Setanta screwed?

[Funkasy]

the scandinavian canal+ pack is all u need

[Redder Lurtz]

Burley, Sherwood etc can get back to their living rooms thank fuck.

 

I have no problem with Setanta per sé but their football coverage is truly abysmal. As are their customer services from what I can gather.

 

As for LFC TV - let's be honest here, it's pretty shit. It needs a good kick up the arse.

[Torvald Utne]

Burn in hell you scheister fucks.

[Guest ShoePiss]

Hope they go under and in the usa fox soccer channel picks up the games. I have to watch setanta broadband as I can't get sat tv and any time there's a bigger game involving us I'm better off watching it on sopcast as the feeds are much better.

 

Over a week ago I sent them notice to cancel my subscription, still no response from the twats and the only way you can do it is via email.

[Xherdan]

Burn in hell you scheister fucks.

 

 

HAHAHA, tell us how you really feel mate.

[Pdool]

I wonder what would happen if I defaulted on my Setanta subscription. Do you think I could re-negotiate my bills with them.

 

Burley and Sherwood can fuck right off.

[CaptainK]

Why couldn't lfctv just get itself on the sky platform instead of setanta?

 

Parry ............?

[sir roger]

I get Setanta free with Virgin so bit gutted as it means Sky will probably buy the rights and go back to the pay-per-view channels that they used to do.

 

exactly my take on it.

 

I hope it doesn't go bang before the Haye / Klitschko fight.

[ratcatcher]

setanta overstretched themselves trying to compete with sly tv. There was no way they could do that so quickly. But, you only have to look at their scheduling to see why they are in so much trouble, they have virtually no free to air viewing which means many people dont get a feel for their product without first having to shell out to recieve it.

 

And how come LFC.tv is way down the scheduling and lower than the chavs tv channel? Our fanbase far exceeds anything the chavs have despite what kenyon and co may say so its incredible a channel which would appeal to a far larger audience should be lower in the listings.

 

That said, any channel that paid 'dessie' to advertise them deserves to go under.

[dirtyassho]

Fuck em they're useless and take an age to get rid of the cunts

[Stouffer]

exactly my take on it.

 

I hope it doesn't go bang before the Haye / Klitschko fight.

 

At least if ITV get the rights you'll have the awesomeness that is Jim Rosenthal.

[Maldini]

If Setanta go bust it's bad news for us. They pay us a few million quid to run LFC TV. The talk of running the channel on Sky is nonsense. MUTV has been running for nearly a decade and hasn't gotten into the black yet.

[RobbieOR]

Agreed re: the advertising, they just werent getting the big boys in. Not sure about their viewing numbers.

 

I think it was good that they broke the Sky monopoly but it just meant that I am paying a lot more per month to have access to both packages. Burley and Sherwood are a pair of fucking tools though.

 

But would you not look at and say well i can live through that as we are always the 3 o'clock game on a Saturday. Well more often or not we are.

[Maldini]

FWIW the Irish branch of Setanta is healthy enough I think. They're helped by the fact that they're free to air on NTL (and Chorus?) . As ratchatcher points out above that really does help to bring people into the premium product as well as increasing advertising revenue, the UK version doesn't have that. They're also helped massively by having the 3 o'clock saturday games and the CL games.

 

Advertising is advertising lads, Jimmy-Joe's silage company pay the same for their ad as Lucozade sport. The sign of a station struggling for advertising revenue is when they advertise their programmes more than products and I haven't seen that with Setanta apart from on a few late night US sports broadcasts.

[bobhorse]

I know i'm not the only one who wouldnt touch Shitanta with a 10f pole because of the problems many have had with them over payments, cancelling etc.

That is why they are doomed to fail

If they allowed people to subscribe without contract and made themselves available on the sky package so only one payment was required then they would at least double the number of people taking up the service IMHO as it is its one down one to go in my book fuck sky off as well and the fucking leeches that suck the game we love dry would soon follow them and give the people their game back

[Guest davelfc]

I wouldn't touch Setanta now either after the hell I had trying to cancel. Then the phone calls to get me back started. Luckily it was a disposable voip number.

[Stouffer]

SPL steps in to pay Setanta's £3m subsidy to clubs | Media | guardian.co.uk

 

SPL steps in to pay Setanta's £3m subsidy to clubs.

 

Ewan Murray Friday 5 June 2009

 

The Scottish Premier League has had to step in to provide a £3m subsidy to their clubs after Setanta failed to come up with the payment, and warned that the broadcaster faces a "crucial few days".

 

The SPL board came to the decision to dip into their own reserves following a meeting at Hampden Park . Setanta were due to pay a £3m instalment, the last one of the season, to the league last weekend but it has not been forthcoming.

 

With some clubs desperately in need of the cash, the SPL opted to bandage the wound by supplying it themselves. That will do little to ease concerns over the viability of Setanta, who have a deal to cover 60 live SPL matches a season until 2014. In relative terms, £3m is a paltry figure.

 

A senior SPL figure used the term "crucial" to describe Setanta's immediate future, with the firm urgently needing £50m of fresh income. Speculation is rising that they could be taken over by the American broadcaster ESPN, who have a desire to gain a European portfolio.

 

Any such deal would prove complex, however. If Setanta lurch into administration, their existing contracts would be declared null and void. Another possibility is that ESPN buy into Setanta, giving them equity in exchange for much-needed investment to meet liabilities.

 

Setanta are also in current discussions with Sky and Ofcom, the broadcasters' watchdog, regarding the viability of including their coverage in Sky's sports packages. Setanta refused to comment on the latest developments yesterday.

[Trumo]

I think their coverage is shit anyway, and their pundit collective is the biggest pooling of fuckwits this side of the FA. Also, have ManU ever lost when they have featured on Setanta? If not, that's another reason why they have to go.

 

Similarly, I only watch LFCtv to catch highlights or reserve games. They always seem to show interviews with Ian St.John or Tommy Smith, and you know what they are going to say anyway. It wouldn't be a big miss, and if the club had any wits about them, they could make up for the revenue shortfall via the website.

[Maldini]

Setanta pay us £2.5m a year. How the fuck are we meant to make up for that via the website? We already have the most profitable football club site in the world by a mile with revenue of £5m a year.

[Guest davelfc]

Setanta pay us £2.5m a year. How the fuck are we meant to make up for that via the website? We already have the most profitable football club site in the world by a mile with revenue of £5m a year.

 

100 days that shook the centenary stand?

[RedinSweden]

100 days that shook the centenary stand?

 

I just repped you with a typo.

[Preston Red]

I still maintain that they should run more 'Liverpool' based shows as opposed to just keeping if LFC. Something like running Brookside would be ace!

 

I miss Jacqui Dixon :(

 

I think she's 1 of the first reasons I grew a huge love for Scouse birds.

[Liverpool lad]

I miss Jacqui Dixon :(

 

I think she's 1 of the first reasons I grew a huge love for Scouse birds.

 

There was a few on that programme I would have liked to have taken for a nice meal and a few drinks, and then ruined

[Preston Red]

There was a few on that programme I would have liked to have taken for a nice meal and a few drinks, and then ruined

 

She was always the one who stood out for me (6)

 

I'll have to trawl through Google now to remind myself of the female population of Brookie Close.

 

I remember we had family friends in Liverpool who lived near The Rocket. The Hudson's they were called. Not seen them for years now. They have a daughter called Jodie and she was incredibly stunning!!! Yet another reason for a love of Scouse birds :whistle:

 

Hang about.................how the hell could I forget this stunner.

 

Edited June 8, 2009 by Preston Red
Just remembered another one

[rebel23]

I have raised many questions about the viability of setanta and of tv rights in general, there is no way a football game between Wigan and Bolton is worth £3-4m+ to a domestic broadcaster, it is a huge bubble and sooner or later it will burst. if the recession is prolonged Sky itself could well go under just like Setanta, though it seems they have some control over costs but I just dont understand how they can keep up what is clearly an uneconomical model

 

ITV Digital

Setanta

Sky ??

 

watch this space.