Quinn, the GAA’s Advertising and marketing & Broadcast Senior Supervisor, additionally clarified that RTÉ had initially taken up the choice to display screen the latest Clare v Limerick Munster SHC first spherical recreation however gave up the rights when the match was moved from Sunday again to Saturday, resulting from The Nice Limerick Run.
Quinn acknowledged, nevertheless, that “there can be some massive video games that go on GAAGo and never on free to air. And that is only a reality of life, that is simply how subscription companies go generally.”
Quinn was talking at the moment on the media launch for this 12 months’s Tailteann Cup after stinging criticism from Donal Óg Cusack on final night time’s Sunday Sport.
Cusack accused the GAA and RTÉ of “exploiting” to “get this joint-venture (GAA Go) off the bottom.”
By lunchtime at the moment, the Tánaiste Micheál Martin had joined the controversy, expressing the view that each one GAA matches must be free-to-air.
“A number of the info in all probability round Munster hurling championship matches has been misplaced in translation,” stated Quinn. “There was slightly little bit of a vacuum there, and it is useful for me in all probability to place a number of issues straight.
“The Limerick-Clare one was an enormous one, I used to be at that, it was wonderful. The sport itself, that was initially a Sunday slot, you guys would possibly know this already, it was supplied to RTÉ and brought by RTÉ.
“The Nice Limerick Run got here in that weekend and the match was moved to the Saturday. So somewhat than it not being broadcast, naturally GAAGo picked it up and we had been more than pleased to select it up as properly.
“And even final weekend, the Cork-Tipp one, with the Munster (soccer) closing on the Sunday, they weren’t going to play Cork-Tipp on a Sunday.”
Each RTÉ and the GAA have been criticised for display screen two one-sided provincial soccer finals on Sunday, with Tipperary and Cork solely proven to GAAGo subscribers.
Quinn defined that the six provincial finals had been a part of single packages that RTÉ had already bought.
“Look, we’re totally conscious of some folks saying that Munster hurling is behind a paywall. However we have actually tripled the variety of video games made out there to those that are ready to pay the one euros fifty 5 per recreation, in the event that they purchased it on the season go price,” Quinn outlined.
“And there is been a whole lot of optimistic response to it. By way of promotion of hurling, RTÉ will broadcast 15 hurling Championship matches over the course of the Championship. They’ve a few massive Munster double headers developing.
“And at this stage there’s in all probability near 200 video games free to air anyway throughout the 12 months. So we really feel we now have the steadiness proper right here. However look, it is early days but. Hopefully folks will choose this on the multi-year deal that’s in place, somewhat than the primary couple of weekends.”
