GaaGo

[bennydorano]

Creating a Monopoly is never healthy and that looks like what they are trying to do, with an eye to maximising the price gouging no doubt. I hope RTE have the right to refuse the buy out and do so. Gaago is the devil's spawn.

[dec]

The GAA's expertise is in running a sport, not running a streaming platform. I would prefer if they kept a TV company involved. I watch in the US and the picture quality I get from GAAGO, although watchable, is not as good as any of the other sports streaming I watch.

[RedHand88]

Creating a Monopoly is never healthy and that looks like what they are trying to do, with an eye to maximising the price gouging no doubt. I hope RTE have the right to refuse the buy out and do so. Gaago is the devil's spawn.

Why?

[thewobbler]

In my experience, monopolies for televised sport are a rare example of monopolies benefitting consumers.

[bennydorano]

In my experience, monopolies for televised sport are a rare example of monopolies benefitting consumers.

I'm struggling to think of any such example in any sport?

If GAAGO becomes the sole rights holder of GAA, we only have behind a paywall provider, how is that a benefit to anyone? Do we just have to hope they will LET a terrestrial TV provider show some matches?

[thewobbler]

In my experience, monopolies for televised sport are a rare example of monopolies benefitting consumers.

I'm struggling to think of any such example in any sport?

If GAAGO becomes the sole rights holder of GAA, we only have behind a paywall provider, how is that a benefit to anyone? Do we just have to hope they will LET a terrestrial TV provider show some matches?

It's around £500pm for our club to enjoy showing Sky TV. And yet most of the PL games in December are unavailable to us.

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I'm thinking that a paywall system is inevitable if we aspire to blanket coverage. There's just not the room/interest for free to air to cover entire championships.

Only having one paywall is much more preferable than having multiple. Even more so again if the purpose of that provider generating a profit is to reinvest it in the sport.

[Armagh18]

Or 0 paywalls would be ideal...

[thewobbler]

Or 0 paywalls would be ideal...

Or 0 paywalls would be ideal...

I agree.

But I'd guess (I don't have figures) that the majority of "tier 2 and below" games provided on a free to air platform, it produced in any sort of professional manner, would lose money on their broadcast.

The majority tier 1 games will - I assume - always be on free to air platforms. If we want to watch the rest of them from our living rooms, surely the least we can do is help the platform break even?

[Captain Scarlet]

The GAA's expertise is in running a sport, not running a streaming platform. I would prefer if they kept a TV company involved. I watch in the US and the picture quality I get from GAAGO, although watchable, is not as good as any of the other sports streaming I watch.

As it stands the service can be dodgy.
The TV companies are all hired in so RTÉ mostly provide the talent and they are skint so you still get some games with no real analysis.

The GAA could just hire in all these outside broadcasting crews to do it and sell on what they want just like UEFA.

I think the URC is all done by a company and the broadcaster just plugs in.

But where does all this sit with game promotion?

Also it simply wasn't true when the claims were that they didn't cherry pick games.

Say what you want when Sky came in but they were open and honest about wanting to make money and their coverage was top notch.

[Joeythelips]

The GAA should come up with new central membership scheme. So instead of paying a membership fee each year to your club you would sign up via GAA.

There would be different types of membership packages but by being a GAA member you get the subscription to GAA Go included (if desired, cheaper version if you dont). Part of the fee goes directly to the subscribers chosen club, given clubs have large diasporas abroad this could be very beneficial financially to clubs and the GAA as a whole. For example I live abroad and have no real link to my club but if I wanted to view GAA Go and could support my old club at the same time Id be glad to do so. 

I also think RTE waste a lot of money on analysis and interviews, I think a Commentator and co-commentator are fine for each game, Clubber do this and it works reasonably well.

[bennydorano]

On its own GAAGO is a decent package,  for the casual fan its probably ideal, ONE of my issues with it is it's contribution to the accumulative cost of following GAA. Like a lot of GAA people I have Cairde memberships, pay my grown up kids club (& Uni) membership fees, follow the club Seniors, Bs and minors, school games and buy regular games on Armagh TV (& Club Championship passes) then there's buying kits & Tops - that is all before i even get to County games! All my own choice I freely acknowledge but still..  At a conservative estimate the GAA costs me a couple of grand per year. GAAGO is another bill at the end of the day - one that was free of charge until recently.

[RedHand88]

On its own GAAGO is a decent package,  for the casual fan its probably ideal, ONE of my issues with it is it's contribution to the accumulative cost of following GAA. Like a lot of GAA people I have Cairde memberships, pay my grown up kids club (& Uni) membership fees, follow the club Seniors, Bs and minors, school games and buy regular games on Armagh TV (& Club Championship passes) then there's buying kits & Tops - that is all before i even get to County games! All my own choice I freely acknowledge but still..  At a conservative estimate the GAA costs me a couple of grand per year. GAAGO is another bill at the end of the day - one that was free of charge until recently.

But the number of games being shown now has increased. The vast majority of games shown exclusively on GAAGo were never shown until they came along.

[Milltown Row2]

On its own GAAGO is a decent package,  for the casual fan its probably ideal, ONE of my issues with it is it's contribution to the accumulative cost of following GAA. Like a lot of GAA people I have Cairde memberships, pay my grown up kids club (& Uni) membership fees, follow the club Seniors, Bs and minors, school games and buy regular games on Armagh TV (& Club Championship passes) then there's buying kits & Tops - that is all before i even get to County games! All my own choice I freely acknowledge but still..  At a conservative estimate the GAA costs me a couple of grand per year. GAAGO is another bill at the end of the day - one that was free of charge until recently.

But the number of games being shown now has increased. The vast majority of games shown exclusively on GAAGo were never shown until they came along.

Is it a private company? do any of the funds go back into the GAA?

I've no problems with the association with regards to the cost of things (within reason) as this (hopefully) is being used to cover the costs for things that we use or expect when we go and watch our games and the coaches at club/county and other levels that look after them need supported

[johnnycool]

On its own GAAGO is a decent package,  for the casual fan its probably ideal, ONE of my issues with it is it's contribution to the accumulative cost of following GAA. Like a lot of GAA people I have Cairde memberships, pay my grown up kids club (& Uni) membership fees, follow the club Seniors, Bs and minors, school games and buy regular games on Armagh TV (& Club Championship passes) then there's buying kits & Tops - that is all before i even get to County games! All my own choice I freely acknowledge but still..  At a conservative estimate the GAA costs me a couple of grand per year. GAAGO is another bill at the end of the day - one that was free of charge until recently.

But the number of games being shown now has increased. The vast majority of games shown exclusively on GAAGo were never shown until they came along.

Is it a private company? do any of the funds go back into the GAA?

I've no problems with the association with regards to the cost of things (within reason) as this (hopefully) is being used to cover the costs for things that we use or expect when we go and watch our games and the coaches at club/county and other levels that look after them need supported

50% owned by the GAA so I'd expect 50% of the profit to go back into the GAA.

They've put it out to tender I believe so lets see who wants to take it up.

[seafoid]

Maybe the GAA have a different partner in mind.