TG4 ha mostrato che il picnic elettrico può funzionare in TV, quindi perché non lo farà?
https://www.thejournal.ie/tg4-was-the-only-station-televising-the-countrys-largest-music-festival-as-rte-decided-not-to-televise-the-festival-6804689-Sep2025/
di Fiannafailcanvasser
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Why? when TG4 is showing it
> “I don’t think it’s got anything to do with funding. They could do it. RTÉ could go in and do it no problem,”
Yeah, I’m sure Chappel Roan and Sam Fender wil let you air their sets for free.
Why not just let TG4 broadcast it?
Music is one of the main things they show. They have just done the full fleadh.
Folks, we know why. Putting on a live or delayed broadcast of a music festival is a complicated and difficult process, involving time, resources, and personnel. This is why TG4 did it, since they do music broadcasts all the time. And RTÉ doesn’t because it isn’t a format they can copy of the British or American broadcasters or fluff they can throw together with Dáithí and whichever poor soul has to react opposite him.
Did TG4 have to pay Festival Republic for the right to broadcast it? The article doesn’t mention it.
The BBC do great coverage of Glastonbury but they pay the festival a huge amount of money for the broadcasting rights.
TG4 EP show is about Irish stages and Irish content. Serious initiative from TG4.
RTE would need to pay a fair bit for fees / licencing, I’d say.
With how tight their spending is to make sure their salaries aren’t affected, we’d only dream of such things on TV.
Just on the cost thing though, I honestly wonder if there’s a way that RTE or Virgin could just link in with one of the festival sponsors for EP or ATN like 3, Guinness etc & balance out the costs each way? It’s more exposure for everyone involved?