Barstoolers rejoice! New PL deal for Ireland confirmed

invincibleirish

LONDON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Britain's dominant pay-TV firm BSkyB has won the right to show the majority of English Premier League soccer games in Ireland from next season until the 2012/2013 season.
"BSkyB has been awarded live rights to 115 Barclays Premier League fixtures per season," the league said in statement on Tuesday.
The Walt Disney-owned sports network ESPN was awarded the rights to broadcast 23 fixtures per season and Setanta Ireland will show 33 matches per season live on Saturdays for the same period.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/feedarticle/8847366

The unholy trinity of Ruper Murdoch, Walt Disney and some blokes who own Setanta keep us entertained.

Mitch Connor

was hoping Setanta would lose their games. 16 a month to maybe see a United game sometimes just ain't happening.

event

what's this mean, games at 3pm on a Saturday?

Mitch Connor

event wrote: »

what's this mean, games at 3pm on a Saturday?

Yeah - Sky will be able to show all the matches they have in the UK over here, same for ESPN (they only have the 23 games next season for the UK market too) and Setanta have the same crop of 3pm games next season that they only show here

Le King

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Yeah - Sky will be able to show all the matches they have in the UK over here, same for ESPN (they only have the 23 games next season for the UK market too) and Setanta have the same crop of 3pm games next season that they only show here

When does this take effect? As of now?

Y2J_MUFC

invincibleirish wrote: »

Barstoolers rejoice

Good call, because everyone who likes to watch a bit of football on tv is a "barstooler"

Mitch Connor

Osu wrote: »

When does this take effect? As of now?

no - next season.

Bandit12

event wrote: »

what's this mean, games at 3pm on a Saturday?

It means i will continue to watch premiership football on my PC.

starbelgrade

I don't get it - you can watch Setanta games in the pub too.

ctrl-alt-delete

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Yeah - Sky will be able to show all the matches they have in the UK over here, same for ESPN (they only have the 23 games next season for the UK market too) and Setanta have the same crop of 3pm games next season that they only show here

How does this change though? Is the sky package not the same in the UK and Ireland anyways?

I mean there are no games shown on Sky in the UK that can't be got on Sky in Ireland?

Warper

So basically Setanta remain unchanged showing their weekly Saturday 3 o'clock match, ESPN lose around 25 games which are now going to be shown on Sky. That seems about it - there are no extra games, just a transfer from ESPN to Sky. Not good for ESPN who will only have rights to an EPL game practically every second week and no "Big 4" matches. I might ditch them next season if this is true as apart from the EPL and Serie A, they have sweet fcuk all. You cant even watch the Europa League here in Ireland with ESPN. They are getting FA Cup games but so what.

Degag

How much is ESPN per week?

Warper

Degag wrote: »

How much is ESPN per week?

16e a month

me-skywalker

well if you go to the pub to watch a match and have 4pints @ €4.70 = €18.80

now if they show a couple of games you wanna watch you better off gettign ESPN or Setanta and saving your money in the long run and saving your health.

dannydiamond

me-skywalker wrote: »

well if you go to the pub to watch a match and have 4pints @ €4.70 = €18.80

now if they show a couple of games you wanna watch you better off gettign ESPN or Setanta and saving your money in the long run and saving your health.

lol

Tippex

ah but with the excise duty drop in the budget you have to support the local businesses

Liam O

Warper wrote: »

So basically Setanta remain unchanged showing their weekly Saturday 3 o'clock match, ESPN lose around 25 games which are now going to be shown on Sky. That seems about it - there are no extra games, just a transfer from ESPN to Sky. Not good for ESPN who will only have rights to an EPL game practically every second week and no "Big 4" matches. I might ditch them next season if this is true as apart from the EPL and Serie A, they have sweet fcuk all. You cant even watch the Europa League here in Ireland with ESPN. They are getting FA Cup games but so what.

Well they have the UFC but I suppose this is the wrong forum for that..

FearDark

Oh great 3 different subscriptions.

You need at least Sky Sports1 and 2, setanta package and now an ESPN package.

What a **** deal

MisterAnarchy

This is just maintaining the status quo.
Same as the UK rights bar the 3pm kick offs .

elshambo

FearDark wrote: »

Oh great 3 different subscriptions.

You need at least Sky Sports1 and 2, setanta package and now an ESPN package.

What a **** deal

Nobody says you have to pay it
Nobody says you have to watch every match
etc etc...

Bounty Hunter

FearDark wrote: »

Oh great 3 different subscriptions.

You need at least Sky Sports1 and 2, setanta package and now an ESPN package.

What a **** deal

all you need is your laptop... and the more games shown by more different providers the better more chances of finding streams or sopcasts for the games that way and watching every match your team has without giving a penny to Murdoch, Disney and that bloke whoever he is that owns Setanta.

stovelid

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

without giving a penny to Murdoch

If everybody thought like this, the effect on English football might not be nice to watch...