Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Future of Sports Broadcasting: Discussion
Mr. Tom Ryan:
It may well be. I agree that we are here to look at the issue from a solutions perspective. I do not want to repeat myself unduly, but the landscape at the moment is we have a set suite of games and a suite of broadcasters that tender for them. There is a narrative that is a little unfortunate, which is the idea that we are migrating more and more towards pay-per-view and so on. In fact, the number and proportion of pay-per-view games we have now are less than they were under a previous guise. The number of free-to-air games is actually higher than it was under a previous guise.
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