Thread: Sentanta Skint

Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing

Originally Posted by hattonthehammer

setanta simply cannot compete with sky when it comes to premier league rights and im pretty sure thats a good 70-80% alone of their profiting figures.

Without at least 1 game a week they`ll struggle to even remain in existence and we`ll have to get used to shitty sky coverage and on the odd ITV card

ITV are pulling out of boxing too when their current contract with Hennessy ends. Setanta will do well to survive another twelve months, they're going to have to totally rewrite their business model. Pretty soon boxing will be Friday night domestic stuff on Sky and PPV for anything involving a Brit at world level.

Where have you heard ITV are pulling out?

Originally Posted by GuyIncognito76

Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing

Originally Posted by hattonthehammer

setanta simply cannot compete with sky when it comes to premier league rights and im pretty sure thats a good 70-80% alone of their profiting figures.

Without at least 1 game a week they`ll struggle to even remain in existence and we`ll have to get used to shitty sky coverage and on the odd ITV card

ITV are pulling out of boxing too when their current contract with Hennessy ends. Setanta will do well to survive another twelve months, they're going to have to totally rewrite their business model. Pretty soon boxing will be Friday night domestic stuff on Sky and PPV for anything involving a Brit at world level.

Where have you heard ITV are pulling out?

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If Setanta and ITV are out within a year then I will have to fork out for Sky which I left April 2008.

Originally Posted by http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/?p=19167

The Setanta Sports channels could have just days left on the air. The troubled broadcaster has appointed accountancy firm Deloitte that could place it into administration if agreement cannot be reached with rights holders and investors.

Setanta has until tomorrow to pay the latest £3 million instalment on its £31m agreement with the Scottish Premier League. A £35 million instalment is due to be paid to the English Premier League on June 15.

There are also satellite distribution contracts with Arqiva and Globecast together with the Virgin Media JV Setanta Sports News, produced by ITN.

Setanta is believed to have 1.2 million premium customers, some 500,000 shy of the total needed for breakeven. In excess of two million subscribers are also able to access the channel under “feels like free” agreements with Virgin, BT Vision and Top Up TV.

The problems facing the Dublin-based broadcaster echo the situation that surrounded ITV Digital, the terrestrial pay-TV platform that collapsed in 2002, owing £178.5m to the Football League.

Well it seems its a matter of days before they go under now.

Sky will probablt kinda sorta buy them. They'll become another part of the Sky Sports package, like Premier Plus before Setanta bought Premier League rights. The alternative for Sky is letting ESPN move in. Those guys have serious money and could turn into a big competitior for Sky in the long run, so Sky will probably do a deal with Setanta to prevent that happening so easily.

We need competition so it would be bad for boxing if Sky monopolises boxing and our money.

Originally Posted by Master

We need competition so it would be bad for boxing if Sky monopolises boxing and our money.

I told Sky to bollox yesterday. We've still got it for kids and shite that my wife watches. I've cancelled sports and movies.

I bent this woman's ear about Amir fucking Khan being ppv.

I think that is a disgrace and I'll be fucked if I'm paying it.

Totally agree, I would not pay for the PPV but at least you can watch them a week later which is better than nothing.

I have the kids channels but need the sports channel for the boxing, could not care much about the football.

I've just tried to log in to my setanta-i online account in anticipation of the Cotto Clottey fight tonight and my subscription has been cancelled. Supposedly it was cancelled on the 26th May 2009. I certainly didn't request that this happened. Totally pissed about this. Anyone else had any problem with the online / broadband version of setanta

I read yesterday that some American Tycoon is going to help out Setanta by putting in 20million and try and keep them afloat!I understand that its more than 20million,its something like 50million of dept,i could be wrong with them figures though.I dont know the name of this american but he has agreed 20 million pounds soo!!!

It was on 5Live earlier that Endemol, the company who do Big Brother, were looking into investing £50m for a majority stake to keep them afloat. There seems to be too many rumours flying around for someone not to come along and take them over.