Comments on: Setanta UK Goes Into Administration

By: Paul Bestall

Paul Bestall — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:09:32 +0000

Hi Dave,

Have you tired getting your bank to do an indemnity claim on the DD they took off you two days prior to going under??

By: dave bradley

dave bradley — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:15:33 +0000

i think its a discrace the fact you take monthly payments off people and then close your channels down 2 days later .

i then find out you are still broadcasting in ireland how come the irish still get the channels but not the british.

plus you put telephone numbers online for us to contact and all we get is an automated answer service.

By: FredZ

FredZ — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:33:46 +0000

I’m not surprised that SetantaUS is makes a profit since they certainly don’t spend any money on tech support. I’ve subscribed to them since before it even had the Prem (in order to get other football like the French league) but had already decided to not renew since I’ve had nothing but trouble with them over the last season especially with the Setanta-i disaster that left me hunting for streams from Asia instead of getting the broadcast I paid for. I hope all of Setanta disappears and some other group takes over the rights. Anyone else would have to do a better job.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:34:45 +0000

Yeah they are real serious….Wow 20 games on ESPN2….

“I hope they can get the EPL matches that are currently on Setanta North America and promote them properly. We’ll see if they will do it correctly.”

Yeah because suddenly they are going to be interested in premier league rights in America because Setanta is in trouble? Wake up from your wet dream and realize that ESPN could care less about soccer. NASCAR qualifying rounds gets better ratings than a Man United versus Chelsea game.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:13:27 +0000

Never going to happen, ESPN will have EPL in the USA no sooner than 2025

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:01:19 +0000

ESPN will do a good job.

By: SSReporters

SSReporters — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:55:12 +0000

The international channel ESPN has includes Derek Rae and Adrian Healey.

But I dare you to listen to Dave Roberts and Shep Messing….I found a clip on Youtube and they are awful.

By: AtlantaPompey

AtlantaPompey — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:33:15 +0000

Denis Desmond is buying the remaining portion of Setanta Ireland, but has no controlling interest in Setanta North America. It is profitable, but mainly because they had to spend so little to broadcast games.

ESPN will broadcast La Liga next season, including 20 matches on ESPN2. They are serious about developing football here, but need to use the local announcers, the local feed, and put people in studio who know the game. No Alexei Lalas. No Tommy Smyth. I hope they can get the EPL matches that are currently on Setanta North America and promote them properly. We’ll see if they will do it correctly.

By: David

David — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:42:30 +0000

UK subscribers = 1.2 million (not anymore)
Ireland, Australia, Africa, USA, Canada subscribers = 200,000

ESPN is not going to buy any Setanta operation. If ESPN was serious about the EPL they could have done something about it a long time ago.

US rights 2007-2010 = $57 million
Canadian rights 2007-2010 = $3.15 million

For $19 million a year they could have put the EPL on ESPN Classic and they don’t do it because ESPN really does not care about football. They talked for years about how ESPN was going to enter the EPL market in the UK and years later they finally enter when two packages are basically handed to them.

My prediction is that this guy Denis Desmond who already owns around 20% of the Irish operation will buy the Irish & international operations.

By: SSReporters

SSReporters — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:22:37 +0000

Here is the proof!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCs7ZWXSKdA