Setanta Premiership Footie

Reading on another forum that Setanta will be charging £15 per month
(minimum 12 month contract) to get the Premiership football matches that
they will be showing.

The same amount of matches that you could watch on Sky for £50. Well
done to the EU for breaking up the monopoly then, which was supposed to
work out better for the customer :-)

I think Setanta might just come unstuck here, how many people are going
to pay £180 to watch when they could go down the pub and watch it?
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Sean Black

"Sean Black" wrote in message
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Reading on another forum that Setanta will be charging £15 per month
(minimum 12 month contract) to get the Premiership football matches that
they will be showing.

The same amount of matches that you could watch on Sky for £50. Well done
to the EU for breaking up the monopoly then, which was supposed to work
out better for the customer :-)

I think Setanta might just come unstuck here, how many people are going to
pay £180 to watch when they could go down the pub and watch it?



how many people watch setanta full stop?
seems to be of more appeal to the irish than us with all their gaelic
football and the like.


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Gareth.

That fly... is your magic wand.
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"Sean Black" wrote in message
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Reading on another forum that Setanta will be charging £15 per month
(minimum 12 month contract) to get the Premiership football matches that
they will be showing.

The same amount of matches that you could watch on Sky for £50. Well done
to the EU for breaking up the monopoly then, which was supposed to work
out better for the customer :-)

I think Setanta might just come unstuck here, how many people are going to
pay £180 to watch when they could go down the pub and watch it?
--
Sean Black

Well I already subscibed for the Scottish football, since I got it they
added NASN , Racing, Rangers/Celtic TV which all cost extra on top, Golf and
now Premiership football,
And still £15/month.


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RobertJM

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aggs.demon.co.uk says...
Reading on another forum that Setanta will be charging £15 per month
(minimum 12 month contract) to get the Premiership football matches that
they will be showing.

The same amount of matches that you could watch on Sky for £50. Well
done to the EU for breaking up the monopoly then, which was supposed to
work out better for the customer :-)


The Sky offer was only for those who already subscribed to Sky Sports,
which also needed a bundle of non-sports channels.

The Setanta channels are stand alone on satellite - no other
subscription or any other package is needed.

"Richardr" wrote in message
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In article , [email protected]
aggs.demon.co.uk says...
Reading on another forum that Setanta will be charging £15 per month
(minimum 12 month contract) to get the Premiership football matches that
they will be showing.

The same amount of matches that you could watch on Sky for £50. Well
done to the EU for breaking up the monopoly then, which was supposed to
work out better for the customer :-)


The Sky offer was only for those who already subscribed to Sky Sports,
which also needed a bundle of non-sports channels.

The Setanta channels are stand alone on satellite - no other
subscription or any other package is needed.

I think we pay enough for Sky Sports, I cannot understand why there is a
need to make customers pay more. I agree with the above that getting rid of
the monopoly should make it BETTER for the customer, not more expensive. I
think with the payment they expect for Premiership Plus games as well then
what will it be next. PPV for each match you want to watch.

I think the sports shown on Sky Sports warrant paying for, but I am not
paying another 15 quid a month just to watch the odd football match, as
nothing else on Setanta is of any interest to me. I cannot see many others
paying to Setanta as well just for the odd game that they are going to show.

In article , Dino M
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"Richardr" wrote in message
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In article , [email protected]
aggs.demon.co.uk says...
Reading on another forum that Setanta will be charging £15 per month
(minimum 12 month contract) to get the Premiership football matches that
they will be showing.

The same amount of matches that you could watch on Sky for £50. Well
done to the EU for breaking up the monopoly then, which was supposed to
work out better for the customer :-)


The Sky offer was only for those who already subscribed to Sky Sports,
which also needed a bundle of non-sports channels.

The Setanta channels are stand alone on satellite - no other
subscription or any other package is needed.

I think we pay enough for Sky Sports, I cannot understand why there is a
need to make customers pay more. I agree with the above that getting rid of
the monopoly should make it BETTER for the customer, not more expensive. I
think with the payment they expect for Premiership Plus games as well then
what will it be next. PPV for each match you want to watch.

What would be better, IMO, is to be able to buy a season ticket to watch
all your teams matches.

I think the sports shown on Sky Sports warrant paying for, but I am not
paying another 15 quid a month just to watch the odd football match, as
nothing else on Setanta is of any interest to me. I cannot see many others
paying to Setanta as well just for the odd game that they are going to show.


Same here, pretty much. I rarely bothered to watch any PPV matches at
full prices, but at £50 for 50 matches, it was cheap enough make it
worthwhile to just watch Arsenal matches, if I wanted to and also take
or leave any of the others.

If you don't currently subscribe to Sky Sports and you've got any sort
of interest in some of the other sport that they'll also show, then it's
probably not a bad deal, but I expect anyone with much more than a
passing interest in Premiership football will already subscribe to Sky
Sports, so will either not bother with Setanta at all, or just watch it
down the pub.

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Sean Black