The LOI and RTE
No football on there yet but they are showing two live Hockey matchs next week - yippppeeeeeeeeee!
Now that is a sport that would gain higher viewer figures than LOI football
Mens or Womens?Originally Posted by eoinh
I'm guessing might get 50k viewers tops? Cricket probably has more supporters in ireland than Hockey.
I continue to wonder why RTE bother to show Celtic v Rangers, premiership, CL etc... when they already been shown by BBC etc... At least with the eL no one else is showing which means a captive audience.
for fffffffff.............No football on there yet but they are showing two live Hockey matchs next week - yippppeeeeeeeeee!
Now that is a sport that would gain higher viewer figures than LOI football
Hang on ... what are these games ... how important are they.
Lads, devils advocate or whatever !! The hockey crowd would be delighted with this as they get zero (i am guessing) coverage from one end of the year to the other, for the last couple of years. They would also like to get in on the act. That is one thing that could be in our favour ... if RTE were encouraged to show minority sports then they would have to cover eL aswell and the figures would pan out in the end.
The biggest problem to be honest .... is RTE going away and spending wades of cash on F1 etc. if they are prepared to spent that much money on sometimes not Irish (national broadcaster) over something which they should be covering, that is worrying. We'sd need to find out why this is.
While we are on this topic ... anyone know what the outcome of their "public charter" was ?? Was it a success ??
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.
i wouldnt class LOI football as a minority sport, A face!
True, if anyone gonna still watch F1 will just watch ITV instead to avoid Peter Collins. I'd be amazed if RTE renewed their F1 contract next time around as viewing figures must be almost nothing.
Some of us can't pick up ITV, and it ain't even on the sky digital platform. Maybe when (hopefully) they go freeview with the BBC it maybe different. Having said that, the RTE coverage of F1 is so terrible, think I'd rather have an excuse not to watch it...
If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.
I think its the men's and women's national finals, which is fair enough IMO - the FAI Cup final is broadcast live by RTE. This is at least an Irish event, if they want to justify their public sevice status, this is the kind of event they should be doing (that includes eL football); F1, Celtic-Rangers, Premiership, etc. is commercially available in Ireland (notwithstanding ITV not being on Sky Digital).
Incidentally, having the goals of at least one match (ideally more) per weekend on the 6.1 or 9 o'clock news would increase the exposure of the eL enormously. After all, we really want people to go to games, and quite a lot of people aren't aware that league football goes on here - or else think that it's a pile of crap because they saw one game years ago and swore they'd never go back.
Its probably a cost thing. I'd guess that the Irish Hockey Federation (or whatever) is stumping up the cash to film it or maybe the cup's sponsor is. RTE are not doing this as a public service thing...
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Must admit I watch RTÉ to avoid James Allen on UTV!
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
Man, i know that but we're being shunned, their attitude seems to be "belittle every effort made by the league and hopefully they will go away."
To be honest ... the league needs to pin down the FAI and get them to get a better deal. Maybe include a required one game a week into any contract. As soon as we get something like that, the league should look at get sponsors to fund it and improve the quality (you just know it will be bad).
Actually lads ..... this is a problem with the last few years but not once have supporters united with the intent of improving the situation. Are we all partly to blame for this.
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.
Rooney has been fairly agressive towards changing the eL so maybe could expect something from him next season. Maybe he realising where the power base of irish football is...
Anyone know what the PR/Marketing/Commercial people in the eL do for their wage?
Make cringe-worthy radio ads.
You can't spell failure without FAI
Make cringe-worthy radio ads.
Just on that aswell ........... What kind of adds would you all like to see/hear on the telly/radio ??
What kind of adds would draw in new supporters ??
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.
RTE? Public Service? No chance at all. They wouldn't know public service if it bit them on the hole.
but covering hockey is a public service, covering celtic league rugby is a public service. covering LOI football is not.
I can bet you if football was a mainly upper middle class sport we would have live LOI football coming out of our asses.
I taped the football content of TV3's coverage last night -it came to 14 minutes!!! much of which seemed to be shot on 1974 soviet era film by the looks of it
How do you reckon that? There's at least as much interest in CL rugby as there is in the EL. Don't let prejudice get in the way.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
The viewing figures dont support it.
There's usually about 4000 in Donnybrook for a Celtic League game and an average of about 20,000 in Landsdown for a European game.
The viewing figures do seem to support it.
4000 for one game- pathetic. leinster remember represents the whole of leinster. there are 12 leinster clubs in the el.
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