Sentanta Skint

**Master** · 05-13-2009 06:13 PM

It may have started already sky have the Berto v Urango fight.

**Britkid** · 05-14-2009 07:20 PM

Originally Posted by Master

It may have started already sky have the Berto v Urango fight.

I think it has, I had the day off, and turned on the TV this morning, only to find infomercials, where last nights and the weekends re-runs would normally be shown. I remember the same thing happening to that channel on 427, that used to show old SKY fights.

**Drago** · 05-14-2009 08:55 PM

oh dear

i have setanta cos get with virgin+ but would of subscribed to them if was with sky anyway solely for the boxing

hope they keep gettin the fights

**rowlesy** · 05-15-2009 10:58 PM

It's not a suprise really, the football coverage is shocking. And as thats what they are pushing as the reason for people to subscribe, then its no shock they are going under.

If they advertised as just a boxing channel, which is what they are best at, they would still go under because of the large majority of boxing viewers who prefer to watch on streams rather than physically pay a TV channel to show it.

They are in a lose-lose situation I'm afraid.

**Master** · 05-16-2009 08:41 AM

I prefer to watch it on TV and record it on my VHS tapes. I must be a dinosaur.

**robinswe01** · 05-25-2009 09:36 AM

I hope they don't go under. They are much better than sky.
They have some good fights in the near future. They have Haye's next 3 fight and have a deal with Top rank so they should have cotto's next fight.
I'm not sure how long this deal lasts though.

**rowlesy** · 05-25-2009 01:32 PM

The trouble is the football side of it is shockingly bad, and thats why they are in so much shit financially. They've lost the Monday night games and so only have the Saturday evening kick-off, so there's not much point in having Setanta now for football. Their boxing coverage is excellent, but thats not enough unfortunately.