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    #2672
    mikeym
    Registered Users Posts: 3,984 ✭✭✭mikeym


    Setanta are showing Newcastle & Villa next Saturday.

    3 Newcastle games in a row :eek:


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    #2673
    notmyusername
    Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭notmyusername


    mikeym wrote: »
    Setanta are showing Newcastle & Villa next Saturday.

    3 Newcastle games in a row :eek:

    At least they have something riding on them; unlike the Everton game a few weeks back :)


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    #2674
    kooga
    Registered Users Posts: 2,882 ✭✭✭kooga


    notmyusername wrote: »
    I'd made my point and discussion was finished; if you wished to continue why didn't you PM?

    Back on topic; anyone think Setanta will ignore football altogether at 3pm Saturdays next season?

    It will of course be interesting to see how Sky deal with the 5 times limit although they've had more experience than Setanta at it of course. It is fair to say Setanta have made a mess of the quotas.

    They might pitch in for the rugby pro 12 as sky currently show sat 3pm games and are coming to the end of the 3 yr deal and are not over keen to renew so I hear


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    #2675
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    That's a four year deal that still has two years to run, so I wouldn't expect news on that yet.


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    #2676
    mikeym
    Registered Users Posts: 3,984 ✭✭✭mikeym


    Will the Champions League final be FTV/FTA on Bt Sport?

    And will the Europa League final be FTV/FTA on Bt Sport?


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    #2677
    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,720 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    They will be FTA on their BT Showcase channel. I think I read somewhere that BT will also stream them on Youtube.


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    #2678
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    YouTube was talked about only, and if they do it, it would have to be geoblocked to UK only.

    BT Sport Showcase is only on Freeview (DTT), not satellite.


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    #2679
    mikeym
    Registered Users Posts: 3,984 ✭✭✭mikeym


    Looks like TV3 will be showing the Europa League Final :)


    https://twitter.com/TV3SportIreland?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor


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    #2680
    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,720 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    icdg wrote: »
    it would have to be geoblocked to UK only.

    Obviously. UEFA wouldn't allow it otherwise.


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    #2681
    [Deleted User]
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    mikeym wrote: »
    Looks like TV3 will be showing the Europa League Final :)


    https://twitter.com/TV3SportIreland?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

    Interesting. Thought the whole competition was exclusively on bt/setanta.


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    #2682
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    That's what was announced at the time, but then TV3 announced this later. May have been a UEFA stipulation to organise a FTA outlet for the final, we can but speculate on that front.


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    #2683
    George Michael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭George Michael


    tv3 and bbc showing the fa cup.


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    #2684
    Joo0
    Registered Users Posts: 417 ✭✭Joo0


    What was up with the InsureMyVan pop up banner every few minutes during the Europa league on Setanta last week? Isn't that in breach of UEFA advertising regulations? It was like watching a match on American tv.


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    #2685
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    Was yesterday Setanta's last Premier League game then? Every year since at least 2010 they've had a game on the last day but none is currently scheduled. Did they say anything at the end of the programme (or if it was indeed their last, do anything to mark the occasion).


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    #2686
    notmyusername
    Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭notmyusername


    icdg wrote: »
    Was yesterday Setanta's last Premier League game then? Every year since at least 2010 they've had a game on the last day but none is currently scheduled. Did they say anything at the end of the programme (or if it was indeed their last, do anything to mark the occasion).

    Yesterday was their 33rd game of the season - which makes their decision to show a meaningless game over a meaningful Manchester United game a few weeks back even more bizarre than it appeared at the time.

    I'm not really sure why anyone would expect Setanta to make a big deal over no longer having the 3pm contract - remember, not only was it not necessarily Setanta's last ever game but the Setanta Pack do still have the Premier League of course.


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    #2687
    iseegirls
    Registered Users Posts: 2,996 ✭✭✭iseegirls


    Joo0 wrote: »
    What was up with the InsureMyVan pop up banner every few minutes during the Europa league on Setanta last week? Isn't that in breach of UEFA advertising regulations? It was like watching a match on American tv.

    It looks awful - and so tacky and cheap.


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    #2688
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    Trying to figure out how 33 games got used before the final day (as there are normally only 32 rounds played on Saturdays) but I can only think it was because, this season, St Stephens Day and New Years fixture lists were played on a Saturday so Setanta got two games in where they usually would only get one.

    I wouldn't expect there to be live Premier League ever again on a Setanta branded channel - in three years time there may be less games than ever played Saturday 3pm, and I suspect Setanta may no longer be trading under the name "Setanta" by the time that occurs, even if Eir did manage to win the rights back.


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    #2689
    notmyusername
    Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭notmyusername


    icdg wrote: »
    I wouldn't expect there to be live Premier League ever again on a Setanta branded channel - in three years time there may be less games than ever played Saturday 3pm, and I suspect Setanta may no longer be trading under the name "Setanta" by the time that occurs, even if Eir did manage to win the rights back.

    Well unless the channel is closed down and totally relaunched it is simply a rebrand therefore it is quite obviously the same channel.

    One way or another Saturday was not necessarily the last time a PL game will appear on the channel but, whatever happens going forward in terms of how rights are sold, quite naturally no channel will make a song and dance about not being able to show one of their biggest subscriber pullers (aside from the fact the PL will continue to be on the Setanta Pack - or whatever it's rebranded as).


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    #2690
    mikeym
    Registered Users Posts: 3,984 ✭✭✭mikeym


    When I was watching the Newcastle/Aston Villa I swore I thought I saw Setanta advertise that they were showing the last game of the season during the match.

    But obviously they arent showing a match this Sunday.

    Can anyone else back me up or was I imaging things?


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    #2691
    markc91
    Registered Users Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭markc91


    Id imagine they have a game yeah, Afaik they had one the last few seasons on the final day!


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    #2692
    notmyusername
    Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭notmyusername


    markc91 wrote: »
    Id imagine they have a game yeah, Afaik they had one the last few seasons on the final day!

    You'd imagine :D

    The fact is this: their package was for 33 games per season. They've aired 33 games this season. How do you imagine they'll have a game?

    PS what's happened in previous seasons has no bearing on this season ;)
    mikeym wrote: »
    When I was watching the Newcastle/Aston Villa I swore I thought I saw Setanta advertise that they were showing the last game of the season during the match.

    But obviously they arent showing a match this Sunday.

    Can anyone else back me up or was I imaging things?

    Setanta is so professional they probably thought they had a game until somebody there used more than their fingers and toes to tot up the season's total :)


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    #2693
    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,720 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    markc91 wrote: »
    Id imagine they have a game yeah, Afaik they had one the last few seasons on the final day!

    Their schedules say otherwise.


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    #2694
    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 45,847 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    2 friendly internationals to be screened but thats the lot from Setanta for this season


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    #2695
    Dodge
    Registered Users Posts: 10,174 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    Plenty of Irish football will be shown


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    #2696
    mackersdublin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭mackersdublin


    muffler wrote: »
    2 friendly internationals to be screened but thats the lot from Setanta for this season

    EL Final is on Setanta Ireland aswell as TV3


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    #2697
    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,720 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    icdg wrote: »
    YouTube was talked about only

    Turns out they more than talked about it as BT will show both finals live on YouTube for UK viewers. BBC reported it today.


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    #2698
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    Yup, was announced today. UK IP addresses only.


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    #2699
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    There is a Premier League game in Setanta Sports 1's schedule now for Sunday 2:30pm, though it's unclear what game has been picked.

    Edit; I understand that it's Newcastle vTottenham


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    #2700
    notmyusername
    Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭notmyusername


    icdg wrote: »
    There is a Premier League game in Setanta Sports 1's schedule now for Sunday 2:30pm, though it's unclear what game has been picked.

    Edit; I understand that it's Newcastle vTottenham

    It looks like, in the same way as the quotas were overridden a couple of months back,that Setanta have been allowed to discard the terms of their contract.

    Given what's on Sky I can't see much of an audience for that game though :)


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    #2701
    mikeym
    Registered Users Posts: 3,984 ✭✭✭mikeym


    Newcastle on again.

    What a joke.


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