If Sky keep Special 1 TV going, I won't be bothered....otherwise, buggar!

Quote ="Dave T"Let's just hope it lasts that long, otherwise we may miss out. Didn't Setanta recently sign up Rugby Union too?'" They already hold Magners League coverage. They had agreed a shared rights deal with Sky for the Guinness Premiership: www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/de ... ship-rugby

Quote ="Dave T"Let's just hope it lasts that long, otherwise we may miss out. Didn't Setanta recently sign up Rugby Union too?'" They already hold Magners League coverage. They had agreed a shared rights deal with Sky for the Guinness Premiership: www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/de ... ship-rugby

This is not good for our sport or any sport, this will drive prices down.

The Beeb have no money and ITV are not far off in the bankrupt steaks either leaving only Sky. You can bet they will now drive down the price paid as I know Sky have also suffered from the cut backs from people either cancelling or reducing the package they buy.

I bet football clubs are crapping themselves as they will lose Setanta money and only Sky is left in the market place for there product. Sky will maybe force a re setting of the prices now as the Setanta matches will become available by default.

And that, my friend is capitalism....



Have you ever thought that maybe the various sports have been ripping off the broadcasters???...



I honestly hope this sends a few sports clubs down the pan, a la Leeds United, as it always seems to me that a few of them, mostly Football clubs, are run in a scandalous manner.

How, in an open auction, could any sport be accused of ripping off the broadcaster?

Yes

You mean prices paid to the Sports, yeah, rather than prices paid by the end user, which can surely only go UP. There will be no competition and Sky will have a monopoly and the ability to charge whatever it likes. Good times Rupert.

Back in the day, the Govt may have taken an interest in the situation, but they seem to have other fish to fry at the moment.

You really think Setanta have stopped them doing that?

Should I be cancelling my direct debit yet?

Not if you don't want Setanta to go under. As far as I can see, they've not actually gone into administration yet.

The thing is, these things are often self fulfilling prophecies. Word gets out that they may be in trouble (and don't forget, Setanta themselves have not commented, yet), people start to cancel direct debits, which starves the company of cash, so they go under anyway because of it.

After the difficulties I had in cancelling it doesn't surprise me, i'm sure like many others, the fact it was so hard last year, stopped me going back again this year.

Agreed. Their 'customer care' makes Sky (who aren't particularly great in that regard themselves) look positively brilliant.

Quote If Setanta fails to come up with the money this week, the league is expected to take back its rights to the 2009/10 season and resell them to the highest bidder. ESPN, the sports channel owned by the US media giant Disney, is thought to be waiting in the wings, hopeful of picking up its 46 games at a bargain price.'" www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/ju ... ier-league

Quote If Setanta fails to come up with the money this week, the league is expected to take back its rights to the 2009/10 season and resell them to the highest bidder. ESPN, the sports channel owned by the US media giant Disney, is thought to be waiting in the wings, hopeful of picking up its 46 games at a bargain price.'" www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/ju ... ier-league

Don't quite get the idea that Setanta's existance has kept the prices down??...



Before Setanta, Sky had mostly everything a sports fan wanted....40 odd quid....

ish

With Setanta, Sky had bits I wanted - 40 odd quid...Setanta had the other bits I wanted - a further tenner...



Now with Setanta going belly up, hopefully Sky will get some of their old stuff back, and hopefully (well, big hopefully) stay 40 odd quid...

Wonder what effect that will have on Setanta US/Canada? I was planning to bin it anyway after SOO. I do like their footy coverage but hopefully those games will get picked up by other channels if Setanta goes belly up over here.

At the end of the day, Setanta as a company are bloody shocking. Just because Sky may pick up the pieces because of their collapse, doesn't mean people shouldn't cancel their direct debits with Setanta. That really is just ridiculous.

Good riddance in my opinion.

Amen to that!

Amazing what you can find on t'web if you look hard enough.

Nice avatar.

I'll second that.

Apparently Setanta have stopped taking subscribers today which in ominous.

Hopefully good riddence to bad rubbish.

section about it on working lunch apparently the website wont allow new customers to join although the compnay is refusing to admit if they are shut for business

bbc news now saying you can't subscribe by phone you just get a recorded message. i think the clock is down to hours not days

if a company goes into administration, they cannot take on any new business, however it doesnt mean that it will close down fully.

Who knows, SL on Setanta may have given them the extra viewership they needed to break even.

I expect that the downturn will mean sports getting less money from Sky and Sky charges going static/down.

I agree that all sports will get less money, but the idea that we'll not have to pay more seems a tad naive. It'll also be interesting to see how this will work with the EU's anti-trust ruling that broke the Sky monoply in the first place.