The GAA have officially announced the new 2014-2017 television deals which will see Sky Sports broadcast 14 All Ireland championship matches this summer exclusively, with RTÉ screening 31 games.
Sky will have exclusive island of Ireland to the 14 games, contrary to the rumour that TG4 would also broadcast these matches. These games will consist of eight Saturday evening matches in the All-Ireland qualifiers, two All-Ireland football championship quarter-finals, and two Saturday evening and two Sunday provincial championship games.
They will also broadcast the All Ireland hurling and football semi-finals and finals, along with RTÉ, meaning that they'll be showing 20 matches across the championship in total.
Of the 31 games RTÉ will broadcast it is pretty much as you were in previous years. They will have rights to all six provincial finals, with BBC Northern Ireland also showing all Ulster championship matches RTÉ obtain the rights to.
Speaking about the new deals the GAA's Director General, Paraic Duffy said, 'We are delighted to have retained our domestic partnerships with RTÉ, TG4, Setanta Sports, Newstalk and Raidió na Gaeltachta. We welcome our new partnership with Sky Sports and firmly believe that their coverage of our games will bring a new excitement to our championships.'
For fans living abroad, Sky will have exclusive rights in Britain to the 20 matches they broadcast while another big development is that Channel 7 in Australia will show 45 live championship matches free to air in Australia.
All games televised by RTÉ will also be streamed online for those overseas.
Meanwhile, TG4 and Setanta have retained their rights to National League matches, while TG4 will continue to show the GAA club championship, u21 championship, Fitzgibbon and Sigerson Cups, post-primary schools competitions, and both All Ireland minor championship finals.
