FOOTBALL FANS WATCHING TV3′s coverage of tonight’s Champions League clash between Arsenal and Bayern Munich were left angered after the broadcaster experienced technical difficulties.
The station lost pictures on the Sky platform 71 minutes into Arsenal’s 2-0 victory over the German champions, although coverage on Virgin Media and Evision was unaffected.
In a statement released after the game, TV3 apologised to viewers for the service outage.
“TV3HD on the Sky platform froze this evening (Tues 20th October) during the UCL clash between Arsenal and Bayern Munich,” it read.
“TV3 is currently investigating with Sky why this outage occurred and apologises to its viewers for the disruption to service.
“We will update once in a position to do so.”
TV3 retained the rights to broadcast Champions League games in Ireland on a Tuesday evening for a further three years last December.
Fans watching on TV3, and without access to BT Sport, missed both of the game’s goals as Arsenal handed themselves a Group F lifeline.
Olivier Giroud and Mesut Ozil struck in the closing stages to give Arsene Wenger’s side a priceless victory.
He really needs to work on his confidence lol
His shyness could be his downfall
Love how he calls that guy his business partner. Im sure there was a time at the start of all this when them guys thought they could sucker Conor for everything and he would just go along with them and be a good little Irish man. He calls the shots and they know it and i dont think they like it ha
He might be overstepping the line there with the business partner thing. Can see this ending in tears if he challenges their positions.
it’s a mutually beneficial relationship
He d wanna really concentrate on Aldo now and not this Ultimate Fighter Reality TV garbage, reminds me of Rocky 3 when the Rock thought Clubber would be a cake walk. Careful now Conor !
In fairness, Rocky 3 really was an amazing true story……
And don’t forget rocky IV and V. True sporting stories.
Any link for the interview?
Unfortunately they’ve geo-blocked it at the moment — https://twitter.com/bokamotoESPN/status/624767681464545280 — but we’ll see if we can get a video up later today. For now, the full transcript is above.
Try this: https://youtu.be/avvCISKBU44
Thanks Adrian, we’ve updated that now.
http://youtu.be/avvCISKBU44