Fox Soccer Channel and Setanta Sports To Merge?

foxtanta sports1 Fox Soccer Channel and Setanta Sports To Merge?We here at EPL Talk usually don’t publish rumors, but this one is too big to overlook. We’ve received several anonymous reports that Fox Soccer Channel and Setanta Sports have agreed to merge to form a new company.

Setanta Sports, who have reportedly been in financial trouble in the United Kingdom, have long worked with Fox Soccer Channel to share Premier League rights in the United States, and the potential merger is seen as a marriage of convenience in the U.S. as well as an opportunity for Fox to expand its reach in the UK where it currently has no footprint.

The new company, to be named Foxtanta Sports (or Fanta, for short), is expected to combine its Dublin and Los Angeles workforces to create an international brand delivering sparking soccer entertainment.

7 Responses

  1. PK
    PK
    April 1, 2009 at 5:58 am | | Reply


    April fools.

  2. Myopian
    April 1, 2009 at 7:49 am | | Reply


    Fox Tanta??

    in the words of the special one, “shat ap”
    :)

  3. kenny
    kenny
    April 1, 2009 at 7:51 am | | Reply


    awful

  4. curious
    curious
    April 1, 2009 at 11:32 am | | Reply


    hahah suckers.

  5. uh?
    uh?
    April 1, 2009 at 11:41 am | | Reply


    i realized it when i saw foxtanta….

  6. eplnfl
    eplnfl
    April 1, 2009 at 7:08 pm | | Reply


    nice headline but easy April Fools

  7. olivert
    olivert
    April 2, 2009 at 9:20 am | | Reply


    C’mon Gaffer, you gotta come up with a better April Fool’s effort than that.

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