final. TV3 were also granted "first pick" rights to the last three rounds of the All-Ireland football qualifiers. qualifying rounds. Series 3 The first programme in the third series of Championship Live aired on 14 June 2010. Broadcast live from the studio in Croke Park, that programme featured the Leinster Football Championship quarter-final between Dublin and Wexford. The following week Championship Live broadcast their very first "double header" with a Leinster Hurling Championship semi-final and a Munster Hurling Championship semi-final. One week later the programme monopolised Gaelic games coverage once again with a "double header" featuring a Leinster Football Championship semi-final a Connacht Football Championship semi-final. TV3 also had the exclusive rights to the Munster Football Championship final, the Connacht Football Championship final and also had "first pick" rights in the decisive qualifying rounds of the All-Ireland football qualifiers. Series 4 After the renewal of the broadcasting contract with the GAA, the first Championship Live of the fourth series aired on 5 June 2011. That programme was broadcast live from the Croke Park studio and featured the Leinster Football Championship quarter-final between Dublin and Laois. The other games covered live included one Munster Hurling Championship semi-final, the Leinster Hurling Championship final, the Connacht Football Championship final, the Ulster Football Championship final, "first pick" rights for the second and fourth rounds of the All-Ireland football qualifiers, two All-Ireland Football Championship quarter-finals and both All-Ireland minor finals. Presenters, pundits and commentators Former newspaper editor and Today FM presenter Matt Cooper was unveiled as the presenter of Championship Live at the show's launch in 2008 while three guest panelists usually join him for each match. The inaugural Championship Live team also included commentators Mike Finnerty and Trevor Welch, while TV3's Gaelic Games correspondent Kieran McSweeney and TV3 News's sports reporter Sinéad Kissane were included as sideline reporters. Welch left the Gaelic games programme in 2009 in favour of concentrating on TV3's soccer coverage. He was replaced by Seán Walsh from Galway Bay FM. The programme's hurling analysts are Nicky English, Jamesie O'Connor, Liam Griffin and Daithí Regan. The football analysts are David Brady, Peter Canavan, Senan Connell, Paul Earley, Joe Kernan and Eugene McGee. References Gaelic games on television Virgin Media Television (Ireland) original programming