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BR
Brekkie
No huge surprise the Boat Race is staying on the BBC with a new seven year deal from 2015 also seeing the womens race staged on the same day.
http://www.sportbusiness.com/tv-sports-markets/bbc-extends-boat-race-deal
DV
DVB Cornwall
Rugby .....

It continues, another delay today (source - Belfast Telegraph) and a further comment that if the deals aren't announced on Monday or Tuesday then the announcement might be held over further, 'to protect the integrity of the Heineken QF matches due next weekend'.

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28-Mar-2014 @ 22:12
RD
rdd Founding member
Sky Sports News was broadcasting last night from what looked like the Soccer Saturday studio but no wide shots were being used. New set on the way possibly?
RO
rob Founding member
rdd posted:
Sky Sports News was broadcasting last night from what looked like the Soccer Saturday studio but no wide shots were being used. New set on the way possibly?




GE
Gareth E
rdd posted:
Big news on this side of the Irish Sea as it's been reported by several papers that Sky are on the verge of securing exclusive rights to a number of GAA championship games previously shown by TV3, which would be a seismic shock and another big blow to TV3 which is also losing it's ITV content at the end of the year.


Confirmed today. Also noteworthy that BBC Northern Ireland retain rights to show the live RTE games involving the Ulster teams.

http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2014/0401/606028-gaa-rights-deal/
RD
rdd Founding member
TG4 get the minor (under-18 ) finals, and Premier Sports get the rights to show all GAA games not shown by Sky Sports in Great Britain. Also big news is a deal for the Seven Network to show every game shown on TV in Ireland live in Australia.

The Sky deal is actually quite a modest one. It involves four games in the provincial championships, two football quarter finals, and 8 games in what's officially called the All-Ireland Qualifiers Series but is almost universally known as the "back-door" - a parallel competition that's run for teams that get knocked out of the provincial championships that allows them to re-enter at the quarter final stage. (Its one of those Only in Ireland things). Likely as not Dublin will be shown as often as they're allowed to do so, although they have won the Leinster championship all but one year since 2005 so they are rarely in the "back-door" series.

Its big exposure for the association on Sky Sports but there's a bit of a backlash against it already - RTÉ have devoted a huge chunk of their current affairs programme Prime Time to it tonight - I wouldn't be surprised if there is a move to A-list some of these games (in the same way as all of the Republic of Ireland's competitive football games were listed after the FAI did a deal with Sky Sports) bit. What people seem to forget is that until the 1990s the only GAA shown live on TV was the All-Ireland finals and semi-finals.
HA
harshy Founding member
Has anyone noticed Sky are now crediting espn star sports at the end of each coverage of the icc World Cup, I think this is a first normally they just show the sky sports copyright info.
RO
robertclark125
The deal with the Seven Network in Australia will help that channel out, after it lost host broadcast rights to the V8 Supercars series from 2015-2020, to a joint Foxtel/Ten deal.

Meanwhile, Premier Sports here in GB still steadfastly refusing to broadcast the Championship Rugby League competition, the second tier of Rugby League. This also means no coverage of the Northern Rail cup. The reason was that Premier are unhappy that the RFL sold the rights to Sky Sports from 2015, but that they took so long and announced the deal so late in the day.

The thing is, Premier Sports seems to fail to understand that the rights were tendered, and also, the split two thirds of the way through the season, where the bottom teams in the Super League will play the top teams in the Championship for the right to play in the Super League the following season, and the current Sky Sports deal for the Super League, meant that the reality was, only one broadcaster could realistically cover the series at the split, except for the bottom teams in the championship.

But for Premier to then decide to not show the last year of its deal is childish, though they do state "Someone else can show the games this season.". But why should someone else do it? Premier has the contract, so it should honour it. Of course, this is not the first time that a broadcaster has behaved this way; remember when Channel 5 got Home and Away? ITV refused to show it for the last year of its deal as well.

I just wonder if Premier Sports will now honour its agreement for end of season RL internationals, that it shares with the BBC? Be interesting to see if they do, given how affronted they feel because of this.
FL
flaziola
Big loser in this is TV3. They've lost the lot.
RD
rdd Founding member
Indeed, their statement indicates a lot of sour grapes on their part...incidently the GAA are not happy with RTÉ's behaviour in the aftermath of the announcement - their point being that instead of trumpeting their own games, they are focussed on the games Sky have got, games RTÉ were never going to get. Now while it is a legitimate concern of GAA fans that Sky have got these games (although I think it is good for the association) the cynical side of me would think that it would be in RTÉ's interests if more of these games were listed, as it would drive down the price of the rights for them.
WA
watchingtv
F1 World Feed went down for a few mins during Practice.

I thought there was a backup feed? Does anyone know if that is true?
NG
noggin Founding member
F1 World Feed went down for a few mins during Practice.

I thought there was a backup feed? Does anyone know if that is true?


How were you watching the World Feed ? The BBC F1 coverage comes from site, so if the BBC programme dropped out, it is likely to be the BBC backhaul that dropped out, not the World Feed. (i.e. the BBC get a local provision on-site - on a cable to which they add their own production, commentary, graphics etc. and then pass this back as a Unilateral to the UK) There would normally be a backup of the BBC feed to accompany this I believe.

Or did the BBC continue with VO and local presentation - which would presumably happen if they lost the world feed incoming locally at the track?

I believe that on occasions (possibly only for the main race?) that there is also a separate downlink of the World Feed to the UK (possibly with BBC commentary fed back independently for a gallery in Salford, formerly TVC, to mix and create an additional backup - but I may be very wrong)

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