22-05-2024, 10:00 PM
(22-05-2024, 07:52 PM)thegeek Wrote: If you want a studio in the stadium, you have to pay for it - regardless of whether the match is in your country. That said, I'm not sure who the host broadcaster is for tonight's match - I know it's TNT for the UCL final, but I haven't heard whether they've got UEL duties too.
I know when an Irish team makes the centrally contracted stage of a European competition (which has occasionally happened with Dundalk and Shamrock Rovers making the Europa League group stages, and that one time Dundalk got to the Champions League play off round in 2016) then the Irish broadcaster - usually VMTV - has to do host broadcaster duties for their home games. I don’t know if that extends to when the final is here (has only happened before once, with the Europa League in 2011) though.
I think the point is more a general one that RTE is on site in the Aviva for every Ireland rugby and Republic of Ireland football home game they cover, whereas VMTV, while they may have reporters and the commentators on site, always do their studio coverage from Ballymount.