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* Setanta Sports is available free to [[Virgin Media]] subscribers on the cable company's premium subscription package (XL), and to other subscribers for a monthly fee. |
* Setanta Sports is available free to [[Virgin Media]] subscribers on the cable company's premium subscription package (XL), and to other subscribers for a monthly fee. |
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* [[Tiscali TV]] has reported it is in talks with Setanta for this Service.{{Fact|date=June 2007}} |
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* Setanta is reportedly in talks with [[Tiscali TV]] regarding carriage of the service.<ref>[http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/broadcastnowarticle.aspx?intStoryID=170552]</ref> |
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In June 2007, Setanta Sports 1 broadcast some programming without encryption on DTT, allowing Freeview viewers the opportunity to sample programming. The channel is not, however, a "Freeview channel".[http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=593973] |
In June 2007, Setanta Sports 1 broadcast some programming without encryption on DTT, allowing Freeview viewers the opportunity to sample programming. The channel is not, however, a "Freeview channel".[http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=593973] |
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| Land |  Irland  Vereinigtes Königreich |
|---|---|
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Setanta Sports |
Setanta Sports 1 & 2 are the two main Channels for Setanta Sports in the Republic of Ireland and United Kingdom, carrying coverage of association football (including the English Premier League, Scottish Premier League, top-flight European leagues and UEFA Cup), boxing, golf, motorsport, coverage of the Gaelic Athletic Association and international cricket.
Broadcast Rights
European League Football - France, Portugal, Holland, Germany, Ireland, Scotland (60 games per season), England (46 premier league games + conference action).
Rugby union from the Magners League and the French Top 14. Setanta has the rights to televise Australian NRL Rugby League from 2007 outbidding Sky. Setanta will show the games in the State of Origin.
Golf from the US PGA TOUR.
Setanta has won exclusive rights in Ireland and the UK to air the U.S. PGA Tour golf for six years from 2007 for a reported cost of £103 million. The deal also includes the Champions Tour and the Nationwide Tour events, but it does not include the major championships. Setanta established a specialist golf channel to present its coverage, Setanta Golf.
Setanta was one of two broadcasters (the other being Sky) to secure rights to show live English Premiership football in Ireland and the UK from August 2007 to August 2010. It was awarded two of the six packages into which the rights had been divided under an agreement between the FA Premier League and the European Commission. Setanta also won exclusive rights to air, strictly for viewers in the Republic of Ireland only, a live Saturday afternoon match with a 3pm kickoff time (although it had already been doing that under the previous contract).
Setanta has won exclusive rights in Ireland and the UK to air the U.S. PGA Tour golf for six years from 2007 for a reported cost of £103 million. The deal also includes the Champions Tour and the Nationwide Tour events, but it does not include the major championships. Setanta established a specialist golf channel to present its coverage, Setanta Golf.
Setanta were the exclusive multi-channel broadcasters of the RBS 6 Nations 2007 highlights programme, every match weekend. Rhodri Williams anchored coverage, with match commentary and graphics from the BBC coverage.
Setanta has also won the rights to the Australian rules football season and the British Touring Car Championship.
On 30 March 2007, Setanta, along with ITV, won a deal with the Football Association to show live coverage of the FA Cup and England home friendlies from the 2007/8 season for four years.
Their coverage of the FA Cup will comprise:
- Three games and one replay per round in the 3rd, 4th and 5th rounds of the FA Cup;
- Two Quarter-finals and one Quarter-final replay (if any are required);
- One semi-final; and
- the Final (shared with ITV).
The remainder of the contract covers:
- Three home England international friendlies in years 1 and 2 (and 2 in years 3 and 4) of the contract;
- the Community Shield;
- all England U21/B games.
Other
Setanta Sports signed former Sky Sports' commentator Ian Crocker who joined their broadcasters for the 2006/07 season, focusing mainly on covering SPL matches, and for the 2007/08 season they are moving on to the cover both the English Premiership and the SPL.
Setanta is the sponsor of the Setanta Cup, an annual soccer tournament featuring teams from the Football League of Ireland and Irish Football League. The top 4 teams from each league are drawn into a 4 team group with 2 teams from each league. In the group stages, each team plays each other 2 times (home and away) and the top 2 qualify for the semi-final. The semi-finals are played at Windsor Park, Belfast and Turners Cross, Cork. The Final is played at Tolka Park, Dublin.
Concerns have been raised about the security and viability of Setanta's digital terrestrial channel provided by Top Up TV because the MediaGuard encryption system was cracked in continental Europe in 2004.[1] Sky's Sky Italia service suffered heavy losses because of piracy and it was reported that more than 3 million Italian homes accessed pay-TV services through hacked decoder cards for conditional access set top boxes and conditional access modules for digital televisions and personal video recorders. Sky Italia switched from MediaGuard to the Videoguard cryptographic algorithm encryption system.[2] [3] This has led to speculation that digital terrestrial pay-TV piracy would increase within the United Kingdom once the 2007/2008 football season starts and Setanta begin covering the Premier League.
Availability
Setanta Sports 1 is available on all major UK digital television platforms.
- On digital terrestrial television, Setanta Sports 1 is available as a standalone subscription channel, available to viewers with a compatible "Freeview" receiver. These include set-top boxes with a card slot, and IDTVs with a CAM. The channel broadcasts between 12:00 and 03:00;
- BT Vision offer the version of Setanta Sports 1 carried on DTT as part of the BT Vision Sport package, which combines the channel with a broadband on-demand highlights service;
- The entire Setanta Sports family of channels is available via satellite and BSkyB;
- Setanta Sports is available free to Virgin Media subscribers on the cable company's premium subscription package (XL), and to other subscribers for a monthly fee.
- Setanta is reportedly in talks with Tiscali TV regarding carriage of the service.[4]
In June 2007, Setanta Sports 1 broadcast some programming without encryption on DTT, allowing Freeview viewers the opportunity to sample programming. The channel is not, however, a "Freeview channel".[5]
Talent
The following is a list of some of the current on-air staff employed by Setanta Sports:
Football
Presenters
Pundits
Commentators
- Ian Crocker
- Jon Champion
- Jock Brown
- Jim Proudfoot
- Archie MacPherson
- Brian Etherson
- David McKinney
- Ken McRobb
- Steve Bower
Co-Commentators
Reporters
Rugby Union
Presenters
Boxing
Presenters
Pundits
Commentators
See also
External links