UTV & BBC & RTE & TV3

[red hander]

They flashed up earlier that Championship will follow when match finishes, which looks at this stage will be a while yet. Probably shit scared of all those complaints from tennis loving loyalists.

[Gael85]

The Championship is supposed to be on BBC2 now but all I am getting is Tennis. Am I the only one?

It on BBC 2 now

[BennyCake]

Will the Derry Donegal match be delayed today, if the All Vicars Over 75 Mixed Doubles Tennis final goes to a fifth set?

[lenny]

Sean Cavanagh having a laugh on TSG. He's confident that Fergal Logan will come up with some legal wizardry to get Ronan mcnamee off for clearly striking. You couldn't make it up but it seems like Tyrone have some kind of entitlement when it comes to these suspensions.

[BennyCake]

Sean Cavanagh having a laugh on TSG. He's confident that Fergal Logan will come up with some legal wizardry to get Ronan mcnamee off for clearly striking. You couldn't make it up but it seems like Tyrone have some kind of entitlement when it comes to these suspensions.

I wouldn't be surprised if he got it overturned. It was more of a push than a strike.

But it's long overdue that a rule was brought in, where any contact with the head/face/neck is a straight red.

[rrhf]

Sean Cavanagh having a laugh on TSG. He's confident that Fergal Logan will come up with some legal wizardry to get Ronan mcnamee off for clearly striking. You couldn't make it up but it seems like Tyrone have some kind of entitlement when it comes to these suspensions.

I wouldn't be surprised if he got it overturned. It was more of a push than a strike.

But it's long overdue that a rule was brought in, where any contact with the head/face/neck is a straight red.

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and in the meantime there is no rule to be fair.

[Feckitt]

I live in the North and watch all my telly through sky.
I can't watch the Olympics on RTE because I'm geo blocked.
Same with International soccer and rugby.
What is my best option?

[6th sam]

I live in the North and watch all my telly through sky.
I can't watch the Olympics on RTE because I'm geo blocked.
Same with International soccer and rugby.
What is my best option?

I've the Same problem.
Any advice out there

[Hound]

I live in the North and watch all my telly through sky.
I can't watch the Olympics on RTE because I'm geo blocked.
Same with International soccer and rugby.
What is my best option?

I've the Same problem.
Any advice out there

That would be something useful politicians up north could change.  Given the special situation of the north, there has to be reasonable grounds for overriding the geo block. And hard to see how it would cost Sky or RTÉ anything material.

[armaghniac]

I live in the North and watch all my telly through sky.
I can't watch the Olympics on RTE because I'm geo blocked.
Same with International soccer and rugby.
What is my best option?

I've the Same problem.
Any advice out there

That would be something useful politicians up north could change.  Given the special situation of the north, there has to be reasonable grounds for overriding the geo block. And hard to see how it would cost Sky or RTÉ anything material.

Politicians rarely address such useful matters, for instance they did nothing about mobile roaming until the EU sorted it out for them. And while something could be done for the cable TV it is harder to do something about the satellite without creating a whole market in dodgy cards etc. One overlooked aspect of Brexit is that NI is not in the EU electronic services market. This could mean roaming charges for phones again, since at this point nobody has done actually anything to stop this. I had paid for NowTV for a month for the GAA games, but I found myself in the 6 counties last Saturday and had to buy another day pass notwithstanding, this did not have happen last year.

[dec]

Simplest way is to receive the RTÉ stations via the Saorview (terrestrial) platform if reception is possible in your location. No programming blackouts, with the three Virgin Media channels thrown in for good measure.

Are the RTE channels available on Freeview?

[RedHand88]

I'm not sure politicians can do anything about it. It's a licensing issue, which your MLA has absolutely zero influence over.

[armaghniac]

I'm not sure politicians can do anything about it. It's a licensing issue, which your MLA has absolutely zero influence over.

It should be addressed within the Olympic movement. If people from the 6 counties can represent Ireland then the contract that the Olympics signs should allow their families see them on TV. But as we know from the GAA, money wins out in these things.

[armaghniac]

I'm not sure politicians can do anything about it. It's a licensing issue, which your MLA has absolutely zero influence over.

It should be addressed within the Olympic movement. If people from the 6 counties can represent Ireland then the contract that the Olympics signs should allow their families see them on TV. But as we know from the GAA, money wins out in these things.

The IOC are notoriously angsty when it comes to broadcasting & marketing rights, among other things. Main problem is that the European broadcast area rights to the current Summer Olympic Games are held by Discovery Networks EMEA, whom have sub-let some of these rights to national broadcasters like the BBC* & RTÉ. In the past these rights where held by the EBU, of which both RTÉ and BBC are members and cross-border reception as such within Europe wasn't as much of a deal.

You get perverse incentives in these things. The European sports bodies might think that widespread coverage of their sports was good thing, but some association in Africa where half the people have no TV wants the maximum money obtained regardless of the effect on the sports. You get the same thing happening in the GAA.

[RedHand88]

Rewatching today's RTE coverage. Ger Canning makes an awful lot of mistakes in a game, especially with names. Said Gormleys block was 2002. Talked about Ben McDowell coming on for McCann.