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Do Sky Own A Stake In Setanta ??

  • 04-02-2009 10:31am
    #1
    dopeyboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41 ✭


    ....its something I was wondering about. Somebody told me that have a small % in the company. I was always wondering how Sky Sports managed to lose the US PGA Tour rights to Setanta ? Sky have the money to pay for the rights - but then Setanta got the rights but , very oddly , less the major tournaments like the USPGA , US OPEN , Ryder Cup and the WGC Tournaments - and then a number of Sky Sports Golf staff move over to the new channel.

    I think it was just a sly way to make more money for Sky.

    Also , Sky have just won 4 out of the 6 packages for the new Permier League games - they can also bid for one of the final 2 packages remaining - but something makes me think that Setanta will get both !!


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  • #2
    Sevenie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭Sevenie


    thats funny, I had been thinking the exact same.


  • #3
    evilivor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,613 ✭✭✭evilivor


    dopeyboy wrote: »
    ....its something I was wondering about. Somebody told me that have a small % in the company. I was always wondering how Sky Sports managed to lose the US PGA Tour rights to Setanta ? Sky have the money to pay for the rights - but then Setanta got the rights but , very oddly , less the major tournaments like the USPGA , US OPEN , Ryder Cup and the WGC Tournaments - and then a number of Sky Sports Golf staff move over to the new channel.

    I think it was just a sly way to make more money for Sky.

    Also , Sky have just won 4 out of the 6 packages for the new Permier League games - they can also bid for one of the final 2 packages remaining - but something makes me think that Setanta will get both !!

    Sky don't have a stake. Virgin Media do have a stake in Setanta Sports news. There is a business connection with Sky, in that, afaik, Sky sells Setanta's sports package, as part of their own sports pack to commercial premises likes pubs.


  • #4
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    dopeyboy wrote: »
    ....its something I was wondering about. Somebody told me that have a small % in the company. I was always wondering how Sky Sports managed to lose the US PGA Tour rights to Setanta ? Sky have the money to pay for the rights - but then Setanta got the rights but , very oddly , less the major tournaments like the USPGA , US OPEN , Ryder Cup and the WGC Tournaments - and then a number of Sky Sports Golf staff move over to the new channel.

    I think it was just a sly way to make more money for Sky.

    Also , Sky have just won 4 out of the 6 packages for the new Permier League games - they can also bid for one of the final 2 packages remaining - but something makes me think that Setanta will get both !!

    Sky have no stake in setanta. Nice name btw.


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