I think the league is highly valued, a lot more highly valued (going by attendence) than say the Pro12. And here we come to the nub of the problem (and the topic under discussion)
RTE gives extensive coverage (updates on injuries regular interviews team announcements) for the 4 Pro 12 club teams but ignores the more popular 32 Gaelic County teams. There are 16 league games on this weekend there was no mention of any of them Dublin, Mayo, Monaghan, Donegal, Kerry, Cork, Galway, Roscommon, Kildare, Tyrone, Derry etc etc. Not a second of publicity on the weekday Six One News. How can anyone believe that is not biased? I note that @rtewatch on twitter has recorded that since the start of the year Jan 1st (weekdays Mon - Fri) Gaelic Football has been covered 17 times Hurling 7 times Soccer 81 times and Rugby 74 times. Extraordinary!!
On a different topic I have been most impressed by Mediamans record keeping. Keep it up the stats speak for themselves!!

mod (Mayo) - Posts: 859 - 05/03/2016 14:28:27    1830956

RTE gives extensive coverage (updates on injuries regular interviews team announcements) for the 4 Pro 12 club teams but ignores the more popular 32 Gaelic County teams

The difference between amateur v professional sports. ie Leinster will be in UCD training each day - will have press conferences, release injury details, have players and management available for interviews etc. GAA players/managers are in work all week, they rightly should not be expected to do media work mid week, however this does mean there is very little for media to report on Monday-Friday.

RTE instead give the games huge coverage when they are taking place. Not bias just the working reality of covering an amateur sport

RangersFan (Dublin) - Posts: 117 - 05/03/2016 15:25:57    1830966

This weekend provided us with the perfect games (Leinster in the Pro 12 and Dublin in the National Football League) to test the theory that the RTE 6.01 News and Sport is biased towards Rugby Union. Both games were played in Dublin on the same day. Leinster attracted a crowd of 10,897 to the RDS. Dublin attracted almost twice that number 20,280 to Croke Park bringing Leinster's average Pro 12 home attendance this season is 12,361 and Dublin's NFL average home attendance for this season is 22,489.
Which makes it all the more difficult to understand why on Friday RTE 6.01 News and Sport gave the Leinster team news for Saturday while bizarrely ignoring Dublin's much larger event on the same day. It's direct comparisons like this which show that the RTE newsroom is living in a totally different reality to the rest of us. It's called D4 bias.

mediaman (Antrim) - Posts: 355 - 06/03/2016 19:27:45    1831367

D4 bias? Is that what it's called? Is that what you and the auld wans after mass christened it? But too gutless or stupid or lacking in imagination to do anything about it. Yet still, keeping the right side of the law, by having a TV licence and not refusing to get one seeing as this bothers you so much. From someone who knows nothing about any sport. Stato whinger.

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7926 - 06/03/2016 21:56:53    1831509

Come on Green and Red there is no need for that. Mediaman is doing something about it. He is recording RTE performance. In that way there can be no doubt about the bias.
It is surprising that no weekday coverage was given to GAA last week considering there were 16 county football (men's) a similar amount of women's football and the hurling league but the minute there is controversy they are all over it.
There was an item on the Six One news on Thursday where a doctor was before the Medical Council for misconduct. (It was something to do with a will). Now he had been the Tyrone GAA doctor sometime previously, this had absolutely nothing to do with the case but RTE decided to strengthen the link by showing the Tyrone team in Croke Park at some big game (All Ire Final?) Why do you think that was done? RTE went out of their way to associate the GAA with a negative news item.
Would rugby be treated the same way.? For example RTE did not cover this story. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/former-irish-rugby-international-david-tweed-guilty-of-child-sex-abuse-28999491.html

mod (Mayo) - Posts: 859 - 08/03/2016 14:22:01    1832318

Link to story mentioned in previous post. Thursday 3/3/16 on Six One News
http://www.rte.ie/news/player/six-one-news-web/2016/0303/#page=1
Click on link and choose
GP found guilty on two counts of professional misconduct by Medical Council.

mod (Mayo) - Posts: 859 - 08/03/2016 15:12:43    1832368

I'm with you on that, Mod. I'm not anti-rugby (possibly slightly anti-soccer) but I am pro-Gaelic Games. Fair play is all that we're looking for.

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 08/03/2016 16:05:07    1832407

Telling you there's an issue isn't the same as doing something about it.

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7926 - 08/03/2016 16:11:14    1832411

For all mediamans work where is the actual campaign for change?
If there is supposed bias in favour of or against one sporting organisation where are the public calls for change. A twitter account or posts on a forum all under a pseudonym don't count.
Where is there an online petition where people call for change under their own names where they try gain the support of like minded individualS?
Where are the attempts to show the public through protests of the supposed poor coverage or biased coverage of sport in the country?

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 08/03/2016 18:59:13    1832490

All campaigns start by firstly raising awareness or highlighting an issue. I think he's done a good of that.

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 08/03/2016 19:40:39    1832510

Would rugby be treated the same way.? For example RTE did not cover this story.

Really? More than 3 years ago, the day before Belfast Telegraph published. You must have that selective search option ticked.

http://m.rte.ie/news/2012/1128/355637-david-tweed-court/

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7926 - 08/03/2016 20:03:18    1832521

All campaigns start by firstly raising awareness or highlighting an issue. I think he's done a good of that.

More than 18 months raising awareness now. Time to put up or shut up.

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7926 - 08/03/2016 21:15:29    1832570

Taking inspiration from my hero i have been doing some additional analysis into the blatant D4 bias in RTE. In the weather forecast over the last month the following are the cold (excuse the pun) facts:

75% of the forecasts have predicted rain for Connacht, 15% predicted snow
65% of the forecasts have predicted rain for Ulster, 10% snow
45% of the forecasts have predicted rain for Munster, 5% snow
25% of the forecasts have predicted rain for Leinster, 0% snow

Definitive proof (was it ever in doubt?) of a D4 bias in RTE

jimski (Kildare) - Posts: 381 - 08/03/2016 21:48:12    1832607

Would rugby be treated the same way.? For example RTE did not cover this story.

Really? More than 3 years ago, the day before Belfast Telegraph published. You must have that selective search option ticked.

http://m.rte.ie/news/2012/1128/355637-david-tweed-court/

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts:2168 - 08/03/2016 20:03:18   1832521

Ba ha ha , oh dear...another 'FACT' down the drain.

RangersFan (Dublin) - Posts: 117 - 08/03/2016 21:57:42    1832612

Does the GAA get fair coverage compared to Soccer and Rugby Union?

Fact 1 - Ireland plays Italy in Rugby Union this weekend.
Fact 2 - Ireland cannot now win the Grand Slam.
Fact 3 - Ireland cannot now win the 6 Nations League.
Fact 4 - Ireland cannot now win the Triple Crown.
Fact 5 - Ireland currently lies 5th of the 6 teams involved.
Fact 6 - Ireland cannot be relegated.
Fact 7 - Italy currently lies 6th of the 6 teams involved.
Fact 8 - Italy cannot be relegated.
Fact 9 - Ireland has now gone 4 games without a win.
Fact 10 - Italy is the worst Tier 1 team in the entire world (ranked 14th).
Fact 11 - The Ireland Italy match is a dead-rubber match of no consequence to the outcome of the 6 Nations.
Fact 12 - RTE 6.01 News and Sport seems to be completely unaware of Facts 2-11 as it continues to hype up what is recognised by most discerning sports fans as a low profile event. But of course when it comes to Rugby Union RTE has its own peculiar view of the world.

mediaman (Antrim) - Posts: 355 - 09/03/2016 14:55:46    1832872

You can almost hear Ryle Nugent asking "how are we gonna sell this dead rubber?"

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 09/03/2016 15:15:15    1832881

MEdiaman t. But of course when it comes to Rugby Union RTE has its own peculiar view of the world.

Yes and when it comes to rugby and rte you have your own peculiar view of the world

Can any body please explain to me how anybody can say rte is so biased towards rugby when How come they did not show the rugby world cup - show no pro 12 no champions cup (not even highlights) and in few years time wont be showing 6 nations. if they were so biased they would outbid their rivals to show these events (or at least the free to air ones)

janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 09/03/2016 15:46:30    1832899

They should just rename the thread, "i dont like rugby, who's with me!" and it would be more accurate.

tearintom (Wexford) - Posts: 1485 - 09/03/2016 15:48:59    1832903

No-one's disputing those are facts Mediaman. You haven't done one single thing about correcting those issues, just whinge and moan. 18 months and more posting about it here. Can't bother you that much.

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7926 - 09/03/2016 15:52:23    1832904

You see Janesboro thats a logical point and question, one which you wont find an answer to here im afraid.


Can any body please explain to me how anybody can say rte is so biased towards rugby when How come they did not show the rugby world cup - show no pro 12 no champions cup (not even highlights) and in few years time wont be showing 6 nations. if they were so biased they would outbid their rivals to show these events (or at least the free to air ones)?

You would think listening to the authors of the grand conspiracies being spouted on here that RTE are damning the GAA world in favour of Rugby when in fact the opposite is happening. RTE's coverage of Rugby is less than it was and is lessening even more yet all summer we will have at least i believe 30 live RTE games along with a comprehensive highlights show ever week for the duration of the summer.

Yet theres a bias in the sports department of RTE, honestly some of the stuff ye couldnt make it up. This thread is nothing but a wind up, nothing more.

tearintom (Wexford) - Posts: 1485 - 09/03/2016 16:10:43    1832918