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| This is bad news for American sports fans like me.ESPNA has gone downhill in the last year with more and more rubbish like poker starting to be shown.They won't be getting any of my money.I'll just pay for NHL centre ice on the net instead.
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Fair enough. I thought the ultimate package might just have been having the full Sky packages.
Originally we got Setanta for the NRL, but frankly other than the State of Origin i haven't watched any for ages. I always watch the American sports on ESPN America. Looks like we are going to have that replaced with hours of premier league football amongst other things, diluting the quality of the american sports. I'd gladly pay the £9 for it if it remained ESPN America, but not for an all in one channel where you get less hours of everything.
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Fair enough. I thought the ultimate package might just have been having the full Sky packages.
Originally we got Setanta for the NRL, but frankly other than the State of Origin i haven't watched any for ages. I always watch the American sports on ESPN America. Looks like we are going to have that replaced with hours of premier league football amongst other things, diluting the quality of the american sports. I'd gladly pay the £9 for it if it remained ESPN America, but not for an all in one channel where you get less hours of everything.
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| Quote ="ST_CONROY"Fair enough. I thought the ultimate package might just have been having the full Sky packages.
Originally we got Setanta for the NRL, but frankly other than the State of Origin i haven't watched any for ages. I always watch the American sports on ESPN America. Looks like we are going to have that replaced with hours of premier league football amongst other things, diluting the quality of the american sports. I'd gladly pay the £9 for it if it remained ESPN America, but not for an all in one channel where you get less hours of everything.'"
Find it strange no mantion of all this on ESPN America's site. Maybe there will be 2 channels come Aug 5th which will keep alot of their regular viewers happy and perhaps lead to an expansion of their US coverage but as you say trying to fit it all into one channel would not be good news especially as they have offered the scottish FA a deal to cover their Premiership (joint bid with Sky).
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| Can't we just have two ESPN channels; one for PL and one for American sports. But with no charge on the American Sports one? Ive just got used to watching baseball religiously.
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| you will get SOO NRL
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| Quote ="D.D."Never mind. I would imagine there are fifty times as many people interested in Premier League football than sh[iitt[/iy American sports so they will hardly be crying over the loss of your £9 a month.
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Shame they didn't subscribe to Setanta
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| Quote ="chico's nose"Shame they didn't subscribe to Setanta
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Your not wrong but the Setanta figures were impressive with a million plus subscribers, it was just that was not enough for what they were spending and I would think ESPN will fall short of that figure unless people can subscribe via freeview and not need a Sky subscription as that was an appeal of Setanta to some people.
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| Quote ="DAR130"This is bad news for American sports fans like me.ESPNA has gone downhill in the last year with more and more rubbish like poker starting to be shown.They won't be getting any of my money.I'll just pay for NHL centre ice on the net instead.'"
Same here
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| Go figure. I wouldn't cross the road to watch it.
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| £9 for 46 matches, can't argue with that value, surely?
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| Quote ="Dan_FC"£9 for 46 matches, can't argue with that value, surely?
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I was talking about the Scottish matches.
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| Quote ="Billy Banter"I was talking about the Scottish matches.'"
My post wasn't aimed in your direction mate, it was to all the Baseball dudes on the the page before that said they wouldn't pay for PL matches or didn't see it as value.
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| Just wondering, if ESPN is carrying their own channel with different sports on it, including the Premier League, do you think they will do an English version of Sports?
That would be pretty cool.
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| An English version of PTI and ATH would be appreciated as well.
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| Quote ="Oldham Rhino"An English version of PTI and ATH would be appreciated as well.'"
There's already an English version of ATH. It's called Fighting Talk and is on Radio 5Live on a Saturday morning.
Oh, and as for the SPL coverage mentioned by others, it's gone to a joint [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/8152874.stmSky/ESPN[/url deal
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| Interesting to see how ESPN broadcast their share, do they have channels on other digital platforms that they don't have on Sky, where it's only Classic and America IIRC?
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| Quote ="Lord_Percy"There's already an English version of ATH. It's called Fighting Talk and is on Radio 5Live on a Saturday morning.
Oh, and as for the SPL coverage mentioned by others, it's gone to a joint [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/8152874.stmSky/ESPN[/url deal'"
I always thought that Fighting Talk was about Boxing. Now that I know it's not, I might start watc-.....listening to it instead!
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| Quote ="Andy Gilder"Interesting to see how ESPN broadcast their share, do they have channels on other digital platforms that they don't have on Sky, where it's only Classic and America IIRC?'"
As I understand it, America's going to be re-branded as simply ESPN and carry both the new stuff, football mainly, as well as the American stuff. I'd imagine that would mean a reduction in 'non-live' American coverage, afternoon repeats of last night's game, etc, but they'll still be able to cover most of it live, seeing as it's through the night UK time.
As for Classic, I think that's staying the same as it is.
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| Quote ="Lord_Percy"As I understand it, America's going to be re-branded as simply ESPN and carry both the new stuff, football mainly, as well as the American stuff. I'd imagine that would mean a reduction in 'non-live' American coverage, afternoon repeats of last night's game, etc, but they'll still be able to cover most of it live, seeing as it's through the night UK time.
As for Classic, I think that's staying the same as it is.'"
That'll do for me, given it's part of my Sky subscription at the minute. I could just see Sky/ESPN setting up a brand new subscription sport channel and sticking on there just to try to bilk a few extra quid out of subscribers.
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| Quote ="Andy Gilder"That'll do for me, given it's part of my Sky subscription at the minute. I could just see Sky/ESPN setting up a brand new subscription sport channel and sticking on there just to try to bilk a few extra quid out of subscribers.'"
Ah, in that case prepare to be disappointed. I think it's going back to a standalone package, outside any existing Sky deal. £9 a month I think I've heard.
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| Quote ="Lord_Percy"Ah, in that case prepare to be disappointed. I think it's going back to a standalone package, outside any existing Sky deal. £9 a month I think I've heard.'"
In which case, it won't be getting my money. £9 a month to watch probably one or two Celtic games on TV doesn't represent VFM to me. Shame really, as the NHL stuff they have on ESPN America would have been good to watch through the winter.
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| ESPN, five and Sky Sports all in the bidding for UFC.
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