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irishfeen

ftakeith wrote: »

I think RTEtv's uefa competitive games for the rep of ire from 2014-18 includes some other competitive games such as spain, germany and others. if it is included good deal for rtetv
I have e-mailed rte today to confirm that

First time hearing anything like that, if true it would be a fantastic deal for RTE and us viewers.. the more free football the better!

The Cush

ftakeith wrote: »

I think RTEtv's uefa competitive games for the rep of ire from 2014-18 includes some other competitive games such as spain, germany and others. if it is included good deal for rtetv
I have e-mailed rte today to confirm that

irishfeen wrote: »

First time hearing anything like that, if true it would be a fantastic deal for RTE and us viewers.. the more free football the better!

This probably, European qualifiers - UEFA centralised media rights (marketed by CAA Eleven)

RTÉ Secures Broadcast Rights for Republic of Ireland Euro 2016 and World Cup 2018 Qualifiers

Wednesday 10th April, 4.48pm


RTÉ Sport has confirmed today (Wednesday 10 April 2013) that it has secured exclusive Irish free-to-air broadcast rights to the Republic of Ireland’s competitive soccer international qualifiers for the 2016 European Championship and 2018 World Cup cycles.

<MOD EDIT> more...

http://www.rte.ie/presspack/2013/04/10/rte-secures-broadcast-rights-for-republic-of-ireland-euro-2016-and-world-cup-2018-qualifiers/
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/international/2013/0410/380747-rte-secures-euro-2016-world-cup-2018-rights/

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/rte-secure-rights-for-euro-world-cup-qualifiers-1.1356216
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rte-to-broadcast-qualifiers-played-on-different-days-1.1357110

http://www.uefa.com/uefa/events/marketing/media-rights-and-services/news/newsid=1939716.html
http://www.uefa.com/uefa/events/marketing/media-rights-and-services/news/newsid=1789300.html


Latest UEFA update on this - http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/Publications/competitions/Marketing/01/94/02/93/1940293_DOWNLOAD.pdf

Official European qualifiers website - http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/qualifiers/index.html

Wednesday 29 May 2013
...
In recent months, the following agreements were concluded:
• The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) acquired the rights to broadcast the relevant national team matches for 30 of its members' territories*

• United Kingdom: ITV secured the rights to show all of England's UEFA EURO 2016 and 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying games in the United Kingdom

• United Kingdom/Ireland: Pay broadcaster BSkyB has obtained a significant package of rights to European qualifiers across the UK and the Republic of Ireland, featuring exclusive live coverage of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. BSkyB will also show the Republic of Ireland's qualifying campaign, co-exclusively with public broadcaster RTE

http://www.uefa.com/uefa/mediaservices/mediainformation/newsid=1958013.html

lertsnim

About time the away games are guaranteed FTA

robwen

I have sky multiroom so if I subscribe to Setanta will I get it on both boxes in my home?

Berty44

robwen wrote: »

I have sky multiroom so if I subscribe to Setanta will I get it on both boxes in my home?

Nope only on one box. Think it costs extra for each extra box

muffler

robwen wrote: »

I have sky multiroom so if I subscribe to Setanta will I get it on both boxes in my home?

From their FAQ's

Can I get Setanta Sports in another room?

Yes, Subscription to Setanta Sports in any other room is €1.49 for your second box and costs just €2.99 per box per month for all additional boxes. Simply call our customer services team to have this added to your account.

robwen

Always looking to squeeze every last penny out of the customer.

Cheers for the info.

icdg

lertsnim wrote: »

About time the away games are guaranteed FTA

They have been since 2003. All Republic of Ireland home and away games in the World Cup and European Championships are listed. Friendlies are not.

Back to BT, and the multi room situation is a lot better than in the UK, where, basically they don't do it.

Also the deal for the FA Cup was signed on Wednesday, starts in 2014-15 (although really 2015, since the majority of the FA Cup, well the interesting part of it anyway, is played in Spring).

http://www.thefa.com/News/2013/jul/bt-sport-bbc-itv-2014-18.aspx

Tom Hanks

I have multiroom Setanta/BT..... costing me 1.50 extra for the second.

McLoughlin

After looking at the listings for this new ESPN channel (more like BT Sports 3) there doesn't appear to be any sign of Around The Horn or Pardon The Interruption some small MLB and CFB.

From my viewpiont BT don't seem to care about USA sports fan its all about UK and Euro soccer. I know USA sports is a small market but still .

Unless it improves I guess its torrents and podcasts from now on.

irishdeej

Weird how BT Sport is not yet on the Irish EPG, when it's on the UK EPG 413 & 414. With less than two weeks to their launch date, you would imagine they want to advertise their sports to potential costumers?

jack presley

McLoughlin wrote: »

After looking at the listings for this new ESPN channel (more like BT Sports 3) there doesn't appear to be any sign of Around The Horn or Pardon The Interruption some small MLB and CFB.

From my viewpiont BT don't seem to care about USA sports fan its all about UK and Euro soccer. I know USA sports is a small market but still .

Unless it improves I guess its torrents and podcasts from now on.

ATH and PTI always take a 2 week break around the end of July/early August so I wouldn't read too much (yet) into it not being scheduled on the new ESPN on the first couple of days. I haven't checked the US schedules but I'd say there's a good chance you won't find either of them listed for those days either.

Both are unwatchable in their current format on ESPNA anyway. Unless they get the clips back, you're better off downloading the podcasts.

energy1942

irishdeej wrote: »

Weird how BT Sport is not yet on the Irish EPG, when it's on the UK EPG 413 & 414. With less than two weeks to their launch date, you would imagine they want to advertise their sports to potential costumers?

This is probably due to the fact that the SD versions of Bt sports 1&2 will be on Ch 426 & 427 in Ireland, which are in current use for ESPN America & ESPN Classic,

mbutler2007

energy1942 wrote: »

This is probably due to the fact that the SD versions of Bt sports 1&2 will be on Ch 426 & 427 in Ireland, which are in current use for ESPN America & ESPN Classic,

so is ESPN America getting shut down ?

energy1942

mbutler2007 wrote: »

so is ESPN America getting shut down ?

Yes along with ESPN Classic

ziggyman17

will upc do a deal so that we keep setanta Irealand and espn is we have a sky sports sub.. If we have to start paying extra for these stations that will be a bummer..

icdg

That I'm afraid is the million dollar question, UPC are still giving nothing but blank faces when asked about BT Sport. Their (now once again) sister company in the UK, Virgin Media, is in the exact same position, but at least has been a bit more talkative about the situation:

http://help.virginmedia.com/system/selfservice.controller?CONFIGURATION=1001&PARTITION_ID=1&TIMEZONE_OFFSET=&USERTYPE=1&VM_CUSTOMER_TYPE=Cable&CMD=VIEW_ARTICLE&ARTICLE_ID=7615

Surely we'll hear something this coming week, as regardless of a deal or not UPC will have to tell their customers what's happening with ESPN come 1st August. Then again it wouldn't be the first time they didn't flag the closure/withdrawal of a channel until after it happened.

Mr Cumulonimbus

icdg wrote: »

That I'm afraid is the million dollar question, UPC are still giving nothing but blank faces when asked about BT Sport. Their (now once again) sister company in the UK, Virgin Media, is in the exact same position, but at least has been a bit more talkative about the situation:

http://help.virginmedia.com/system/selfservice.controller?CONFIGURATION=1001&PARTITION_ID=1&TIMEZONE_OFFSET=&USERTYPE=1&VM_CUSTOMER_TYPE=Cable&CMD=VIEW_ARTICLE&ARTICLE_ID=7615

Surely we'll hear something this coming week, as regardless of a deal or not UPC will have to tell their customers what's happening with ESPN come 1st August. Then again it wouldn't be the first time they didn't flag the closure/withdrawal of a channel until after it happened.

Same with Eircom re Setanta being carried on their Sportshub website. No word so far as to whats happening after August 1st.

jack presley

Funny how, 2 weeks before the channel disappears, ESPNA are starting showing ads about the basics of baseball.

irishdeej

BT Sport in now on the Sky Irish EPG. 413 & 414

paulboland

irishdeej wrote: »

BT Sport in now on the Sky Irish EPG. 413 & 414

445 446 SD
413 414 HD

basillarkin

what channel will be shown the college American football games

lertsnim

basillarkin wrote: »

what channel will be shown the college American football games

ESPN probably. They're showing other college stuff

icdg

We've had this argument in a thread over in Satellite, no need to reprise it here please.

paulboland

This thread getting a bit off the mark what we want to know is when are UPC getting BT Sport

CZ 453

According to UPC facebook page-UPC are still in talks about providing BT and Setanta.......so no more news yet

icdg

Paulboland and muffler drop this now. As it is you will both be getting infractions for ignoring my last post when I get back to a PC I can issue them on. If there are any more posts on this issue from either of you by that time it will be bans I will be issuing instead. The issue of viewing cards is now off topic for this thread - there's a thread over in Satellite it can be discussed in and all of those posts will be moved there later.

9959

Would anyone who knows about these things like to hazard a guess as to how much UPC might charge for the new sports package, perhaps a higher/lower game might be in order, come in Bruce Forsyth...
If it's 20 Euro on SAT, I'll plump for 25 euro.

Higher/Lower?

holidaysong

Eircom responded to me today on twitter stating that Setanta Ireland will remain on their website but that BT Sport wouldn't be added.

jack presley

Just had a look at ESPN's listings for the first week. A bit of an overload of X-Games so if you're into that rubbish you're sorted. Very little baseball and no 6pm or 9pm games on the Sat and Sun which is disappointing to see.