Football TV Rights

SexyGreyFox · 5 May 2006 at 20:35

Marvt74 said:
I see it sees ahead 24hours aswell

Ooops - sunday

Rotty · 5 May 2006 at 21:23

dmpoole said:
and all legal with an official ART Sports card.

ART are not licensed to sell cards for use outside of certain arabic countries the same as sky cannot , legally , accept subscriptions from outside the UK ( and Ireland ) . However there is doubt over whether the user is commiting any offence as long as there is no public broadcast

SexyGreyFox · 5 May 2006 at 21:49

Rotty said:
ART are not licensed to sell cards for use outside of certain arabic countries the same as sky cannot , legally , accept subscriptions from outside the UK ( and Ireland ) . However there is doubt over whether the user is commiting any offence as long as there is no public broadcast

True but try and find a bar in Europe that hasn't got a SKY card.
I don't think Murdoch minds though.
At one time pubs in this country were being fined about £5000 for showing saturday afternoon football with another card but I think somebody has just won a case against SKY.
I can't find the link.

Scream · 5 May 2006 at 22:18

So basically, Setanta will be charging around £50 for the season ticket the same as Sky charged for the past few years?

Bloody Santanta, their coverage is rubbish.

Rotty · 5 May 2006 at 22:24

dmpoole said:
True but try and find a bar in Europe that hasn't got a SKY card.
I don't think Murdoch minds though.
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I'm sure he doesn't

though they do have to subscribe through a uk address to get a card

Rotty · 5 May 2006 at 22:26

Scream said:
So basically, Setanta will be charging around £50 for the season ticket the same as Sky charged for the past few years?

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it will be loads more than that I reckon

Scream · 5 May 2006 at 22:31

Ah bugger that then. People thought Sky was expensive.

vanpeebles · 6 May 2006 at 09:21

i think its back fired, i was hoping 1 package or something might filter down onto freeview, but sadly not

Burned_Alive · 6 May 2006 at 12:09

dmpoole said:
For many years I've had a one metre dish pointed at satellites and on 13E are channels by the Arabic ART Sports. There are four sports channels and on a saturday afternoon all four channels will show four different premier matches with english commentary. They also show saturday dinner, saturday teatime, sunday 2pm, sunday 4pm, monday 8pm etc and all legal with an official ART Sports card.

Tomorrow it shows these live :
Arsenal v Wigan
Aston Villa v Sunderland
Manchester Utd v Charlton
Newcastle v Chelsea
West Ham v Tottenham

http://64.77.87.5/sport/british.html

If i had a sky dish......would it need to be repositioned to use an art sports card?

Twedd17 · 6 May 2006 at 12:17

It also seems that Monday night footy is going to Setanta also :mad:

http://www.setanta.com/portal/artic...en&articleid=c1474b0d3f5a46f1802571650056d7e5

Im loving the first line of the press release:

"Setanta Sport Holdings Ltd ("Setanta Sports"), the leading international sports broadcaster" - :confused:

SexyGreyFox · 6 May 2006 at 13:22

Burned_Alive said:
If i had a sky dish......would it need to be repositioned to use an art sports card?

I don't think the SKY dish will work, the old analogue one will work though.
SKY Digital broadcasts on 28E, the old SKY was on ASTRA 19E and ART is on Hotbird 13E.