UTV & BBC & RTE & TV3

[Feckitt]

The agenda lies in not securing the rights.

RTE TV and TG4 is available now in every corner of northern ireland, either from Saorview overspill or directly via freeview so the need for BBC to show anything beyond the ulster championship is not there.

Their coverage of the national league wouldnt be great, but you still have a raft of southern local radio stations online which cover the games so its not like the old days that someone in the back of Antrim relied completely on BBC for their GAA coverage.

Serious question, can you please tell me how to get RTE for free in the North, I have looked into this, and I cannot seem to find anyway of getting it without paying for it.  RTE currently costs me £25 per month.

[johnneycool]

RTE and TG4 are transmitted from Divis, so if you've a HD TV or set top box, you should be able to get it, although CL football and so on will be blue screened.
I can get RTE from a transmitter in Louth and the CL football and stuff isn't blue screened, but that's luck of the draw depending on location.

[armaghniac]

The agenda lies in not securing the rights.

RTE TV and TG4 is available now in every corner of northern ireland, either from Saorview overspill or directly via freeview so the need for BBC to show anything beyond the ulster championship is not there.

Their coverage of the national league wouldnt be great, but you still have a raft of southern local radio stations online which cover the games so its not like the old days that someone in the back of Antrim relied completely on BBC for their GAA coverage.

Serious question, can you please tell me how to get RTE for free in the North, I have looked into this, and I cannot seem to find anyway of getting it without paying for it.  RTE currently costs me £25 per month.

RTE is broadcast from NI transmitters, albeit at somewhat reduced power, any Freeview HD set can pick it up.

[MoChara]

I've lived in Belfast for years and could never pick up the southern stations same up at home in North Antrim, trying a few different free view boxes etc, only thing that seemed to work was Sky.

If I'm, doing something wrong, How'd you's get it tuned in?

[sensethetone]

If a TV is an MPEG4 type it should receive RTE without having to get any other device.

[armaghniac]

If a TV is an MPEG4 type it should receive RTE without having to get any other device.

This is not quite true of the NI transmitters, which use DVB-T2, there could exist some TV sets that could receive Saorview but not these transmissions. However any Freeview HD set will and this should be any set on sale nowadays.

[ONeill]

Martin Clarke's a dead on sidekick. Doesn't try to be profound. Positive in nature.

[Tony Baloney]

Martin Clarke's a dead on sidekick. Doesn't try to be profound. Positive in nature.

The Oolster Scots twang music to the ears.

[ned]

Martin Clarke's a dead on sidekick. Doesn't try to be profound. Positive in nature.

The Oolster Scots twang music to the ears.

Perfect analyser. Does not just say what he sees, offers insight that us mere mortals may not notice. As for Martin McH, I think he talks ome sense if only he would finish his sentences!

[muppet]

Martin Clarke's a dead on sidekick. Doesn't try to be profound. Positive in nature.

The Oolster Scots twang music to the ears.

Perfect analyser. Does not just say what he sees, offers insight that us mere mortals may not notice. As for Martin McH, I think he talks ome sense if only he would finish his sentences!

...or his words.

[ONeill]

Recorded both BBC and RTE and it was stark how dated the Spillane/ORourke pairing is. They harped on about the state of football instead of accepting it is what it is and analysing match ups etc. BBC dissected the game with players who were on the field only a few years ago.

[Main Street]

Martin Clarke's a dead on sidekick. Doesn't try to be profound. Positive in nature.

The Oolster Scots twang music to the ears.

Perfect analyser. Does not just say what he sees, offers insight that us mere mortals may not notice. As for Martin McH, I think he talks ome sense if only he would finish his sentences!

...or his words.

We know that's never ever going to happen with McHugh, he's grand on the pundits chair just as long as he's not the co commentator. Though I don't know how he can do the punditry  considering his sons are heavily involved, I'd be in a sort of deranged state not unlike McHugh in his normal state.

 

[ONeill]

And another bugbear is the camerawork.

The game has changed but the camera techniques haven't. Countless times on Sunday, after a score or a wide, the cameraman missed the quick kick-outs. You were only able to gauge what was happening was by the noise of the crowd or the reactions of the player/blade in the crowd they were zooming in on. Had there been a quick turnover/mistake, the ball would have been in the back of the net before the camera followed the play.

[Dubh driocht]

Totally ONeill. It was frustrating to say the least; was the coverage from BBC Camera people who aren't used to covering GAA matches ? If it was RTE people there are no excuses.
I agree with Marty Clarke as an analyst; has insight but recognises these are amateurs and doesn't try to slag players.
He was blown away with Cavanaghs point.
Pity he has so much time to spend in the studio rather than on the pitch

[twohands!!!]

Totally ONeill. It was frustrating to say the least; was the coverage from BBC Camera people who aren't used to covering GAA matches ? If it was RTE people there are no excuses.
I agree with Marty Clarke as an analyst; has insight but recognises these are amateurs and doesn't try to slag players.
He was blown away with Cavanaghs point.
Pity he has so much time to spend in the studio rather than on the pitch

Yup was the BBC NI camera feed as an Ulster game.
It's been going on for ages with the BBC NI games.
When Donnelly got his black they had a shot of him sitting on the bench with a jersey over his head, while the game was going on.
Their use of the replay function is terrible - and causes them to miss a lot of the action.
Don't get me started on their shots of management on the sideline - adds nothing to proceedings.
As for their utterly gormless crowd shots - why in the name of god would any sports broadcaster decide it's a reasonable choice to show shots of the crowd while there is action going on.
I'm convinced it is a deliberate policy by BBC NI as it's just not plausible to be so consistently inept.