The stage is set and Donegal Daily is all geared up for our exclusive live coverage of the 2017 Joule Donegal International Rally, which gets underway tomorrow.
The coverage will consists of live footage from the stages and include live reaction from the crews at the end of stages and in service areas – for the first time ever, video coverage will be in operation all through the event.
Drone footage, live and pre-recorded interviews and the best up-to-the-minute coverage – including some in-car footage from the crews – will be available in what is a first for the Donegal International Rally.
Our coverage begins at 10.30am on Friday morning.
Charlie Collins will be anchoring the coverage on each of the three days from our purpose-made studio at Tailored Facility Solutions (TFS) Ltd at Ballyraine while Chris McNulty and Toni Kelly will be providing the end-of-stage and service reports.
Here’s how you can tune in:
1 – Via our websites. All our coverage, which will run uninterrupted on the three days, will be streamed on www.donegaldaily.com and on www.donegalsporthub.com Links to our coverage on the sites will be posted on Friday morning
2 – Facebook Live. The coverage will be shown via Facebook Live on https://www.facebook.com/donegaldaily/ and www.facebook.com/donegalsporthub
3 – Smart TV. Have you got a smart tv? Then, why not hook us up by going into our YouTube channel – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNshVIWIHtdVg_ORdaqyXwg – where the coverage will also be running.
As well as the live coverage, a highlights package will also be available at 9pm on each of the three days.
This is the first live production going out on Donegal Daily TV.
The coverage will be taken care of by Maguire Media, who have worked on broadcast productions for Sky TV, RTE, TV3,TG4 and TVE Spain. Maguire Media have worked on producing sporting events for Sky Sports in the past.
Gerard McCloskey of Communication Networks are providing location and studio broadband for the weekend. Communication Networks supply and install CCTV and audio systems and do data and computer cabling. Established in Letterkenny for 18 years now, Communication Networks will be creating data links from remote sites to send the video content back to base.
They will be supported by Theo O’Grady who has been vision mixer and one of the producers of the Late Late Show for over 15 years.
