Sky TV does not want Setanta to go under!

:rofl

 

im on,i think

 

Was reported on Scotland today.

 

good point about the sky merger-:good
there is still hope!

 

In the report it said there was three SPL teams which setanta made up 20% of there income and another team 30%. They already failed to pay up the last payment (£3m) of the season last week.

 

Is there not something that prevents BSKYb buying a part of Setanta?

 

Don't know if ESPN share tennis rights, if they do then they'll have a lot of people hooked in the UK now that Andy Murray's winning tournaments.

IPL is another potentially big market.

Also, wouldn't ESPN be able to show the fights that they show in America anyway?

 

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Yeah, the competition commission have done well in ensuring the UK is not saturated with multi-national supermarket chains that ultimately put your average corner shop owned out of business.

No matter how much cases they put up, they've not been able to stop large supermarket chains merging.

You really think they'd be able to stop a merger between Sky and Setanta? Sky's lobbying KO 1 TCC.

 

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I was not aware of of such strict laws.

However, if Setanta was to remain a separate identity then SKY could conceivably have the rights to as much games as the please? I'm no legal expert - enlighten me someone.

 

yeah, i've got that channel and its nothing but hockey and college basketball games, pathetic channel and i hope its not anything to go by if espn take over setanta

 

No one is allowed to have all the live prem games. There are 6 packages of games and no one can have more than 5. Setanta currently have 2 packs giving them 46 games so Sky could pick up 23 of them for next season.

At the end of next season the new TV deal comes into place and Sky already have 5 of the 6 packs with Setanta having the rights to the other 23 games.

 

That's my understanding also. Sky isn't allowed to have all the games and had to in effect give up their Premiership Plus games to the market. The other sports are not regulated so could go to anyone who could bid for them including Sky.

I think that Sky would pick up some of the boxing by the way, but at a knock down price if you pardon the pun :nut

 

I hope so.