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Sports Rights Commercialization Revisited: Sky and the GAA

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Rouse, Paul 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/10246
Date Issued
02 April 2015
Date Available
01T10:40:32Z May 2019
Abstract
On 1 April 2014 the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) announced a new 3-year broadcasting rights deal, which involved the sale of exclusive rights to certain championship matches for the first time to Sky Sports. For the week that followed a minor media storm raged around the decision. This debate was characterized – in the margins at least and depending on where you stood – as, on the one hand, the product of an hysterical over-reaction from RTÉ which deliberately generated a controversy around a run-of-the-mill decision of the sort that sporting organizations make all the time, or, on the other, an abject failure of the GAA to set out a coherent, sustainable logic to its decision to do what it had always said it would never do. As usual on these matters, the majority of people held a position somewhere in the middle, probably enjoying the spectacle until they were bored by it.
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University College Dublin
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
History Hub
Series
Working Papers in History and Policy
Keywords
  • Gaelic Athletic Assoc...

  • Sky Sports

  • Sports rights commerc...

  • RTÉ

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http://historyhub.ie/sports-rights-commercialization-revisited-sky-and-the-gaa
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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