'The GAA is in the broadcasting game now, with all of the earning potential and headaches that come with it' AnthonyNash6 column on GAAGO, Sky Sports, RTE and the getting the balance right between streaming v free-to-air
SOMETIMES I THINK the GAA don’t realise how important they are. A lot of the problems of the past couple of weeks come down to that.
The idea that everything should be free collides with reality quickly. Even games on RTÉ aren’t free, there’s a licence fee that’s more expensive than a season pass on GAAGO. Jamsie O’Connor was a whizz on the analysis which was enhanced by technology, but Sky invested in Jamesie and trained him to the point where his expertise could be brought to bear in this way.
RTÉ are taxpayer funded, which helps to give them a bigger audience and they can in turn charge a bit more for ads – and yet they still lose money most years. A lesser presenter would have cut him off. A lesser broadcaster would have not clipped the speech and put it out in full on social media. But that’s what RTÉ did. Now, you could say that they had to because to not put it out would have depicted them as running scared, but they still stepped up and I for one was impressed.
You could call him or any of the thousands of us make the case for hurling evangelists, but I think we stop short of that. We haven’t got an old fashioned religious zeal, where you will find the love in your heart to convert – or else!
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