FAI Investment in LOI

**Battery Rover** · 30/04/2008, 12:19 PM

Originally Posted by Schumi

The �5,000 is paid to the home team. I think the away team gets some money now too, but not the FAI.

I heard that this season it has changed to �4000 (home), �1000 (away)

**fbtn** · 30/04/2008, 5:44 PM

Originally Posted by pateen

I do find this hard to believe.
I did read somewhere that the mns programme was negotiated as part of a deal to get rights to the internationals.
RTE pay 5000 (though I saw 300 Euro quoted somewhere) for a live game to the FAI. Why would the FAI pay rte for the rights of the EL. TV3 (albeit a shyte programme) already had a programme of their own.
Also isn�t this one of the reasons why the prize money rose so much?

No one mentioned paying for the rights - the rights came in the package with the International matches.

They paid for the Prime Time slot. RTE wanted to show it at the same time as the TV3 show.