Setanta stripped of Premier League rights

Setanta stripped of Premier League rights#390627

By Zenon - Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:07 pm

- Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:07 pm #390627

Looks like it's over for Setanta.

Bring back Ray Cokes to MTV!

Re: Setanta stripped of Premier League rights#390629

By foot-loose - Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:30 pm

- Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:30 pm #390629

Zenon wrote:Looks like it's over for Setanta.

Why? What happened? Is Rudolph ok?!

Re: Setanta stripped of Premier League rights#390630

By English Bob - Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:46 pm

- Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:46 pm #390630

Zenon wrote:Looks like it's over for Setanta.

Good. They acquired popular TV sporting events, then charged people an exorbitant monthly fee to watch them, even if they had Sky in the first place.

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Re: Setanta stripped of Premier League rights#390631

By Console - Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:06 pm

- Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:06 pm #390631

Isn't Setanta cheaper than Sky Sports, which you also have to pay even if you have sky? Setanta is also available to Freeview users with the Top-up TV thing.

foot-loose wrote:
Zenon wrote:Looks like it's over for Setanta.
Why? What happened?

They couldn't afford it.

Re: Setanta stripped of Premier League rights#390633

By Lactating Man Nips - Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:38 pm

- Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:38 pm #390633

Console wrote:Isn't Setanta cheaper than Sky Sports, which you also have to pay even if you have sky? Setanta is also available to Freeview users with the Top-up TV thing.

foot-loose wrote:
Zenon wrote:Looks like it's over for Setanta.
Why? What happened?
They couldn't afford it.

Setanta cost us £ 9.99 monthly. Apart from the 40 odd Premiership games the rest of the schedule was pants. I had to cancel subscription after 3 months because their bandwidth/reception was appalling. They needed to find 50million by a deadline for Premiership matches but couldn't. I'm assuming the Premiership will put the 46 game schedule back up for auction.

Re: Setanta stripped of Premier League rights#390634

By Lactating Man Nips - Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:44 pm

- Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:44 pm #390634

foot-loose wrote:
Zenon wrote:Looks like it's over for Setanta.
Why? What happened? Is Rudolph ok?!

Yes he was protected by the Setanta Claus(e)

Re: Setanta stripped of Premier League rights#390635

By foot-loose - Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:06 am

- Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:06 am #390635

Lactating Man Nips wrote:
foot-loose wrote:
Zenon wrote:Looks like it's over for Setanta.
Why? What happened? Is Rudolph ok?!
Yes he was protected by the Setanta Claus(e)

Thank * someone understood me.

Re: Setanta stripped of Premier League rights#390638

By Yudster - Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:27 am

- Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:27 am #390638

Oh I think we all understood you. And decided to ignore it.

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Re: Setanta stripped of Premier League rights#390643

By DannyBoy - Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:16 am

- Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:16 am #390643

Setanta cost us £ 9.99 monthly. Apart from the 40 odd Premiership games the rest of the schedule was pants. I had to cancel subscription after 3 months because their bandwidth/reception was appalling. They needed to find 50million by a deadline for Premiership matches but couldn't. I'm assuming the Premiership will put the 46 game schedule back up for auction.

hmmmmmmmm wonder will the beeb buy the rights to the games

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Re: Setanta stripped of Premier League rights#390646

By MK Chris - Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:01 pm

- Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:01 pm #390646

I don't think the BBC would prepared to pay for Premiership matches, especially given the attention on staff salaries and pay cuts at the moment and ITV can't afford it, aren't they suffering at the moment?

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Re: Setanta stripped of Premier League rights#390654

By Johnny 1989 - Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:30 pm

- Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:30 pm #390654

Topher wrote:I don't think the BBC would prepared to pay for Premiership matches, especially given the attention on staff salaries and pay cuts at the moment and ITV can't afford it, aren't they suffering at the moment?

ITV are suffering so badly at the moment that the BBC has to pay for a regional news channel for them (looks like London Tonight, Granada Reports, etc will be off ITV 1 in future then). Not only that BBC Worldwide has to prop up Channel 4 as well.

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Re: Setanta stripped of Premier League rights#390655

By Kaiser Chef - Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:48 pm

- Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:48 pm #390655

I'm really hoping that BBC or ITV go for it. Preferably BBC but I'll put up with ITV if it means it comes to terretrial TV. It will only be a few games anyway. The setanta matches for next season were split into 2 packages and have gone up for auction to the highest bidder, to be decided on Monday. Sky can bid for one package and will probably get it, leaving just the one package for another channel.

I think BBC would go for it, even if they put the games on BBC3 or Red Button.

ITV supposedly have no money and yet they started putting out a long and expensive looking ad campaign for their own channel, on their own channel (thus losing any potential income from selling that advertising time) and they even have the ad running in cinemas.

Re: Setanta stripped of Premier League rights#390664

By Ed Pummelon - Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:22 pm

- Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:22 pm #390664

I like football on ITV. You get some very interesting behind the scenes footage when you least expect it. Usually when one team's about to score

Re: Setanta stripped of Premier League rights#390668

By Zenon - Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:14 pm

- Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:14 pm #390668

I'd like to see (Channel) Five go for it.

Bring back Ray Cokes to MTV!

Re: Setanta stripped of Premier League rights#390669

By Yudster - Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:19 pm

- Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:19 pm #390669

You in need of a laugh then Zenon?

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Re: Setanta stripped of Premier League rights#390672

By SAV1OUR - Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:47 pm

- Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:47 pm #390672

Ah Setanta, sounds like the name of a ship anyway. Replace TITANIC with SETANTA and you have the perfect parody.

Murdoch wins again.

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Re: Setanta stripped of Premier League rights#391016

By pjordan2000 - Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:17 am

- Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:17 am #391016

I hated Setanta's coverage of the football (probably due to the fact that the first match I watched was Arsenal lose the Semi Final of the FA Cup). I still feel Sky Sports continues to show best coverage with the best commentators on TV followed by BBC (with Radio 5 Live Commentary).

Thankfully though, I was about to cancel Setanta but now they aren't collecting subscriptions, I get to watch the Arsenal TV Channel for free until futher notice!