setanta have delivered the goods again ..

[Howlin Mad Missy]

good news

[J_C]

Lovely stuff. I was thinking yesterday how crap it was that on a weekend with so many fights I want to see, all Setanta could muster up was a couple of dodgy German fights. I take it all back

[smashup]

So anyone watching on Freeview loses out again...?


Because of the timing of the main bill, the fight is unlikely to be screened on Freeview but Setanta by Broadband will be in a position to show both contests after resolving the problems of last weekend. More clarification on this will be posted when available.
Because of the timing of the main bill, the fight is unlikely to be screened on Freeview but Setanta by Broadband will be in a position to show both contests after resolving the problems of last weekend. More clarification on this will be posted when available.

[Kev]

I think its fair enough that Setanta wouldn't want their prize fights to be screened free without subscription.

How could they possibly make any money if they paid to secure the rights to these fights then just let everybody watch them on freeview?

Broadband is a great deal imo, £.7.99 a month cancel at any time, no minumum contract etc.

[hitmanhatton]

I think its fair enough that Setanta wouldn't want their prize fights to be screened free without subscription.

How could they possibly make any money if they paid to secure the rights to these fights then just let everybody watch them on freeview?

Broadband is a great deal imo, £.7.99 a month cancel at any time, no minumum contract etc.

they still have to pay as its only like an add on to freeview not part of the actual free package, i think its only virgin media that give setanta for free

its basically all because they dont put setanta 2 on freeview so i cant see how they justify charging the same price as they charge me for example to get ss1,2 the news channel and the golf one

[Kev]

I think its fair enough that Setanta wouldn't want their prize fights to be screened free without subscription.

How could they possibly make any money if they paid to secure the rights to these fights then just let everybody watch them on freeview?

Broadband is a great deal imo, £.7.99 a month cancel at any time, no minumum contract etc.

they still have to pay as its only like an add on to freeview not part of the actual free package, i think its only virgin media that give setanta for free

its basically all because they dont put setanta 2 on freeview so i cant see how they justify charging the same price as they charge me for example to get ss1,2 the news channel and the golf one

I'm not sure I really understand as I don't have freeview. I have a digital box in the lounge but it hasn't even been turned on in over a year.

So some people have signed up a contract with someone other than Setanta and Setanta is included as part of the package, is that what you mean? So they arn't subscribing to Setanta directly but kind of through a third party?

What I mean is, if you were a subscriber to Setanta directly you could watch this on tv and not have to get broadband as well?

[hitmanhatton]

I think its fair enough that Setanta wouldn't want their prize fights to be screened free without subscription.

How could they possibly make any money if they paid to secure the rights to these fights then just let everybody watch them on freeview?

Broadband is a great deal imo, £.7.99 a month cancel at any time, no minumum contract etc.

they still have to pay as its only like an add on to freeview not part of the actual free package, i think its only virgin media that give setanta for free

its basically all because they dont put setanta 2 on freeview so i cant see how they justify charging the same price as they charge me for example to get ss1,2 the news channel and the golf one

I'm not sure I really understand as I don't have freeview. I have a digital box in the lounge but it hasn't even been turned on in over a year.

So some people have signed up a contract with someone other than Setanta and Setanta is included as part of the package, is that what you mean? So they arn't subscribing to Setanta directly but kind of through a third party?

What I mean is, if you were a subscriber to Setanta directly you could watch this on tv and not have to get broadband as well?

standard freeview customers subscribe to setanta same as you would on sky, but they get a card i think that plugs into the freeview box, or you phone up and they unlock the channel something like that, all freeview boxes have the setanta channel on but its locked until you start paying for a subscription, even then its only setanta sports 1, you dont get the other channels that sky users get

also apparently on freeview they stop broadcasting at 5am for some reason so this leads to them cutting off in the middle of fights i would guess,

virgin media gives you setanta for free when u subscribe to them but i think they dont show you certain live events, like theyll show you the build up then say this is your last chance to phone up and subsricbe or something along those lines