Setanta 2??

Sky used to pull the same trick. Showing all the Premiership games on SS1, with all the Internationals on SS2. It forced footy fans to have both channels, or miss out.

 

They did the same with the boxing from America, they'd move which sports channel it was on so you;d have to get all three to make sure.

 

that would make business sense to an extent although it is purely screwing people however freeview customers dont even have the option to be extorted, setanta 2 cant be bought!

 

My understanding is very basic, as a mere presenter I don't get the technical stuff, but the basic reason boxing is on setanta sports 2 rather than 1 is that if it finishes after 5 am it has to be on 2.
Setanta can only broadcast on freeview until 5 am. That is contractual and pretty much set in stone. So rather than risk freeview watchers getting 11 rounds and then cutting off, the decision is made to put it on sports 2.
I can't shed much more on it than that Chinny, but it's the best I can do.

I can tell ypu the Bunce hour tomorrow is jammed though, should be a quality show and that is definitely available to everyone!!

Andy K

 

mmmmmm fair enough andy coming on and givin us wat u can however on freeview as has been said before we had to switch to a unoccupied channel as directed by yourself at a given time.....dont wana be cheeky but speaking of contracts, how about the one where a company asks people for a subscription in return for showing them world class boxing? offer of contract-acceptance of contract-intention to enter legal relations-consideration= contract



we arent hostile! just wana feel like we are getin a fair shake............good luck with the baby steve keeps talking about!

 

They put the freeview fees up by a quid a month a while ago and since doing that the have dropped half of the future premiership football contract and put what seems like 80pc of the boxing on Setanta 2 - a channel subscribers can't get. :?

 

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Thats the email address of the Escalations Manager, David Hanna. Email him, he'll sort you out. The only one at Setanta worth talking to. I had problems with Freeview shutting off just as main events started, usually around 5am. He sorted me out. Very helpful. Especially compared with everyone else at Setanta who are literally useless . . .

Well done to Andy K for posting. Shows a lot of class.

 

Check the small print - its £2.99 for new subscribers to freeview who want the broadband service.

If you already have freeview and then want to upgrade and have broadband it's £7.99 per month.

drop your trousers and bend over for setanta

 

Indeed: Bunce in his pulp fiction costume.

 

This has got nothing to do with it, your talking about an all new 'half price' for 6 months deal.

Fact is current freeview viewers are being ****ed over by getting one less channel than everyone satellite viewer who is paying the same.

We've missed out on loads of big fights (the reason we signed to setanta) because of the big fights being broadcast on Setanta 2, while pish like poker is on Setanta 1.

 

It has everything to do with it. I agree that freeviewers are getting screwed hence my post. It points that very fact out :roll:

 

Seriously, even if the broadband service was free I wouldn't be happy. I don't want to watch these fights on a computer screen, I want to watch them on my television - that's what I pay setanta £10.99 a month for. It's very easy for me to access setanta through other avenues via the net, but I choose not to because I want to watch it on my television.

If this is going to be a regular thing from now on then I'll just cancel my subscription and watch for free via other methods. Just seems a waste of money otherwise. I have no interest in German boxing.

 

I've never really gone into it but why do we (Freeviewers) only get 1 channel anyway?

And why, if there's a big night of boxing on or whatever, can't they swap the transmission on our 1 channel to Setanta 2? Save pissing about with channel swaps and it would also keep the natives happy because what the hell else is on in th middle of the night.