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GYXU > Soccer > Setanta Sports Channel 2 May 2005 04:26:34

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Setanta Sports Channel

Doan 27 April 2005 06:05:55
 
Was flicking through the channels on my DirecTV and saw that Setanta Sports
is now available.

http://www.directvs­ports.com/Packages/S­etanta/Questions/

Cool. I can now watch WC qualifiers, Rugby etc. Just in time for the Lions
tour of NZ.

Doan


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Victoria Barrett 27 April 2005 07:29:14 permanent link ]
 On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:05:55 -0400, "Doan"
<d0an_nguyen@nospam­.yahoo.com> wrote:>Was flicking through the channels on my DirecTV and saw that Setanta Sports>is now available.>
Cool. I can now watch WC qualifiers, Rugby etc. Just in time for the Lions>tour of NZ.

Yes, me and the lads on IRC were talking about this last night.

I asked again, and one of them said it's not yet available on anything
other than DirecTV, and he speculated not many people will want to get
it, since it's a pretty steep $11.99 p/m -- for one channel only*. And
the "fare" is bland, he says. During the day it's just Chelsea TV and
MUTV segments -- which sounds great to me!

*I pay $10 for the "Latino Package" which includes something like 28
channels or more, GolTV/ESPN-Deportes­, etc., but GLOBO is $19.99 p/m,
so twelve bucks doesn't seem that bad.
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Doan 27 April 2005 21:17:40 permanent link ]
 
"SHUSSBAR" <SHUSSBAR@gmail.com­> wrote in message
news:1114606757.975­977.268360@g14g2000c­wa.googlegroups.com.­..> 12$ /month? It might be good some month, with lots of game I supposed.> Can you buy only 1 month?, i mean the month you want or do you have to> buy 12 months @12$ ?

At the moment it's month to month.
So thats cool. Especially as some places here were asking for a cover charge
of $10 to frequent their establishment to watch
WC qualifiers or the 6 Nations.

Some of the England qualifiers were > $20 on PPV.

Too expensive imo.

Doan


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Jim Goloboy 28 April 2005 05:29:37 permanent link ]
 On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:06:12 -0400, Victoria Barrett
<vbarrett@the-beach­.net> wrote:
I'm suprised the pubs haven't kicked up a fuss, they'll stand to lose>>a bit.>
What can they do?

I don't think it'll necessarily be a problem, there'll always be
people who prefer to watch at a bar than at home. IIRC the Setanta
website said the channel was $100 a month for commercial
establishements--th­ey don't have to draw many people to turn a profit.
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Doan 28 April 2005 18:03:40 permanent link ]
 
"Jim Goloboy" <goloboy@uiuc.edu> wrote in message
news:dve07192kv379b­vsi15d9g700otajeq3of­@4ax.com...> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:06:12 -0400, Victoria Barrett> <vbarrett@the-beach­.net> wrote:>
I'm suprised the pubs haven't kicked up a fuss, they'll stand to lose> >>a bit.> >
What can they do?>
I don't think it'll necessarily be a problem, there'll always be> people who prefer to watch at a bar than at home. IIRC the Setanta> website said the channel was $100 a month for commercial> establishements--th­ey don't have to draw many people to turn a profit.

If this forces them to get rid of the cover charge then I wouldn't mind
watching it in a bar.

Doan


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Victoria Barrett 30 April 2005 21:46:56 permanent link ]
 On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:06:23 -0700, HASM <not_really@comcast­.net>
wrote:>I don't think we know what the deal was back then, but definitely it wasn't>the same. I remember one of the waiters at such a pub state that the>entrance fee was dictated by Setanta, but I'm not sure s/he was in the>know.

Perhaps, but the pub owner here told me the same thing, years ago:
that Setanta didn't give them a choice.
Euro 2004 was about $175 with Comcast for all the games, for the home>viewer, and lasted about 1 month, thus sports bars probably didn't pay>$100/month for sure.

I paid considerably more than that. Almost 390 dollars for all the
games, IIRC.
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Jim Goloboy 2 May 2005 04:26:34 permanent link ]
 FWIW there's some talk/speculation on bigsoccer that the big events
will still be bar-only and the residential channel is for the
remaining stuff they can't sell to the bars.

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