TV3 RWC coverage

irishfeen

An awful lot of people don't have a sky HD subscription... for TV3 to expect people to pay sky €15 for the privilege is disgraceful.

Free ITV1 HD is brilliant to have available.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

irishfeen wrote: »

An awful lot of people don't have a sky HD subscription... for TV3 to expect people to pay sky €15 for the privilege is disgraceful.

Free ITV1 HD is brilliant to have available.

What's that got to do with my question?

irishfeen

Crimsonforce wrote: »

Its almost a tony Fenton like accent..

I used to hate listening to Hugh Cahill on RTÉ but god give me him any day over McNamara.

michael999999

irishfeen wrote: »

If you have an Irish HD subscription it clears through "Other Channels"

Tried it and nothing showing!

irishfeen

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

What's that got to do with my question?

Sorry I quote the wrong person.

irishfeen

michael999999 wrote: »

Tried it and nothing showing!

Have you a sky HD subscription?

zefer

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Is there as many ads on ITV or are they doing actual analysis at half time.

They had about 2 mins talk about the use of tmo and then went to ads, so pretty much the same as Tv3. They are both funded via advertising so hardly a surprise

Zzippy

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

TG4 would do a better job. Love a but of Rugbai Beo.

Give me Maire Treasa over Matt Cooper any day!

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Zzippy wrote: »

Give me Maire Treasa over Matt Cooper any day!

She's always got lovely hats on the outdoor broadcasts.

michael999999

irishfeen wrote: »

Have you a sky HD subscription?

Ya. Found the channels after a scan, stored them but only getting a blue screen!

ThisRegard

SarahBM wrote: »

I don't think I can take much more of Stuart Barnes. Painful.

Barnes is one of the shining lights in their coverage.

irishfeen

michael999999 wrote: »

Ya. Found the channels after a scan, stored them but only getting a blue screen!

Are you definately using? -

11053
H
DVB-S2
8PSK
23000
2/3

I added them earlier without any problems... you might have to delete all ITV4 HD's from other channels and start again.

CardinalJ

ThisRegard wrote: »

Barnes is one of the shining lights in their coverage.

Not a Barnes fan in general, but he's holding the show together.

Peregrine

I used to dislike Stuart Barnes. After listening to himself and McNamara together, I couldn't wait to hear more of Barnes.

irishfeen

For those without a HD subscription on sky and want to watch ITV4 SD - Same adding procedure;

10758
V
DVB-S
QPSK
22000
5/6

Stheno

Commentators for the French game are desperate.

Joubert pinged a french player for kicking the ball out of the SH's hand at the back of the scrum and being offside.

Commentators: "Not sure what is happening here", when Joubert clearly called it.

And one of them called Sergio Parisse Luca Parisse earlier too

nehe milner skudder

did rte not stump up the cash or was this political?


its amateur hour on tv3.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

You'd think RTE would have had this, ya know seeing as they get free money off everyone in the country.

FunLover18

nehe milner skudder wrote:

did rte not stump up the cash or was this political?

AFAIK RTE didn't stump up. Open to correction.

irishfeen

The RTÉ Sport department has been decimated in terms of budget - TV3 had spare cash after losing Emmerdale and Coronation Street to UTVI ... they just couldn't compete with TV3 I think.

RoutineBites

nehe milner skudder wrote: »

did rte not stump up the cash or was this political?


its amateur hour on tv3.

What are you on about? France Italy match is on right now and it's basically an ITV stream on TV3. Nothing to do with TV3 whatsoever.

nehe milner skudder

this thread will be 60 pages. they are ****house

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

RoutineBites wrote: »

What are you on about? France Italy match is on right now and it's basically an ITV stream on TV3. Nothing to do with TV3 whatsoever.

The commentators on TV3 are trash.

irishfeen

RoutineBites wrote: »

What are you on about? France Italy match is on right now and it's basically an ITV stream on TV3. Nothing to do with TV3 whatsoever.

Except not at all like ITV - ITV have completely different commentators to TV3 at the minute. TV3 using the IRB World English Commentary feed I think.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

irishfeen wrote: »

The RTÉ Sport department has been decimated in terms of budget - TV3 had spare cash after losing Emmerdale and Coronation Street to UTVI ... they just couldn't compete with TV3 I think.

I'm not sure RTÉ ever really had any competition for their sports rights so they probably never had to actually bid that much for anything.

RoutineBites

irishfeen wrote: »

Except not at all like ITV - ITV have completely different commentators to TV3 at the minute. TV3 using the IRB World English Commentary feed I think.

You mean to say that Miles Harrison is working exclusively for TV3 for the World Cup . . .?

EDIT: Sorry, didn't see you mention the world commentary feed.

irishfeen

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

I'm not sure RTÉ ever really had any competition for their sports rights so they probably never had to actually bid that much for anything.

For the RWC they definitely have - Setanta Sports won full rights for the last few... TV3 (2007) and RTÉ (2011) came to an agreement with Setanta to broadcast about 15 games.... the Irish games and the latter stages.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

irishfeen wrote: »

For the RWC they definitely have - Setanta Sports won full rights for the last few... TV3 (2007) and RTÉ (2011) came to an agreement with Setanta to broadcast about 15 games.... the Irish games and the latter stages.

Setanta had the Rugby World Cup?

BarryD

I'm curious if TV3 hopes to build viewership from the RWC exposure or just capitalise on advertising? I'd watch TV3 from time to time and you'd be used to the ads but today was far worse. It's a sure fire way to lose viewers, whatever about advertisers. Maybe they'll wise up and tone it down.

awec

TV3s coverage is trash. Their sport coverage is just so poor.

irishfeen

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Setanta had the Rugby World Cup?

Yes full rights in 2007 and 2011 -

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/setanta-to-show-2007-and-2011-rugby-world-cups-299200.html

"Setanta to show 2007 and 2011 Rugby World Cups" .......

Larbre34

Who is the english co-commentator for this match? Former player type?

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

irishfeen wrote: »

Yes full rights in 2007 and 2011 -

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/setanta-to-show-2007-and-2011-rugby-world-cups-299200.html

"Setanta to show 2007 and 2011 Rugby World Cups" .......

Wow. I was in Scotland during the 2007 one so I must have been watching ITV. Don't remember the 2011 one except it was all on very early. Probably had ITV then too though.

noway12345

TV3 is **** all year round. It's ITV Ireland, full of ****ty English programs and stinking celebrity crap. I barely ever watch it. It's no real surprise that their coverage of the World Cup is crap. I suppose it's hard to make it good when you have so many ads.

Fiskar

BarryD wrote: »

I'm curious if TV3 hopes to build viewership from the RWC exposure or just capitalise on advertising? I'd watch TV3 from time to time and you'd be used to the ads but today was far worse. It's a sure fire way to lose viewers, whatever about advertisers. Maybe they'll wise up and tone it down.

ITV coverage is just fine, I can live with the ads when they appear on that channel.

Todd Gack

The way they cut straight to an ad break within seconds of the final whistle is very irritating

gordongekko

The Honey Monster wrote: »

You'd think RTE would have had this, ya know seeing as they get free money off everyone in the country.

I don't think I'll ever complain about paying the tv license again after this

noway12345

Hahahahha moving over to 3e because of x-factor. Hhahahahah

irishfeen

Todd Gack wrote: »

The way they cut straight to an ad break within seconds of the final whistle is very irritating

They have obviously sold that advertisement space at a premium - I agree very annoying!

Celly Smunt

I feel like smashing Matt Coopers face and ripping his sarcastic little voice out at this stage.

Who thought
"hey we need a rugby pundit"
"oh wow lets get Matt Cooper"

Nobody ever that's who.

hotmail.com

BarryD wrote: »

I'm curious if TV3 hopes to build viewership from the RWC exposure or just capitalise on advertising? I'd watch TV3 from time to time and you'd be used to the ads but today was far worse. It's a sure fire way to lose viewers, whatever about advertisers. Maybe they'll wise up and tone it down.

They have no ads during the play itself. So they go ad free for about 90 odd minutes including extra time. So they try to squeeze in as many ads as they can before the game, at half time and at the end and it seems like they're showing an endless amount of ads.

nehe milner skudder

this is a cluster****

Stheno

irishfeen wrote: »

For anyone sick of TV3 who has a sky box -

I have a sky plus hd box, but can't change frequency?

The options in my add channels section are Frequency which can't be changed, polarisation, symbol rate, FEC, standard and modulation scheme

edit, ignore I figured it out

efb

Celly Smunt wrote: »

I feel like smashing Matt Coopers face and ripping his sarcastic little voice out at this stage.

Who thought
"hey we need a rugby pundit"
"oh wow lets get Matt Cooper"

Nobody ever that's who.

In his defence- he's not a pundit, he's an anchor

nehe milner skudder

Celly Smunt wrote: »

I feel like smashing Matt Coopers face and ripping his sarcastic little voice out at this stage.

Who thought
"hey we need a rugby pundit"
"oh wow lets get Matt Cooper"

Nobody ever that's who.

and when his phone rang, why did he not say, "lads i think you have the wrong bloke,I'm the current affairs chap from the radio"

Celly Smunt

efb wrote: »

In his defence- he's not a pundit, he's an anchor

An anchor really dragging the ship that is tv3.

nehe milner skudder

efb wrote: »

In his defence- he's not a pundit, he's an anchor

an anchor alrite. anchoring this ****e to the bottom of the intellectual rugby deep end.

goose2005

This is what I use if 11.053 isn't working (probably depends on your location)

Frequency 11.097
Polarisation: V
Symbol Rate 23
FEC 2/3
Standard DVB-S2
Modulation Scheme 8PSK

gordongekko

efb wrote: »

In his defence- he's not a pundit, he's an anchor

He's certainly weighting things down

efb

They should have used Daire O Briain