Football on Setanta Ireland - query

muffler

I see the man Utd game is on live on Setanta Ireland tomorrow night. Is this a PPV channel?
I know the other Setanta Sports channels are PPV

Cutie18Ireland

Yes its PPV.

moshpit77

It's a subscription channel on Sky Digital and included in the basic package on NTL Dublin as far as I know

Necronomicon

Is this the only channel that the United game is on?

Cutie18Ireland

Yeah...

Necronomicon

Ah well, just have to go to the pub.

muffler

Necromomicon wrote:

Is this the only channel that the United game is on?

Thats a disgrace if its the only place to view it. I hope that this is not a sign of things to come

Green_Martian

You don't need to go to the pub.........

Once you have Basic NTL installed you get Setanta for free.....its only on Sky Digital you must pay for it.........

They are also showing the Everton Game at 9.30

SteM

muffler wrote:

Thats a disgrace if its the only place to view it. I hope that this is not a sign of things to come

If Setanta didn't show it then no one else would probably considering that United are 3-0 up from the first leg. As has been mentioned Setanta Sports is free on analogue NTL so a lot of people will be able to see the game for free.

They don't have any rights to chow the CL proper so you'll be able to see those games on RTE/Sky Sports.

moshpit77

Gkelly2002 wrote:

You don't need to go to the pub.........

Once you have Basic NTL installed you get Setanta for free.....its only on Sky Digital you must pay for it.........

They are also showing the Everton Game at 9.30

Just free in Dublin, strange as it may seem there are people here who are not from Dublin, including the guy that posted that he'd have to go to the pub

Drag00n79

The match is live on Channel Five as well, if you have a UK free to view card.

por

moshpit77 wrote:

Just free in Dublin, strange as it may seem there are people here who are not from Dublin, including the guy that posted that he'd have to go to the pub

Setanta is free on NTL MMDS Digital

mike65

There is life and NTL outside Dublin - cable and mmds account for most of the eastern half of the country.

Mike.

Mossy Monk

Setanta isnt worth a subscription. i wonder how many actually subscribe to it on Sky

eirebhoy

Mossy Monk wrote:

Setanta isnt worth a subscription. i wonder how many actually subscribe to it on Sky

Just done a bit of googling as I was interested too.

The agreement with Sky means that Setanta Sports will now reach in excess of 500,000 homes in the Republic, plus approximately 150,000 homes in Northern Ireland.

http://www.setanta.com/content/setanta/website.nsf/page/7f5f41986a26fea580256fe4002fb42a?open&pageid=323656e68456863f80256eef005d0b59&

and then this:

Previously called Cablelink, NTL Ireland has over 340,000 customers in Dublin, Waterford and Galway and was purchased by NTL Group in 1999 for around £533m (€680m). As Cablelink, the business was run as a joint venture between RTE and Eircom (Telecom Eireann).

more up to date link:

Previously called Cablelink, NTL Ireland has over 340,000 customers in Dublin, Waterford and Galway and was purchased by NTL Group in 1999 for around £533m (€680m). As Cablelink, the business was run as a joint venture between RTE and Eircom (Telecom Eireann).

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/13/ntl_sale_rumours/

500,000 - 340,000 = 160,000.

A lot higher than I expected. I presume Everyone in the North with Setanta are also paying for it?

They've also got a lot of customers in the rest of the UK (mainly Scotland with the SPL coverage) and they also get Setanta Ireland with their package of 5 Setanta channels.

Chucky the tree

i have ntl digital. Great little channel.

Mossy Monk

reach in excess of 500,000. that still doesnt say how many people subscribe on Sky. only how many could if they wanted.

it is too expensive, shows a lot of repeated ****e, has crap bonus channels, and the 12 month minimum contract is a joke

Brian017

Anyone got a stream for this game?

evilhomer

So the football is only on setanta and Channel 5 uk?

Mossy Monk

you can also see it live on RTL Klub and TPS Foot
both encrypted on Astra 1

Duna TV on Hotbird will be showing it delayed FTA at 9.40pm

Brian017

I need a way of seeing it without interferring with the dish.

moshpit77

Brian017 wrote:

Anyone got a stream for this game?

PPLive 'football' channel apparently

eirebhoy

Mossy Monk wrote:

reach in excess of 500,000. that still doesnt say how many people subscribe on Sky. only how many could if they wanted.

I thought I worked that out. Since NTL has 340,000 customers, I assume the other 160,000 are with Sky.

While Setanta does have a lot of repeats, I'm subscribed to Sky Sports and watch it probably no more than Setanta. Actually, just looking at both Schedules for the rest of the week I'd probably prefer Setanta's.

Debrecen v Man Utd
Villarreal v Everton
Spurs v Chelsea
Dunfermline v Celtic
Juventus v Chievo
SPL Highlights (already watched)
Golazo: Football Magazine (already watched)
French League Highlights
German League Highlights

I'd watch all those shows if I was watching TV. Then there's also live sports like Golf and Formula 1 and some classic Ireland matches from decades ago.

The shows Sky fill in their daytime schedule are usually crap anyway.

evilhomer

Damn you sky!!!!! Damn you!!!
I get Sky Sports and they show none of the Champions League qualifiers.

Also why aren't they showing a premiership match tonight?

Brian017

moshpit77 wrote:

PPLive 'football' channel apparently

Showing the Arsenal match.

PHB

Setanta is just a terrible terrible station, look at that quality, its terrible.

eirebhoy

Expand a bit more PHB...

PHB

There was just a substition, which Setanta didn't show, but didn't report either.
****ing joke.
They realised when I did that Richardson had come on.
Furthermore they just said that Fletcher is now a right back, which is just stupid, considering what is actually happening is Brown going to right back and Heinze into the centre, after Neville got injured, but come on.

Not ot mention the picture quality isn't good either.

eirebhoy

If the picture quality is poor its to do with your TV/Cable.
Their pictures are streamed from another station so if the substitution doesn't come up on the screen its not Setanta's fault.
The commentators may be poor but so are every set of commentators on Irish TV.

You have to remember that this match is in Hungary. The TV companies in Hungary are not going to be top class so the camera work will not be brilliant. No matter what channel is showing this game, its all the same.

PHB

The setanta commentator just said:

"Heinze is a fantastic player, I'd like to see him used in the United back 4 more often"

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I understand that Setanta don't use the TV station, but they themselves have made some very unprofessional mistakes.
First off, they had the pre match commentary going on till literally the last second, and couldn't get their commentators to stop.
Secondly, the reason you have commentators at the match is so they can see everything aswell as our feed, so they could say, hey look theres a sub they ain't showing.

Thirdly, RTE and TV3 aren't this bad at commentary

eirebhoy

So their commentators are bad. Hardly a "terrible terrible station, look at that quality, its terrible".

BTW - You do realise who you're listening to?

Chucky the tree

sure hasnt tony worked for tv3 before?

eirebhoy

I'm not listening to the Setanta commentary but I doubt Cascarino is any worse than Kevin Moran was for Sky when Ireland played Italy. Still, I don't understand how the likes of Moran, Stapleton, Cascarino, etc. can get commentary jobs.

PHB

I'm sorry, I have a terrible quality screen right now.
I also have perfect quality on every single other channel besides Setanta, and its back to perfect now the match is over.
That said, I'm a quality whore.
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Commentaters are perhaps the biggest aspect of sports coverage, so if its bad, the station looks very bad in return.

Chucky the tree

sure RTe have stuck with george for over 20 years.


that says it all.

evilhomer

They use George for everything. He's there bitch!!!

He even commentated on Rugby last year in the six nations FFS!!!

Drag00n79

PHB wrote:

I'm sorry, I have a terrible quality screen right now.
I also have perfect quality on every single other channel besides Setanta, and its back to perfect now the match is over.

I must admit I have noticed poorer picture quality from Setanta and Celtic TV etc recently too. It's not very noticeable but their picture is a little fuzzier than say Sky Sports. It's as if, by having their extra channels, the picture quality of all of them has dipped a little.