Dan McDonnell
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Yeah, a fair bit of that going on, yeah.
So it is, I was surprised the extent to which it sort of, it stirs that emotion.
But yeah, Mark Scanlon's point was, yeah, they reckon the LOITV revenue crossed a million euro for the first time in 2025.
But they reckon, now it is based on sort of polls, which aren't perfect, but they reckon that definitely,
you know they could probably double that amount if everyone watching it was paying for it now you can get down around the whole of well how many people are watching on dodgy box would they all be willing to pay the full price in theory I totally get that but anecdotally I mean I do speak to a lot of people who would normally pay for the service who have their dodgy boxes to watch
Well, it's now sustainable.
Yeah, I think this is the thing that it's now sustainable that they were able to, like the problem with it before was because of what it wasn't generating in the first division and the women's primary division, they basically had to use sort of like AI cameras or whatever.
You know, they weren't actually manned and just led to chaos that if you had like a bald linesman, it would think it was the football and people trying to watch the match, then it'd be following the linesman down the sideline.
So they basically had to.
So it was doing well enough that they could justify improving the technology.
It did happen.
Yeah.
So they had to justify.
So they were able to.
They had enough coming in to justify improving the technology.
I can't remember.
I think it was only a temporary glitch in a particular game.
But I just kept shooting to the sideline.
I think it might have been after a goal and they were restarting and I just kept shooting to this sideline.
I need to remember where that was.