Recent Posts Tagged With 'soccer'

• Setanta misses payment, loses Premier rights

  Posted on Monday June 22nd, 2009 at 02:06 in soccer

  An update on the plight of financially ailing Setanta Sports: The Irish-based subscription soccer channel reportedly missed its deadline to make a £10 million payment to the Premier League last Friday, triggering the loss of its TV rights to broadca...

• Soccer world watches as Setanta's fate hangs in balance

  Posted on Thursday June 11th, 2009 at 02:28 in soccer

  Setanta Sports, the Irish-based subscription soccer channel with satellite distribution in the United States, entered the day on the precipice of financial collapse. Here's the report on ESPN.com: Struggling broadcaster Setanta today issued their fir...

• ITV blunder boots thriller ending

  Posted on Friday February 6th, 2009 at 02:01 in soccer

  Thanks to our friend "getin2thegame" for getting in touch via BallHype and sending us the YouTube link to a clip of a monumental broadcasting snafu that had many British soccer fans — and a very unhappy network executive — searching......

• ESPN2 boots Thursday MLS

  Posted on Tuesday January 20th, 2009 at 02:37 in soccer

  Faced with sagging ratings and weekly live baseball telecasts on the nascent MLB Network, ESPN2 has scrapped its Thursday primetime MLS package for 2009.The pro soccer league's games will be scattered throughout the week in an attempt to stem a......

• Report: ESPN eyeing Premier League

  Posted on Wednesday January 14th, 2009 at 02:15 in soccer

  ESPN reportedly wants in on one or two of the English Premier League TV packages that recently went up for bids.The Worldwide Leader intends to launch a third channel in the U.K. if it's successful at landing rights to the......