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RTÉ Sport
RTÉ Sport is a department of Irish public broadcaster RTÉ. The department provides sporting coverage through a number of platforms including RTÉ Radio, RTÉ Television, RTÉ.ie, RTÉ Player Sport and RTÉ Mobile. RTÉ holds the television and radio broadcasting rights in the Republic of Ireland to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as The Sunday Game, Thank GAA It's Friday, Soccer Republic and RTÉ Racing on RTÉ Television, and Game On, Saturday Sport, and Sunday Sport on RTÉ Radio.
Traditionally RTÉ Sport faced competition from British-based broadcasters such as the BBC and ITV, which have always been present in Ireland; however, these broadcasters were primarily concerned with the British public and market. Domestically, RTÉ had no competition until the late 1990s due to lack of competition in the Irish market. In later years, however, a growth of variety in the Irish market opened competition between other broadcasters most notably with TG4 and Setanta Sports but also Virgin Media One. RTÉ Sport is also in competition with other European broadcasters such as Eurosport, ESPN, Sky Sports, BBC Sport and ITV Sport. Despite competition in sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup final, which is also available on the BBC and ITV, RTÉ Sport remains Ireland's premier and most popular sports broadcaster.
On television, RTÉ2 is the home of live sporting action, broadcasting the majority of RTÉ's sports content. Sport may also be broadcast on RTÉ One depending on scheduling demands.
RTÉ Sport currently holds the rights to a large portfolio of football tournaments including:
The Republic of Ireland matches were shown live on the channel for Euro 2004, the 2006 World Cup and Euro 2008, all of which the team failed to qualify for. Sky Sports gained exclusive rights to Irish matches in the early 2000s and there were fears that national team matches could not be seen by fans, so the government stepped in and now all Irish home and away qualifying matches must be shown on Irish free-to-air television (RTÉ, Virgin One or TG4), and have remained on RTÉ as well as Sky Sports. Sky Sports held exclusive live rights to Irish home friendlies from 2000, with Premier Sports winning the rights from 2014, with highlights broadcast on either RTÉ or TV3.
RTÉ Sport broadcasts association football tournaments. It showed 64 live games (approximately 200 hours of programming) during the 2010 World Cup.
These were the team of association football pundits that RTÉ Sport announced ahead of the 2010 World Cup. Apart from Ossie Ardiles, Dietmar Hamann and Kevin Kilbane, both made their debuts, and Liam Brady, who left his post assisting Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni, the rest were all regulars on RTÉ Sport's association football programming. The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the ninth for both Bill O'Herlihy and George Hamilton.
For the 2014 World Cup, the RTÉ team was announced on 5 May 2014. The coverage was presented by Bill O'Herlihy, Darragh Maloney and Tony O'Donoghue. The pundits for the tournament were RTÉ regulars John Giles, Liam Brady, Eamon Dunphy, Kenny Cunningham, Richie Sadlier and Ronnie Whelan. Guest pundits joining the coverage included Didi Hamann, Ossie Ardiles, Neil Lennon and Brad Friedel. Play-by-play came from George Hamilton, John Kenny, Stephen Alkin and Adrian Eames while colour commentators included Ray Houghton, Trevor Steven, Jim Beglin and Brian Kerr.
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RTÉ Sport
RTÉ Sport is a department of Irish public broadcaster RTÉ. The department provides sporting coverage through a number of platforms including RTÉ Radio, RTÉ Television, RTÉ.ie, RTÉ Player Sport and RTÉ Mobile. RTÉ holds the television and radio broadcasting rights in the Republic of Ireland to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as The Sunday Game, Thank GAA It's Friday, Soccer Republic and RTÉ Racing on RTÉ Television, and Game On, Saturday Sport, and Sunday Sport on RTÉ Radio.
Traditionally RTÉ Sport faced competition from British-based broadcasters such as the BBC and ITV, which have always been present in Ireland; however, these broadcasters were primarily concerned with the British public and market. Domestically, RTÉ had no competition until the late 1990s due to lack of competition in the Irish market. In later years, however, a growth of variety in the Irish market opened competition between other broadcasters most notably with TG4 and Setanta Sports but also Virgin Media One. RTÉ Sport is also in competition with other European broadcasters such as Eurosport, ESPN, Sky Sports, BBC Sport and ITV Sport. Despite competition in sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup final, which is also available on the BBC and ITV, RTÉ Sport remains Ireland's premier and most popular sports broadcaster.
On television, RTÉ2 is the home of live sporting action, broadcasting the majority of RTÉ's sports content. Sport may also be broadcast on RTÉ One depending on scheduling demands.
RTÉ Sport currently holds the rights to a large portfolio of football tournaments including:
The Republic of Ireland matches were shown live on the channel for Euro 2004, the 2006 World Cup and Euro 2008, all of which the team failed to qualify for. Sky Sports gained exclusive rights to Irish matches in the early 2000s and there were fears that national team matches could not be seen by fans, so the government stepped in and now all Irish home and away qualifying matches must be shown on Irish free-to-air television (RTÉ, Virgin One or TG4), and have remained on RTÉ as well as Sky Sports. Sky Sports held exclusive live rights to Irish home friendlies from 2000, with Premier Sports winning the rights from 2014, with highlights broadcast on either RTÉ or TV3.
RTÉ Sport broadcasts association football tournaments. It showed 64 live games (approximately 200 hours of programming) during the 2010 World Cup.
These were the team of association football pundits that RTÉ Sport announced ahead of the 2010 World Cup. Apart from Ossie Ardiles, Dietmar Hamann and Kevin Kilbane, both made their debuts, and Liam Brady, who left his post assisting Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni, the rest were all regulars on RTÉ Sport's association football programming. The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the ninth for both Bill O'Herlihy and George Hamilton.
For the 2014 World Cup, the RTÉ team was announced on 5 May 2014. The coverage was presented by Bill O'Herlihy, Darragh Maloney and Tony O'Donoghue. The pundits for the tournament were RTÉ regulars John Giles, Liam Brady, Eamon Dunphy, Kenny Cunningham, Richie Sadlier and Ronnie Whelan. Guest pundits joining the coverage included Didi Hamann, Ossie Ardiles, Neil Lennon and Brad Friedel. Play-by-play came from George Hamilton, John Kenny, Stephen Alkin and Adrian Eames while colour commentators included Ray Houghton, Trevor Steven, Jim Beglin and Brian Kerr.