Sports network Setanta has today gone in to administration with it’s UK business arm – days after losing the right to show Premiership football in the UK and also the Scottish Premier League in the UK and Ireland.
LFC.TV, our club’s official TV channel, is one of the numerous channels that was covered by Setanta.
The TV station will remain ‘on-air’ online, but will be looking in to ways to get back on to the airwaves before it suffers any serious financial fall-out.
Liverpool have been aware of Setanta’s plight for a number of weeks now and were believed to be drawing up contingency measures.
ESPN stepped in to take over Setanta’s 46 Premier League games next season and will also take 23 games for the following seasons. ESPN is likely to introduce a pay-per-view package on Satellite TV in the UK.
Most of Setanta’s channels, except Setanta News which is jointly owned by Virgin Media, are likely to go off within hours. All existing subscriptions are likely to be cancelled.
I’m glad that s***anta have gone into administration. The company is an absolute shambles. Of course I feel sorry for the 200 redundant staff – but not the customer service department. I must have spoken to each and everyone of them at some point in an attempt to cancel my subscription over the course of 6 months. I don’t know if they were trained to be incompetent but it felt like it.
Despite cancelling my subscription for Broadband since last April Setanta have still been debiting my account. I am not sorry to see them go into administration
Anyone know which channel will be showing the matches they did next season in the UK ??.
Imran, read the article its says ESPN will be doing a pay per view so they will make a channel and you will have to buy the games.