GAA Go

Fr Tod Umptious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122478095#Comment_122478095

Are those games on the regular BBC across all regions or just BBC Northern Ireland?

Red Silurian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122478197#Comment_122478197

All BBC regions carry the finals as far as I'm aware as BBC had the rights for the entirety of the UK.

In any case the NI and all other regional feeds are available throughout the UK on the higher channel numbers on freesat and sky (and possibly other providers but I can't confirm) and iPlayer.

The GAA likely made less money by selling the final rights to the BBC but got much greater exposure out of it

Agree with what previous posters say, Sky will likely not be interested as the calendar no longer suits them

dxhound2005

The only BBC Two regions are England, Wales and NI. I think there also used to be Scotland, until Scotland got BBC Scotland. BBC One has many regional variants.

The hurling was shown this year on all BBC Two regions, but the football was only on BBC Two NI. There were two films on the other regions. But as has been stated if people in GB knew what to do they could access the NI programmes on satellite.

icdg

The BBC’s commitment is to show one final nationally on one of its linear channels. The other final, and the four semi finals, go out regionally on BBC Two NI, and can be streamed nationally on BBC iPlayer.

I suspect that the type of person who is living in GB and likely to go hunting in the 900s on Freesat or for a stream on BBC iPlayer is probably already a fan of GAA, and probably either Irish or has lived in Ireland previously. If the aim is to attract causal viewers I doubt it is accomplished that way.

zetecescort

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41468638.html

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