All Ireland Hurlng Final Flops On Sky

MD1990

http://www.balls.ie/gaa/sky-sports-viewership-figures-all-ireland-hurling-final-2015/308929?utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

It could be the simple case that there are a lot more Tipperary natives living in the UK than people of Galway origin, or maybe UK GAA fans are just tired of seeing Kilkenny in the All-Ireland final.
Viewership figures of this year's All-Ireland hurling final plummeted in comparison to last year.


https://twitter.com/PaulRouseUCD/status/643829395224985600?ref_src=twsrc^tfw




According to UCD's Paul Rouse, just 32,000 UK viewers watched hurling's showpiece event on Sky Sports 5. That's down a massive 72,000 from last year.
It's not like there was considerable competition from other sports on September 6th either. It was an international weekend, so there was no Premier League football to compete with.

Fr Tod Umptious

It was on SS1 last year, this year SS5 which was a factor.

Wales in a Euro qualifier (that if they would have won they would have qualified) was on SS1, not sure what was on the other SS channels but there may have been a a ODI between England and Australia.

Certainly I think the novelty factor may have worn off.

bruschi

Paul Rouse is a constant source of negativity for all sky sports related stuff. Not that I'm doubting his figures or anything, just that he is pretty much a constant input of reports and studies completely downplaying all of skys sports, and particularly since the GAA went onto it.

adrian522

Is the 2014 figure for the drawn game, the replay or both games combined? If the latter it's a little bit disingenuous to say the least.

Fr Tod Umptious

adrian522 wrote: »

Is the 2014 figure for the drawn game, the replay or both games combined? If the latter it's a little bit disingenuous to say the least.

I'd say they were for the 1st game.

It was on SS1 and got lots of promotion if I recall.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Don't really mind to be honest.

I'm not really bothered about promoting either game abroad the main benefit of the SKY deal is that it should keep RTE on their toes.

Frankly I'd cut RTE's allocation of games and give a few to TV3 as well as SKY the next time the rights are reviewed.

Fr Tod Umptious

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Don't really mind to be honest.

I'm not really bothered about promoting either game abroad the main benefit of the SKY deal is that it should keep RTE on their toes.

Frankly I'd cut RTE's allocation of games and give a few to TV3 as well as SKY the next time the rights are reviewed.

I'm not really sure if Sky would be interested in bidding after next year if the numbers are that low.

There MO for showing GAA is to attract new subs and hold on to subs that often unsubscribe for the summer when there is no soccer.

If the numbers are not there then they will not be interested for another three year deal.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

I'm not really sure if Sky would be interested in bidding after next year if the numbers are that low.

There MO for showing GAA is to attract new subs and hold on to subs that often unsubscribe for the summer when there is no soccer.

If the numbers are not there then they will not be interested for another three year deal.

Probably not, but hopefully the GAA don't return to RTE having a monopoly on the rights and that TV3/TG4 are at least given a decent proportion of the games.

munchkin_utd

the numbers are low, but (unbelievably at this stage) they are soley for standard definition Sky sports which many dont have as they'd have HD.

and regarding promotion in the UK, many in Ireland still dont cop it that people in the UK (or round the world) never have seen a minute of GAA in their lives. The constant stream on TG4 and RTE compares to ZERO coverage at all.

If the game is on Sky then at least people can happen upon it and catch a minute or 2, or a half or however long they have at the time.

If a month, or year, or decade down the line you are there looking for sponsorship, or to see if their child would be interested trying out football or hurling, or you are looking for grants off the city or use of city facilities - the person may at least have seen the game once, compared previously that they would never ever have seen GAA or copped what it is

CrabRevolution

Does that figure include NI? I remember after the first AI final was shown on Sky, the GAA were praising it saying "thats X '000 people in Britain seeing Gaelic Games for the first time, the sky deal is great etc.".

Turns out that the figure included viewers in Northern Ireland, tens of thousands of whom would have been watching the final anyway, Sky or not.