Setanta seals Premiership deal

[vegas]

Yessss there is a god I subscribe to Setanta

Tuesday, 8 August 06:03 ET


Setanta Sports is pleased to announce that it has signed a deal to broadcast the English Premier League in North America.

More than 90 matches in the Barclays English Premier League, the world's most distinguished soccer enterprise with a combined television audience base of more than 570 million across 160 countries, will be telecast LIVE on Setanta Sports, starting Saturday, August 19.

Setanta Sports' extensive line up will include LIVE rights to an estimated 62 Saturday games, including first choice of the Saturday 10:00 AM ET matches, approximately 28 Sunday games and a selection of mid-week matches, many of which will be announced shortly.

All games will be available to residential Setanta customers as well as viewers visiting any of the nearly 1,000 pubs and bars nationwide which feature Setanta Sports programming on DirecTV.

In the first two days of the season, Setanta Sports will telecast matches featuring three of the most popular clubs in the EPL -- Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester United:

Saturday August 19, 7.45am ET Sheffield United v Liverpool

Saturday, August 19, 10.00am ET Arsenal v Aston Villa (First Premier league match at new Arsenal stadium)

Sunday, August 20, 8.30am EST Manchester United v Fulham

Says Simon Green, Chief Executive of Setanta Sports North America: "We are very excited to bring the much-anticipated English Premier League to our current audience of expatriate soccer fans, and to drive consumer awareness among a broader US audience. "Our fan base expanded considerably this year with the LIVE telecast of the World Cup. Now our fans will see some of the best matches in this, the most exciting league of them all, LIVE and with original English commentary."

For additional programming information for the Barclays English Premier League games and other top soccer and rugby airing live on Setanta Sports, visit www.setanta.com.

Setanta Sports is a 24-hour, digital pay TV network dedicated primarily to European and international soccer and world-class rugby.

It launched in the United States in April 2005 and is available on DIRECTV (Channel 615) and GlobeCast WorldTV. This year, the network will broadcast over 1,000 LIVE and delayed exclusive events from the world of soccer and rugby. This includes matches from the English Premier League, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, The Carling Cup, Coca Cola Championship as well as Scottish, French and Dutch Leagues.

Setanta also provides exclusive North American distribution of programming from Manchester United TV (MUTV) and Chelsea TV.

The international rugby featured is from the Six Nations, Tri-Nations, The Heineken European Cup, Guinness English Premiership, Powergen Cup, Super 14 and Celtic League. Setanta Broadband launched in February 2006 and features LIVE soccer, rugby and GAA. Setanta Premium operates the residential pay-per-view business and the commercial business which consists of special event, LIVE programming in pubs and other venues in the US and Canada.

Setanta Sports North America is owned by Dublin-based Setanta Sports, which operates pay television networks in the UK, Ireland, mainland Europe, North America, and Australia.

[maycm]

In Canada we get most games through Sportsnet, with a few on some other channels like 'Fox Sports' and 'The Score'.

If you are a fan but don?t want to subscribe, I recommend visiting www.project2046.com

The site itself is closing down but there are a number of links there for specialized streaming programs (pplive, tvants?.look at the bar on the left)

These programs produce excellent results though the commentary is often in Chinese!

PM me for more information if you want it.

[IRiSHMaFIA]

That's right maycm and thank god! Rogers does have a nasty habit of putting some on PPV though at the end of the season, but all in all we get most of the matches here, just not preseason matches unfortunately Those I'm forced to watch on LiveFooty.com in chinese but ah well. Could be worse I reckon.

[vegas]

Project2046 is closing down due to the effort involved updating the site

www.project2046.com

[maycm]

Yes I know, but use the links on the left side to download a couple of the 'clients'

I especially recommend TVANTS.

Once downloaded, you can go to the list of stations on Matchdays and you can pick one that is showing the game you want. Usually ESPN is there - they are showing the Charity Shield next week. For regular premiership games there are several others.

The better ones include (forgive the spelling) Shandzie, Giuangong and CCTV-5, but there are many more, and channels include a lot more than soccer.


The thing with this system is takes a few minutes to 'settle' so start it 10 minutes or so before the beginning of the game and the pauses and blips will gradually disappear as it builds up the buffer. Sometmes you can get lucky as well and find English commentary on one channel of the stereo and chinese on the other, so just adjust your balance control.

This site will give you more information, and also links to several other similar systems
http://www.football4less.com/streams/tvants.html

Either way the quality is excellent. Good luck!