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Sports Extra (TNT/Premier)

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    #3332
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,620 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    No FTA partner announced yet, but they are required to sublicense Ireland’s games.


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    #3333
    irishfeen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    Anyone else notice the piss poor picture quality on EirSport2 HD when they broadcast in studio? They must not have HD playout from their studio.

    Very noticeable tonight during the Arsenal game when flicking between BT and ES2 ... they really should be fixing these things as a subscription broadcaster.


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    #3334
    Tigerandahalf
    Registered Users Posts: 7,813 ✭✭✭Tigerandahalf


    I see in the announcement today that eir have a new studio kitted out especially for the pro14.

    Is that studio based in Dublin or London?

    Also on a separate issue does anyone know how you can view your data usage on the my eir app?

    Thanks


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    #3335
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,620 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    Dublin. And they didn’t knit it out just for the Pro14, it made its debut back in February for the start of the GAA Allianz League coverage, after about a decade of Setanta/eir using very much the same set for all their studio stuff.


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    #3336
    irishfeen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    icdg wrote: »
    Dublin. And they didn’t knit it out just for the Pro14, it made its debut back in February for the start of the GAA Allianz League coverage, after about a decade of Setanta/eir using very much the same set for all their studio stuff.

    It’s very strange that they spent all the money on the studio and forgot about HD playout - it’s amateur at best.


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    #3337
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,620 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    Here’s the tweet when it launched BTW. It’s lit differently for the Pro14 announcement but it’s the same set:

    https://twitter.com/eirsport/status/957282008065028096?lang=en

    They have HD playout. Eir Sport 1 isn’t HD on satellite but it is on eir vision and Vodafone (and on Virgin Media when they had it).


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    #3338
    Tigerandahalf
    Registered Users Posts: 7,813 ✭✭✭Tigerandahalf


    So does this mean analysts will be based in Dublin for the pro14 with just a commentary team/sideline set up for the games in the UK?


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    #3339
    irishfeen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    icdg wrote: »
    Here’s the tweet when it launched BTW. It’s lit differently for the Pro14 announcement but it’s the same set:

    https://twitter.com/eirsport/status/957282008065028096?lang=en

    They have HD playout. Eir Sport 1 isn’t HD on satellite but it is on eir vision and Vodafone (and on Virgin Media when they had it).

    Do you know if there is in-house studio HD playout on either channel? It was the same as RTÉ for years studio inc. replays was SD upscaled while the actual match was native HD playout.


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    #3340
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,620 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    That I’m unsure of. They do so little studio stuff these days apart from the Allianz League and UEFA club football.

    Over the summer there’ll be Republic of Ireland v United States in football as well as on off coverage of the League of Ireland but they usually do all their Irish football on site now. We might not see that studio again until the Pro14 starts, or at least the Champions League play off round.


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    #3341
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users Posts: 15,192 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    I usually get EIr/BT sport in September for a few months for college football, the odd EPL game and the backed of the baseball season.

    I hope the addition of Pro14 rugby does not drive the price up.


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    #3342
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,620 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    OT but if college football is your main concern, you might want to look into the ESPN Player, it’s less than half the price of the Eir Sport pack. You’ll miss the marquee SEC on CBS Saturday evening fixture, but should have access to everything else?


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    #3343
    dulpit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,749 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    icdg wrote: »
    OT but if college football is your main concern, you might want to look into the ESPN Player, it’s less than half the price of the Eir Sport pack. You’ll miss the marquee SEC on CBS Saturday evening fixture, but should have access to everything else?

    That jingle tho...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4VCu7RYDcA


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    #3344
    IsMiseJoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 218 ✭✭IsMiseJoe


    There seems to be a bit of upheaval in Italy regarding Serie A rights between Sky Italia & Mediapro.
    Mediapro-loses-serie-tender

    Anyone know if it has any consequences for coverage in Ireland & UK?


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    #3345
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,620 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    It doesn’t no, it relates only to the Italian domestic rights, where Sky and Mediaset refused to meet the reserve and Mediapro (who are an agency with no existing Italian operations) won the rights simply by bidding the reserve+€1,000.


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    #3346
    IsMiseJoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 218 ✭✭IsMiseJoe


    icdg wrote: »
    It doesn’t no, it relates only to the Italian domestic rights, where Sky and Mediaset refused to meet the reserve and Mediapro (who are an agency with no existing Italian operations) won the rights simply by bidding the reserve+€1,000.

    So it's BT/eir again for Serie A next season?


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    #3347
    An Ciarraioch
    Registered Users Posts: 5,804 ✭✭✭An Ciarraioch


    IsMiseJoe wrote: »
    So it's BT/eir again for Serie A next season?

    Not automatically - think the 3-year contract expires at the end of this season.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_broadcasting_contracts_in_the_United_Kingdom


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    #3348
    Schwanz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 898 ✭✭✭Schwanz


    An Ciarraioch wrote: »
    Not automatically - think the 3-year contract expires at the end of this season.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_broadcasting_contracts_in_the_United_Kingdom

    Near sure I seen ads for Italian league on Quest.

    Not 100%


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    #3349
    IsMiseJoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 218 ✭✭IsMiseJoe


    Quest are be taking the EFL programmes from Channel 5 next season.

    I just hope SerieA doesn't end up on Eurosport like it did a few years ago.


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    #3350
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Yes which is a step backwards - Channel 5 is HD, Quest is not (well maybe on SKY for a premium)


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    #3351
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users Posts: 14,008 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Yes which is a step backwards - Channel 5 is HD, Quest is not (well maybe on SKY for a premium)

    +1

    I have seen no sign yet of a Quest HD channel on Astra ;)


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    #3352
    Tigerandahalf
    Registered Users Posts: 7,813 ✭✭✭Tigerandahalf


    I was abroad last week and took the chromecast with me and was able to cast eir sports to the tv.

    Really handy feature. I presume this is only happening with the recent EU ruling where subscriptions can be used across the union.

    Sky mobile tv (through vodafone mobile phone) didn't seem to work.


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    #3353
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,620 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    New on-air look for BT Sport this morning, for those interested. Although it’s a bit of an odd time for it to change.


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    #3354
    dulpit
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    icdg wrote: »
    New on-air look for BT Sport this morning, for those interested. Although it’s a bit of an odd time for it to change.

    Ahead of the rugby finals maybe?


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    #3355
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,620 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    They don’t use their own graphics for that, so no. I thought the BT corporate logo might be changing (in fact it was widely reported about two years ago that it would be changing to “BT” in a circle but nothing ever came of that). Just seems to be a change for the sake of it.


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    #3356
    dublinman1990
    Registered Users Posts: 8,422 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    I just got word that Sky Italia have got new exclusive rights to show 266 live Serie A games for the next 3 seasons.

    DAZN got live online rights there to show 114 matches for Italian viewers.

    https://www.svgeurope.org/blog/headlines/sky-and-dazn-secure-serie-a-rights/

    Not sure about how that will impact the UK & Irish rights as of yet though.


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    #3357
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,620 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    It doesn’t impact it at all, save that they can actually go ahead and sell the overseas rights now that there will be cameras at the grounds.


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    #3358
    Tigerandahalf
    Registered Users Posts: 7,813 ✭✭✭Tigerandahalf


    I see from next year Sky have 128 Premier League games.
    BT have 52
    Eir have 53

    Are the games on eir exclusive of the games on BT. There would hardly be a point in simulcasting the games on both bt and eir.


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    #3359
    irishfeen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    Tigerandahalf wrote: »
    I see from next year Sky have 128 Premier League games.
    BT have 52
    Eir have 53

    Are the games on eir exclusive of the games on BT. There would hardly be a point in simulcasting the games on both bt and eir.

    Eir does not have any games as of yet anyway. Premier Sports won Ireland rights for 53 games.


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    #3360
    Tigerandahalf
    Registered Users Posts: 7,813 ✭✭✭Tigerandahalf


    irishfeen wrote: »
    Eir does not have any games as of yet anyway. Premier Sports won Ireland rights for 53 games.

    Premier Sports in the uk
    Eir in Ireland

    They are the same. It is eir that have the rights.

    Edit: I could be wrong there actually. It seems these 53 games (3pm saturday afternoon) may not automatically go to eir. They will be offered to eir, virgin etc to buy up it seems going by this link.
    https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/former-setanta-owner-secures-irish-rights-to-53-premier-league-matches-1.3522560


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    #3361
    irishfeen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    Tigerandahalf wrote: »
    Premier Sports in the uk
    Eir in Ireland

    They are the same. It is eir that have the rights.

    No it has been widely reported that Eir and Premier have now gone their seperate ways commercially.

    The SBP reported over last week or so that Premier are looking for an Irish broadcaster to sub licence the rights from them.

    It could very well be Eir but only if Eir pay Premier for the rights.


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