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BBC NEWS | Business | ESPN to launch UK sports channel

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.

Premiums

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.

For commercial customers it will be part of the "ultimate" channel package.

Previously, the Setanta Sports package was available to Sky customers for between £9.99 a month and £14.99 a month plus a £14.99 initial connection charge.

The Premier League matches on ESPN will be produced by Sky Sports, although it will feature ESPN branding.

ESPN also owns rights to show American football, ice hockey, baseball and college football and basketball throughout Europe, which it used to show in the UK on its ESPN America channel.

ESPN is owned by The Walt Disney Company.



It looks like its Sky, wearing a Mickey Mouse costume. £12 a month, hmmmmmmmm. STREAM!!!!!
 
Posted via Mobile Device Phew should mean my only decent means of watching the hockey is still available
 
setanta was free on cable, no way i'll be forkin' out extra for espn though, not interested in "american" sports such as tobacco spitting and wife carrying.

to reiterate what goat said

stream !!!

or a 'box'.
 
Plenty of dodgy websites around to get live streams of games, so will not be subscribing to this channel. Only subscribed to Sultana as there were all the Everton v Liverpool games on back in jan/feb. Had cancelled it anyway just before they went into the sh1t.
 

Personally, I'd like to thank the European Commission in that their narrow defintion of competition has let to Sky losing the 46 matches, which would have cost me £50 per year, to a dodgy channel which would have cost of £100, with a minimum cancellation period of 3 months.

They've not increased competition, they've put 200 people out of work, they've increased the price many pay for watching a game of football, they've helped a broadcaster eat through a waste of millions of pounds.

Thank you European Commission, thank you very much.

Stream for me.
 

Rubbish aint it.

But I'm interested in how they present it and who they get to do the puditry. If its like the Fox sports one with Paul Parker and Warren Barton...it's gonna be great fun hahaha
 
yep i also got it free with virgin. wont bother getting espn as im usually traveeling back from games when i follow my local conference side chelmsford.
 

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