Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 July 2023

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Future of Sports Broadcasting: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Declan McBennett:

Yes. We have used that channel for clashes on an ongoing basis. We were looking at putting the Galway-Mayo match on the news channel but we decided to put it on RTÉ 1. That is given the number of games we have. With respect, we are limited in the number of games we can broadcast. We are contractually obliged to do 31 games in the Liam MacCarthy and Sam Maguire competitions. If the number were 40, then we would need to find the outlets for those games. If the number were 90 games, then we would need to find the outlet for that number of games. If we are confined to covering 31 games, we can largely handle that number between RTÉ 1 and RTÉ 2.

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