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- Virgin signs Setanta deal to take on Sky
- Virgin Media has stepped up its battle with Sky with the announcement that it has signed a deal with the sports broadcaster Setanta to offer subscribers free live football action. The deal will add the com-pany's six channels to Virgin's XL basic TV package, which has more...
- Research articles 2007-07-21
- RCN rolls out Setanta Sports
- US television services company RCN Corp is rolling out Setanta Sports on its digital television network, providing east coast viewers with access to live coverage of European sporting events, including the Barclays Premier League, FIFA World Cup Qualifiers and Magners League rugby. RCN will offer a Freeview of the...
- Articles 2008-12-05
- Setanta on-demand launches on Virgin Media
- Setanta will provide Virgin Media’s 3.5m TV subscribers with a range of on-demand sports channels under a newly established deal. The Setanta Replay service offers major sporting fixtures, including games from the Barclays Premier League, FA Cup and England’s World Cup qualifiers. The channels will be free for Virgin...
- Articles 2009-01-21
- Setanta seeks USD236m
- Setanta is looking for USD236m in funding to buy Premier League football rights from Sky under a sublicensing deal. The Ireland-based broadcaster secured rights to broadcast only one of six packages in each of the next three seasons in a bidding round in December. ...
- Articles 2009-02-10
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- British Sky Broadcasting Could Rise on Setanta's Demise
- Michael Young submits: British Sky Broadcasting BSY, or Sky as it is more commonly known, strengthened its market position this week following the collapse of Setanta, the Irish domiciled broadcaster. Setanta, with 1.2 million subscribers in the UK and Ireland, failed to meet a £30m payment obligation to the British...
- External links 2009-06-25
- Murray hits out at SPL over Setanta deal; Rangers honorary chairman
- DAVID Murray has launched a stinging criticism of the SPL for agreeing a television deal with Setanta Sport rather than the BBC. Murray said he feared Scottish football could "end up in a Nationwide situation" and criticised the SPL for declaring the deal was done before Setanta's resources had been...
- Research articles 2004-03-21
- At Setanta Sports North America, San Francisco: Michael Richter, director, international marketing and sales development, Yahoo! Inc.(Marcia Canady)(Brief Article)
- At Setanta Sports North America, San Francisco: MICHAEL RICHTER, director, international marketing and sales development, Yahoo! Inc., named VR ... At Setanta Sports North America, San Francisco: MICHAEL RICHTER, director, international marketing and sales development, Yahoo! Inc., named VR marketing and sales; MARCIA...
- Research articles 2005-09-12
- Benchmark Capital Europe to Make a Significant Investment in Setanta Sports.
- LONDON, October 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Setanta Sports Group, the international sports broadcaster, and Benchmark Capital Europe, the top tier venture capital firm, today announced that they had agreed terms for a significant investment by Benchmark into the company. The transaction...
- Research articles 2005-10-20
- Setanta promises (pounds) 32m SPL television bid is not an own goal
- SENIOR figures at Setanta, the Irish media company behind a pounds 32 million television rights package aiming to provide a cash boost for Scottish football, insist that the deal will be a money-spinner. The deal, which could be approved within a fortnight, is likely to see...
- Research articles 2004-02-15
- Setanta TV deal offers SPL hope for future; Fans may suffer but
- IN a dreadful month for Scottish football, with Livingston becoming the third SPL club to go into administration and Dunfermline asking their players to take wage cuts, only a curmudgeon could fail to be cautiously pleased by the news that a better television deal is in the offing from Setanta...
- Research articles 2004-02-15
- One vision?; Is Setanta's (pounds) 35m deal the best that Scottish
- THE SPL did not hide their enthusiasm and even relief when they trumpeted the acceptance of a new television contract with Setanta Sport last month, but the fanfare was not unanimous. Amid the excited chatter over the completion of negotiations to secure pounds 35 million for showing 38 live matches...
- Research articles 2004-03-21
- No room for error as details of Setanta deal emerge; Clear scrutiny
- WHOEVER first suggested the SPL's initials should stand for "self preservation league" could yet be proved disturbingly prescient. That is precisely what the country's top division will become if reported worries about Setanta TV's subscriber numbers failing to reach their break-even target of around 80,000 are still borne out around...
- Research articles 2004-07-25
- Noo kids on the box pass the screen test
- Setanta watch If there had been a BBC logo on the top left of the TV screen for yesterday's Aberdeen-Rangers game, casual viewers would have been unaware that there had been any change in the coverage of the Scottish Premierleague. Setanta Sport, successors to the Beeb in the business of...
- Research articles 2004-08-08
- Shaw Communications Continues to Deliver the Best in Sports Programming
- Shaw Communications (TSX: SJR.B) (NYSE: SJR) announced today that it will deliver the very best in professional soccer and rugby from the English Premier League, the Rugby World Cup and the Aussie Football League with the launch of the Setanta International Sports Pak. Setanta will be available to Shaw Digital...
- Research articles 2007-08-10
- Cogeco Cable Adds a New Premium Service to its Digital Line-Up in Ontario
- Cogeco Cable (TSX: CCA) announced the launch of a new premium digital service. Setanta Sports is now offered to the majority of Cogeco Cable Digital Cable customers in the areas served in Ontario. Setanta Sports is a 24/7 television channel bringing access to live and delayed European soccer, international rugby,...
- Research articles 2007-09-04
- Ofcom to examine pay TV.
- Ofcom, the com-munications regulator, is to investigate the pay TV market following a submission from BT, Setanta, Top Up TV and Virgin Media. One implication of the request is that British Sky Broadcasting BSkyB may be acting anti-competitively, a Ofcom, the com-munications regulator, is to investigate...
- Research articles 2007-03-23
- Scottish Premier League sign television deal
- GLASGOW AFP ? The Scottish Premier League has penned a four-year deal with Setanta Sport to televise 38 live matches per season, Setanta revealed. The Ireland-based broadcaster's director of channel development and marketing Roger Hall said coverage will include all 10 non-Old Firm clubs, but the focus will be...
- Research articles 2004-05-25
- Commentary Booth; THE BRYAN COONEY INTERVIEW
- Aberdeen may have shown him the door but don't expect the once fiesty striker to shoot from the lip about his former boss. Scott Booth has hung up his boots and has no plans to court controversy in his new role as Setanta's wholesome roving reporter IT...
- Research articles 2004-07-11
- Boxing: Beeb's Ricky chance
- RICKY HATTON'S potentially explosive meeting with Mexican Jose Luis Castillo in Las Vegas on June 23 could be shown on BBC and Setanta TV. ITV's hopes of hijacking the light-welterweight fight from Sky are apparently being frustrated by the exclusive contract between Frank Warren - Hatton's ex-promoter...
- Research articles 2007-04-29
- SPL in TV blackout
- SCOTLAND'S millions of armchair football fans will see nothing of the SPL from next season - unless they can subscribe to Setanta. From August, STV's Monday night highlights package will disappear and the BBC's Wednesday show will also be sidelined. STV are selling off...
- Research articles 2008-04-27
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