After doing a little research on the coverage of the new provider ESPN Sports subscription based service for Premiership football in wake of Setanta Sports departure I have discovered how very little Football they will be bringing us !
For Example on the First weekend ESPN will only be broadcasting the following Matches or Match I should say!
Saturday 15 Aug...
Everton V Arsenal 17:15
Thats is ! untill Saturday 23 Aug...
Westham V Spurs 13:30
Then Sunday 24 Aug...
Liverpool V villa 20:00
Then Saturday 29 Aug
Chelsea V Burnley 12:45
That it then untill Saturday 12 September due to world cup quallifing
For a big Company like ESPN who have bought up some of the right to broadcast the Premiership this season seem to be bringing very little in the way of football compared to Setanta sports output last year, If ESPN are only going to pump North Americian sports to fill in the other thousands of hours would anybody be at all interested in subscribing for such little Football or would it have been better to make a PPV channel instead for each match ?
Regards:
Alun
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Would you subscribe to the new ESPN Sports Channel
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13th July, 2009, 02:01 PM #2DK Veteran
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For me yes, just for the fact I like footy I had setanta and personally think ESPN will do a superior job to Setanta
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no i wont.. i'll be locked on 13 and 19E for my annual fix of free football
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15th July, 2009, 06:50 PM #4Newbie
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only if they committed to showing lots and lots of live boxing as well as having a decent amount of football. right now it looks like you'll get a bit of football and then a load of american sports currently shown free on espn america!
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if everything went to pay tv and we couldnt get any free yes undoubtably i payed for setanta and full sky subs not too long ago after being very reluctant to go the "dodgy" box route
simply because everytime i got a "free" cable or on digital it only lasted a few weeks at most so it put me off
18 months going strong now so for the first time i got my moneys worth if it all ended tommorow
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I'll second that
Originally Posted by opsmonkey
no i wont.. i'll be locked on 13 and 19E for my annual fix of free football
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