name | Setanta Sports |
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logofile | Setanta Sports.svg |
logocaption | Setanta Sports logo |
logosize | 175px |
launch | 1990 |
share | 0.1% 2007 estimate 1.2m in 2009 |
web | www.setanta.com |
picture format | 16:9 (576i, SDTV) |
country | Ireland |
broadcast area | International |
terr serv 1 | Digital terrestrial (Ireland) |
terr chan 1 | (Concluded trial) Channel 17, Current DTT Not yet operational |
sat serv 1 | Sky Ireland (Ireland) |
sat chan 1 | Channel 423 |
sat serv 6 | Foxtel (Australia) |
sat chan 6 | Channel 525 |
sat serv 7 | Austar (Australia) |
sat chan 7 | Channel 510 |
sat serv 8 | UBI World TV(Australia) |
sat chan 8 | Channel 3 |
sat serv 9 | TopTV South Africa |
sat chan 9 | Channel 201 |
cable serv 1 | UPC Ireland (Ireland) |
cable chan 1 | Channel 105/401 |
cable serv 2 | TransACT (Australia) |
cable chan 2 | Channel 365 |
iptv chan 1 | }} |
Setanta Sports () is an international sports broadcaster based in Dublin, Ireland. Setanta Sports was formed in 1990 to facilitate the broadcasting of Irish sporting events to Irish expatriates. The channel operates individual channels in Ireland, Canada, Africa, and Australia.
The Setanta business in Ireland has proved to be quite a scalable business and has managed to survive and thrive despite the difficulties in Setanta UK. Colin Morgan, formerly CEO of Quinn Direct Insurance, joined the Setanta Ireland business in October 2010.
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Arsenal TV continued until August 2009 while Arsenal explored alternative options. While Liverpool F.C. assumed responsibility of LFC TV and decided to continue broadcasting as normal. Since September 2009, Michael O'Rourke's Premier Sports has shown content from Setanta Ireland in Great Britain, some of which was originally available on Setanta Sports GB's channels.
Setanta's UK subscriber numbers were lower than those of Sky Sports, and the number of households watching the match live was estimated at around 1.5 million. Because of the availability of Setanta on both digital satellite and digital terrestrial television, the theoretical possible subscriber base surpassed that of Sky Sports (not presently available via DTT) but fans who were unwilling to subscribe could not see the match live. Then British Prime Minister Gordon Brown indicated he felt it "unfortunate" more fans could not see the match live (that is, without paying a subscription fee).
Because of the amount of negative feedback received, Setanta UK eventually changed this to allow for cancellations to be done through email. Furthermore, whilst customers were originally entered into a 30 day notice period once their cancellation letter was received, this was increased to 60 days without any information being sent to customers; again, because of the negative feedback, this was quickly reduced back to 30 days. These customer service issues were compounded by the fact that customers had to phone a premium rate number should they have any issues to resolve, with calls costing at least 10 pence per minute.
Reports on 7 June 2009 suggested that Setanta could be forced into administration that week after failing to make payments due on TV rights. Because of late payment and renegotiation over fees by Setanta to football clubs, several UK football clubs were put into financial difficulties as money promised had been spent in annual budgets. On 4 June, the Scottish Premier League announced they would be paying the sums that some of the clubs were owed to avoid causing them financial problems.
On 19 June, Setanta Sports failed to pay the latest installment of £30 million (€35 million) it owed the English Premier League. The Premier League had to sell the rights to the 46 live matches Setanta had for the 2009/10 season. A Premier League spokesman said, "It is with considerable regret that we announce that Setanta has been unable to meet their obligations. As such the existing licence agreement between us has been terminated with immediate effect."
Following this, the Daily Mail reported that a rescue deal had failed and "administration now looks inevitable". Two days later, it was reported on RTE News that the original Setanta Sports channel Setanta Ireland might be bought out by an existing consortium who already hold interests in Setanta Sport Holdings Ltd the Irish arm of Setanta Sports. Setanta Sports Ireland and Setanta Sports North America were the only brands which made a profit in 2008. The same day, Setanta lost all their SPL TV rights because they were unable to pay the £3m (€3.5m) owed to the league. Following this, it was announced that ESPN had bought the rights to show the 46 Premier League games bought by Setanta next season. The UK company went into administration following failure to make payments to a number of sporting organisations. About 200 employees were made redundant. The administration is to be handled by Deloitte.
According to the final report published by Setanta's administrator Deloitte, released in July 2010, the broadcaster had outstanding bank loans of UK£261m and unsecured debt of UK£288m. Deloitte said that unsecured lenders received just 2p for every pound that they have claimed back from the defunct operator.
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1990 Category:Sports television networks in the United States Category:Irish television networks Category:Entities with Irish names
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