Setanta Lose Premier League Rights

[FoxForceFive]

[quote author=H link=topic=34270.msg892181#msg892181 date=1245534686]
so if sky can't bid, ESPN are unlikely too.MAYBE JUST MAYBE BBC will get it this one time on the cheep?.......Maybe.
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I highly doubt it. The BBC's budget is spent on a planned basis once the budget is announced. So they know how much they have to bid on what sporting events & shows, the fact this is out of the blue may well mean they cant do it.

Of course, there's a very slim chance they use next FY's money for it, but even on the cheap it'd blow most of their sporting budget.

 

[Paddy]

[quote author=FoxForceFive link=topic=34270.msg892275#msg892275 date=1245577727]
[quote author=H link=topic=34270.msg892181#msg892181 date=1245534686]
so if sky can't bid, ESPN are unlikely too.MAYBE JUST MAYBE BBC will get it this one time on the cheep?.......Maybe.
[/quote]

I highly doubt it. The BBC's budget is spent on a planned basis once the budget is announced. So they know how much they have to bid on what sporting events & shows, the fact this is out of the blue may well mean they cant do it.

Of course, there's a very slim chance they use next FY's money for it, but even on the cheap it'd blow most of their sporting budget.
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For the amount of viewers they would get it might be worth it. More than some fucking athletics nobody is arsed about.

 

[FoxForceFive]

[quote author=Paddy link=topic=34270.msg892280#msg892280 date=1245578094]
For the amount of viewers they would get it might be worth it. More than some fucking athletics nobody is arsed about.
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Yeah, but as they're not commercial based, the amount of viewers isnt paramount. It's important, but not as important as providing a broad spectrum of sports to choose from for all licence payers. They already show FA Cup footy, & MOTD. To sacrifice other sports in fabour of more football would create problems for them.

I'd love footy to be back on the BBC properly, but it's very, very unlikely to happen.

 

[Paddy]

Maybe RTE will get a few games back.

 

[the count]

[quote author=Paddy link=topic=34270.msg892288#msg892288 date=1245578612]
Maybe RTE will get a few games back.
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I would have thought that Setanta would still have the rights to screen matches in Ireland. After all it is only the main package of matches for broadcasting in the UK that they have lost as far as I know.

eecheerow said earlier that they are continuing to broadcast matches on Setanta Canada so it probably will be the same here. I could be wrong though!

 

[vantage]

Most importantly, will Special One TV stil be on?

 

[HC]

The bbc should fuck off bbc 3 and turn it into their footy channel.

 

[refugee]

[quote author=FoxForceFive link=topic=34270.msg892284#msg892284 date=1245578415]
[quote author=Paddy link=topic=34270.msg892280#msg892280 date=1245578094]
For the amount of viewers they would get it might be worth it. More than some fucking athletics nobody is arsed about.
[/quote]

Yeah, but as they're not commercial based, the amount of viewers isnt paramount. It's important, but not as important as providing a broad spectrum of sports to choose from for all licence payers. They already show FA Cup footy, & MOTD. To sacrifice other sports in fabour of more football would create problems for them.

I'd love footy to be back on the BBC properly, but it's very, very unlikely to happen.
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There was some talk of the BBC and ITV making a joint bid for some of the football packages at the last auction. Perhaps the could organise a deal like that.

 

[gkmacca]

[quote author=FoxForceFive link=topic=34270.msg892284#msg892284 date=1245578415]
Yeah, but as they're not commercial based, the amount of viewers isnt paramount. It's important, but not as important as providing a broad spectrum of sports to choose from for all licence payers. They already show FA Cup footy, & MOTD. To sacrifice other sports in fabour of more football would create problems for them.

I'd love footy to be back on the BBC properly, but it's very, very unlikely to happen.
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They don't have FA Cup footy, do they?

 

[FoxForceFive]

I thought they'd won them back from ITV for next season? Maybe I'm mistaken.

 

[HC]

The administrators are in today.

Looks like ESPN will be picking up the leftovers.

 

[gkmacca]

The channels are due to go off the air anytime now.

 

[gkmacca]

They've just gone. But LFCTV is still on.

 

[barrymac20]

[quote author=gkmacca link=topic=34270.msg893683#msg893683 date=1245776271]
They've just gone. But LFCTV is still on.
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Thats a lot more people out of work.

 

[SaintGeorge67]

ESPN, the American sports network that has won the rights to show 46 Premier League matches next season, will set up a new stand-alone channel to screen the games as it seeks to build a powerful presence in UK sport.

Lynne Franks, the ESPN executive who brokered the Premier League deal, said: "Buying the Premier League rights is a huge step and we are excited to use that as a platform to move into [more] local live sport. Our intention is to launch an ESPN channel that will carry all the Premier League sport and also other sport." Franks, managing director of Europe, Middle East, and Africa at ESPN did not reveal whether it will seek to buy some of the rights previously owned by Irish TV-pay company Setanta.

The company's British arm has been placed into administration. Deloitte, the accountants appointed as administrators, are trying to find a buyer for Setanta's Irish and international businesses, however, which are thought to make a small profit. Franks said the new ESPN channel, which will run alongside its existing UK channels, ESPN Classic and ESPN America, will be available on every platform, including cable, satellite and Freeview. The company has already signed a wholesale deal with Sky, which is expected to offer the new channel to the six million or so customers who subscribe to its sports package, for a monthly fee of around £10.