ESPN in UK? Live boxing?

[skel1983]

Cant see it really, ESPN have taken over the football rights as football is probably the biggest most profitbable sport in the world, unfortunatly boxing isnt, and Setanta went skint for the simple fact they invested in to many sports that are not really that popular to the general public as a whole.

Boxing as the ppv figures have shown for fighters like Khan and Hatton is not that desirable in the uk especailly when you have to pay extra for it and in the current financial climate.

I think Setanta probably lost alot of money they invested into boxing with all the different promoters rights they had like Hayemaker top rank the german firm etc etc.

[Master]

ESPN Premier League football to be free for first month on cable

Disney-owned ESPN makes introductory offer on new UK subscription Premier League football channel


Disney-owned ESPN is launching a new UK cable and satellite subscription channel, and a high definition service, to carry its 46 live Premier League matches and 30 Scottish Premier League for next season on 3 August.
The 2009-10 season starts on 15 August, when ESPN will have live coverage of Everton v Arsenal, hosted by the former BBC presenter Ray Stubbs
Under the deal, Virgin Media's 3.5 million cable TV customers will gain free access to matches aired by ESPN during August on both its standard and high definition channels.
After that, subscribers to Virgin's XL TV channels package will get ESPN's new UK sports channel and its archive programming service, ESPN Classic, free. This is the same arrangement Virgin Media had with Setanta, the former holder of the Premier League and SPL rights that passed to ESPN after the Irish pay-TV broadcaster went into administration in late June. Subscribers to Virgin Media's M or L packages will be able to subscribe to ESPN's new sports channel for £8 a month, if they already subscribe to any combination of the Sky Sports services, or £10 a month if not.
Yesterday, ESPN announced that the sports channel's football coverage would be extended to include matches from the top-flight domestic competitions in Germany, Portugal, Russia and the Netherlands.
The US broadcaster has also secured the UK and Ireland rights to air the remainder of the Major Soccer League competition in the US, featuring David Beckham's LA Galaxy. The first matches from these overseas leagues will air on ESPN from 7 August.
Following the demise of Setanta's UK business, ESPN won the right to show 46 live Premier League matches for the 2009/10 season, and 23 matches a season for the following three years.
Earlier this month, the Scottish Premier League's 12 clubs agreed a £65m deal with Sky and ESPN to screen 60 live Premier League games apiece each season for the next three years across the UK and Ireland.

[GuyIncognito76]

ESPN Friday fights is on Saturday afternoon.

[LBSCFC]

looking at the listings there showing the Witter v Alexander fight tomorrow too

[Master]

It is a very good channel, it showed Dirrell, the younger brother of the guy that will fight Froch. It has Pernell and Breland on, boy they have aged a lot. It also has Tyson fights when he was 19. Nice channel.

[Drago]

any big US fights gonna be shown? anyone know?

[Master]

That is their big problem, a lack of notice of these fights.