games draw in audiences. It's not (for the most part anyway) RTE's fault that loi football doesn't appeal to the masses in this country.
"If you don't work harder I'll pull you off at halftime,"
“Crikey, at Manchester City all we get is an orange and a cup of tea,"
At the end of the Sunday game i heard them a few times mention sports coming up this week and they would mention MNS
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