RTE Petition

Well this was posted on the derry fourm:

Setanta fell out with the FAI a while back, but sent them an email asking if they are going to show eL games anyway. This is what I got back:

"We believe so. Discussions with the league are advanced.
Please keep an eye on the website for an announcement soon."

that is good news but the chances are that they will be paper view. it is encouraging news but i still think that we should be able watch our national league on terrestrial tv. is any1 interested in making this petition work. it woud work for sure with enuf people and effort!

Petitions a waste of time as no one likes to be forced to do anything..

Fans should concentrat on supporting their teams or bringing people to games. FAI & clubs make irish football a product worth showing.

Originally Posted by martin_rules_ie

that is good news but the chances are that they will be paper view.

There's no way in hell that eircom League matches will be pay-per-view. The casual Man Yoo fan on the couch might watch Bohs and Pats if it happens to be on on a Wednesday night but he ain't gonna pay for the honour.

lads, theres no point in being so pesimistic. i think its worth a try. if eircom league clubs were contacted and asked to support the movement it could add to the seriousness of this petition. on corkcityfootie.com the majority of people agreed it would be a good idea. if this was done at a number of eircom league club grounds for a few consecutive weeks and only a fraction of people signed then 10,000 atleast would be on the petition. this could work, think about. an audience of 10,000 people is not to be sneezed at. it is feesable, setanta are already lookin in to it. all we need is people to say they are interested in petitioning in their local grounds around the country. surely some supporter groups would be willing to help!?!?!?!!?

just had good news,
a poster on corkcityfootie.com has just posted that the chairman of the bray wanderers supporters club has backed the petition all the way. i have emailed the petition to them now. any1 else interested in helping out???

Irish clubs have played seven games in Europe this season. Not one highlights programme or live match. Disgrace!


That new head of RTE sport was appointed today.

Well what do you expect - It is RTE!

if you wanna help change this then read my thread entitled 'Please Read Everybody!!!!!!!!'
trust me its worth it

lads im a cork city fan living in bray and couple of us el fans have put together a petition to try and get rte/tv3 to show el matches i was wondering can anyone in bray give us a dig out before a bray match in the next couple of weeks just to stand outside the ground or inside and get people to sign it your help would be much appreciated

Sure it's okay, they did cover UCD ladies team who are off to play in Europe, in the same 6-1 broadcast in which they barely mention Bohs or Longfords games

Originally Posted by exile

lads im a cork city fan living in bray and couple of us el fans have put together a petition to try and get rte/tv3 to show el matches i was wondering can anyone in bray give us a dig out before a bray match in the next couple of weeks just to stand outside the ground or inside and get people to sign it your help would be much appreciated

Im sure we can sort something out for ya, will have a word to see what we can do

They are improving Aertel managed to get all the European results right and within 5 minutes of BBC Ceefax.

We've been screwed by the TV deal really and thegovernment. RTE have no interest in showing domestic football. they have all the national team's games anyway. The GAA have no doubt done a deal that if RTE want the decent games they must show laod san dloads of crap ones as well. The F.A.I. have their hands tied now.

It is a disgrace that RTE ar eusing licence payers money to buy premiership football and not cover the domestic game.

The new head guy of Sport is the former head of GAA coverage so he is hardly going to be any more sympathetic towards football. Niall cogley was a rugby man and hence the great coverag eof the All Ireland league eventhoguh most Dublin clubs cast envious glances at the likes of UCD and Dublin City due to their relatively hige support.

What really irks though is that RTE get great figures for their broadcasts - Bohs vv Pats had 200,000 viewers last season - that's more than the Premiership that week.

Shels home game should be live next week. Both legs of Nantes v Cork should also be live instead they'll hardly get a mention and Aertel will report Shels lost to a late converted try after their batsman was bowled out for a duck.

I'd prefer highlights of all games than showing one or other game live.

Do RTE still have that exclusive deal wirth shel$ that meant they only showed their games?

To be fair the print media haven't been a lot better. The Irish Times and Irish Independent had about 10 lines for the shels game on Wednesday!

You'll see they'll suddenly start jumping on the bandwagon if shels get through to the 2nd qualifying round.

thanks roo just pm and let me know whatever

fair play roo. good work exile, your the man.

The herald was surprising I thought half of the back page had a picture of Shels and a headline Irish in Europe etc the three pages back from that were all eircom League

Originally Posted by PaulB

To be fair the print media haven't been a lot better. The Irish Times and Irish Independent had about 10 lines for the shels game on Wednesday!

You'll see they'll suddenly start jumping on the bandwagon if shels get through to the 2nd qualifying round.

the indo online had a full aticle on the match- did it not see print in the paper- twas a good bit more than 10 lines

same for the other two games and cork gor a fair anmoutn of column inches

I havent seen the irish times lately though

No need to post in every forum. Everyone will see in EL General.