Setanta to show free to air highlights of England game

[Hiney]

At 10.45 tonight

Good work

Available through Freeview and digital outlets

 

[Lady Whistledown]

You're rather optimistic in assuming there will BE any highlights

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

Says 11:30pm on Setanta Sports News

 

[Hiney]

The head honcho at Setanta has just been on TalkSPORT to announce it.

I'm sure he said 10.45 on the main Setanta Sports channel

edit - they are now saying 11.30

*confused*

 

[Kenhead]

Setanta got a bit of a kicking earlier today on 5live with alot of callers saying its a massive effort to cancel there subscriptions and some mentioned that it got as far as canceling there credit cards just to stop the payments.

So this is there way of trying to get abit of good PR back.

 

[clippedgull]

At 10.45 tonight

Good work

Available through Freeview and digital outlets

Programme starts at 10:45

England highlights from 11:30

Setanta Sports are pleased to announce that highlights of the Croatia v England World Cup qualifying game will be shown free-to-air at 11.30pm on Setanta Sports 1 on Wednesday evening.
Highlights of the big game, along with the best of Scotland’s World Cup qualifier with Iceland, will be shown after Setanta’s live broadcasts of the matches.
The free-to-air match highlights will be available to the 21 million British homes that can receive digital televison via Freeview, BT Vision, Tiscali, or satellite – satellite channel 423 and Freeview channel 34.
Setanta’s decision to broadcast the highlights programmes free-to-air was taken after the breakdown of negotiations with terrestrial broadcasters that had expressed an interest in the highlights rights.
Regretfully, Setanta did not receive offers that reflected the commercial value of its investment in the rights to the games involving England and Scotland.
Trevor East, director of sport at Setanta, said: “Setanta always wanted as many football fans as possible to be able to watch tonight’s Croatia v England World Cup qualifying match.
"We always intended to make highlights available, and were disappointed that we were unable to reach agreement with any of the terrestrial broadcasters.
"This was not due to any lack of willingness on our part: we have been able to strike highlights deals in Wales and Northern Ireland. Unfortunately, none of the terrestrial broadcasters who expressed an interest in the England game offered us a fair market price.
“We are delighted that we have been able to find a solution to this problem with our own free-to-air highlights programmes. A lot of people had to move quickly to make this happen and I would like to thank them for their efforts. We hope football fans enjoy tonight’s games.”

 

[Mendoza]

I dont know if IM being thick, but dont you need an IDTV card with a Setanta compatible card plugged into your TV to be able to receive a signal from Setanta??

Retail Price £29.99

 

[Scotty Mac]

I dont know if IM being thick, but dont you need an IDTV card with a Setanta compatible card plugged into your TV to be able to receive a signal from Setanta??

Retail Price £29.99

anyone with sky will be able to watch the highlights

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

I dont know if IM being thick, but dont you need an IDTV card with a Setanta compatible card plugged into your TV to be able to receive a signal from Setanta??

Retail Price £29.99

No. I have freeview, and on RARE occassions they are showing Conference games for free, despite us not having even a slot for a card!

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

I know someone who gets all the Setanta channels on freeview despite not having an IDTV card.

 

[Cian]

I dont know if IM being thick, but dont you need an IDTV card with a Setanta compatible card plugged into your TV to be able to receive a signal from Setanta??

Retail Price £29.99

When encrypted. They're dropping the encryption for this.

 

[SNOOBS]

I know someone who gets all the Setanta channels on freeview despite not having an IDTV card.

He, if it's the person I'm thinking of, has some BT thing not freeview

 

[eastlondonseagull]

anyone with sky will be able to watch the highlights

Have set SKY+ to tape it

11.30, channel 423

.

 

[The Large One]

So... what about Virgin Media? Will it work on that?

:ignorant:

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

BT Vision might be a different kettle of fish as they charge for watching. Sky, Virgin and Freeview will be free to air as Setanta will unencrypt the signal.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

So... what about Virgin Media? Will it work on that?

:ignorant:

Setanta is free if you subscribe to the package with sports channels. If not at 11.30 tonight you can watch it for free as it will be unscrambled.

 

[The Large One]

Setanta is free if you subscribe to the package with sports channels.

I don't.

I get Setanta Sports News, but what I meant was - is it free to everyone, including on Virgin Media?

 

[Bluejuice]

And for those who don't have access to digital TV it's gonna be online on setanta.com from 10:45 too.

Hurrah!

 

[Questions]

You're rather optimistic in assuming there will BE any highlights

Edna............ have you been hanging around with that Simster fellow ?