Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport
General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Mark Scanlon:
From the FAI's perspective, there are two different areas. There is the League of Ireland element but then there is also the international element, which is part of a centralised rights deal with UEFA. I cannot speak on that area today, so this is just a League of Ireland perspective. Under 10% of the League of Ireland's revenue would come from broadcast revenue. The percentage would be split, with about 70% coming from traditional broadcasting and 30% from the streaming service, which, as I said, all goes back to clubs on the broadcast element and on the LOITV element.
From a linear TV point of view, 17 games were live across TV in 2020 - 16 men's and one women's game. This year, we will have a record number of 59 games live on TV, a fantastic improvement for us. Over the years, we have worked with RTÉ, Virgin Media and TG4 for those games across our various competitions. LOITV brings the rest of the games live.
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