Televised Games 2012

[adamd164]

Shamrock Rovers v Cork City in FAI Cup 3rd round will be broadcast live on RTE 2 on Friday 24 August from 7pm.

[Sean South]

All these games been showing live on TV along with moving fixtures is a real pain in the arse at this stage.

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

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Three more games have been added to the Airtricity League television schedule.

RTE Two will televise the Premier Division fixture between Drogheda United and St. Patrick's Athletic on Friday, September 28, at Hunky Dorys Park with a kick-off time of 7.05 pm. Please note change of kick-off time from 7.45 pm to facilitate the live broadcast of the fixture.

Setanta Sports will televise the Airtricity League Premier Division fixture between Sligo Rovers and Derry City on Saturday, September 29, at The Showgrounds with a kick-off time of 7.45 pm.

RTE Two will televise the Airtricity League Premier Division fixture between Sligo Rovers and St Patrick's Athletic on Saturday, October 13 at The Showgrounds with a kick-off time of 3.45 pm. Please note
change of kick-off time from 7.45 pm to facilitate the live broadcast of the match.

This weekend RTE Two will be screening the Airtricity League Premier Division game between Bray Wanderers and Sligo Rovers at 7.05pm on Friday while Setanta Sports will be broadcasting the EA Sports Cup Final between Shamrock Rovers and Drogheda United at 5.45pm.

[Charlie Darwin]

Can we put to bed this nonsense that RTE is pro-Shamrock Rovers now? That schedule clearly shows RTE and Setanta are only interested in the title race, which I suppose isn't much better.

[shellyriver]

Can we put to bed this nonsense that RTE is pro-Shamrock Rovers now? That schedule clearly shows RTE and Setanta are only interested in the title race, which I suppose isn't much better.

Would you ever kop on - it was obvious that at the beginning of the TV schedule the number of Shamrock Rovers game was totally disproportionate.

However, now that the league title leaders are on the home straight and these games are being shown this is in your judgement a negative development.

Bizarre.

[Dodge]

Would you ever kop on - it was obvious that at the beginning of the TV schedule the number of Shamrock Rovers game was totally disproportionate.

Disproportionate to what? There are teams in this league looking to change the structure of the league so they have a home game against Rovers. They're easily the best known team in Ireland, and as champions were ALWAYS going to be on TV more.

6 months on and the whining is still pathetic from Sligo fans.*


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*granted only one fan here...

[Charlie Darwin]

Would you ever kop on - it was obvious that at the beginning of the TV schedule the number of Shamrock Rovers game was totally disproportionate.

However, now that the league title leaders are on the home straight and these games are being shown this is in your judgement a negative development.

Bizarre.

Disproportionate to what? Rovers are the team most people are familiar with and therefore more likely to watch on TV - the stations choose the highest-profile games with the best chance of good ratings. Now that Rovers are out of the title race, they are choosing the important games, i.e. the highest-profile games with the best chance of getting good ratings.

I didn't say it's a negative thing they're not showing Rovers games. I'm saying it's a negative thing they only show the most high-profile game instead of rotating it.

[nigel-harps1954]

I'd love to count how many times each team have been on TV this year. I'd imagine Sligo are heads and shoulders above.

Have to laugh though, 3:45pm kick-off clashing with the English Premiership? What in utter jesus were RTE thinking?

[Mr A]

Have to laugh though, 3:45pm kick-off clashing with the English Premiership? What in utter jesus were RTE thinking?

Something along the lines of "Here's a slot which nobody watches anyway, may as well fulfil our LOI commitment there."

[Dodge]

I'd love to count how many times each team have been on TV this year. I'd imagine Sligo are heads and shoulders above.

So far (ie not including games not played)

In the league

Rovers 9
Sligo 7
Pats/Drogs 4
Bohs/Derry 3
Bray 2
Cork/Dundalk 1
Shels/UCD 0

In all comps (including FAI Cup, Europe and Setanta)
Rovers 11
Sligo 8
Derry 7
Pats 5
Bohs/Drogs 4
Cork/Bray 2
Dundalk/Shels 1
UCD 0

Mons weren't on TV either

[redobit]

Do you get a payment to compensate gate receipts if a certain amount of your home games (or total games even) are on the TV?

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

I'd love to count how many times each team have been on TV this year. I'd imagine Sligo are heads and shoulders above.

Have to laugh though, 3:45pm kick-off clashing with the English Premiership? What in utter jesus were RTE thinking?

It's an international weekend. Ireland Germany the day before.

[nigel-harps1954]

It's an international weekend. Ireland Germany the day before.

Touché.

[adamd164]

Bray will have been on telly 3 times by the end of the season and 4 if you include the cup. They're possibly the least appealing side after UCD from a potential viewers' point of view and the Carlisle Grounds are a dump!

That said, I'm glad RTE won't bother going down to show our game against Sligo the following week, at least the kick off time and crowd won't be messed up.

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Bray will have been on telly 3 times by the end of the season and 4 if you include the cup. They're possibly the least appealing side after UCD from a potential viewers' point of view and the Carlisle Grounds are a dump!

That said, I'm glad RTE won't bother going down to show our game against Sligo the following week, at least the kick off time and crowd won't be messed up.

I'd be much happier if they didn't show any of our home games

[Ezeikial]

So far (ie not including games not played)

In the league

Rovers 9
Sligo 7
Pats/Drogs 4
Bohs/Derry 3
Bray 2
Cork/Dundalk 1
Shels/UCD 0

In all comps (including FAI Cup, Europe and Setanta)
Rovers 11
Sligo 8
Derry 7
Pats 5
Bohs/Drogs 4
Cork/Bray 2
Dundalk/Shels 1
UCD 0

Thats typical of RTE - send the cameras to Oriel for the Cup Semi and only show St Pats in action.

[Dodge]

So far (ie not including games not played)

I'll highlight that bit for you Ezekial

[shellyriver]

Disproportionate to what? There are teams in this league looking to change the structure of the league so they have a home game against Rovers. They're easily the best known team in Ireland, and as champions were ALWAYS going to be on TV more.

6 months on and the whining is still pathetic from Sligo fans.*


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*granted only one fan here...

The best known team were always going to get more TV? Dublin-centric views, Dublin-centric sports TV - really who cares, not I, I don't care if RTE ever are in the Showgrounds.

Eg of being a 'disproportionate' level of coverage was home and away games with Shams predominating the opening schedule. This was also a disproportionate coverage of a side which didn't reflect the general interest of the footballing community's interest - they might be the best known, but they were and are a hardly the best advertisement for Irish football.


Granted, there has to be a balanced achieved with a number of considerations brought to bear - but the opening schedule of games of RTE basically was a Shams-fest.

I would love RTE to beam Shams into everyone's sitting rooms every match day - great comedy and pathos, mingled with farce, saves on RTE's script-writers and outside broadcasts.

Methinks you misguided conflate and confuse observation with 'whinge'. That's what is pathetic here.

[Dodge]

The best known team were always going to get more TV? Dublin-centric views, Dublin-centric sports TV - really who cares, not I, I don't care if RTE ever are in the Showgrounds.

Clearly you do care as you're still moaning about it 6 months down the line. And its nothing to do with Dublin. Man utd are on TV more in England, Juventus in Italy, bayern in Germnay etc etc

Eg of being a 'disproportionate' level of coverage was home and away games with Shams predominating the opening schedule. This was also a disproportionate coverage of a side which didn't reflect the general interest of the footballing community's interest - they might be the best known, but they were and are a hardly the best advertisement for Irish football.

RTE's role isn't to promote Irish football. Its to get advertisements in.

Methinks you misguided conflate and confuse observation with 'whinge'. That's what is pathetic here.

No, its a whinge.

A whinge on something you don't care about apparently

[adamd164]

http://www.corkcityfc.net/home/2012/...etanta-sports/


Cork City against Sligo Rovers on Friday, 5th October at Turner’s Cross will be televised live by Setanta Sports.

The kick-off time has been changed from 7.45 pm to 8.00 pm in order to facilitate the live broadcast of the match.