GAAGO - Rebel Strike (again)

[The Dagda]

sky was a secondary charge negotiated with the gaa. the point i’m making is that there was NEVER a secondary charge when rte had the rights to games. rte even showed games on the news channel if time slots didn’t allow the public at large to see one match or another.

now, rte and the gaa have contrived a way of 1. making the general public pay a yearly fee and 2. making the public pay for matches which in the most part would have been available to the public. i’d imagine the uptake in sky subscitions in ireland would be around 60% or more of households.

as for geoblocked broadcasts, the games shown on sky were geoblocked to gaago subscribers in the uk but available to worldwide subscribers on a different plan.

it seems to me that you don’t know the whole history of gaago up until this fiasco raised its head and are wading in headlong with your own ideas on the whole thing.

It's still a paywall.
The games weren't available unless you paid for them with a sub.

Now the games are still behind a paywall but because RTE are involved you think you have a right to them because of the TV licence and you do have a point.
As for the geoblocking? If you had a Sky sub in the UK you could watch the GAA matches. They owned the rights in the U.K. of course you couldn't watch them without a subscription to Sky. Same as in Ireland. No Sky sub no match.


So your only problem with GAA Go as it exists today is RTEs involvement?
If some other company went into partnership with the GAA and the whole thing was behind a paywall you'd be OK with it? There is no legal obligation for the GAA to show matches on RTE or even on free to air.

 

[rebel without a caus]

Sky was a secondary charge.
I didn't subscribe to Sky. I didn't get to see the games shown by Sky.

Geoblocked Sky GAA games in the UK?
What?

Where do you think the GAA money has gone/is going?
I'd love to hear your theories?

You clearly know very little about which you are talking.
As treasurer of my local club for a good few years, i can tell you exactly how much is fed back into the (junior) club from central gaa each year. For us, it was around 1,200 a year. Pocket-change with respect to the costs to run the club on an annual basis.
Any grants for capital projects did not come from the GAA. They came from government, lotto and local council sports investmemt programmes.
And fundraising. All GAA members know well how often they are asked to dig into their pockets for various fundraisers through the year.
But, but, but. Lets all be fine with being double-charged to watch our games.
When the opposite should be the case in the face of unprecedented competition from other sports to claim the attention of our younger generations, GAA should be investing in media to ensure as many games as possible are broadcast free-to-air, you know, to actually promote our games.

 

[JimmyBarrySmurph]

All sports are competing for kids these days and you want a GAA channel for members only.

No offense but your idea is idiotic.

What’s going to pay for the admin expenses of the provincial councils?
GAAGO is helping to pay for these surely as the daft provincial championships and admin structure are retained.

 

[dukeroyale]

What’s going to pay for the admin expenses of the provincial councils?
GAAGO is helping to pay for these surely as the daft provincial championships and admin structure are retained.

gaago is repaying the broadcasting rights that rte already paid for broadcasting gaa.

rte pay gaa for broadcasting right.

gaa do a dual agreement with rte and sky.

sky renege on a a renewal.

gaa lost broadcasting money from sky so matches that would have pre-sky been free to air, be it on an rte channel or the news streaming channel. now they’re being put behind a paywall which was never done or set in stone from the first place.

how this is slipping beyond posters is unbelievable!

up until the dagda’s budget everything was paying for itself because volunteers were still going to do the work and also have free access too gaa content. all of a sudden there’s a dozen camera operators and a studio to pay for in croke park.

the gaa is the sporting version of the catholic church. a load of indoctrinated dopes spouting on about culture and gaelicism and whatever else while letting johnny ryan and mary murphy make the sandwiches so ja can go on about pumping money back in.

gaago was a great tool for anyone outside of ireland to keep watching games at home, similar to the afl app, but they did a deal with the devil in rte and rode everyone in ireland who had an interest in gaelic games.

 

[The Dagda]

You clearly know very little about which you are talking.
As treasurer of my local club for a good few years, i can tell you exactly how much is fed back into the (junior) club from central gaa each year. For us, it was around 1,200 a year. Pocket-change with respect to the costs to run the club on an annual basis.
Any grants for capital projects did not come from the GAA. They came from government, lotto and local council sports investmemt programmes.
And fundraising. All GAA members know well how often they are asked to dig into their pockets for various fundraisers through the year.
But, but, but. Lets all be fine with being double-charged to watch our games.
When the opposite should be the case in the face of unprecedented competition from other sports to claim the attention of our younger generations, GAA should be investing in media to ensure as many games as possible are broadcast free-to-air, you know, to actually promote our games.

So where is the money going?
By the way 1200 to every club in the country is over 2.6 million. I presume bigger clubs with more members probably got more.

As for investing in media? That exactly what I suggested already several times.
Since you can even read my very few posts where I said just that on this very thread I wont take your accusations of ignorance to heart pal.

 

[The Dagda]

All sports are competing for kids these days and you want a GAA channel for members only.

No offense but your idea is idiotic.

Another one.
My idea.

Personally I think the GAA should buy into one of the available muxs on digital TV.
Call it the GAA channel and fund it with ads.
All matches would be exclusive then to this channel.

 

[rebel without a caus]

So where is the money going?
By the way 1200 to every club in the country is over 2.6 million. I presume bigger clubs with more members probably got more.

As for investing in media? That exactly what I suggested already several times.
Since you can even read my very few posts where I said just that on this very thread I wont take your accusations of ignorance to heart pal.

You tell me where the money is going. Coz it sure as hell aint going back to the clubs. That much i do know.
Your idea of putting ALL games behind a paywall is beyond idiotic.

 

[The Dagda]

You tell me where the money is going. Coz it sure as hell aint going back to the clubs. That much i do know.
Your idea of putting ALL games behind a paywall is beyond idiotic.

They publish their finances.
According to your own calculations at leat 2.6 million is going directly back to the clubs.

 

[The Dagda]

You tell me where the money is going. Coz it sure as hell aint going back to the clubs. That much i do know.
Your idea of putting ALL games behind a paywall is beyond idiotic.

I don't agree with paywalls.
The same people who were OK with games behind a Sky paywall because they were already subscribers have their knickers in a twist because now they have to pay.
It's hypocrisy.

 

[rebel without a caus]

They publish their finances.
According to your own calculations at leat 2.6 million is going directly back to the clubs.

Hahahahaha.
They bring in €120m a year.