Sports Extra (TNT/Premier)

No. Nor can you in the U.K.

Amazon offers a service known as “Prime Video Channels” that is basically a way for them to sell third party subscriptions and you can subscribe to LaLiga TV that way. However, Amazon doesn’t offer Prime Video Channels in Ireland. Now Apple does have a similar “Apple TV Channels” that is available in Ireland but LaLiga TV isn’t part of that.

I’m not sure it actually exists. The company registered in Ireland is called “Premier Media Broadcasting Limited”. An Irish company “Premier Sports Limited” is dissolved and doesn’t seem to have had anything to do with them anyway.

There is an English company apparently still trading with that name (Premier Sports Limited) but it appears to have nothing to do with the broadcaster. At any rate Michael O’Rourke is not listed as a director.

Accodring to the BAI, the contracts for Premier 1 & 2 are actually held by “MSK Media” while PMBL are the contractors for LaLiga TV (not actually available in Ireland now) and BoxNation.

https://www.bai.ie/en/media/sites/2/dlm_uploads/2022/03/Section-71-contractors-as-of-March-2022.docx

So deal done, and the Setanta story comes to an end after 32 years.

No mention of Ireland though.

Edit: Absolutely zero info about from any sources about what’s happening to the Irish operation, which is basically totally integrated with the U.K. one. Is it simply a case of yet another company using “U.K.” as shorthand for “U.K. and Ireland” or is O’Rourke hanging on to it? No doubt all will become clear once the Irish media pick up the story but for now there’s just no info.

As far as I can see no Irish media outlet has even reported the story, odd when it concerns a Dublin based company with 20-odd Irish based employees which has been sold for €35m.

No doubt all will become clear in due course, right now the bigger question is what’s happening to those 3pm KOs with just a fortnight till the PL season begins.

Meanwhile in other M&A news, the BT/Eurosport deal has cleared all hurdles and should complete in the next few weeks.

https://wbd.com/warner-bros-discovery-and-bt-welcome-cmas-approval-of-the-bt-sport-and-eurosport-uk-joint-venture%EF%BF%BC/

Premier Sports schedule for 6th August now up and there’s a slot for a 3pm game (doesn’t say which one or even that it is FAPL - the only clue is the “ROI Only” in the description). So looks like the ROI rights have been rolled over too but the lack of any announcements in this regard is strange.

It’s an academic argument, there isn’t any LaLiga that week, meaning it’s not possible for it to be a LaLiga game.

Yes, absolutely. My reference was to simply to the fact that LaLiga games are not being played on Saturday 6th August 2022, so it’s simply y not possible for an ROI only opt out on Saturday 6th August to be for a LaLiga fixture.

In later weeks, possibly, though unless they get a third channel in place my suspicion is that once the URC season starts there won’t be room for a LaLiga fixture in that slot.