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It’s that time of year again, when the big players in the sports TV market – Sky, BT and Virgin Media – fight a battle for subscribers, in the run up to the new football season. And this year, the battle is bigger than ever.  BT got the ball rolling… Read the rest...

ESPN won the rights to 46 English Premier League matches in the 2009/10 season when Setanta put its UK operations into administration in June. It also has 23 matches from 2010 to 2013.   In addition it has the rights to 30 Scottish Premier League games previously owned by Setanta,… Read the rest...

ESPN will launch to great fan-fair ion 3rd August.  The new channel is set to be a major player on the UK sports broadcasting scene, following the demise of Setanta earlier in the summer. ESPN is owned by Disney in the US and has been on… Read the rest...

As most readers will no doubt be aware, ESPN recently bought the FAPL and SPL rights following the collapse of Setanta, just in time for the start of the new football season. But in a clear declaration of how strategically important the new channel is for parent company Disney, they… Read the rest...

ESPN recently bought the rights to Setanta’s 46 live FAPL games for the new season, as well as the SPL games in Scotland.  This followed Setanta’s bankruptcy earlier in the summer.  ESPN took the decision not to retail their new channel directly (as Setanta had done), but instead chose… Read the rest...