The LOI and RTE

[Bald Student]

AIL rugby is started to get squeezed by the national media now & will soon probably have no more coverage than list of results.

True, the AIL itself is being disbanded, oops I mean re-formated.


I think that another reason that the Celtic League gets TG4 coverage is because the matches in other countries (incl Belfast) are recorded by the BBC so TG4 don't always use their own OBU's.

I remember a report in the times, I think, which said that TG4 were in talks with the league but the details of the talks got leaked to the media so TG4 backed off. Does anyone know any more about that?

[Jim Smith]

Macy and Pete,

Fair ponits - I wasn't trying to suggest that rugby was sqeaky clean - you are right they do have a helping hand brush their probems under the carpet. Football can't change this just as we can't change the GAA and complaining about coverage, sponsorship etc dosen't help our image. We have to promote the positive aspects: things like the ground improvement at Turners X, the value for money - turn up at any ground in Scotland or England and see how far €10 will get you. Anyway, I'm preaching to the converted

[TommyT]

Fair enough Jim but the fact that the coverted like yourself and Schumi swallow rugby's bull**** shows how pervasive the propaganda is.

[A face]

Fair enough Jim but the fact that the coverted like yourself and Schumi swallow rugby's bull**** shows how pervasive the propaganda is.

Head ... Nail ... Hit !!

Man ... i couldn't put it into words, but i knew i wanted to say it .... and what is worse is that Jim and Schumi wouldn't be the easiest to pull the wool over their eyes.

Lads .... i all fairness ... i think you are under selling the league altogether.

[eoinh]

damn missed the live hockey matchs yesterday......... but thank god RTE had highlights of the matchs on last night


The Irish crazy golf championships are on next saturday live..... cant wait

[liamon]

I do like the aertel pages that RTE are putting up this year.
For instance, last night there was a good few pages describing the atmosphere at league games. Mentioned how it's better that internationals at LR, despite only having 10% of the crowd.

[Aberdonian Stu]

Not to rally to the cause of my Belfieldian too hastily but the bottom line is that the other sporting organisations on this island have had two things which went heavily in their favour:

(1) Friends in the right places, no explanation necessary I hope,

(2) Better management, including image management. Both the GAA and IRFU are as rife with problems as the FAI yet who come across the worst always? The better management in these organisations can't be emphasised enough. Having good friends only gets you so far, you have to make the product marketable without the station trying too hard (and by virtue of it being easy to sell the station will in fact put in more effort as it comes across as a more achievable goal). The pomp and promotions run by the other parties are much more professional and dare I saw higher brow (Showdown anyone?) so they generally appeal to a wider audience.

[eoinh]

Why? The interest is as high.
4,500 I thought But however many it was, it's not representative of either the EL as a whole or Cork over the season, unfortunately.
Leinster, Munster and Ulster's average over a season would be over 4,000 too I'd imagine and no other EL club gets that many. The interest in the Celtic League is quite high, higher than the EL I would think.
Would Co. Cork not have a population equal to the rest Munster combined? I'm just guessing but I would have thought it would, or close enough. The size of the catchment area is hardly relevant anyway, it's the level of interest in the games that will determine whether they'll be shown on TV.

I don't think there's a real argument, both the EL and the Celtic League should be on TV. It's English and Celtic games that I have a problem with.

Munster Match in Cork last night. Attendance 4000. A Celtic match was shown on TV. An AIL match on today.

RTE are also showing a GAA match in its entirety from 1981 !?! and Aussie rules football.
There is also more GAA being shown.
Nothing by the national channel on the LOI. They will probably show us more of Hunter

[eoinh]

After seeing the news. Attendance of Cork Con match was about 200 at most ? (shown live on TV)


There looked to be about 48 and a half people at the other match

[pete]

After seeing the news. Attendance of Cork Con match was about 200 at most ? (shown live on TV) There looked to be about 48 and a half people at the other match

And looked like played on pub league pitch.

At least it topped the attendance at the hockey finals.