Sentanta has gone

[Ninja Elephant]

I was getting Setanta free with Virgin Media, so I'm disappointed to have to subscribe to ESPN now. What I don't understand is why Setanta only had 1.2million subscribers, surely Virgin should have done something? Surely they could have bought them out and then made them into a massive company, it wouldn't have been hard. They just needed to make themselves more professional in terms of pundits and coverage, and then they would have been fine. They had an incredible diversity of sports, how they've failed is beyond me. 1.2million subscribers is an absolute joke and whoever marketed them should never work again!

 

[clapham_gull]

I was getting Setanta free with Virgin Media, so I'm disappointed to have to subscribe to ESPN now. What I don't understand is why Setanta only had 1.2million subscribers, surely Virgin should have done something? Surely they could have bought them out and then made them into a massive company, it wouldn't have been hard. They just needed to make themselves more professional in terms of pundits and coverage, and then they would have been fine. They had an incredible diversity of sports, how they've failed is beyond me. 1.2million subscribers is an absolute joke and whoever marketed them should never work again!

You didn't get it free.

Surely they could have bought them out and then made them into a massive company, it wouldn't have been hard.

 

[Rookie]

If anyone is interested the end of Setenta
YouTube - Setanta Sports News Says Goodbye

sad i know

 

[RM-Taylor]

but how much is it going to cost?

On Digital Spy, it's frequently being mentioned that ESPN UK and ESPN HD is likely to be in the Sky HD pack for no extra charge. If you don't have a HD subscription then it'll likely be £6 a month on Sky.

hopefully virgin will have it free as they did with Setanta. Im having it installed tommorow and dont fancy extra costs!

Not the case, again on Digital Spy, it has been mentioned that ESPN UK and ESPN America will be £10 a month for both channels on Smergin Media.

Looks like ESPN might be getting UFC aswell! Come on :yahoo:

I think UFC 100 is going to be on Bravo the day afterwards

 

[Flavor Flav]

What will happen to the England games on setanta?

 

[Hiney]

On Digital Spy, it's frequently being mentioned that ESPN UK and ESPN HD is likely to be in the Sky HD pack for no extra charge. If you don't have a HD subscription then it'll likely be £6 a month on Sky.

Happy f***ing days!

 

[Rookie]

ESPN America is now free on Sky (Channel 417) as part of the news and something package. Shame its baseball at the moment but never mind

 

[RM-Taylor]

What will happen to the England games on setanta?

England home games and friendlies will be on ITV and ITV HD.

England's away game in Ukraine has yet to be decided but will either be on ITV or Sky Sports.

 

[RM-Taylor]

ESPN America is now free on Sky (Channel 417) as part of the news and something package. Shame its baseball at the moment but never mind

And it's still £10 on Virgin

 

[RM-Taylor]

Happy f***ing days!

Lets hope so

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Anybody know what is going to happen to AFL and NRL?

 

[CHAPPERS]

Thank f***. No more shoddy coverage of international football.

 

[METALMICKY]

Can anyone 100% confirm where i will be able to watch UFC100?

I will be gutted if i don't get to see that event which is totally stacked with potentially awesome match ups!

 

[vulture]

Setanta were the worst company ever and deserved to go bust.

1) They had a customer service number that cost 40p a minute to call

2) Their customer service was awful and voted worst in country

3) Trying to cancel them was misson impossible

Im glad they have gone

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Can anyone 100% confirm where i will be able to watch UFC100?

I will be gutted if i don't get to see that event which is totally stacked with potentially awesome match ups!

No info as yet , I dont think it will be shown live in the UK but could end up on Bravo at the end of July.

 

[Fatboy Quim]

I don't think this will be the case. From following what Dana White has said in recent days, he has firstly reassured UK fans that UFC100 will be live on UK tv and has also been mentioning Virgin1 on his twitter.

It looks like it could all turn out ok. I will be gutted if UFC100 is not shown live

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

It looks like it could all turn out ok. I will be gutted if UFC100 is not shown live

remember justin.tv might stream UFC100 if you need to watch it live but in poor quality.

 

[Fatboy Quim]

remember justin.tv might stream UFC100 if you need to watch it live but in poor quality.

this was yesterday - we can only hope that it will be live and not tape delay

http://twitter.com/danawhiteblog/statuses/2318263281

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

ESPN are expected to announce the pricing of their sports package tommorrow , although ESPN America has been added to the News and Events package by Sky this could be only a short term measure to keep them on air until they sort things out. £6 a month would be ok , anymore then why should we have to pay to have the shit channels added in as well (Arsenal TV , Liverpool TV , Celtic TV and Rangers TV who are desperate for a return to satellite).

 

[Ninja Elephant]

You didn't get it free.

On Virgin XL, you did.