Sentanta Skint

[rowlesy]

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]

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

[robinswe01]

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]

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.

[Master]

Boxing is my primary interest, football is second. Setanta is cheaper than Sky so that is another bonus. The Germain boxing is poor but the Top Rank fights are better.

[The Rela]

June 21st is when I'm getting rid of Setanta.

Cotto fight is coming up, then Haye, there's some ABA stuff and the heavyweight fight.

After that, £15 a month is looking bad value.

[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