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  • #11
    Originally posted by steven.hughes32 View Post
    will espn be showing any fights in the uk hopefully they will take over from setanta and sign a deal with top rank or someone like that
    They don't seem to have shown any interest in anything except the Premier League, although I guess they'll have to fill the schedule with something. UFC is an obvious choice as it has a decent fan base, wouldn't be available anywhere else and, presumably, is available via a simple, single contract. I expect some boxing, but none of the big stuff which will either be Sky PPV or, in the absence of a British fighter or a real mega-fight, will be left nowhere.

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    • #12
      The US broadcaster ESPN has announced plans to launch a new UK sports channel, called ESPN, on 3 August.

      The channel will show 46 live Barclays Premier League football games, which were to have been shown by Setanta until its recent financial problems.

      The channel will also show some of the US sports to which ESPN owns rights.

      ESPN has reached an initial deal to have the channel shown on Sky, but it is in talks with all UK pay-TV platforms about carrying the service.

      Sky will also be responsible for selling advertising on the new channel.


      ESPN owns the rights to broadcast 46 live Premier League games in the 2009/10 season and 23 matches for each of the following three seasons.

      Sky's residential customers will have to pay a premium of £9 a month for the new channel if they already pay for Sky Sports or £12 a month if they do not.

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      • #13
        They need something bigger than football to get me to cough up for a subscription. Boxing and UFC would go some way.

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        • #14
          Originally posted by steven.hughes32 View Post
          will espn be showing any fights in the uk hopefully they will take over from setanta and sign a deal with top rank or someone like that
          man, find out if espn UK has the espn360 feature streaming live fnf and other fights.
          even on there site here in states they sort of hide that 360 feature.
          tv quality streams.

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          • #15
            So far ESPN UK is still only confirmed for Football, no one is buying it for that plus some US Sports we don't watch.

            They need to get their finger our their arses.

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            • #16
              Originally posted by DavidHaye View Post
              The US broadcaster ESPN has announced plans to launch a new UK sports channel, called ESPN, on 3 August.

              The channel will show 46 live Barclays Premier League football games, which were to have been shown by Setanta until its recent financial problems.

              The channel will also show some of the US sports to which ESPN owns rights.

              ESPN has reached an initial deal to have the channel shown on Sky, but it is in talks with all UK pay-TV platforms about carrying the service.

              Sky will also be responsible for selling advertising on the new channel.


              ESPN owns the rights to broadcast 46 live Premier League games in the 2009/10 season and 23 matches for each of the following three seasons.

              Sky's residential customers will have to pay a premium of £9 a month for the new channel if they already pay for Sky Sports or £12 a month if they do not.
              A lot of people were hoping for ESPN uk to be a lot like Setanta but thats not gonna happen, I can see ESPN just turning into a 24/7 football channel with football from all around the world (Half of which we aren't interested in, but hey they already own the rights). The only boxing we'll see is maybe the Friday Night Fights shows from the US, they aren't gonna invest in extra Showtime/HBO shows just for the UK audience, not gonna happen. From now on I can see us having to purchase a lot of PPV boxing

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              • #17
                Even more reason to get off ****** Media...

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