"RTÉ to screen even more domestic soccer"

Originally Posted by Réiteoir

Anyone spot the deliberate mistake with the Preview of tonight on the RTÉ.ie website?

http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2010/...ityleague.html

The photo caption?

There shouldn't be a comma in the phrase "The wait is over, as the domestic game"

Either that, or there shouldn't be anything about the domestic game on the RTÉ site...

Originally Posted by atfconline

The photo caption?

They have the First Division players in the pic instead of Premier players. They also have Airtricity spelt wrong under the pic.

Weird the way they have Pats v galway in bold

For a second there I thought RTE had figured out who I followed. Which is a fair step up for them considering they can't pick out the Premier Division jersies

Originally Posted by bennocelt

what a load of bull
look at the quality of rubbish they show come the gah season, seriously how much does it cost to show Longford Gaa or Mayo playing, and who cares?

I do...

Originally Posted by Rocky77

I do...

Good lad!!

Originally Posted by bennocelt

Good lad!!

That's just what my mammy tells me too...

Any news like this is good news for the league. A problem we had in the Irish League was that BBC and UTV's coverage of games was extremely poor and extremely amateur. When you have commentators who don't even know the players names and commentators that clearly don't do any research before a game it doesn't show the league in good light on TV. However, I suspect that RTÉ are much better in this respect and televising games is a good way to promote the product. We got over our BBC and UTV problem with the SKY deal and the quality of coverage is 100 times better. We have commentators who know players names and extensive research is done on both teams and every player before each game. It's the small things like this that matter.

Does anybody know whether or not the fact they have aquired the rights for the Magners League will affect the number of love games they will be showing?

Originally Posted by awec

Any news like this is good news for the league. A problem we had in the Irish League was that BBC and UTV's coverage of games was extremely poor and extremely amateur. When you have commentators who don't even know the players names and commentators that clearly don't do any research before a game it doesn't show the league in good light on TV. However, I suspect that RTÉ are much better in this respect and televising games is a good way to promote the product. We got over our BBC and UTV problem with the SKY deal and the quality of coverage is 100 times better. We have commentators who know players names and extensive research is done on both teams and every player before each game. It's the small things like this that matter.

I notice that the research done here for live games is usually spot on in terms of player recognition,Less so for weekly highlights where they made countless errors on MNS last season in getting our player names right

Originally Posted by Bohs11

Does anybody know whether or not the fact they have aquired the rights for the Magners League will affect the number of love games they will be showing?

Not sure I want to see 'love games' involving LOI players.

RTE announced when they started this contract that they'd be showing more games each season. I assume that was agreed with the FAI at the start so they'll have to follow through on that. I don't know when that deal runs out though.

There's no reason that at least 2 to 3 games a week should be shown live between RTE, TV3 and TG4 - not to mention Setanta. This obsession with foreign football is very sad (saying that I do follow a foreign team, but when RTE are showing a ECL Qualifier between a Greek and Spanish team instead of one of Pat's biggest games in their history it says it all). 30 games from RTE would be respectable, but it needs to give more attention to First division. Promoting the league all starts with exposure. Build it up, and up and up. Make it look wonderful and epic and glamorous. It's exactly what Sky did at the start of the EPL in the early 90s and look where it is now

Think the deal runs out in 2012 or 13 (think it was a 5 season deal) by which stage RTE will be showing a game every Friday

RTE will have a half hour show on the league on Radio 1 Extra on Monday apparently. I think that station is on NTL digital TV somewhere but I don't think you can get it on ordinary radios.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/loifootballshow.html

Its also avilable n the internet

http://www.rte.ie/radio/

Originally Posted by Schumi

RTE will have a half hour show on the league on Radio 1 Extra on Monday apparently. I think that station is on NTL digital TV somewhere but I don't think you can get it on ordinary radios.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/loifootballshow.html

Do you know what time it will be aired at?

Originally Posted by Rasputin

Do you know what time it will be aired at?

6:30 to 7:00 according to the link.

Any views on RTE coverage of the Bohs/ sporting Fingal match ? I watched it on SKY + and thought it was well done (although the two in the Bohs gantry did not look too comfortable). Unfortunately one let down was the poor view of the penalty incident - given how important it was to the outcome of the game. I felt on the night (in the Jodi) that it looked a soft enough penalty and was hoping for confirmation one way or the other on TV. Unfortunately they didn't get very clear footage of the incident.

Originally Posted by marinobohs

Any views on RTE coverage of the Bohs/ sporting Fingal match ? I watched it on SKY + and thought it was well done (although the two in the Bohs gantry did not look too comfortable). Unfortunately one let down was the poor view of the penalty incident - given how important it was to the outcome of the game. I felt on the night (in the Jodi) that it looked a soft enough penalty and was hoping for confirmation one way or the other on TV. Unfortunately they didn't get very clear footage of the incident.

The reason for that was there was no incident to catch.

Originally Posted by marinobohs

Any views on RTE coverage of the Bohs/ sporting Fingal match ?

Thought it was quite decent. Also noticed that the cameras were closer in on the players, kind of made the Jodi look way bigger.

I doubt Sky would've got a better view of the penalty, it would've been impossible for almost any channel to catch it.