TV3 secures rights to Six Nations from 2018 – RTÉ Sport – https://t.co/kA1fuLj0Bo – via @rtesport – #IrishRugby
— IrishRugbySupporters (@IrishRugbySupp) November 11, 2015
“This is extremely disappointing news for RTÉ. We have a long and proud tradition of showcasing the 6 Nations and putting our heart and soul into our coverage.
We want to assure the Irish public that every possible effort was made by RTÉ to retain these rights. As a public service broadcaster, RTÉ’s ambition has always been, and continues to be, to deliver the best possible viewer experience and to share moments of major national importance.
We put forward the best possible bid within our means, while always mindful of the significant responsibilities attached to spending public funds.”
Ryle Nugent, Group Head of Sport, RTÉ
*kicks telly*
TV3 wins Six Nations Championship rights from 2018 (TV3)
Horrible news
Where exactly is all the money from the TV licence and the advertisments on RTE going????
http://www.rte.ie/about/en/policies-and-reports/annual-reports/
17% of the licence fee goes to organisations other than RTE (TG4, BAI,..)
6% goes to the RTE performing groups (RTE symphony orchestra, etc.) are basically another cost which has been imposed on RTE.
17% goes to three RTE radio stations
61% goes to two RTE TV stations
Not funded by the licence fee but arguably indirectly supported by it is the following: RTE 2fm, RTE.ie, RTE Aertel.
Aertel!!! Hahahaha
Please God let them get a better commentator than Conor McNamara – the man is useless.
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lol, now the d4 heads will be crying into their babyshams!
Someone show Dav a newspaper.
He forgot the date again!
roish
@ Dav, listen to this: https://www.newstalk.com/ewan-trevor-rugby
Their World Cup coverage was really good.
Except for Conor McNamara.
It really wasn’t. The whole thing just feels flat.
It wasn’t much worse than ITV but that’s not saying much.
No, it wasn’t. They came into more than one match more than a minute late so they could show more ads. That’s utterly unacceptable. After the SA v JAP match a commentator said it was one of the most historic moments in international football. No-one said anything.
The commentary was poor, the pundits were wooden and the ads were horrendous. RTE do a much, much better job every year with the six nations and I say that as someone who hates almost everything RTE do.
I find Rte’s rugby format very staid – I didn’t really see what you liked about it unless you’re one of these people who thinks Hookie is a gas laugh?
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O’Shea and O’Gara are the only two who speak any sense
If they’d done this before George Hook had retired it would be worth it
Jennings is a brilliant pundit but Matt Williams can f off
What difference does this make ?
Watched it on the BBC anyway, BOD & Woody far superior to Hook & Pope !!
It was on ITV, not the BBC.
That was the World Cup. BBC have the Six Nations.
Idiot !
Some of their others are pretty annoying – Guscott, Healey & the like.
It also shares that common UK tv thing of being overly reactive and trying to have light-hearted banter.
But yea BBC production of such things are much better than ITV or TV3.
Still prefer RTE myself.
What I want to see from TV3:
1. When a ref goes to TMO – we at home have already seen the action, we don’t need to be bored as they cycle through different angles – why not give us an ad break?
2. We know the National Anthems, skip em and give us more advertisements. I never tire of seeing what consumer choices are open to me.
3. We saw the match, why give us some nobodies opinion on it, I want Gillette or Adidas to give a sponsored 15 minute programme on their vision for what we should think of the game and how we can aspire to become part of it by buying selected products or services.
You have to love Matt Cooper though. He’s a dote.
Except for his terrible links.
“Coming up… More conversation”
He just shouts and looks uncomfortable about shilling for DOB
Just get Matt to stop saying “sahurday”.
Grand TV coverage except for the analysis, commentary and ads. Nice colourdy picures on de screen.
Delightful. Out of site, out of mind.
BBC man me! lover their coverage of the RBS 6N.
You can keep your TV3 !
The BBC’s Jonathan Davis is possible the most overrated rugby pundit on TV. He views everything thru Wales tinted glasses. But it is his coverage of Pro12 matches is where he can really let lose, he manages to be patronising to teams beating welsh teams and condescending to others – this can all happened in the same match.
Agree on Jonathan Davies but Brian Moore is a joy to behold!
Will TV3 get some of the licence fee now that RTE can’t seem to use it properly?
TV3 already get some of the licence fee.
using it wisely so unlike their friends in donnybrookdublin4
Would you rather RTE got stuck into a bidding war over every sporting event?
They are clearly in a bidding war and they are losing every important battle; Old heineken cup, Irish soccer friendlies, Pro 12, English premiership soccer highlights and they are losing their vice-like grip on the GAA.
“as long as we can see Ryan tubridy interviewing Ray Darcy and Ray Darcy interviewing Ryan tubridy, the license is well worth it”
Welsh or English tint glasses. He loves having a sly dig at Scotland
Disagree. Davis is very knowledgeable on both League and Union. Shows a great understanding of tactics and regularly spots what is being set up on the field and can see a gap or overlap at 1,000 m.
Dear god, please let this be some kind of horrible joke…
I watch TV3 for the excellent commentary by Stuart Barnes.
And I would watch any rugby game on TV featuring analysis by Brian Moore – he has a wonderful way of winding up de Paddies like.
Delighted for Ryle he really is a great man for sport at RTE. If the sport is losing rights to international and national sporting events. Good job here’s that bonus for saving money.
Bit harsh blaming a chap in RTE for TV3 doing a good job on their sales pitch.
Not really. RTE cut their bid for the Rabo cos they knew TV3 weren’t going for it. They forgot all about TG4. Spanners.
(This might not have happened, but something like it did. Change the event/tv channels.)
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Right. Noted. Now, who will replace Stuart Lancaster?
Think they’ll go for a Southern Hemisphere coach. Mallinder will be in the running if they go with an English coach
This assumes TV3 will still be around in 2018
You do realise Tv3 Constantly out does RTE in viewing figures; Right? Id be more worried about RTE not being around in 2018 then TV3.
TV is a dying medium. Online broadcasting will be everything in the next 5 to 10 years. I’m not sure what the TV licence pays for at all anymore. Deadweight at RTE it seems
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And who is going to make all this content for online? and who is going to pay for making it? Just cause its online doesn’t mean its free.
What do rté do exactly with the licence fee? Does it all go on wages? Where can I see the accounts?
It takes a lot of money to keep such an immense amount of people employed for life on a large campus in Dublin 4. Hardly any left over for actual programmes. Seriously.
Actual programmes require people to procure, commission, produce, broadcast, etc.
And actually RTE has outsourced a huge proportion of programme production – partly, I suspect because the contractiors that do it don’t get jobs for life or pensions. They have lost over 20% of their staff over the last 7 years,
This is a move which the BBC is contemplating now but which is attracting controversy for being too right-wing, for losing institutional memory, for being sh!t on the employees etc.
I hope you do not mind me asking but do you work there?
Yes they have cut back on staff but there is about 40 people out of a staff of 2000 who actually make programmes and everything is farmed out to the private sector where budgets are constantly cut and programme makers are expected to work way below rate. RTE should cut the RTE guide which has constantly lost money they should drop Aertel, 2XM, half the legal staff and no one should be payed over €150,000 a year.
It would be great if Sky had it with John Part and Eric Bristow as commentators.
Maybe if more people paid their licence fee…
What’s the actual rate of failure to pay the license fee?
Doesn’t this free up MILLLLLLLLIONS for actual RTE programming now?
Oh good god, TV3, what have you done?!
Hah, pay rises for everyone….
That 24/7 Jennifer Maguire Channel is within our grasp!
Is there anything more
Tedious than threads about
Watching rugby on television at home ?
Your comments?
Oh joy, oh rapture… No more McGurk… as big a w@nker as there is, on and off the field, so to speak.
And what’s the point in little “Ryle” keeping his job as head of flooding our screens with rugby if he’s making such a hames of it?
I was just thinking, doesn’t the level of interest in this thread only serve to increase the price of the TV rights?
-Kinda like getting knocked about in a scrum at YOUR expense, for the entertainment of fat old men?
Now where did I last see something like that?
I stopped watching rugby on RTE wherever possible a while ago, just couldn’t take Horgan and Nugent any more. Pope, O’Gara and O’Shea are very good but as soon as they started talking the moronic Horgan would should them down. No great loss as far as I am concerned.